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Connect SAP Business ByDesign & Dynamics AX: Seamless ERP Integration for Growth

Unlock operational efficiency and unified financial insights by integrating your SAP Business ByDesign and Microsoft Dynamics AX systems with our AI-powered iPaaS solution.

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The Challenge

The Challenge of Disconnected ERPs: SAP ByDesign and Dynamics AX in Silos

Operating with both SAP Business ByDesign, a cloud-based ERP, and Microsoft Dynamics AX, a robust enterprise ERP, whether in a federated enterprise structure, during a transition, or for specialized business units, often leads to significant operational hurdles. Without robust integration, these powerful ERPs cannot communicate effectively, creating data inconsistencies and hindering business agility.

  • Manual Data Entry & Duplication: Repeatedly entering sales orders, customer data, product information, or invoices into both systems, leading to errors and wasted time.
  • Fragmented Financial View: Inability to get a unified, real-time financial picture due to disparate General Ledger postings, financial dimensions, and reporting structures.
  • Delayed Business Processes: Slowed Order-to-Cash (eCommerce to ByDesign to AX) or Procure-to-Pay (AX PO to ByDesign invoice to AX payment) cycles due to manual reconciliation and data transfer bottlenecks.
  • Inaccurate Inventory & Pricing: Discrepancies in product availability, cost, or pricing between operational (ByDesign) and financial (AX) records, impacting sales and procurement.
  • Compliance & Audit Risks: Difficulty in maintaining consistent audit trails and adhering to regulatory requirements due to fragmented data sources and lack of non-repudiation.
  • Limited Scalability: Inability to rapidly expand operations or integrate new business units without extensive custom coding, brittle point-to-point integrations, or manual processes.
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The Solution

Seamless ERP Connectivity: The SAP ByDesign & Dynamics AX Integration Solution

Our powerful iPaaS solution provides a unified, intelligent platform to seamlessly integrate SAP Business ByDesign and Microsoft Dynamics AX. By automating data flow and orchestrating complex workflows, we transform your disconnected ERPs into a cohesive, high-performance ecosystem, driving efficiency and delivering real-time insights.

  • Pre-built, optimized connectors for SAP Business ByDesign and Microsoft Dynamics AX
  • Visual, drag-and-drop workflow designer for intuitive low-code integration development
  • Bi-directional data synchronization for critical master and transactional data entities
  • AI-powered data mapping, validation, anomaly detection, and error resolution
  • Robust error handling with automated retry mechanisms and dead-letter queues
Implementation Timeline

Go live with SAP Business ByDesign + 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 SAP Business ByDesign and Microsoft 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 SAP Business ByDesign + 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, optimized connectors for SAP Business ByDesign and Microsoft Dynamics AX
  • Visual, drag-and-drop workflow designer for intuitive low-code integration development
  • Bi-directional data synchronization for critical master and transactional data entities
  • AI-powered data mapping, validation, anomaly detection, and error resolution
  • Robust error handling with automated retry mechanisms and dead-letter queues
  • Centralized monitoring and alerting for all integration flows and data quality issues
  • Scalable, cloud-native architecture designed for high-volume transactions and enterprise workloads

Technical Integration Details: SAP ByDesign to Dynamics AX

Our iPaaS provides the robust framework for seamless, secure, and performant integration between SAP Business ByDesign and Microsoft Dynamics AX. It intelligently handles the nuances of each system's APIs, data structures, and business logic to ensure a reliable and efficient data flow.

Data Flow Steps

Connection Setup: Establish secure, authenticated connections to both ByDesign (via OAuth 2.0 or Basic Authentication for its OData/SOAP services) and Dynamics AX (via Windows Integrated Authentication, UserName/Password for AIF/WCF services, or custom endpoints, often facilitated by a secure on-premise agent).

Event Listener/Polling Configuration: Configure the iPaaS to listen for events from ByDesign (e.g., new Sales Order, updated Inventory, Invoice Posted) via webhooks (if available) or efficient API polling. Similarly, for AX, leverage AIF polling, database change data capture (CDC), or custom event publishing mechanisms.

