Alma Financial Integration Demo with Conversion of Invoice Data to a Non-XML Format
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Alma
Session Description
This presentation will guide participants through the process of setting up external financial system integration with Alma for invoice data. The different stages of the payment workflow will be observed as we walk through processing example payments. In the case of University of Tennessee, the library already had a custom workflow setup with the external department managing the campus wide financial system (SAP), which had been implemented when UT was still on Aleph and when payment data was pulled from the Oracle using SQL. We will show how, after migration from Aleph to Alma, an intermediary php script using SimpleXML was able to convert the invoice data which Alma provided in XML format into a flat text format compatible with the existing integration into SAP, thus minimizing the time and effort it took to re-implement integration between the library system and the main campus financial system.