# Epicor Service Connect Alternative **URL:** \ **Category:** Epicor ERP 10\ **Tags:** epicor\ **Created:** [May 1, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/epicor-service-connect-alternative/55235 "2019-05-01T18:35:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tthayer](https://www.epiusers.help/user_avatar/www.epiusers.help/tthayer/32/8183_2.png) [@tthayer](https://www.epiusers.help/u/tthayer)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/epicor-service-connect-alternative/55235/1 "2019-05-01T18:35:02Z")
We currently use Epicor Service Connect to import sales orders and update time clock information into Epicor. It is a snail a best and often takes extended periods of time to complete. Does anyone have an Alternative to using Epicor Service Connect? I have heard Datix has a product called Unity that may be a possibility but do not know much about it. ---
**Author:** ![jgehling](https://www.epiusers.help/user_avatar/www.epiusers.help/jgehling/32/78990_2.png) [@jgehling](https://www.epiusers.help/u/jgehling)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/epicor-service-connect-alternative/55235/2 "2019-05-01T18:36:25Z")
Jitterbit or SSIS 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Vinaykamboj](https://www.epiusers.help/user_avatar/www.epiusers.help/vinaykamboj/32/14848_2.png) [@Vinaykamboj](https://www.epiusers.help/u/Vinaykamboj)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/epicor-service-connect-alternative/55235/3 "2019-05-01T19:15:20Z")
We import sales orders using Import EDI Process under Demand Management. It is very fast. We get about 200 orders in one dump and they are imported almost instantaneous – few minutes. Vinay Kamboj ---
**Author:** ![timshuwy](https://www.epiusers.help/user_avatar/www.epiusers.help/timshuwy/32/90122_2.png) [@timshuwy](https://www.epiusers.help/u/timshuwy)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/epicor-service-connect-alternative/55235/4 "2019-05-01T19:29:15Z")
have you considered using DMT to do these imports? DMT allows for easy and automated importing. ---
**Author:** ![hkeric.wci](https://www.epiusers.help/user_avatar/www.epiusers.help/hkeric.wci/32/52019_2.png) [@hkeric.wci](https://www.epiusers.help/u/hkeric.wci)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/epicor-service-connect-alternative/55235/5 "2019-05-02T12:53:44Z")
> [@jgehling](#): > > Jitterbit I was always told that WCF / Business Objects will always be faster than REST. Can JB do BOs? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jgehling](https://www.epiusers.help/user_avatar/www.epiusers.help/jgehling/32/78990_2.png) [@jgehling](https://www.epiusers.help/u/jgehling)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/epicor-service-connect-alternative/55235/6 "2019-05-02T13:44:16Z")
It can, but we are moving off of it to SSIS Either way both of these options are faster at processing than service connect ---
**Author:** ![tthayer](https://www.epiusers.help/user_avatar/www.epiusers.help/tthayer/32/8183_2.png) [@tthayer](https://www.epiusers.help/u/tthayer)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/epicor-service-connect-alternative/55235/7 "2019-05-02T23:39:28Z")
I would be very interested to learn how to automate DMT. We do use it but don’t know how to automate. ---
**Author:** ![Hally](https://www.epiusers.help/user_avatar/www.epiusers.help/hally/32/1263_2.png) [@Hally](https://www.epiusers.help/u/Hally)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/epicor-service-connect-alternative/55235/8 "2019-05-03T02:46:27Z")
Click on the DMT Link in Downloads on Epicweb if you want to look at the Tutorial videos, Quick Start Guide and the Command Line Interface Lab. ![EpicWeb_DMT](https://epiusers.help/uploads/default/original/3X/c/4/c445a0281435f0ead50dba4c48828f662a08e08a.gif) ---
**Author:** ![dhewi](https://www.epiusers.help/user_avatar/www.epiusers.help/dhewi/32/14166_2.png) [@dhewi](https://www.epiusers.help/u/dhewi)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 6:27am UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/epicor-service-connect-alternative/55235/9 "2019-05-03T06:27:47Z")
We use Service Connect and are looking at JitterBit. On the whole, though, we’ve found Service Connect to be fast and reliable when set up well with efficient workflows. I don’t know if we’d be looking at anything else if it weren’t for the fact that our systems landscape is broadening beyond Epicor. Might there be things you could do with Service Connect before starting again? ---
**Author:** ![enbw](https://www.epiusers.help/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@enbw](https://www.epiusers.help/u/enbw)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 7:53am UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/epicor-service-connect-alternative/55235/10 "2019-05-03T07:53:35Z")
> **[Very high order Volume](https://www.epiusers.help/t/very-high-order-volume/53090)** > > We’ve had a large client for years who has a custom website and custom order processing system. We told them in the beginning to keep those and import summary data daily into Epicor as their largest company does 11 million orders (3 lines... Rumour has it that Jitterbit cannot match Service Connect on large workloads at present. ---
**Author:** ![mchinsky](https://www.epiusers.help/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@mchinsky](https://www.epiusers.help/u/mchinsky)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/epicor-service-connect-alternative/55235/11 "2019-05-03T20:52:10Z")
Yes, Unity is built as a cloud service to provide either ‘canned’ integrations like Salesforce, Microsoft CRM, Hubspot etc, or can be used to build any custom on & off premise integrations. Conceptually it’s similar to Jitterbit but much more mature with a long track record working with E10 & Prophet 21