Business Integration Solutions Documentation

On the road to the cloud

Our initial release in the Cloud for Connectivity studio brought the essential features of BIS to the cloud, to support the minimal integrations. Each following release we aim to bring more features of Business Integration Solutions to the Cloud so more and more of the current OnPrem configurations can be fully supported.

Product overview

On Premise product name	Available in the Cloud since
Connectivity Studio	September 2021 (2109)
EDI Studio	October 2021 (2110)
Replication Management	March 2022 (2203)
Notification Management	March 2024 (2403)
Anywhere Mobility Studio	September 2021 (2109)

Feature overview

Available On Prem	Feature	Short Description	Planned	Available	Scheduled/ Alternative
		Solution Center
✔	Lifecycle Studio	Setting up TI Lifecycles	✔	❌	TBA
✔	Document Management	Setting up document management features	?	❌	TBA
		Business Integration Solutions
✔	Pipeline	A pipeline is a sequence of events, endpoints and activities for importing and exporting data	✔	✔	17.0
✔	Documents (internal/external)	A document is a defintion of information that is sent to or from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central	✔	✔	17.0
✔	Mapping: Field to Field	During mapping one can use the value of a source document's fields	✔	✔	2109
✔	Mapping: Constant to Field	During mapping one can set fixed values as value	✔	✔	2109
✔	Mapping: Expressions	With expression function mapping you can run Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central functions to calculate values	✔	✔	2109
		Processing
✔	Processing	Processing entails handling data from and to the database via BIS	✔	✔	2109
✔	Processing Mode	Processing modes indicate how message generation and processing occurs from a time perspective	✔	✔	TBA
✔	Changelog	The Change log is an agent that reacts to data changes in the database	✔	✔	2109
✔	Job Queue	Using the Job Queue you can set up (recurring) batch jobs to run at a set times	✔	✔	2109
✔	Published Connection	Publication of connections is to enable them in the current environment	✔	✔	2109
✔	Error Logging	The Business Integration Solution is equipped with tools that allows all messages to be monitored	✔	✔	2109
		Events
✔	Code Event	Use this event to start a BIS connection from a specific codeunit with optional recordscope	✔	✔	2306
✔	Record Change Event	use this event to trigger a connection based on record changes	✔	✔	2109
✔	Timer Event	Use this even to schedule exports of a (filtered) dataset	✔	✔	2109
✔	User Event	This event is used to bind custom extension-added buttons to trigger connections.	❌	❌	Code Event
✔	Webservice Event	Use the webservices of Microsoft 365 Business Central to import and export data	✔	✔	2210
✔	Lifecycle Event	Use this event to export Microsoft Dynamics BC data in a controlled manner, based on lifecycle state transitions	✔	❌	TBA
		Activities
✔	ATTACHMENTGENERATOR	Used to create attachments for Notifications	✔	✔	2109
✔	CSVTOXMLTRANSLATOR	Used to translate a CSV input into XML structure	✔	✔	2109
✔	DOCUPLOADER	Used to upload documents to a network,FTP or Sharepoint location	?	❌	TBA
✔	EVENTGENERATOR	Used to generate a job queue entry for a message	✔	✔	2109
✔	HEADERMAPPER	Used to map dynamic element settings	✔	✔	2109
✔	MAPPER	Used to map data items from multiple sources	✔	✔	2109
✔	RECORDGENERATOR	Used to write records to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central	✔	✔	2109
✔	SPLITTER	Used to break the composite message into a series of individual messages, each containing data related to one item	✔	✔	2109
✔	TEXTTOXMLTRANSLATOR	Used to convert a text document into an XML document	✔	✔	2109
✔	XMLGENERATOR	Used to convert Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central record set into XML document	✔	✔	2109
✔	XMLPORTRECGENERATOR	Used to generate records based on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central XMLports	✔	❌	TBA
✔	XMLPORTXMLGENERATOR	Used to generate an XML document using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central XMLports	✔	❌	TBA
✔	XMLTOCSVTRANSLATOR	Used to convert an XML document into a CSV document	✔	✔	2109
✔	XMLTOHTMLTRANSLATOR	Used to convert an XML document into an HTML document	✔	✔	2109
✔	XMLTOTEXTTRANSLATOR	Used to convert an XML document to a text document	✔	✔	2109
✔	XMLTOXMLTRANSLATOR	Used to apply a custom XML style sheet (XSLT)on an XML document	✔	✔	2109
✔	XMLSCHEMAVALIDATOR	Used to see if a message matches a specific document structure	✔	✔	2112
✔	MESSAGEEDITOR	Edit a message during processing	?	❌	TBA
✔	SCHEDULER	Moves a message from a user session to a background session	✔	✔	2909
✔	JSONTOXMLTRANSLATOR	Transforms a JSON to an XML format	✔	✔	2110
✔	XMLTOJSONTRANSLATOR	Transforms an XML to a JSON format	✔	✔	2110
✔	XML-MINIFIER	Clean an XML document of empty nodes/blocks that are not mandatory	✔	✔	2909
✔	RUNOBJECT	Run an object in the current session	✔	✔	Q1 2023
		Endpoints
✔	FILEREADER	The end point used to read files from a shared folder	❌	❌	AZURE FILEREADER
✔	FILEWRITER	The end point used to write to a shared folder	❌	❌	AZURE FILEWRITER
✔	AZURE FILEREADER	The end point used to read files from a Azure storage account	✔	✔	2109
✔	AZURE FILEWRITER	The end point used to write into a Azure storage account	✔	✔	2109
✔	ASYNC AZURE FILEREADER	Waits and reads a specific file from the Azure File Storage	✔	✔	2909
✔	FTPREADER	The end point used to read files from an FTP location	?	❌	TBA
✔	FTPWRITER	The end point used to write into an FTP location	?	❌	TBA
✔	OUTLOOKWRITER	The end point used to send Notification using the default e-mail client	❌	❌	EMAILWRITER
✔	SMTPWRITER	The end point used to send Notification using SMTP)	❌	❌	EMAILWRITER
✔	EMAILWRITER	The end point used to send Notification using EmailAccounts)	✔	✔	2109
✔	SQLREADER	Read directly from a SQL Database	❌	❌	TBA
✔	SQLWRITER	Write directly to a SQL Database	❌	❌	TBA
✔	WEBSERVICE	Learn about the end point used to send web requests	✔	✔	2112
✔	ASYNC WEBSERVICE	Trigger the continuation of a pipeline by a Microsoft Dynamics BC Web Service	✔	✔	2909
✔	SETENCODING	Set the text encoding on an incoming message	✔	✔	Q1 2025
		Extensibility
✔	Expression Function	Custom functions for Expressions	✔	✔	2109 (Interface changes)
✔	Custom Connector	Extension point for record handling	❌	❌	Record Handler
✔	Record Handler	Extension point for record handling	✔	✔	2109
✔	Temporary Table Handler	Support for Temporary tables	✔	✔	2109
✔	Custom Pipeline Element	A Custom Element enables additional pipeline activities, endpoints or events to be implemented	✔	✔	2109
✔	Job Queue Handler	Run compatible Business Central Objects from the job queue	✔	✔	2109
✔	Custom Report Connector	Overrule report generation	❌	❌	ExtendingAttachment Generation
✔	Extending Attachment Generation	Overrule report generation and attachment handling	✔	✔	2109
✔	Code Event	A Code / User Event can be used to trigger a pipeline for a specific record	✔	✔
✔	BIS API	The BIS API allows you to configure and execute pipeline configurations	❌	❌	TBA