This Howto describes how to integrate external applications with ]project-open[. It is based on practical experience from a considerable number of integration projects including applications like SAP, Navision, Nagios, OCS-Intventory, LDAP & Active Directory, GanttProject, OpenProj, Trados, Idiom and many more.
When integrating with external applications, ]project-open[ tends to be the "central application" or "backend applications" most of the times, meaning that data are consolidated and linked with other information on the ]po[ side, while the external applications tend to work in the perepherics of the overall application landscape. This configuration is typical for ERP type application, whose main value is based on integration of information.
Looking through the great number variety of data exchange formats and protocols, there exists only a very limited number of formats for transporting business data between computers:
Based on the types of data transport in the section above, we can identify several types of integration interfaces, depending on the direction and type of data transfer:
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