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Unify Microsoft Dynamics AX & BNG: Intelligent Automation for Your Enterprise

Break down data silos and drive operational excellence by seamlessly connecting your ERP power with BNG's business capabilities. Leverage an AI-powered, low-code iPaaS for real-time data flow, enhanced accuracy, and unparalleled business agility.

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The Challenge

The Challenge of Disconnected Systems: Dynamics AX & BNG in Silos

In today's fast-paced business environment, operating with Microsoft Dynamics AX and BNG as isolated systems creates significant operational bottlenecks. Manual data transfers are not only time-consuming but are also breeding grounds for errors, leading to downstream issues that impact customer satisfaction, financial accuracy, and overall business agility.

  • Fragmented Customer Data: Inconsistent customer records across BNG (e.g., sales, service) and Dynamics AX (e.g., billing, credit limits) lead to poor customer experiences and inaccurate reporting.
  • Delayed Order Processing: Manually re-entering sales orders from BNG into Dynamics AX slows down fulfillment, impacts inventory accuracy, and delays revenue recognition.
  • Inaccurate Inventory Levels: Discrepancies between BNG's operational inventory and Dynamics AX's ERP stock lead to overselling, stockouts, and inefficient purchasing.
  • Inefficient Financial Close: Manual reconciliation of BNG transactions (invoices, payments) into Dynamics AX's General Ledger prolongs the financial close cycle and increases audit risk.
  • Lack of Real-time Visibility: Without instant data synchronization, critical business decisions are made on outdated information, hindering responsiveness to market changes.
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The Solution

The Unified Solution: Intelligent Integration for Dynamics AX & BNG

Our iPaaS provides a comprehensive, AI-powered solution to seamlessly connect Microsoft Dynamics AX and BNG. By establishing intelligent, automated workflows, we transform your disparate systems into a cohesive, high-performance ecosystem, ensuring data flows accurately and efficiently across your entire enterprise.

  • Pre-built Connectors: Optimized, reusable connectors for Dynamics AX (AIF services) and BNG (REST APIs) accelerate integration setup.
  • Visual Workflow Designer: Drag-and-drop interface for building complex business logic without coding.
  • Real-time & Batch Processing: Support for event-driven synchronization for immediate updates and efficient batch processing for high-volume data.
  • Advanced Data Mapping & Transformation: Robust tools to harmonize diverse data schemas between AX and BNG.
  • Centralized Monitoring & Error Handling: A single pane of glass for tracking integration health, logs, and automated error resolution.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with BNG Microsoft + Dynamics AX in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both BNG Microsoft and Dynamics AX, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most BNG Microsoft + Dynamics AX deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Comprehensive Solution Details

  • Pre-built Connectors: Optimized, reusable connectors for Dynamics AX (AIF services) and BNG (REST APIs) accelerate integration setup.
  • Visual Workflow Designer: Drag-and-drop interface for building complex business logic without coding.
  • Real-time & Batch Processing: Support for event-driven synchronization for immediate updates and efficient batch processing for high-volume data.
  • Advanced Data Mapping & Transformation: Robust tools to harmonize diverse data schemas between AX and BNG.
  • Centralized Monitoring & Error Handling: A single pane of glass for tracking integration health, logs, and automated error resolution.
  • Secure & Scalable Architecture: Built for enterprise-grade performance, security, and compliance.
  • AI-Powered Automation: Embed intelligence into every step of your integration for smarter workflows.

Deep Dive: Microsoft Dynamics AX & BNG Integration Architecture

Our integration solution leverages a modern iPaaS to create a resilient, scalable, and intelligent bridge between Microsoft Dynamics AX and BNG. We abstract the complexities of AX's AIF services and BNG's APIs, providing a unified platform for seamless data orchestration and workflow automation.

Data Flow Steps

System Connection: Establish secure, authenticated connections to Dynamics AX (via its AIF web services) and BNG (via its RESTful APIs).

