SAP Business One Data Transfer Workbench (DTW) is a tool that helps businesses to import large amounts of business and system data from legacy systems to SAP Business One.
The Data Transfer Workbench incorporates data from all core business areas like financials, sales, purchasing, and inventory. Using this we can transfer both transactional (sales orders, invoices, etc) and master data (business partner and item, etc).
Let’s discuss why data DTW is so popular among the business users of the SAP Business One ecosystem.
If you have SAP Business One and wish to integrate all your applications to achieve seamless business and robotic process automation, you can easily connect all your data under one single platform and maximize your efficiency, productivity and ROI!
Advantages of Data Transfer Workbench (DTW) in SAP Business One
DTW offers a seamless integration with Microsoft Excel using which you can extract data from your legacy system into Excel spreadsheet templates and import them into SAP Business One.
Data Transfer Workbench comes with default templates for all objects. In these templates, you can fill your data and then import it to SAP Business One. Default templates are present inside the folder where the Data Transfer Workbench is installed. You can also create your custom template for importing data and sharing the custom templates with others.
It provides the user a wizard-like interface that guides you through the data migration process and integrates all relevant steps such as data extraction, mapping, and import. During the extraction, step data is converted into the format required by SAP Business One and mapped to corresponding data structures and fields. Using its simulation feature you can ensure that data migrating data is consistent according to SAP Business One business rules and data mappings.
DTW is built on the Data Interface API, which is part of the SAP Business One SDK. This guarantees data consistency and enforcement of the standard business rules are maintained during data import.
DTW also has a detailed log management section. During the import process, Log Management collects information, messages, and error messages of upload processes which can be used by the users for further analysis.
In addition to Microsoft Excel, the DTW also has an ODBC interface using this interface, you can import data directly from an ODBC data source like MSSQL or Microsoft Access database without having to export the data into Excel.
Limitations of DTW
With these benefits of importing data DTW also come with some limitation. The major limitation is that The Data Transfer Workbench does not support importing past activities that have already been closed. You can import only your master data, open documents, and opening balances for items and G/L accounts.
If you have SAP Business One and wish to integrate all your applications to achieve seamless business and robotic process automation, you can easily connect all your data under one single platform and maximize your efficiency, productivity and ROI!
