Marquis IQ connects to SAP Business One, cloud and on-premises, via the Service Layer REST API, extracting clean manufacturing and financial data and delivering the analytics and PE-grade reporting that Crystal Reports and SAP Analytics Cloud weren't designed to provide.
SAP Business One is an enterprise-grade ERP for mid-market manufacturers, mature, reliable, and deeply embedded in operations. Its native reporting tools, however, were built for transactional visibility, not operational analytics. Crystal Reports produces well-formatted static documents. SAP Analytics Cloud is powerful but requires significant configuration investment and is licensed separately. Neither was designed to answer the cross-entity, trend-over-time, margin-by-product-line questions that PE firms ask at every board meeting.
For PE portfolios where one site runs SAP Business One and others run different ERPs, the consolidation problem compounds: SAP's data needs to roll up alongside Epicor, Sage, or Dynamics data from other sites, with customer and item masters reconciled across all of them before a clean consolidated report is possible.
SAP's Service Layer REST API was introduced as the modern, supported integration interface for Business One. Marquis uses it exclusively, no direct HANA database queries, no fragile DI Server reliance, and no changes required to your SAP B1 configuration.
SAP Business One Cloud is SAP's hosted version of Business One, running on SAP HANA Cloud and managed by SAP partners. The Marquis connector uses the Service Layer REST API. SAP's official, published interface for Business One integrations. This means cloud release updates and patch cycles don't break the connector, and no direct database access is required. Incremental extraction keeps data current without performance impact on the B1 tenant.
SAP Business One on-premises, running on SQL Server or SAP HANA, uses the same Service Layer REST API that the cloud version exposes, making the connector architecture consistent across deployment models. Where the Service Layer isn't available or is restricted, Marquis falls back to the DI API with schema knowledge specific to the Business One data model, including how B1 structures its item master, sales orders, production orders, and financial transactions in both HANA and SQL Server backends.
SAP Business One has a published, documented REST API, the Service Layer, specifically designed for external integrations. Marquis uses it the right way: no DI Server workarounds, no direct HANA queries, no fragile custom extraction scripts.
SAP Business One gave us a real ERP. Crystal Reports gave us documents. Marquis gave us the analytics platform we needed, without touching our B1 configuration or involving our SAP partner at all.
Tell us whether you're on SAP HANA Cloud or on-premises, and how many branches or companies you're consolidating. We'll walk through exactly what analytics are available from day one of your B1 connection.
Connection via the SAP Service Layer REST API, no changes to your B1 configuration or involvement from your SAP partner required.