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Configure Databridge for use with Infor ION to send and receive information to/from other applications within your enterprise using Infor ION. Create an enterprise organizational hierarchy that enables Databridge to correctly identify and handle the centrally defined organization structure in place for Infor ION.
Because Databridge will be sending and receiving information to/from other applications within your enterprise using Infor ION, you must configure Databridge for use with Infor ION by creating an enterprise organizational hierarchy that enables Databridge to correctly identify and handle the centrally defined organization structure in place for Infor ION. This enterprise organizational hierarchy is defined for Databridge on the Enterprise Organizational Hierarchy page.
Create enterprise organizational hierarchy structures to configure Databridge to handle the centrally defined organization coding structure in place within your enterprise. Within enterprises, there are many applications and systems that are in place, and many times each application includes its own concept or definition of the organization unit, which is frequently represented by a code of some type. Specifically, within your EAM system, organization codes may be defined as ORG1-GVL, ORG2-ATL, ORG3-DET, etc.; however, within other applications in use within your enterprise they may define organizations as follows GVL, ATL, DET, etc. Understandably, the establishment of specific organizational conventions within an enterprise (across business units, groups, etc.) is necessarily an internally driven matter that is determined by organizational business practices, accounting systems, applications, etc., and thus there will be differences in these organizational codes defined within your enterprise.
However, because Infor ION will be sending and receiving information containing the multiple organizational codes from the applications in place within your enterprise, ION must be able to handle all of this organizational information, therefore some kind of a centrally defined organization coding structure must be put in place that provides Infor ION and your applications with a common organizational language to process the organizational information transmitted between your enterprise applications. This common organizational language is necessary for Infor ION, but once organizational information is received by an application, the application will then determine what to do with the information based on the business logic of the system, etc. The application may use XML or some other functionality to transform this common organizational language into the language of the application.