Preserve useful visibility
Support reports, ad-hoc queries, validation jobs, dashboards, and data checks from SQL Server tools your team already understands.
Product
CloudConnect
Connect SQL Server reporting, validation jobs, dashboards, and integrations to CloudSuite Industrial cloud data through controlled service-based access.
CloudConnect example
Familiar SQL access with a controlled CloudSuite data path.
CloudConnect preserves useful reporting and validation patterns while routing the actual CloudSuite Industrial interaction through approved service access and reviewable logs.
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select * from SLItems
Results
Messages
| Item | Description | ProductCode | QtyOnHand |
|---|---|---|---|
| FG-100 | Finished good assembly | FG | 128 |
| RAW-210 | Raw material component | RM | 482 |
| KIT-042 | Service kit | KIT | 36 |
| SUB-775 | Subassembly | SUB | 94 |
4 rows returned from an approved CloudConnect read view
Perspective
Cloud ERP should not strand useful SQL-based work
Many SyteLine and CloudSuite Industrial teams have built years of business value around SQL Server reports, validation jobs, data extracts, integrations, dashboards, Power BI models, SSRS reports, and monitoring. When ERP moves to the cloud, direct database access is no longer the safe operating assumption, but the business still needs reliable visibility.
CloudConnect is designed to bridge that gap. It lets teams use familiar SQL Server workflows while the underlying access to CloudSuite Industrial goes through configured service calls and the permissions available to the ERP automation or API user.
The point is not to recreate unsafe database access. The point is to preserve valuable reporting, integration, and validation workflows with clear permissions, focused queries, transaction rules, monitoring, and support ownership.
How we help
CloudConnect helps preserve useful SQL Server access patterns for CloudSuite Industrial cloud environments while keeping security, permissions, testing, performance, and supportability visible.
Control the cloud data path
Connect SQL-based work to CloudSuite Industrial through configured service access instead of assuming direct database connectivity.
Reduce migration disruption
Avoid rewriting every useful report, extract, and validation process as a custom cloud application before the business can move.
Where CloudConnect fits
CloudConnect fits when the company needs CloudSuite Industrial cloud data to support SQL Server reporting, integration, validation, and monitoring workflows without losing control of permissions or transactions.
Reporting and dashboards
Support Excel, Power BI, SSRS, management reports, operational reports, and KPI review that depend on trusted ERP data.
SQL jobs and validation
Run scheduled checks for open orders, inventory issues, missing records, late work, data integrity, and other exception patterns.
Local database integration
Connect on-premise SQL Server processes, data stores, and controlled workflows to CloudSuite Industrial cloud records.
Transactional workflows
Use controlled transaction patterns for approved inserts, updates, deletes, and method-style operations when the business case supports it.
Legacy modernization
Review existing SQL-based processes and decide which should be retained, redesigned, replaced, or moved into workflow applications during a cloud move.
CloudConnect implementation approach
- Inventory the SQL reports, jobs, extracts, dashboards, and integrations the business still relies on.
- Identify the CloudSuite Industrial IDOs, service permissions, records, filters, and transaction behavior required for each workflow.
- Build focused READ and TRAN access patterns with logging, validation rules, testing examples, and performance guardrails.
- Document support notes, monitoring expectations, ownership, and ROI so the workflow can be maintained after launch.
Typical work
SQL reportingCloudSuite IndustrialPower BISSRSValidation jobsData syncIDO accessMonitoringMigration continuity