Event Triggering: Configure event listeners (webhooks for BNG, scheduled polling or change data capture for AX, or AX business events if available) to detect data changes in either system.

Data Ingestion: The iPaaS captures the raw data payload from the source system.

Canonical Transformation: Data is transformed into a standardized, canonical format within the iPaaS, harmonizing disparate schemas.

AI-Powered Validation & Enrichment: AI components validate data integrity, detect anomalies, suggest missing values, and enrich data where necessary.

Business Logic & Routing: Apply custom business rules, conditional logic, and routing decisions based on the transformed data.

Target System Mapping: The canonical data is mapped to the specific schema requirements of the target system (Dynamics AX or BNG).

API Invocation: The iPaaS invokes the appropriate API endpoint (AX AIF service or BNG REST endpoint) to create, update, or retrieve data.

Error Handling & Monitoring: Centralized logging, automated retries, and alerting mechanisms ensure data delivery and system resilience. Status updates are relayed back to the source system or relevant stakeholders.

Data Touchpoints

Microsoft Dynamics AX: SalesOrder, CustCustomer, EcoResProduct, InventOnHand, PurchaseOrder, VendVendor, CustInvoiceJour, VendInvoiceJour, LedgerJournalTable/Trans.
BNG: Customer, Product, Sales Order, Invoice, Payment, Inventory Item, Vendor, Purchase Order, General Ledger Entry.

"Dynamics AX <-> iPaaS <-> BNG: Data flows bi-directionally. Events or scheduled jobs trigger data ingestion into the iPaaS. Data undergoes canonical transformation, AI validation, and business logic application. Finally, it's mapped and pushed to the target system via its respective API. Comprehensive monitoring and error handling are integral at every stage."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for BNG Microsoft + Dynamics AX.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
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Innovative & Robust

How Middleware Integration Works

Benefits of Integrating BNG Microsoft

Integrating BNG Microsoft fosters greater efficiency and data accuracy. Automate your critical business processes to deliver consistently outstanding results.

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Data Mapping

Key Entities & Intelligent Mapping between Dynamics AX and BNG

Effective integration hinges on precise mapping of core business entities. Our iPaaS provides robust, AI-assisted tools to harmonize the diverse data models of Microsoft Dynamics AX and BNG, ensuring data integrity and consistency across your enterprise.

Customer (CustCustomer / Customer)

Master data for all customers, vital for sales, service, and finance. Synchronizing this ensures a unified customer view.

BNG Microsoft Fields

CustAccount Name PartyType Address ContactInfo CreditLimit DefaultDimension

Dynamics AX Fields

CustomerID ExternalID CompanyName FirstName LastName Email BillingAddress ShippingAddress Phone Status CreditLimit TaxExemptStatus

Mapping Notes

Requires careful ID mapping (e.g., BNG CustomerID to AX CustAccount, or a shared external ID). Address fields often need concatenation/splitting. CreditLimit in AX typically drives BNG visibility. DefaultDimension from AX needs to be mapped or derived.

Next Steps

See BNG Microsoft + Dynamics AX integration in action.

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Real-World Applications

Integration Use Cases

Explore how the integration behaves in real business scenarios, with clearly defined steps, outcomes, and execution patterns.

Order Fulfillment & Inventory Management

Automate the entire order lifecycle from BNG (e.g., eCommerce sales) to Microsoft Dynamics AX, ensuring real-time inventory updates and streamlined fulfillment processes.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer places an order in a BNG-connected platform (e.g., eCommerce).
  2. 1 BNG creates a Sales Order, triggering an event to the iPaaS.
  3. 2 iPaaS maps BNG Sales Order details (customer, products, quantities, shipping) to Dynamics AX's SalesOrder entity.
  4. 3 AI validates order data, checking for product availability and customer credit limits in AX.
  5. 4 Sales Order is created in Dynamics AX (AIF/SalesOrderService/create).
  6. 5 Dynamics AX updates inventory (InventOnHand), triggering an event back to BNG for inventory availability updates.
  7. 6 Fulfillment status from AX is synchronized back to BNG, updating order status for the customer.

