Automate EAI, B2B, EDI, and business processes with Logic Apps
Businesses and organizations electronically communicate with each other by using industry-standard message protocols and formats, such as EDIFACT, AS2, and X12. With the features in the Enterprise Integration Pack (EIP), you can build logic apps to convert those messages into formats that finance and operations apps can use. Logic Apps handles these exchanges smoothly with encryption and digital signatures.
The first step in processing message files with Logic Apps is to access them with a file system connector. You could do this by using a trigger to detect when files are added, or you could use a Recurrence trigger to aggregate changes periodically instead. Either way, you can find the file system interactions by entering file system into the search bar when adding a new node.
If you have a large volume of message files, you might take advantage of Azure Blob Storage rather than local storage. There are Logic Apps connectors for that, too. Enter azure blob into the search bar to view several connector options. To interact with files in blob storage, select Get blob content.
When you have the data and have processed it, finance and operations apps connectors help you import the data into your ERP system. The connector's functionality includes the following options:
- Create record - Create a new record in an entity.
- Delete record - Deletes a single record in an entity.
- Get a record - Retrieves a single record.
- Get list of entities - Retrieves a list of entities.
- List items present in table - Retrieves all the records in a table.
- Update a record - Updates a single record in an entity.