Data Extraction: Extract relevant data entities (e.g., Sales Order, Customer, Product, Supplier Invoice, General Ledger Entry) from the source system using optimized API queries or data export methods.

Canonical Data Model Transformation: Map the extracted data to a standardized, internal canonical data model within the iPaaS. This harmonizes schema differences and reduces the complexity of direct point-to-point mappings.

Business Logic & AI-Driven Validation: Apply powerful transformation rules, data enrichment logic (e.g., currency conversion, unit of measure mapping, financial dimension derivations), and AI-driven validation checks (e.g., data type conversion, mandatory field checks, anomaly detection) to ensure data quality and consistency.

Target System Data Loading: Map the transformed data from the canonical model to the target system's (AX or ByDesign) specific schema and invoke the appropriate API/service (ByDesign OData, AX AIF) for creation, update, or deletion of records, often utilizing batching for efficiency.

Error Handling & Logging: Implement comprehensive logging for all transactions, API responses, and transformations. Process errors with automated retries for transient issues, and route persistent failures to dead-letter queues for manual investigation and resolution.

Monitoring & Alerting: Continuously monitor integration flow health, performance, data quality, and security events with real-time dashboards and proactive alerts to relevant business and IT teams.

Data Touchpoints

SAP Business ByDesign: Sales Order, Customer, Product, Inventory, Supplier Invoice, Payment, Employee, Project, General Ledger Entry, Purchase Order, Time Confirmation, Expense Report.
Microsoft Dynamics AX: Customer, Vendor, Sales Order, Purchase Order, Inventory Item (Product), Invoice (Customer), Payment, General Ledger Journal, Shipment, Financial Dimensions, Expense Report.

"A conceptual diagram showing a central iPaaS platform acting as the integration hub. SAP Business ByDesign, Microsoft Dynamics AX, and other external systems (e.g., eCommerce, CRM, WMS) are depicted as spokes connected to this hub. Data flows bi-directionally for master data (e.g., Customer, Product) and unidirectionally for transactional processes (e.g., eCommerce Order -> ByDesign -> AX for financials), illustrating event-driven triggers and scheduled synchronizations."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for SAP Business ByDesign + 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 SAP Business ByDesign

Integrating SAP Business ByDesign fosters greater efficiency and data accuracy. Automate your critical business processes to deliver consistently outstanding results.

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Data Mapping

Key Data Entities & Intelligent Mapping for SAP ByDesign & Dynamics AX

Seamless integration hinges on precise mapping and synchronization of core business entities. Our iPaaS provides visual tools and AI assistance to ensure data integrity and consistency across SAP Business ByDesign and Microsoft Dynamics AX, bridging their distinct data structures.

Customer

Synchronizing customer master data is crucial for consistent sales, invoicing, and accounts receivable processes across both ERPs, ensuring a unified customer view and avoiding data silos.

SAP Business ByDesign Fields

ID Name Street City Country Email PhoneNumber AccountType SoldToPartyID UUID

Microsoft Dynamics AX Fields

AccountNum Name PartyId Currency CreditLimit CustGroup Address ContactInfo DataAreaId

Mapping Notes

Requires careful harmonization of address formats, contact information, and customer group classifications. Deduplication logic is critical when syncing from multiple sources (e.g., CRM, eCommerce). ByDesign's 'Account' often maps to AX's 'Customer' (PartyId/AccountNum). Consider which system is the master.

Next Steps

See SAP Business ByDesign + 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.

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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.

eCommerce Order-to-Cash Automation

Automate the complete order lifecycle, from an external eCommerce platform capturing an order, creating it in SAP Business ByDesign for operational execution (inventory allocation, fulfillment), and then flowing financial data to Microsoft Dynamics AX for invoicing and accounts receivable.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer places an order on the eCommerce platform.
  2. 1 iPaaS captures the order event (via webhook) and creates a Sales Order in SAP Business ByDesign.
  3. 2 ByDesign processes the order, allocates inventory, and triggers fulfillment processes (e.g., WMS integration).
  4. 3 Upon shipment confirmation in ByDesign, iPaaS synchronizes fulfillment and invoice data to Microsoft Dynamics AX.
  5. 4 Dynamics AX posts the customer invoice, manages accounts receivable, and processes incoming payments, reconciling with the GL.

