Viewpoint FieldTime (Mobile Field Manager / MFM)

Author: Eric Vasbinder

Support Status: Supported

Integration Method: VPN to on premise server

Hosted: NO

Additional Charge:

• NO - TLS Database Endpoint (TLS VPN) (Preferred)

OR

• YES - IPSEC VPN

Description:

As per many other server-side integrations to non-ERP products, this product is designed to talk to Vista's database directly using ODBC. This connection requires that the Vista server be "visible" to FieldTime. To ensure that the two systems can communicate, we set up either a TLS Database Endpoint (TLS VPN) (PREFERRED) or a server to server IPSEC VPN between our cloud and the customer environment.

Deployment Methodology:

We do not support hosting of this product in our cloud. As such, the customer must continue to host it in either their on-premise environment or in another cloud. As a result, since this product and Vista will be on separate networks, a VPN is needed to bridge the gap between the two networks.

tl;dr: Customers who need to integrate Viewpoint FieldTime with Vista in our cloud need to either set up a TLS Database Endpoint (TLS VPN) (PREFERRED) or purchase and setup an IPSEC VPN.