Posted By
Christopher Dabhi
on
3. September 2015 06:16
Large and small businesses use several applications and disparate systems to organize their information. Connecting systems such as MIS, , and accounting is essential to achieving a complete, 360-degree view of business operations, giving you the power to accomplish tasks and analyze information more quickly and reliably.
BI Integration between systems provides visibility of transactions and business-critical information across an enterprise, aids management, and enables workforces to make informed decisions.
How do I Integrate Tally?
Tally provides three APIs that you can use to integrate and facilitate read/write capabilities. The three APIs available are:
- Extensible Markup Language (XML).
- Open Database Connectivity (ODBC).
- Dynamic Link Library (DLL), which supports Tally Definition Language (TDL).
All three APIs offer seamless integration between applications and databases in online and offline mode, but it’s important to know which is the best fit for what you need accomplished, and why.
XML Approach
Use XML when you want to exchange information with external systems. It’s the most widely used and most recommended method of integration.
- Supports read and write capabilities.
- Has support for web services.
- Defines the set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is readable by both humans and software.
- Emphasizes simplicity and usability across systems.
- With XML, Tally can communicate with any environment capable of sending and receiving XML requests and responses over HTTP.
ODBC Approach
Use ODBC when you want to access data from any application, irrespective of the database management system (DBMS).
- Only supports read functionality.
- Acts as a middle layer between applications and DBMS.
- Tally provides an ODBC interface to communicate with the Tally database, which enables external applications to retrieve data from Tally.
TDL Approach
Use TDL when your requirements are complex and require code-level changes such as enhancing or changing default behavior, user interface changes, document printouts, reports, additional data elements and functionalities, and business logic.
To integrate Tally via TDL, you’ll need skilled resources, as the language can be difficult to learn because of its unique syntax.
- Supports read and write functionality.
- With TDL, your development team can export data, format and build an XML structure, and push it to Tally.
- They can query any report to get data in XML and pull information to other applications.
How Can AllianceTek Help?
AllianceTek can integrate your organization with Tally and help you achieve deeper business insights. Our experts have extensive knowledge and experience integrating third-party accounting applications such as Tally and QuickBooks with existing systems and new software applications.
Learn more about AllianceTek’s and find out how we can help you unify your enterprise for superior business intelligence and application integration services collaboration.
