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Unify Your Enterprise: Seamless Dynamics AX & SAP Business ByDesign Integration

Break down silos between your Dynamics AX and SAP Business ByDesign environments. Automate core business processes, consolidate financials, and synchronize master data with an intelligent, low-code iPaaS.

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The Challenge

The Challenge of Disconnected ERP Systems: Dynamics AX & SAP Business ByDesign

Many enterprises operate with a mix of ERP solutions, often with Dynamics AX handling core corporate functions and SAP Business ByDesign managing subsidiaries or specific business units. This architectural choice, while strategic, often leads to significant operational hurdles when these systems remain disconnected.

  • Data Silos: Critical information like sales orders, customer data, and financial transactions are isolated in separate systems, leading to incomplete views.
  • Manual Processes & Errors: Bridging the gap requires manual data entry, prone to human error, delays, and significant resource drain.
  • Delayed Financial Close: Consolidating financials from ByDesign into AX becomes a time-consuming, error-prone monthly ordeal, impacting reporting accuracy.
  • Inconsistent Master Data: Customer, product, and vendor data diverge between systems, causing order fulfillment issues, incorrect pricing, and poor customer experience.
  • Lack of Real-time Visibility: Without instant data flow, decision-makers lack the real-time insights needed to react quickly to market changes or operational anomalies.
  • Compliance Risks: Manual reconciliation processes make it harder to maintain audit trails and ensure regulatory compliance (e.g., SOX, GDPR).
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The Solution

The Unified Solution: Intelligent Integration for Dynamics AX and SAP Business ByDesign

Our modern iPaaS provides the intelligence and agility needed to seamlessly connect Dynamics AX and SAP Business ByDesign. By leveraging an API-first, event-driven architecture, we empower your enterprise to automate complex workflows, synchronize critical data, and achieve a truly unified operational view, all with a low-code approach.

  • Pre-built Connectors for Dynamics AX & SAP ByDesign
  • Visual Drag-and-Drop Workflow Builder
  • Real-time Event-Driven Synchronization
  • AI-Powered Data Mapping & Validation
  • Robust Error Handling & Monitoring Dashboards
Implementation Timeline

Go live with Dynamics AX + SAP Business ByDesign 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 Dynamics AX and SAP Business ByDesign , 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 Dynamics AX + SAP Business ByDesign 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 for Dynamics AX & SAP ByDesign
  • Visual Drag-and-Drop Workflow Builder
  • Real-time Event-Driven Synchronization
  • AI-Powered Data Mapping & Validation
  • Robust Error Handling & Monitoring Dashboards
  • Bi-directional Data Flow Capabilities
  • Scalable Cloud-Native Architecture

Deep Dive into Dynamics AX & SAP Business ByDesign Integration

Our iPaaS facilitates a robust, bi-directional data exchange between Dynamics AX and SAP Business ByDesign, leveraging their respective API capabilities to create intelligent, automated workflows. The architecture is designed for high performance, scalability, and data integrity, ensuring your critical business processes run smoothly.

Data Flow Steps

Connectivity Setup: Establish secure connections to Dynamics AX (via AIF, custom services, or direct database access where appropriate) and SAP Business ByDesign (via OData and SOAP web services).

Schema Harmonization: Define a canonical data model within the iPaaS. Map and transform disparate data structures and field names between AX and ByDesign entities (e.g., `SalesId` in AX to `ID` in ByDesign for Sales Orders).

Workflow Orchestration: Design integration flows using a visual builder, defining triggers (event-based or scheduled), conditional logic, data transformations, and target actions in each system.

Data Validation & Enrichment: Implement AI-driven validation rules to ensure data quality before posting to either ERP. Enrich data with lookups or calculated fields as needed.

Error Handling & Monitoring: Configure comprehensive error logging, automated retry mechanisms with exponential backoff, and alerts for persistent failures. Monitor integration health via centralized dashboards.

Deployment & Governance: Deploy integration flows through controlled Dev-QA-Prod pipelines. Maintain version control, audit trails, and role-based access for all integration assets.

Data Touchpoints

Sales Orders (AX <-> ByDesign)
Customers (AX <-> ByDesign)
Products/Items (AX <-> ByDesign)
Vendors/Suppliers (AX <-> ByDesign)
Purchase Orders (AX <-> ByDesign)
Invoices (Sales/Vendor/Supplier) (AX <-> ByDesign)
General Ledger Journals/Entries (AX <-> ByDesign)
Inventory Levels (AX <-> ByDesign)
Payments (AX <-> ByDesign)
Employees/Projects (AX <-> ByDesign)

"Dynamics AX <-> iPaaS <-> SAP Business ByDesign. Data flows bi-directionally for Master Data, Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Invoices, General Ledger Journals. Event-driven triggers initiate real-time updates, while scheduled syncs handle bulk data transfers."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Dynamics AX + SAP Business ByDesign .

