Integrating your NPD solution with other Systems

An NPD solution holds the master data for many aspects of innovation management. However, there are typically other systems in your IT environment that manage other master data relating to innovation processes. The NPD solution must therefore be able to easily copy data from your other systems, to provide a complete view of innovation information and to ensure data consistency.

Similarly, you may have other systems and tools that need access your NPD solution’s master data, so the NPD solution must be able to share its data with other systems easily.

IFT’s Solution

Powered by Planisware™, IFT’s solution includes all the tools necessary to automatically share data with other software and to quickly build and maintain custom interfaces with your other systems.

Automatic data sharing

One-click push of your reports to Microsoft Powerpoint
One-click save of your documents to Microsoft SharePoint
One-click data export to Microsoft Excel with dynamic update
One-click PDF reporting, with inbuilt PDF generator
One-click bi-directional XML interface with Microsoft Project

System Interfaces

Standard SAP certified web services and BAPI connectors to SAP modules
Data exchange to other ERP systems such as Oracle, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards
Configurable XML interface to Microsoft Excel and Word
XMLa support to exchange data with business intelligence tools like Cognos and Business Objects
Data exchange with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems
Data exchange export with data warehouses
SMTP interface for email integration with systems such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes
Full support of web services as server and client
Batch and real time interfaces supported
Data exchange using SQL, XML, and flat file import/export
Internal scheduler and event alerts can trigger data exchange on an event or time basis
LDAP interface for password authentication
OLAP connector to Mondrian and Microsoft Excel
Publication feeds (RSS format)
Interface building using macros and javascript compliant API

Example Solution Capabilities

Related NPD Processes