Data integration for standard and custom applications
Based on your requirements, you must consider whether to use the Infor d/EPM standard business application or customization to complete your project.
These scenarios are typical for projects:
- Source systems are integrated to the Infor d/EPM business applications:
- Integration templates are focused on the standard Infor d/EPM application.
- Infor consultants can enhance integration templates based on a project's special requirements.
This is the recommended data acquisition flow:
- Source system
- Staging database
- Integration database
- Business Modeling
- The Infor d/EPM business applications
are extended through Business Modeling with these
options:
- Custom properties added to business objects in standard applications.
- Sub plans tailored to customer-specific needs. This requires a
combination of the Infor d/EPM business applications
and custom solutions data flows.
This is the data acquisition flow for sub plans:
- Source system
- Staging database
- OLAP modeling
These steps are typical to create sub plans that use data from the Infor d/EPM business applications:
- Create a custom application.
See the "Creating applications" topic in the d/EPM Administration section of this documentation for details.
- Export the load query from the standard Infor d/EPM business application.
See the "Standard integration import" topic in the Data Flow section of this documentation for details.
- Import the bundle into your custom application.
See the "Schema export and import" topic in the d/EPM Administration section of this documentation for details.
Note: Edit load queries in your custom application only. After you update standard load queries, merge them with customized queries. - Source systems are integrated to custom applications:
- Custom applications are built on Infor d/EPM Platform.
- Customer and consulting team are responsible for created reports, data model, and dashboards.
- Consulting team remains responsible for data load queries.
This is the recommended data acquisition flow for custom applications:
- Source system
- Staging database
- OLAP modeling
For more information on options to load data from a source system to Infor d/EPM, select in this documentation.