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 | | BDSSync is middleware - it is a program that sits in between two or more other applications and passes data between them.
This might seem simple, but many software programs store information in very different ways. One program might have only 1 address for each customer, but another (like MYOB) may allow you to store 5 of them, another might allow as many addresses as you like. This changes the way a database is structured and means that a customer record is not the same in one application as it is in another.
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Every part of every program has these differences. So it’s not an easy task to make programs talk. BDSSync makes it simpler in three ways.
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| |  | | | It provides a graphical interface so that integrators can see the |
| | information they are working with and trying to match up.
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| | | | | It allows a range of options to connect and synchronise with different |
| | data sources in different locations. These can be set up without the need to write code.
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| | | | | BDSSync takes care of maintaining the links to MYOB through their |
| | upgrade process. We figure out how the changes affect the links between applications and keep them up to date.
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| | | BDSSync uses MYOB’s ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) driver to connect to their SME accounting products. ODBC is a language which databases can use to communicate with other programs. It can connect to any other data source that has an industry standard OLEDB or ODBC driver. |
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