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PDC Gateway™
Integration Platform
Corporate
visibility is achieved through business integration.
The PDC Gateway™ is a robust and proven integration platform for todays demanding
business requirements that provides real-time integration solutions across
enterprise systems. With native SAP® communication out of the box, the PDC Gateway™ additionally
offers a framework
to connect to any system on the market today. In
addition to seamless integration of different business solutions
over multiple protocols, the PDC Gateway™ expands functionality and
communications with bi-directional EDI communications in virtually any
format including XML,
variable, hierarchical and fixed length formats. The PDC Gateway™ is fully scalable and customizable. In any integration scenario,
PDC Gateway™ supplies a powerfull and robust toolset of
graphical mapping, translation, reporting and scripting utilities for use in translation
and functional aspects of any given interface. The PDC Gateway™
scripting environment utilizes the power of standard languages, including
Java and Visual Basic, to enhance integration points in a process or field
translation level. Executing at run-time side by side with configured
mapping, the PDC Gateway™ can easily handle even the most complex
business solution requirements.
Native SAP®
Communication One of the robust and key signature offerings of the PDC
Gateway™ is it's native SAP® communication capabilities. SAP® functionality accessible via BAPIs, RFCs, and
IDocs can be
made accessible to other systems over the Internet or internal networks
via any of the PDC Gateway™ supported formats, such as XML. Available connections include customer enhanced and custom interfaces
that have been created within SAP®, in addition to the standard
connections.
Native Kronos®
Communication PDC Gateway™ is delivered with a full set of preconfigured interfaces to the popular
Kronos Workforce Timekeeper and Workforce Activities applications. These interfaces are based on Kronos published API's as well as database views.
Some of the included interfaces are Employee posting, Activity postings and
Activit Event capture (for use as PP confirmations for instance). There is also an included certified HR-PDC interface
for use with the Kronos 4500 timeclocks.
Pre-configured solutions One of the robust and key signature offerings of the PDC Gateway™ is its rich set of included pre-built interfaces for common scenarios.
These serve as a starting point to solve almost any possible requirement.
The included Business Gateway Developer Tool can be used to modify the supplied base point and customize the solutions to each individual environment.
So out of the box the PDC Gateway interface can capture SAP IDOCs sent via ALE
and convert the master data contained in them to API posts for Employees,
Operations (Activities), Work Centers and Cost Centers (Labor Levels) etc.
It can also capture or extract punch or timecard data from the Kronos software
and convert it to SAP formatted IDOCs for upload (via ALE again) or to be used
in BAPI calls directly into SAP. These can be near real time interfaces
that handle changes in both systems.
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