Connectors

Archibus Connectors

When leading commercial, government, educational, and health care institutions deploy Archibus as an integral component of their ERP suite, the IT function of these organizations often have additional requirements which include the ability to:

Connectors -- a dependable, extensible, database-independent means for integrating Archibus with other enterprise systems -- address these issues. Initially, Archibus Connectors were available only through Archibus Professional Services. where they have proven effective on the data sets that drive some of the world’s largest organizations.  The Archibus Connectors have delivered the live data synchronization needs of these enterprises, and have handled millions of data changes each month.

Archibus Connectors have been used in a wide variety of uses, for instance:

The Archibus Connectors

As part of Archibus V21.3, Archibus introduced a new version of the Connectors which are available directly from the product and do not require Archibus Professional Services. These connectors implement most of the features of the Professional Services connectors, but within the quality standards of the Archibus product.

Features and benefits

Feature

Description

Benefits

Meta-data Mapping

Define field mapping, merging, and identity fields without coding.

Quickly correlate data elements between data sources.

Flat-File and Database Integration

Connect to a wide variety of data-sources including -- but not limited to -- databases, xml files, text files, excel files, LDAP services.

Choose the method that is right for your enterprise architecture, workflow, and security requirements.

Centralized Rule Definition

Share rules with the entire IT team over the Web.

Create common, repeatable standards for data transformation and validation.  Speed work by sharing rules between teams and projects.

Validation Rules

Specify that a transaction needs to have certain required data values, or meet certain validation requirements to be transferred.

Ensure that data in the system meets the quality bar needed to operate business processes before it is accepted into the system.

Validation Inferences

Infer validation categories from an incoming data source that is considered to be authoritative.

Assemble validation criteria within Archibus that will continue to enforce the validation of the authoring source of the data.

Automatic Lookups

Automatically substitute table-driven lookup values for literal values in a transfer.

Easily convert between enumerations and standards conventions between systems, sites, divisions, or between numeric codes and human-readable titles.

Scheduling

Configure your Connectors to run at certain intervals right from the Connector user interface.

Easily review and edit Connector jobs in one place without requiring access to the database.

Notifications

In many production environments, batch processes like the Connectors run, unattended in the middle of the night.  The Connectors can email the desired contacts on completion or on errors during the execution.

Proactively notifies system administrators of any failures and/or successful completion of Connector batch processes.

Field Transformations

Use masks and patterns to format field values, combine multiple field values, provide literal values, format date values, or provide current date and time – all without coding.

Quickly perform typical field merging or transformation.

Filters

Filter input or output rows for a rule.

Merge or extract data appropriate for a location, project, division or other logical unit.

Custom Rules

Reuse the Connector rule framework but override portions of the logic with your own scripted pre-processing, post-processing, validation, or error reporting.

Perform advanced integration using loops, conditionals, or lookups from data sources.

Help Topics

Configure Connectors task

Connector Properties table

Connector Fields table

Connector Rules table

Schedule Connectors Using Cron

Define Connector Rules

Upgrading

Details on Connector Types