Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Cookbook - Second Edition

Introduction

Since Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management is a cloud solution, we can't integrate directly with our local area network. Even though ports could be opened in order to do this, it opens an unnecessary security risk. Even when deployed on a local business data (on-premise), we should still use the same patterns as used in the cloud. This would aid fail-over scenarios should Azure be our Disaster Recovery (DR) solution or should we wish to move to the cloud at a later date.

All integrations should have a service endpoint that will be accessed by SCM.

To facilitate writing integrations that are agnostic of the local network resources, Microsoft has evolved the Data Import/Export Framework (DIXF) in this release ...