Staging and Planning (Integration)

For integrations, it’s important that everyone understands what our options are, what we recommend, and who can implement them. For this, we’ve put together this page: Pricefx Integrations Best Practices (for everyone!) (in development). This should be reviewed during planning, so that you can stick to best practices as well as you can (and avoid accidentally biting off more than you can chew!).

Integration Training

We offer both instructor-led and on-demand training for preparing, performing and troubleshooting data integrations in the Pricefx environment. It is recommended as a best practices that anyone that will be performing integration functions should take this training before integration planning starts. You can find more information on the different courses in the Pricefx training portal:

• Pricefx Training Portal | Integration Engineer Prerequisites

• Pricefx Training Portal | Integration Engineer Foundation (Live ILT)

• Pricefx Training Portal | Integration Engineer Foundation Case Study

• Pricefx Training Portal | Integration Engineer Certification Exam

Data Readiness Management (DRM)

Before any integration component of a project, it is highly recommended that the Data Readiness principles are utilized to help our customers evaluate their data readiness and put together quality data. It is considered a best practices that this be the starting point for integration efforts since even a small change in data after development starts can lead to huge delays + re-development time.

For more information on the role and use of Data Readiness:

• Defining Data Readiness Process

• Data Readiness Steps

• Data Readiness User Stories

For more information on the instructor-led workshop:

• Pricefx Training Portal | Data Readiness Methodology

Data Integration Design Patterns

To make our critical enterprise data more usable and to increase its availability faster, developers can use data integration patterns to standardize the integration process. Prior to starting an integration project, Pricefx recommends that you familiarize yourself with the five major data integration patterns based on business use cases.

For more information on these patterns:

• Data Migration Pattern

• Broadcast Pattern

• Bi-Directional Pattern

• Correlation Pattern

• Aggregation Pattern

SAP Integration

If your integration project will involve SAP, then Pricefx does have additional options available for these types of integrations.

Through SAP Integration Suite the Pricefx Integration Adapter can integrate other cloud and on-premise applications within the organization with the Pricefx application providing a full suite of price management solutions.

The adapter's main purpose is:

• To execute the data integration part of the Pricefx implementation faster and more effectively.

• To allow partners and customers to handle the data integration themselves, without having to depend on Pricefx developers.

For more information on the SAP Integration Suite:

• SAP IS

• SAP IS Operations

Boomi Pricefx Adapter

If your integration project will involve non-SAP, then Pricefx does have additional options available for these types of integrations use Dell Boomi adapters.

Through the Boomi platform, Pricefx - Partner connector can easily connect any Boomi-registered applications with Pricefx application which provides a full suite of price management solutions.

The connector's main purpose is:

• To execute the data integration part of the Pricefx implementation faster and more effectively.

• To allow partners and customers to handle the data integration themselves, without having to depend on Pricefx developers.

For more information on the Boomi Integration Adapter:

• Boomi Adapter Overview

• Boomi Adapter Operations