overcast true real-time sap integration for Salesforce CRM the difference overcast is built on top of the powerful Salesforce platform with the goal to solve the integration challenges for companies that truly want to Leverage The Salesforce platform strategically as a system of engagement on top of any and all back-end data the pre-built overcast components will save you time and money letting you focus on optimizing the processes that give your company a unique competitive Advantage rather than rebuilding features your competition already has overcast also optionally integrates via moft and sap CPI allowing you to leverage your existing investments in these developer tools that help you standardize how hundreds of disperate systems connect in all cases overcast simplifies the solution architecture through its mixed real-time integration and comprehensive data replication approach that connects any backend to Salesforce before overcast companies hired integration teams with the goal to asynchronously send data from one application to another while this works for basic Integrations such as replicating Master data it doesn't allow you to seamlessly integrate business processes the digital age rightfully demands real-time Integrations based on apis API management tools were built to simplify the development and management of apis on top of old backends however simply rebuilding existing AP pis in a new technology does not solve anything by itself on the contrary it adds complexity and additional code to maintain that renders the integration rigid in addition the complexity of building out Integrated Solutions on top of these apis can be prohibitive front-end developers talking to API middleware experts talking to backend experts means that projects such as realizing an order taking front end on top of sap typically requires hundreds or even thousands of Mand days until the solution is mature overcast redefines how integration is done no business logic accumulates in a middleware layer and the solution architecture remains flexible over time easy to maintain and very welcoming to change think of overcast as your data access layer for backend systems that allows you to access external data for instance simply by writing an S soql statement against an sap table or by calling an overcast generated Apex class that acts as a proxy to a remote system or record to give you a running start and help reduce integration complexity overcast provides pre-built Integrations for 80% of typical Salesforce to sap integration requirements out of the box and lets you build the rest in days this includes the integration as well as the related integration business logic UI single sign on audit Trail and much more the overcast solution can directly consume all the many public apis in sap and other systems that is a unique overcast capability given that sap business objects are very complex and hierarchical and require multiple Salesforce objects to be posted in one transaction or rolled back completely how is overcast different from Solutions such as moft or s sap CPI moft and sap CPI allow you to consolidate disperate backends by creating new process apis and are designed specifically for this purpose use moft or sap CPI to implement a microservices strategy however after you spent a lot of time and money implementing the microservices strategy you're still left with a large project to actually integrate those apis into your Salesforce processes and user experience this can easily end up costing millions of dollars to build and maintain over the years as you digitize more and more business processes overcast focuses on the business side of integration and solves the challenge of integrating back-end apis seamlessly into the Salesforce user experience overcast seamlessly ties into your moft and sap CPI investment and enables your Salesforce platform with content in a very powerful way as a result you can fully leverage the powerful Salesforce platform to redesign your business processes for the digital age without having to worry about how to connect other systems behind the scenes for more information visit our website www.van.com