About Software Integration

]project-open[ interfaces with a variety of third party applications to import, export or synchronize data.

The figure below provides a schematic overview of existing integration links.

LDAP and Identity Management 

• Microsoft Active Directory Integration - This interface authenticates users against the Active Directory ­.
  
• Generic LDAP Integration  - Allows to autenticate users against OpenLDAP ­ and other LDAP systems.
• Linux PAM Integration  allows to autenticate users against Generic Linux PAM .
  

Finance

• Comma Separated Values (CSV) Export - The ]project-open[ finance base package can export the list of all financial objects into CSV format (in Finance -> Export Customer Financial Documents and Finance -> Export Provider Financial Documents).
  
• Navision Integration - An interface to import Microsoft­ Dynamics NAV (Navision)  financial documents (invoices, quotes, receipts, ...), customer information, provider information, employee information and price list.
  
• [SAP Integration] - An interface to import SAP FI  (general ledger) information about purchases and investments per project. With information from this interface ]po[ can report exact buddget/controlling for IT and other projects. 
• Quick Books Integration  - We know from many customers that they are able to successfully import ]po[ CSV (see above) exports into Quick Books.
• ContaPlus  - We know from many customer that they are able to successfully import ]po[ CSV exports (see above) into ContaPlus.
  

Coming Soon:

• KHK Kaufmann - German Accounting Software
• SQL-Ledger  ­- Open source double entry accounting system­
• Lexware Buchhalter  - German Financial Enterprise Suite
• Datev  - European Financial Auditing Software for Lawyers, Tax Consultants, etc.
• Generic Universal Business Language (UBL) - a standard interfacing for business documents based on XML standards­

Generic Interfaces and Protocols

• |REST Web-Services Interface - A generic interface to allows external applications to create, read, update and list (CRUL) nearly all information in a ]po[ system via a REST style Web-service interface.
  
• ODBC Interface  - A generic interface to allow external applications to access the ]po[ data-model directly via a database connection. The ODBC interface support direct read and write (update) access, while objects can be created and deleted using the PL/SQL API.
  
• XML-RPC Interface - A generic interface to map TCL calls to XML-RPC.

Gantt and Project Information

• Gantt ­Project ­ - project scheduling software, is fully 100% compatible with ]project-open[.  Schedules made in Gantt Project can be opened in and edited by ]project-open[ and then exported back to Gantt Project without any loss of data, as well as vice vers­­a
• Microsoft ­Project  - ]project-open[ is not directly compatible with Microsoft Project, however since Microsoft Project is importable by Gantt Project, using Gantt Project as an intermediate connector between the two allows ]project-open[ indirect compatibility with Microsoft Project.  

Coming Soon:

• OpenProj  - 100% compatibility with ]project-open[

CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

• [|Microsoft Outlook Import] - ]po[ allows to import Microsoft Outlook information both as companies or individual users using the Users -> Import User CSV and Companies -> Import Companies CSV links.
• Generic CRM Import - The ]po[ REST interface allows any CRM system to update and create users and companies in ]po[. 

ITSM (IT Services Management)

• Nagios Integration - ]po[ can read the Nagios  configuration files to automatically create configuration items and  Nagios email alerts to create helpdesk [tickets]. 
  
• [Big Brother Integration] - Allows to display Big Brother  information in ]po[.
  
• [OCS Inventory NG Integration] - The ]po[ configuration database is capable of importing data from  OCS  Inventory NG  in order to keep track of computers, software and licenses.
  

Translation 

• ]po[ can read analysis files from  SDL TRADOS , Transit, WebBudget and Free Budget.