Unify Dynamics AX & Epicor E9: Intelligent Integration for Enterprise Efficiency
Bridge your operational and financial ERPs with a modern iPaaS. Automate workflows, synchronize critical data, and unlock real-time insights across your entire business.
The Challenge: Disconnected Dynamics AX and Epicor E9 Environments
Organizations often leverage Dynamics AX for specific operational strengths (e.g., advanced warehousing, project management) and Epicor E9 for robust accounting and core ERP functionalities. Operating these systems in silos creates significant challenges, hindering efficiency and data accuracy.
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Manual Data Entry & Duplication: Re-keying sales orders, customer details, or inventory adjustments between systems leads to errors and wasted time.
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Delayed Business Insights: Critical financial data in Epicor E9 is disconnected from operational data in Dynamics AX, slowing down reporting and decision-making.
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Inconsistent Master Data: Discrepancies in customer, vendor, and product information across systems cause operational bottlenecks and inaccurate analytics.
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Fragmented Workflows: Complex business processes like order-to-cash or procure-to-pay are broken, requiring manual handoffs and reconciliations.
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High IT Overhead: Developing and maintaining custom point-to-point integrations is costly, time-consuming, and prone to breaking with system upgrades.
The Solution: Intelligent iPaaS Integration for Dynamics AX and Epicor E9
Our modern iPaaS provides the intelligent platform to seamlessly connect Dynamics AX and Epicor E9. We transform your disconnected ERPs into a unified, automated ecosystem, leveraging pre-built connectors, low-code capabilities, and AI-driven intelligence to streamline your most critical workflows.
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Bi-directional Data Synchronization: Keep customer, vendor, product, sales order, and invoice data consistent across both systems.
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Real-time Workflow Automation: Automate end-to-end processes like sales order fulfillment, AP invoice processing, and inventory updates.
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Centralized Data Governance: Ensure data quality and compliance with robust validation, transformation, and auditing capabilities.
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Scalable & Resilient Architecture: Designed for high-volume transactions and mission-critical operations, ensuring business continuity.
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Unified Monitoring & Management: Gain complete visibility into all integration flows and data exchanges from a single dashboard.
Comprehensive Solution Details
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Bi-directional Data Synchronization: Keep customer, vendor, product, sales order, and invoice data consistent across both systems.
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Real-time Workflow Automation: Automate end-to-end processes like sales order fulfillment, AP invoice processing, and inventory updates.
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Centralized Data Governance: Ensure data quality and compliance with robust validation, transformation, and auditing capabilities.
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Scalable & Resilient Architecture: Designed for high-volume transactions and mission-critical operations, ensuring business continuity.
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Unified Monitoring & Management: Gain complete visibility into all integration flows and data exchanges from a single dashboard.
Dynamics AX and Epicor E9: Deep Technical Integration
Our iPaaS provides a robust and flexible framework for integrating Dynamics AX and Epicor E9, addressing their distinct architectural nuances. We leverage AX's AIF services and custom X++ endpoints, alongside Epicor E9's Service Connect and RESTful APIs, to ensure comprehensive data exchange and workflow orchestration.
Data Flow Steps
Connectivity: Establish secure connections using pre-built connectors. For Dynamics AX, this involves configuring AIF endpoints and potentially custom web services. For Epicor E9, it uses Service Connect (for business objects) or native REST APIs.
Authentication: Implement robust authentication mechanisms. For AX, this could be Windows Integrated Authentication, X.509 certificates for AIF, or OAuth 2.0 for modern deployments. For E9, service accounts with restricted roles or API keys are typically used.
Data Extraction: Extract data from source systems. This can be event-driven (e.g., database triggers, AX business events, Epicor Service Connect notifications) or scheduled polling for batch data.
Transformation & Mapping: Data is converted from the source system's schema (e.g., AX's complex XML) to the target system's schema (e.g., Epicor's JSON/XML). Our visual mapper and AI co-pilot simplify this complex process.
Validation & Business Rules: Implement data validation rules and business logic within the iPaaS to ensure data integrity and compliance with both AX and E9's requirements.
Data Loading: Load transformed and validated data into the target system via their respective APIs. Batching is used for high-volume operations to optimize performance.
Error Handling & Monitoring: Implement comprehensive error handling with automated retries, dead-letter queues, and proactive alerts. Monitor the entire integration landscape from a unified dashboard.
Data Touchpoints
"Dynamics AX <--- (AIF/Custom Services, SOAP/REST) ---> [iPaaS] <--- (Service Connect/REST APIs) ---> Epicor E9"
Simple, transparent pricing for Dynamics AX + Epicor E9.
Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.
How Middleware Integration Works
See Dynamics AX + Epicor E9 integration in action.
Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.
Integration Use Cases
Explore how the integration behaves in real business scenarios, with clearly defined steps, outcomes, and execution patterns.
E-commerce Order-to-Cash Automation
Automate the entire order lifecycle: from an e-commerce platform, orders flow into Epicor E9 for financial processing and inventory allocation, and then update Dynamics AX for fulfillment and operational visibility. This ensures real-time inventory synchronization and accelerates revenue recognition.
Integration Steps:
- 0 Customer places order on e-commerce site.
- 1 iPaaS captures order via webhook, validates data, and creates Sales Order in Epicor E9 via `/api/v1/SalesOrder`.
- 2 Epicor E9 allocates inventory (`PartTran`) and initiates fulfillment workflow.
- 3 Inventory adjustments from Epicor E9 are pushed to Dynamics AX via `/AIF/InventItemService/update` to maintain accurate stock levels.
- 4 Shipment confirmations from Epicor E9 trigger invoice generation in E9 and update Sales Order status in Dynamics AX via `/AIF/SalesOrderService/updateStatus`.
Business Outcome
Reduced order processing time from hours to minutes, real-time inventory accuracy, faster invoicing, improved customer satisfaction with accurate order tracking.
Real-time, event-driven
API Endpoints & Data Logic
Technical details for developers and architects.
⚡ Transformation Logic
- Data Type Conversion: Automatically convert data types (e.g., string to numeric, date formats).
- Conditional Mapping: Apply different mappings or values based on source data conditions (e.g., map AX `CustGroup` to E9 `TermsCode`).
- Data Enrichment: Augment data with additional information from external sources or lookup tables.
- Aggregation/De-aggregation: Combine multiple source records into one target record or split a single source record.
- Value Translation: Translate system-specific codes (e.g., AX `InventDimId` to E9 `WareHouseCode`/`BinNum`).
🛡️ Error Handling
- API authentication failures.
- Schema validation errors (data not conforming to target system's structure).
- Business logic errors (e.g., trying to post to a closed accounting period).
- Network timeouts or connection drops.
- Target system unavailability or performance degradation.
- Data conflicts during bi-directional synchronization.
Simple, transparent pricing for Dynamics AX + Epicor E9.
Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.
See Dynamics AX + Epicor E9 integration in action.
Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.