Business Outcome

Accelerated order processing, real-time inventory visibility, accurate and timely financial reporting, reduced manual data entry and errors, improved customer satisfaction with faster service.

Frequency

Real-time, Event-driven

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

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

Enhanced Operational Efficiency
Automate manual data entry, reconciliation, and workflow steps across ByDesign and AX, freeing up valuable employee time and reducing operational overhead by up to 30%.
Real-time Data Accuracy & Visibility
Ensure consistent and up-to-date customer, product, inventory, and financial data across both ERPs, enabling better, faster decision-making with 99.9% data consistency.
Accelerated Financial Close
Streamline the consolidation of financial data from ByDesign into AX, significantly shortening the monthly and quarterly financial close processes by up to 50%.
Improved Compliance & Auditability
Maintain comprehensive, immutable audit trails and data integrity, simplifying compliance efforts and reducing audit preparation time, leading to lower compliance risk.
Scalable & Future-Proof Architecture
Easily adapt to changing business needs, integrate new systems, and scale operations without re-architecting your entire ERP integration landscape, enabling rapid integration deployment.
Reduced IT Burden & Cost
Lower reliance on custom coding and specialized IT resources for integration, reducing maintenance costs and freeing up IT teams for strategic initiatives by 25%.
Enhanced Customer & Supplier Experience
Provide accurate order statuses, timely invoices, and efficient payment processing, leading to higher customer satisfaction and stronger supplier relationships.
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Enhanced Operational Efficiency

30% Reduction in manual data entry time

📋 What You Get

Automate manual data entry, reconciliation, and workflow steps across ByDesign and AX, freeing up valuable employee time and reducing operational overhead by up to 30%.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to 30% improvement in Reduction in manual data entry time, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

Implementation Timeline

Go live with SAP Business ByDesign + 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 SAP Business ByDesign and Microsoft 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 SAP Business ByDesign + 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, GET, PATCH /sap/byd/odata/v1/cust/SalesOrderCollection Create, retrieve, and update sales orders for eCommerce or CRM integration. Essential for Order-to-Cash flows, triggering inventory and fulfillment.
POST, GET, PATCH /sap/byd/odata/v1/cust/CustomerCollection Manage customer master data, including creation and updates from CRM or web forms. Critical for cross-system customer consistency.
GET, PATCH /sap/byd/odata/v1/cust/ProductCollection Retrieve product master data and update stock levels or pricing from external systems. Key for real-time inventory synchronization.
POST, GET /sap/byd/odata/v1/cust/SupplierInvoiceCollection Create and retrieve supplier invoices for automated procure-to-pay processes and 3-way matching.
POST /sap/byd/odata/v1/cust/PaymentAcknowledgementCollection Acknowledge incoming payments from external payment gateways for reconciliation and cash management.
POST, GET, PATCH /sap/byd/odata/v1/cust/EmployeeCollection Manage employee master data, e.g., for HRIS sync, project time tracking, and expense management.
POST, GET, PATCH /sap/byd/odata/v1/cust/ProjectCollection Create, retrieve, and update project master data for cost accounting, billing, and resource utilization.
POST, GET, PATCH /sap/byd/odata/v1/cust/PurchaseOrderCollection Create, retrieve, and update purchase orders, often originating from internal planning or integrated with supplier portals.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Field-Level Mapping: Direct mapping of corresponding fields (e.g., ByDesign.Customer.ID to AX.Customer.AccountNum) with type conversions as needed.
  • Value Transformation: Convert lookup values (e.g., 'Open' status to '10'), apply currency conversions, concatenate/split fields, or apply business logic-driven value derivations.
  • Conditional Logic: Apply rules based on data values (e.g., 'if ByDesign.SalesOrder.TotalAmount > X, then mark as 'HighValue' in AX' or 'route to specific AX legal entity based on ByDesign Cost Center').
  • Data Enrichment: Augment data with external sources or derived values (e.g., calculate tax based on shipping address, enrich customer profile with industry data).
  • Master Data Lookup: Perform real-time lookups against master data in the target system to ensure referential integrity (e.g., validate CustomerID before creating a Sales Order in AX).