Business Outcome

Faster order processing, accurate real-time inventory, reduced stockouts and overselling, improved customer satisfaction.

Frequency

Real-time (event-driven)

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

Discover the strategic advantages and business value of seamless integration between your systems.

Accelerated Order-to-Cash Cycle
Automate the flow of sales orders from BNG to Dynamics AX, reducing manual entry and errors by up to 80%. This ensures faster order processing and revenue recognition.
Real-time Inventory Accuracy
Maintain synchronized inventory levels between BNG and Dynamics AX, preventing overselling and stockouts. Achieve up to 99.5% inventory accuracy, optimizing stock holding costs.
Enhanced Customer 360 View
Unify customer data from BNG and Dynamics AX, providing a consistent view across sales, service, and finance. Improve customer satisfaction by 25% with accurate, up-to-date information.
Streamlined Financial Close
Automate financial postings and invoice reconciliation from BNG into Dynamics AX's General Ledger. Reduce financial close time by days, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
Reduced Operational Costs
Eliminate manual data entry, reduce errors, and optimize resource allocation. Achieve an average 30% reduction in operational overhead associated with disconnected systems.
Increased Business Agility
Leverage low-code tools to rapidly build and modify integration workflows, adapting to new business requirements 3x faster than traditional coding methods.
AI-Powered Data Integrity
Utilize AI for intelligent data validation and anomaly detection, proactively preventing data quality issues and ensuring the highest level of data integrity in both AX and BNG.
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Accelerated Order-to-Cash Cycle

80% Reduction in manual order entry

📋 What You Get

Automate the flow of sales orders from BNG to Dynamics AX, reducing manual entry and errors by up to 80%. This ensures faster order processing and revenue recognition.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to 80% improvement in Reduction in manual order entry, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

Implementation Timeline

Go live with BNG Microsoft + Dynamics AX in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both BNG Microsoft and Dynamics AX, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most BNG Microsoft + Dynamics AX deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Technical Documentation

API Endpoints & Data Logic

Technical details for developers and architects.

Method Endpoint Purpose
POST /AIF/SalesOrderService/create Creating new Sales Orders in Dynamics AX from BNG-driven sales channels.
POST /AIF/SalesOrderService/read Retrieving detailed Sales Order information from Dynamics AX for BNG or external systems.
POST /AIF/InventOnHandService/find Querying real-time inventory availability and on-hand quantities for specific products/warehouses from AX.
POST /AIF/CustCustomerService/create Creating new customer records in Dynamics AX from BNG (e.g., CRM, self-service portals).
POST /AIF/CustCustomerService/update Updating existing customer records in Dynamics AX with changes from BNG or other master data sources.
POST /AIF/LedgerJournalService/create Posting General Ledger Journal entries from BNG's financial modules or sub-ledgers into AX.
POST /AIF/PurchPurchaseOrderService/create Creating Purchase Orders in Dynamics AX from BNG's procurement or planning systems.
POST /AIF/VendInvoiceService/create Posting Vendor Invoices into Dynamics AX, often after AI-driven extraction and validation in BNG.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Data Type Conversion: (e.g., string to decimal, date format conversion).
  • Value Lookups: (e.g., BNG PaymentMethod to AX LedgerAccount).
  • Conditional Logic: (e.g., if BNG OrderStatus is 'Shipped', then update AX SalesOrder status to 'Delivered').
  • Aggregation/Splitting: (e.g., combining BNG LineItems for AX GL posting, splitting AX Address into multiple BNG fields).
  • Default Values: (e.g., setting default AX SalesOriginId if not provided by BNG).
  • AI-Suggested Rules: AI analyzes data patterns to suggest complex transformations or derivations (e.g., calculating a derived field based on multiple inputs).

