How to access entity data from Business Central?

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I am new for Business Central. However, I have worked with MS Dynamics CRM. In CRM, I use API that provide in CRM account Developer Resources.

Is there any such API(Mediator Service) that allows to transfer data(Product, SalesOrder etc) with authentication? Please guide

Here is example of CRM API: xxxxxx.api.crm.dynamics.com/.../contacts)

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In BC you can use APIs or Web Services.

I suggest you to check from here:

docs.microsoft.com/.../devenv-develop-connect-apps

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Hi Stefano Demiliani,

Thank you, which one is more preferable(developer favorite) in APIs and Web Services? In terms of Getting Data, Inserting and manipulating data.

Please guide.

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It depends on your needs. APIs are very performant. Try that with a D365BC trial if you want.

Web Services are instead more suitable if you want to expose business logic (like a codeunit for example).

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Hello, Chhaya. You can also use Popdock to import your Web Services from BC. Then all your data would be available to be pulled into Popdock to be sorted, grouped, filtered, searched, and many more available options. You can manipulate your data in many different ways and save the list to be able to come back to it in Popdock at a later time. You can also create graphs or bar charts and export the data to Excel if you wanted. You can also set a monthly report filtered by the current month so that every time you pull up that list it pulls your live data from BC and it has the most current up to date data in the list for you.

Popdock has a free trial for you to give it a try for 30-days.

http://www.popdock.com

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