🛡️ Error Handling

  • API rate limit exceeded (handled by automated retries and queuing).
  • Data validation failure (e.g., invalid customer ID, incorrect date format) routed to dead-letter queue.
  • Network connectivity issues (handled by retries with exponential backoff).
  • Referential integrity violations (e.g., attempting to create a Sales Order with a non-existent Customer ID).
  • Business logic errors (e.g., insufficient inventory for an order, incorrect GL account mapping).
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for SAP Business ByDesign + 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

▸ Why is integrating SAP Business ByDesign with Microsoft Dynamics AX crucial for my business?
Integrating these two powerful ERPs is essential for organizations that utilize both, whether for specific business units, subsidiaries, or during a transition phase. It eliminates data silos, automates workflows (e.g., Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay), ensures consistent master data, and consolidates financial reporting for a unified, accurate view of the entire enterprise, driving efficiency and better decision-making.

Technical FAQs

▸ What is the primary technical approach for integrating with SAP Business ByDesign?
SAP Business ByDesign primarily offers robust OData and SOAP web services for integration, providing a comprehensive API surface. Our iPaaS leverages these APIs to enable API-first, event-driven connectivity for real-time data exchange and workflow automation, abstracting the complexities for developers and business users.
▸ How does an iPaaS overcome Microsoft Dynamics AX's integration challenges?
An iPaaS abstracts Dynamics AX's integration complexities, such as its Application Integration Framework (AIF) services (SOAP/WCF), custom web services, and direct database access methods. It provides standardized connectors, visual mapping tools, and a scalable runtime environment to overcome rigid data structures, ensure real-time performance, and manage custom code efficiently without requiring deep AX expertise.

Data Management FAQs

▸ Can I synchronize master data (like Customers and Products) bi-directionally between ByDesign and AX?
Yes, absolutely. Our iPaaS supports robust bi-directional synchronization for critical master data entities like Customer, Vendor, and Product. It includes configurable conflict resolution strategies (e.g., 'master system wins', 'last-write-wins') and AI-driven deduplication to maintain a single, consistent source of truth across both ERPs, preventing data discrepancies.

AI Features FAQs

▸ How does AI enhance the SAP ByDesign and Dynamics AX integration workflows?
AI is embedded throughout our integration solution to provide intelligent field mapping suggestions, automate data validation, detect anomalies in transactions (e.g., mismatched invoices, unusual GL postings), suggest optimal data transformations, and even auto-resolve routine exceptions. This leads to significantly higher data quality, reduced manual effort, and proactive issue resolution.

Security & Compliance FAQs

▸ What are the key security considerations for integrating both ERPs?
Key security considerations include using robust authentication methods like OAuth 2.0 for ByDesign and secure service accounts with least privilege for AX, implementing IP whitelisting, encrypting all data in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), enforcing strict access controls, and maintaining comprehensive, immutable audit trails for all data exchanges to ensure compliance with regulations like GDPR and SOX.

Performance FAQs

▸ How do you handle high transaction volumes between ByDesign and AX efficiently?
Our iPaaS employs multiple strategies to manage high transaction volumes efficiently. These include intelligent batch processing for non-real-time data, parallel processing of independent data streams, optimizing API calls to both ERPs, and utilizing intelligent queuing mechanisms to smooth out traffic spikes. The platform is designed to scale dynamically to prevent overwhelming either system during peak loads.

Low-Code/No-Code FAQs

▸ Is low-code/no-code applicable to ByDesign and AX integrations, and what are its benefits?
Absolutely. A modern iPaaS with low-code/no-code capabilities is highly applicable. It allows business analysts and citizen integrators to visually design, build, and deploy complex integration workflows for both ByDesign and AX without writing extensive code. This significantly accelerates development cycles, reduces IT bottlenecks, lowers costs, and empowers business teams to be more agile in managing their integrations.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with SAP Business ByDesign + 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 SAP Business ByDesign and Microsoft 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 SAP Business ByDesign + 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 SAP Business ByDesign + 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 SAP Business ByDesign + 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