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

Data Management, OData, and Office

Data integration with other applications is a very important part of Finance and Supply Chain Management (SCM). It is a cloud-first ERP solution, and this means that it has to provide secure ways to manage its data. As part of the implementation data usually has to be imported, and after that, we will often wish to import and export data from SCM, we may also wish to integrate with other applications, such as Excel, or access data from SCM in our internal on-premise applications.

Although SCM provides many data integration features out of the box, we will usually have to extend or write new entities. The topics covered in this chapter provide the recipes that are commonly used to access our data in terms ...