I'm looking into the possibility of integrating an Azure hosted .NET solution with Dynamics GP and I'm new to Dynamics. In general it seems like there are two approaches to connecting to GP: 1) web services and 2) eConnect. This article has some good background.
I would think as long as the web services are accessible, that option would work. I see that there are MSMQ and other requirements for eConnect which makes me think that would be a headache if it is even possible without something like Azure Connect. Has anyone has done this one way or the other?
Thanks
Yes you can connect to your Dynamics GP from a Windows Azure Worker role (why Worker, why not web role?) and it's all depend which route your would want to take.
Web Services method is comparatively neat & easier to access your Secure Web Services configured Dynamics GP.
On the other hand, eConnect Integration requires several other configurations so If you decided to use eConnect, I think you are better of using eConnect along with BizTalk Server/Adapter combination set into Service Bus (which is talking directly to eConnect) and your Azure application is talking to BizTalk services directly. This could be much easier to implement but you can not beat web services.