Terminology - SuperOffice

Term	Description
Erp Sync	The synchronization application and a generic prefix for all of its components
Sync Connector (or just Connector)	An installed and running instance of a piece of code implementing and exposing the `IErpConnector` interface.
Sync Connection (or just Connection)	A given combination of a Sync Connector and a set of parameters (as defined by the connector) that specifies which ERP instance/client the Connector will retrieve and save data to. Will typically represent an ERP Client/ERP Company
ERP Actor	Any actor that can be synced to SuperOffice from a Sync Connection For example, Customers, suppliers, persons
CRM Entity	The SuperOffice equivalent of an ERP Actor (any entity that can be synced to a Sync Connection, such as contact, person, or project)

Connector vs. connection

components

An ERP connector is a piece of code that implements one or more of the required interfaces.

It will generally be the “glue” between SuperOffice and one kind of ERP system (Baan, Dynamics, …)
It is a DLL/web service

A connection is a connector + config information

It points to a particular ERP connector
Client (if there are multiple client companies in the ERP system)
Authentication
Other config info that might be needed to connect

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