In a cross-platform environment and large enterprises, there are many scenarios wherein many external or third-party solutions are used, which might be a web application or an application inside a domain. They need to integrate data with Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations in real time or at specified intervals depending on the nature of the business, such as currency exchange rates from banks, syncing with POS terminals, and inbound/outbound integrations with other legacy systems.
Dynamics 365 provides us with ample options that we can use for integrating, such as custom services that we create to expose X++ business logic through a service interface for inbound and outbound integrations, OData REST endpoints that encapsulates Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations business entities and allows us to perform CRUD operations using OAuth V2.0.
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