Using SYSPRO with Microsoft Office

March 25, 2008 based on a demonstration – SYSPRO recently released SYSPRO Office Integration (SOI), which allows anyone in an organization, regardless of whether SYSPRO is installed on their workstation, to access information directly from the SYSPRO database within a Microsoft Office product such as Word or Excel. Once the information has been displayed, it can be inserted directly into the current document either as simple text or as a table. What’s good about this is that it respects the security of the system so that employees can only access what they would be able to access were they within the SYSPRO system. What’s also good about it is that it’s free. Another plus is that SOI uses web services to communicate between Office and SYSPRO’s database, which means that you can work with an Office product at home using an Internet connection and still have access to the SYSPRO data. Even Microsoft, a competitor, thought SOI was good and included it in a presentation made at Microsoft’s recent partner conference. See http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/devcon/docs/ODC2008EvidenceDeck.ppt