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  • 1.  What are you telling customers who inquire about Office 365 integration to Sage 100?

    Posted 02-22-2021 11:03
    I have a customer who asked me this morning via email what I knew about Office 365 integration to Sage 100.

    I had problems finding anything customer facing to share with them. There were some very general setup KB articles but nothing I stumbled upon that provided any type of demonstration.

    I know Steve M is doing a demo during MOTM. 

    Just wondering are you doing anything with this in production with actual customer data and if so what is your use case and how difficult was it to setup -- and if you wouldn't mind sharing anything customer facing that might be helpful to a customer in understanding this integration.

    PS - What version of Sage 100 was this feature/connector added? 

    TIA

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    Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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  • 2.  RE: What are you telling customers who inquire about Office 365 integration to Sage 100?

    Posted 02-22-2021 13:22
    Edited by Jeff Schwenk 02-22-2021 17:34
    Didn't Steve M do a demo two MOTM's ago?  At the time, it did not seem to be an easy integration (even to demonstrate).  I just remember thinking "This is not happening any time soon for my clients".  I don't think much has changed in the past 24 months.....

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    Jeff Schwenk
    FORMER 90M Board Member
    Bottomline Software, Inc.
    Waynesboro VA
    540-221-4444
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  • 3.  RE: What are you telling customers who inquire about Office 365 integration to Sage 100?

    Posted 02-22-2021 14:38
    I thought the only officially released integration is for Sage Contacts, and the other business objects are being built for a Master Developer to run with... (not necessarily DIY).

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    Kevin Moyes
    Technical Systems Analyst
    Munjal White Consulting Co.
    Toronto ON
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  • 4.  RE: What are you telling customers who inquire about Office 365 integration to Sage 100?

    Posted 02-22-2021 15:55
    A while back ( 6 mnonths or so) there was an unpublished but public Youtube video which showed up in RSS of Sage giving some type of preview of API integration for Sage 100. I suspect it is similar to what Steve Malmgren will talk about on 3/6.



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    Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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  • 5.  RE: What are you telling customers who inquire about Office 365 integration to Sage 100?

    Posted 02-22-2021 15:56
    I haven't been able to find the video again or anything customer facing that explains all this in detail meant for the end user.

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    Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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  • 6.  RE: What are you telling customers who inquire about Office 365 integration to Sage 100?

    Posted 02-22-2021 16:18
    https://www.sagecity.com/support_communities/sage100_erp/w/office-365-support-sage100

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    Kevin Moyes
    Technical Systems Analyst
    Munjal White Consulting Co.
    Toronto ON
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  • 7.  RE: What are you telling customers who inquire about Office 365 integration to Sage 100?

    Posted 02-23-2021 00:44
    Kevin's link is useful. I see a lot of potential in this, BUT I'm really nervous about it because Sage has done so little to promote it. I'd sure like to read more success stories of its actual usage.

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    Jerry Norman
    VP, 90 Minds
    Smartbridge Partners
    512.419.1444 x112
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  • 8.  RE: What are you telling customers who inquire about Office 365 integration to Sage 100?

    Posted 02-23-2021 08:17
    We looked into this extensively when it first came out and had a working demo in 2017 to present to clients.  We incorporated the use of Sdata connections, which at the time was the flavor of choice, to write back to Sage as part of our demo. We did not receive actionable interest from our base (no takers).  The biggest drawback for us was the O365 demonstration environment expired after 90days and the whole setup process would have to be repeated every 90 days in order to keep the product running. We have not recreated a test environment for this since. At that time, the product did what it advertised.  I personally think Sage missed the boat on this one by not fully promoting the API's as discussed during Malmgren's presentations.  It was a good example of keeping Sage 100 relevant as an example of a hybrid-cloud product.

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    alan niergarth
    Velosio LLC
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