A reference architecture for connecting Arthiva to existing ERP and HRIS systems.
A conceptual integration architecture showing how Arthiva's workflow layer could sit alongside an organization's existing ERP and HRIS, rather than replacing them.
This is a reference architecture built to illustrate how Arthiva could apply to a business like this — not a record of an actual customer engagement unless stated otherwise.
Challenge
A trading and distribution business runs its financial data in an ERP and employee records in an HRIS, but operational requests, approvals, and travel still happen outside both systems, disconnected from the data that should inform them.
Situation
Branch-level operational requests, approvals, and travel are managed manually, while cost and employee data already exist in the organization's ERP and HRIS — but the two are never connected.
Arthiva Approach
In this reference architecture, Arthiva's workflow and integration layer sits between the people submitting requests and the systems of record — reading cost center and budget data from the ERP, and organization and employee data from the HRIS, so approval routing reflects real, current information rather than a manually maintained copy of it.
Data exchange is scoped per integration — scheduled synchronization for reference data such as cost centers, and API-based exchange for transactional data such as approvals — architecture designed to support this is available based on implementation scope.
Workflow
Products Used
Outcome Potential
- Approval routing that reflects current cost center and organization data
- No duplicate manual entry between Arthiva and existing systems
- A single workflow layer instead of one integration per application
- An integration pattern that can extend to additional systems over time
Illustrative potential only — not a guaranteed or measured result.
In this architecture, branch staff submit a request the same way regardless of which back-end system the data ultimately lives in — the complexity stays behind the workflow, not in front of the person using it.
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