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SuiteTalk (Web Services) vs. smbXML
NetSuite has announced that the smbXML interface for System-to-System will no longer be supported. If you haven’t already done so, we can help you move your integration solution to the new platform painlessly with CloudConnect. SuiteTalk offers significant improvements and flexibility over smbXML and Explore Consulting has developed a migration strategy that will allow you to leverage your existing investment while making your technology compliant with the new integration standards.
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Why SuiteTalk?
Explore Consulting is a Solution Provider who understands the dynamic and complex integration needs that businesses face to stay competitive. As the leading NetSuite integration experts, Explore was quick to adopt the SuiteTalk platform due to all of its advantages over smbXML. Not only does the SuiteTalk platform support several integration points that are NOT supported by smbXML, but it also proves to be much more flexible and feature rich. Following is a brief comparison of some key functionality:
Read more about Explore's CloudConnect service, which utilizes SuiteTalk for NetSuite integration.
Feature
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smbXML
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SuiteTalk
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| Real-time data access |
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X |
| Role-based security |
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X |
| Transactions add & search |
X |
X |
| Transaction update |
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X |
| Read, insert, and update values to custom fields |
X |
X |
| Create and delete custom fields |
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X |
| Read, insert, and update values to custom records |
X |
X |
| Create and delete custom records |
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X |
| Delete Records |
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X |
| Continual field and record additions in-sync with UI |
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X |
SuiteTalk Business Benefits:
- Standards based web services make it simpler to extend NetSuite to other systems, vertical solutions, legacy systems and third party add-on capabilities.
- SuiteTalk configuration and customization carry forward seamlessly with upgrades making maintenance nightmares a thing of the past.
- Includes a role-based authentication model similar to the NetSuite user interface, which is critical in protecting sensitive data.
Development Benefits
- A strong XML interface in the form of XML SOAP documents that are validated through a set of modular XML Schemas.
- Developers can use any programming language or platform of choice that supports the SOAP standard to generate NetSuite business objects in that language—such as Java or Microsoft .NET to automatically generate NetSuite business objects.
- A comprehensive error handling architecture that utilizes error and warning codes as well as some of the built-in SOAP constructs for error handling.
- Full support for customization including strongly typed custom fields with automatic validation based on the field type.
- Powerful search capabilities that are similar in nature to the NetSuite UI.
- Provides a rich, programmatic way to access NetSuite where the underlying communication complexities are completely abstracted.
- Fully supported by NetSuite, and new additions (Fields & Records) to the User Interface are quickly added to existing web services.
- Allows deletion of records.
- Custom development against NetSuite web services leverages built-in platform tools for both Java and .NET that provide for much easier usage and maintenance than smbXML.
- Asynchronous calls are supported via SuiteTalk.
- Transactions are updateable via SuiteTalk.
- Item quantity pricing with price levels is supported via SuiteTalk.
- Real-time access to NetSuite data is supported via Web Services. On the contrary, smbXML is not designed for real-time direct interaction with NetSuite data, it is oriented towards batch processing.
- Web services calls pass through the same rules engine as interaction via the UI, therefore consistency between UI interaction and web services actions is high.
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