ERP Business Framework

• Extend any portion of any screen: By using the same tools as those used to build the base application, you can extend any portion of any screen, including new tabs, new fields, validation logic, and enabling logic. You can even embed controls you write in technologies like Silverlight in any SyteLine form.
• Extend any business process: Using the Application Event System (AES), you can define rules that execute whenever an insert or update occurs to any business object (order, item, etc.) in the application or when trigger conditions you define become true. These event actions include updating any data in the application, automating any process provided by the application, prompting a user or group of users to approve the change, integrating to an external application, or simply notifying users of the change. Defining these types of actions is all done without writing code.
• Extend any business object: You can extend any of the Intelligent Data Objects (IDOs) to create new relationships to other IDOs in the base application, add new calculated fields, add new tables, and publish their properties on the IDO. You also can create your own IDOs over your tables. All of these are done without writing code, although if you want you can write your own .Net classes and have that logic incorporated in the IDO processing as well.
• Add completely new functionality: You can build new functionality, such as new tables, IDOs, and forms as required by processes unique to your business. These are automatically deployed with the base application and automatically take advantage of other framework functions, such as translations, Web Service access, and the Application Event System.
• Introduce workflow, automation, or other business process-level changes using the Application Event System, without writing code. With drag-and-drop editing, you can construct rules that can, for example, query, update and execute functions on any IDO, notify or prompt users, or invoke web services from external applications. You can have your rules executed on a wide variety of events, including trigger rules you specify (e.g. item quantity on hand is below safety stock), or whenever data on an IDO is updated in various ways.