Enhanced web integration

Much of the work we do at NaN involves integration. Integration means connecting different applications and technologies so that they work together smoothly, making the value of the integrated applications greater than the sum of their individual values.

That is the case with the jasper_reports module, but also with our OpenERP-Kettle project, which has received considerable attention lately. Web technology is particularly useful because it makes it easy to integrate hundreds of applications.

Our latest commit to Koo improves web integration by storing cookies from web widgets in the view settings, just like column order or width in a list view. This allows one of our customers to use Salesforce integrated with OpenERP without entering a username and password every time they want to view a company’s information. Since the information is stored on the server on a per-user basis, users can move from one computer to another and still access only the information they are authorized to see, without entering their credentials each time.

They simply need to store the URL Salesforce provides for each company. Of course, we plan to use OpenERP’s CRM in the future, but they can enjoy good integration from the very beginning.