Mongoose Application for External Use?

Hi everyone,

Users at my company are showing some interest in getting our customers and vendors access to some of our ERP information. I know that Syteline has a portals add on, however there currently isn't an appetite to have external quoting, etc etc. We are more interested in having some of our product data shown to specific customers and drawings available to vendors.

My thoughts initially were to use a separate Mongoose database and custom coded applications/forms in there and have ION communicate between secured Syteline and separate mongoose application. Does anyone have any experience with this, or maybe advise if its a good or bad idea?

Thanks

Ryan

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Well then, you could definitely develop your own app in SL, with an external firewalled access point. You would just need to make a user available for them to utilize that is then secured tightly. I would suggest using row level access security as well. You could also develop a Mongoose app with access to SL tables in the database directly. Lots of options.

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I assume you are using MT CloudSuite? There is a new External Identities feature in CloudSuite that allows you to make data access available to your customers/vendors. You can use Mongoose PaaS ( the same toolkit for SL ) to create a portal application for your external users. It is a very new feature, and requires some knowledge to setup, but we have created this to satisfy your use case. Contact your Infor Rep for information.

Ryan Pukanski

Thanks for the response, but we are on premise for everything currently.

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Ryan Pukanski

That sounds good. We are licensed to have a separate mongoose app server/db so was thinking I would start there and leverage ION to send the required data from Syteline over to that mongoose application. Just wanted to make sure this wasn't a "frowned upon" practice. Thank you!

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