🛡️ Error Handling

  • Data Validation Failure: BNG sends an order with an invalid product SKU not found in AX.
  • API Endpoint Unavailable: Temporary outage of a BNG API or AX AIF service.
  • Authentication Failure: Expired API token or incorrect credentials.
  • Rate Limit Exceeded: BNG rejects requests due to too many calls in a short period.
  • Business Rule Violation: An order fails to post to AX because it exceeds a customer's credit limit.
  • Schema Mismatch: A new field added to BNG isn't mapped to AX, causing data loss or errors.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for BNG Microsoft + Dynamics AX.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Support & Information

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about integration implementation, security, and best practices.

General Integration FAQs

▸ What is the best way to integrate Microsoft Dynamics AX with BNG?
The most effective approach is to leverage a modern iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service). This provides dedicated connectors for both Dynamics AX (via its AIF services) and BNG (via its APIs), enabling API-first, event-driven integrations. It abstracts underlying complexities, allowing for seamless, real-time data flow without extensive custom coding.

Low-Code/No-Code FAQs

▸ Can I use low-code/no-code tools to automate workflows involving Dynamics AX and BNG?
Absolutely. Modern iPaaS platforms offer low-code/no-code interfaces that empower business users and citizen integrators to design, build, and deploy automated workflows connecting Dynamics AX to BNG. This democratizes automation, reduces reliance on IT, and accelerates time-to-market for new business processes.

AI & Automation FAQs

▸ How does AI enhance Microsoft Dynamics AX and BNG integrations?
AI significantly enhances AX-BNG integrations by enabling intelligent automation. This includes AI-powered data validation and cleansing, anomaly detection in financial transactions or orders, automated document processing (e.g., invoices from BNG to AX), smart routing of orders, and predictive analytics. This leads to higher data quality, operational efficiency, and proactive problem-solving.

Challenges & Solutions FAQs

▸ What are the common challenges when integrating Dynamics AX with BNG?
Common challenges include dealing with Dynamics AX's sometimes rigid data model and SOAP-based AIF services, managing BNG's API rate limits, ensuring data consistency across disparate systems, handling high volumes of transactions, and maintaining integrations through system upgrades. A robust iPaaS helps abstract these complexities and provides tools for governance and resilience.

Real-time Sync FAQs

▸ How can I ensure real-time data synchronization between Dynamics AX and BNG?
Implement an event-driven architecture using an iPaaS. Configure BNG to publish events (e.g., using webhooks) for changes like new orders or inventory updates. The iPaaS can immediately capture these events and push them to Dynamics AX. For AX, the iPaaS can use change data capture (CDC) or optimized polling to detect and propagate changes in near real-time.

Technical Details FAQs

▸ What kind of API access do Dynamics AX and BNG provide for integrations?
Microsoft Dynamics AX primarily provides integration capabilities through its Application Integration Framework (AIF), which supports SOAP-based web services. BNG typically offers modern RESTful APIs with JSON payloads. A modern iPaaS is crucial for bridging these different API styles, consuming AIF services and exposing them as standardized APIs for easier consumption by BNG or other systems.

Error Handling FAQs

▸ How do I handle errors and ensure data consistency in Dynamics AX and BNG integrations?
A robust iPaaS provides centralized error logging, automated retry mechanisms with exponential backoff, and dead-letter queues for failed messages. Implement comprehensive data validation rules within the iPaaS before data enters either AX or BNG, and use AI for anomaly detection to proactively identify and resolve data consistency issues. Automated notification workflows are also critical.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with BNG Microsoft + Dynamics AX in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both BNG Microsoft and Dynamics AX, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most BNG Microsoft + Dynamics AX deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for BNG Microsoft + Dynamics AX.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Next Steps

See BNG Microsoft + Dynamics AX integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

Start Free Trial Request Live Demo