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 Dynamics AX

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

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    Event Trigger / Poll
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    Data Extraction
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    Initial Validation & Standardization
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    AI-Assisted Mapping & Transformation
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    Business Logic & Enrichment
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    Target System API Call
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    Confirmation & Error Handling
Data Mapping

Key Entities & Intelligent Mapping for Dynamics AX and SAP Business ByDesign

Successful integration hinges on precise mapping of business entities and their fields. Our iPaaS provides a visual mapping canvas, enhanced with AI, to streamline this complex process, ensuring data integrity and consistency between Dynamics AX and SAP Business ByDesign.

Sales Order

The core document representing a customer's request. Critical for order processing and revenue recognition.

Dynamics AX Fields

SalesId CustAccount ItemId QtyOrdered SalesPrice SalesStatus DeliveryDate InventDimId

SAP Business ByDesign Fields

ID BuyerID SoldToPartyID PurchaseOrderByCustomer Item RequestedDate TotalAmount Currency Product Quantity

Mapping Notes

Requires mapping of customer and product identifiers, quantity units, pricing conditions, and order status. `InventDimId` in AX is crucial for inventory dimensions, which needs to be translated to ByDesign's inventory locations or product attributes. Line item details are paramount.

Next Steps

See Dynamics AX + SAP Business ByDesign integration in action.

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

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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.

Global eCommerce Order Management

Automate the complete order-to-cash cycle for global eCommerce operations. Sales Orders from an online store are created in SAP Business ByDesign (for regional operations) and then flow to Dynamics AX for inventory allocation, advanced fulfillment, and corporate invoicing/revenue recognition.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer places an order on eCommerce platform.
  2. 1 iPaaS creates Sales Order in SAP Business ByDesign, leveraging ByDesign's `SalesOrderCollection` OData API.
  3. 2 ByDesign Sales Order triggers iPaaS to create a corresponding Sales Order or Purchase Order in Dynamics AX (via `/AIF/SalesOrderService/create` or similar), ensuring inventory is reserved.
  4. 3 Fulfillment and shipping updates from Dynamics AX flow back to ByDesign (via `/AIF/SalesOrderService/updateStatus`) and then to the eCommerce platform.
  5. 4 Invoicing in AX or ByDesign is synchronized, and payment status is updated.

Business Outcome

Accelerated order processing, real-time inventory accuracy across systems, improved customer satisfaction, and accurate revenue recognition.

Frequency

Real-time

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

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

Accelerated Financial Close
Automate the consolidation of General Ledger data from SAP Business ByDesign subsidiaries into corporate Dynamics AX, dramatically reducing manual effort and closing cycles.
Enhanced Data Accuracy
Ensure consistent customer, product, and vendor master data across both ERPs with AI-driven validation and real-time synchronization, minimizing costly errors.
Streamlined Operations
Automate critical workflows like intercompany order processing, procure-to-pay, and inventory adjustments, leading to smoother operations and reduced manual touchpoints.
Real-time Business Insights
Gain a unified view of your business with instant data flow, enabling quicker, more informed decision-making across all integrated functions.
Reduced IT Workload
Leverage low-code tools and pre-built connectors to empower business users, freeing up IT resources for strategic initiatives.
Improved Compliance & Auditability
Maintain comprehensive audit trails for all data transactions and transformations, simplifying compliance and internal audit processes.
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Accelerated Financial Close

Up to 70% Faster Close Time

📋 What You Get

Automate the consolidation of General Ledger data from SAP Business ByDesign subsidiaries into corporate Dynamics AX, dramatically reducing manual effort and closing cycles.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to Up to 70% improvement in Faster Close Time, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

