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Epicor Kinetic Reader

Note

This adapter is in preview and is available on Striim Developer only. See Striim Developer for more information.

Epicor Kinetic is a modern, cloud-based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution designed to streamline and optimize manufacturing and business operations. It offers robust tools for production management, supply chain, finance, and customer relationship management, empowering organizations to drive efficiency and growth.

Striim's Epicor Kinetic Reader converts these application entities into relational tables, enabling real-time, seamless migration of data from Epicor Kinetic to any relational database or data warehouse. This integration enhances reporting capabilities, supports advanced analytics, and provides deeper insights into business performance.

Feature summary

Feature		Supported?	Notes
Objects	Standard objects	✓
Objects	Custom objects	✓
Authentication	Basic authentication	✓	Username and password
	OAuth authentication		Manual configuration based
	Custom authentication methods		Not all methods may be supported
Operations	Automated mode	✓
	Initial load	✓
	Pull-based incremental load	✓
	Push-based incremental load
	Automated pipeline
Governance	Connection profile
	Sherlock AI
	Sentinel AI
Schema handling	Initial schema creation	✓	Works with supported targets
Schema handling	Schema evolution
Setup	Wizard template
	Flow Designer	✓
	Striim TQL	✓
Runtime	Resilience/recovery	✓
	Parallel execution
	Metrics	✓	Standard metrics

Supported authentication method

The Epicor Kinetic Reader supports basic authentication using a combination of username, password, and optionally, an API key required by some services. The username and password are used for the initial authentication to verify the user's identity, while the API is used to authenticate certain API requests. To generate or get the API key:

Log in to your Epicor Kinetic instance with an account that has administrator privileges.
Navigate to System Management > Security Management > API Keys (or API Access).
In the API Keys section, you can Create New API Key and enter the details and access permissions.
Click Generate or Create to create the new API key.

Supported objects

The following are the supported objects for reading from Epicor Kinetic:

Services

Epicor Kinetic Reader properties

Property	Type	Default value	Notes
URL	String		Set this to the URL of the server where the ERP instance is hosted.
ERP instance	String		The name of the installed ERP application.
Service	String		Specify the service you want to retrieve data from.
Username	String		The Epicor Kinetic user account used to authenticate. Together with Password, this field is used to authenticate against the Epicor Kinetic server.
Password	Password		The password used to authenticate the user. The Username and Password are used together to authenticate with the server.
API key	Password		Optional, some services may require an API key to get data.
Connection pool size	Integer	20	Specifies the maximum number of active connections.
Exclude tables	String		A list of tables excluded from read operations. Typically used to create a list of exceptions when the Tables property includes wildcards. Misconfiguration of the Tables and Exclude Tables properties can cause "Invalid table names" errors.
Incremental load marker	String		The incremental load marker is a unique incremental column in each object used for incremental load. When no marker is specified, tables are resynced at each polling interval. Specify the name of the column that contains the start position value. This column must meet the following criteria: It should have an integer or timestamp data type (for example, a creation timestamp or an employee ID). The values must be unique and continuously increasing to ensure proper incremental reading.
Migrate schema	Boolean	False	Only available in Initial Load or Automated mode. Set to `True` to enable initial schema migration, which propagates the object schema from the source to the target.
Mode	Select list: Automated mode Initial load Incremental load	Automated	Automated mode applies incremental updates to objects that support incremental load and performs full resyncs for objects that do not support incremental load.
Polling interval	Integer	5m	Specifies an interval as an integer followed by a unit. Supported units are days (`d`), hours (`h`), minutes (`m`), or seconds (`s`). The reader polls the source at the specified interval.
Refresh token	Password		An OAuth 2.0 refresh token.Use the value generated while creating the token.
Start Position	String	%=-1	Value of the incremental load marker that defines the initial reading position.
Tables	String		A semicolon-delimited (;) list of objects to read from the source. Supports the `%` wildcard. Misconfiguration of the Tables and Exclude Tables properties can cause "Invalid table names" errors. Do not modify this property when recovery is enabled for the application.
Thread pool count	Integer	10	The number of parallel running threads. The default value of zero specifies single-threaded operation. When the value of the thread pool counter is higher than the connection pool size, large data ingestion operations can cause the app to halt. Since best performance is achieved when using one thread for each table being synced, increasing the size of the connection pool to match the number of threads in use is a performance best practice.

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