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Third-party application support for products like Novell GroupWise and Novell Teaming is among the top customer enhancement requests—and critical to user productivity. In this session, we'll show you how we've done it with our upcoming data synchronization product, Novell Data Synchronizer. We'll introduce you to the product and take a detailed look at the way it enables integration between Novell collaboration products and SugarCRM, Salesforce.com and Microsoft SharePoint.
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Ian ButlerDeveloper, [email protected]
Islam MorsiDeveloper, [email protected]
Integrating Novell® Collaboration Productswith SugarCRM, Salesforce.com and SharePoint
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Engine and Connector Overview
Novell DataSynchronizer
SDK
Interwoven
GroupWise®
SAP
MobilitySugar CRM
Teaming
SharePoint salesforce.com
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Connector Architecture Review
SYNC ENGINE
CONNECTOR APPLICATION
• GroupWise• SharePoint• SugarCRM• SalesForce• Documentum• Teaming• And Others...
CACHE
OUTPUTNODE
INPUTNODE
SOURCE
SINK
FILTERS
FILTERS
FILTERS
FILTERS
APPLICATIONINTERFACE
SINK
SOURCE
= Incoming Event
= Outgoing Event
• Hub and spoke model• Filters and the application interface
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User Mapping Review
• Especially important with cloud services– Often use email address as user identifier
• Application username vs engine username (DN)– DN is globally unique and authoritative
• Simple case: Add by hand, set application names• Getting fancy: Add a group, application names
automatically filled in• Large-scale enterprise guru: All automatic• App1 username → engine DN → App2 username
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Contact Use Case
Novell DataSynchronizer
Mobile Device
Novell GroupWise
Contact is addedto application
Contact is synchronizedto all connected
applications
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Salesforce and SugarCRMConnector Overview• The connectors facilitate streamlined business
practices by combining sales and work group data– Contact and calendar synchronization with mobile access– Migrations, mergers, acquisitions and strategic partnerships
• Supported items– Contacts– Appointments
> Add vs. send> Multiple invited users supported
– Tasks– Mail (legacy SugarCRM module)
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Salesforce Connector Configuration
• Salesforce prerequisites– Admin proxy user
– Salesforce account type
• User mapping– User name options for automatic mapping
• User settings• Filters
– Schema mapping
– User-based filtering
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SugarCRM Connector Configuration
• SugarCRM prerequisites
– Service user with permissions
– Connectivity from server hosting the connector
• User mapping
• User settings
• Filters
– Schema mapping
– User-based filtering
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ExampleAdvanced Connector Uses
• Filter contacts at certain companies
• Filter low priority tasks
• Transform task and appointment properties
• Many more possibilities to meet business needs
• How to accomplish?
– Data, event and user based transformations in the filters
DemoSugarCRM and GroupWise®
DemoSugarCRM, Groupwise®, and Salesforce
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SharePoint Connector Overview
• Allows for SharePoint synchronization with individual and group based applications
• Supported items – Calendar items
> Sync from SharePoint – one (list item) to many (site members)> Sync to SharePoint – one,many to one (list item)
– Tasks> Sync from SharePoint - one (list item) to one (assignee)> Sync to SharePoint – one,many to one (list item)
– Sync to SharePoint requires either:> Concept of a 'resource' (eDirectory™, GroupWise®), or> Subject field with name of SharePoint site included
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SharePoint Connector Usage
• Configuration– NTLM/non-NTLM authentication supported– Users
> Identified by login name (e.g. 'DOMAIN\username')» Default policy that creates properly formated username based on CN
> Select events to sync, direction to sync
– Per-site custom mappings> Map non-default list names, field names
• SharePoint site awareness– Changes in site name– New sites, deleted sites
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SharePoint Connector Usage
• Event handling details– Connector identifies identical events
> e.g. An appointment in GroupWise® is sent to a resource identifying a SharePoint site and two users who are members of the same site
» Duplicate item protection:~ Only one calendar item is created
» Across the board syncing~ Item modification/deletion in SharePoint or by either user using GroupWise synced to all end
points
> e.g. Calendar item created in SharePoint list generates event per site user» Common identifier in all events for other connectors to check
– Attachments supported– SharePoint list permissions respected
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SharePoint Connector Feature Details
• Data and event transformations
– By default, only accepts received events
– HTLM in body stays intact
– Special fields for transformation:
> Task status
> Task percent complete
> Task priority
> Recurring calendar items
> Resource type recipient
DemoSugarCRM and SharePoint
Integration with Advanced Features
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Salesforce, SugarCRM, SharePointConnector Review• Enable efficient collaborative customer relationship
management
• Allow for faster access to business data, improving business awareness
• Advanced event and data transformations can fit desired business processes and enable the creation of new streamlined processes
Questions and Answers
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