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 ByDesign or other external systems, often for fulfillment.
POST /AIF/SalesOrderService/updateStatus Updating the status of existing sales orders (e.g., shipped, invoiced) in AX, often triggered by fulfillment in ByDesign.
POST /AIF/CustomerService/create Creating or updating customer records in Dynamics AX, originating from ByDesign or other CRM systems.
POST /AIF/InventItemService/update Updating product/item master data or inventory details in Dynamics AX, often from ByDesign product catalog or inventory adjustments.
POST /AIF/GeneralLedgerJournalService/create Creating and posting general ledger journals in Dynamics AX, typically for financial consolidation from ByDesign.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Field-to-Field Mapping: Direct mapping of corresponding fields (e.g., ByDesign `Product.Name` to AX `ItemName`).
  • Data Type Conversion: Convert data types as required (e.g., string to decimal, date format conversions).
  • Lookup Tables: Translate codes or IDs (e.g., ByDesign `ProductCategory` to AX `ItemGroup`, or `UnitOfMeasure` conversion factors).
  • Conditional Logic: Apply transformations based on field values (e.g., if ByDesign `TotalAmount` > X, apply special discount in AX).
  • Concatenation/Splitting: Combine or split fields (e.g., ByDesign `FirstName` + `LastName` to AX `Name`, or AX `Address` to ByDesign `Street`, `City`, `Country`).
  • Default Values: Assign default values for missing optional fields in the target system.
  • Complex Dimension Mapping: Translate ByDesign's simpler financial structures (e.g., `CostCenterID`) into AX's multi-segment `LedgerDimension`.

🛡️ Error Handling

  • Transient API Errors: Network glitches, temporary service unavailability. Handled by automatic retries with backoff.
  • Data Validation Errors: Invalid `CustAccount`, non-existent `ItemId`, incorrect date format. Routed to DLQ for review, with alerts.
  • Business Logic Errors: Sales order exceeding credit limit, inventory not available. Handled by conditional logic or routed for manual review.
  • Authentication Failures: Expired tokens, incorrect credentials. Trigger immediate alerts for security team.
  • Schema Mismatch: Unexpected fields or missing mandatory fields. Flagged during mapping and transformation stages.
Support & Information

Frequently Asked Questions

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

General FAQs

▸ What are the common challenges when integrating Dynamics AX with SAP Business ByDesign?
Common challenges include the complexity of AX's data model and AIF services, the need for schema harmonization between two distinct ERPs, managing real-time versus batch processing, ensuring data consistency, and navigating different authentication mechanisms. A modern iPaaS abstracts these complexities with visual tools and pre-built connectors.

iPaaS Benefits FAQs

▸ How does an iPaaS improve Dynamics AX and SAP Business ByDesign integration compared to traditional methods?
iPaaS provides a low-code/no-code visual development environment, pre-built connectors, AI-driven mapping and validation, centralized monitoring, and support for API-first and event-driven architectures. This significantly reduces development time, maintenance costs, and improves the scalability, reliability, and agility of integrations between AX and ByDesign.

Technical FAQs

▸ Can I achieve real-time data synchronization between Dynamics AX and SAP Business ByDesign?
Yes, absolutely. By leveraging event-driven architecture (webhooks from ByDesign, custom event publishers from AX) and the iPaaS's ability to process data instantaneously, you can achieve near real-time synchronization for critical entities like Sales Orders, Inventory, and Customer updates, ensuring immediate data consistency across both ERPs.

AI Features FAQs

▸ What role does AI play in this integration solution?
AI significantly augments the integration by providing intelligent automation. This includes AI-driven suggestions for field mappings, automated data validation to prevent errors, anomaly detection in financial transactions (e.g., GL Journals), smart routing of exceptions, and even auto-resolution of common integration issues, reducing manual effort and improving data quality.

Data Management FAQs

▸ How do you ensure data consistency for master data (e.g., Customer, Product) across both systems?
Our iPaaS employs robust data mapping, transformation, and validation capabilities. We define clear master data ownership rules (which system is the source of truth), implement canonical data models, and use conflict resolution strategies. AI assists in identifying and resolving data discrepancies proactively, ensuring a single, consistent view of your master data across AX and ByDesign.

Security FAQs

▸ What security measures are in place for Dynamics AX and SAP Business ByDesign integrations?
Key security measures include strong authentication (OAuth 2.0 for ByDesign, secure service accounts/AD for AX), data encryption in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest, IP whitelisting, least privilege access for integration endpoints, and comprehensive audit trails for all data exchanges. We adhere to industry standards like ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II.

Customization FAQs

▸ Can I customize integration workflows and field mappings for unique business needs?
Absolutely. Our low-code iPaaS provides a visual drag-and-drop editor that allows business users and developers to easily customize integration workflows, define specific conditional logic, and tailor field mappings to accommodate unique business processes and custom fields in both Dynamics AX and SAP Business ByDesign, without extensive coding.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Dynamics AX + SAP Business ByDesign .

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

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$599 /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 Dynamics AX + SAP Business ByDesign 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