Infor Nexus

The following are the requirements and connection instructions for using Infor Nexus with Amazon AppFlow.

Note

You can use Infor Nexus as a source only.

Requirements

• Amazon AppFlow uses hash-based message authentication (HMAC) to connect to Infor Nexus.

• You must provide Amazon AppFlow with your access key ID, user ID, secret access key, and data key. To retrieve this information, contact your Infor Nexus administrator.

Connection instructions

To connect to Infor Nexus while creating a flow

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon AppFlow console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/appflow/.

2. Choose Create flow.

3. For Flow details, enter a name and description for the flow.

4. (Optional) To use a customer managed CMK instead of the default AWS managed CMK, choose Data encryption, Customize encryption settings and then choose an existing CMK or create a new one.

5. (Optional) To add a tag, choose Tags, Add tag and then enter the key name and value.

6. Choose Next.

7. Choose Infor Nexus from the Source name dropdown list.

8. Choose Connect to open the Connect to Infor Nexus dialog box.

   1. Under Access Key ID, enter your access key ID.

   2. Under User ID, enter your Infor Nexus user ID.

   3. Under Secret access key, enter your secret access key.

   4. Under Datakey, enter your data key.

   5. Under Subdomain, enter the subdomain for your instance of Infor Nexus.

   6. Under Data encryption, enter your AWS KMS key.

   7. Under Connection name, specify a name for your connection.

   8. Choose Connect.

   

9. You will be redirected to the Infor Nexus login page. When prompted, grant Amazon AppFlow permissions to access your Infor Nexus account.

Now that you are connected to your Infor Nexus account, you can continue with the flow creation steps as described in Creating flows in Amazon AppFlow.

Tip

If you aren’t connected successfully, ensure that you have followed the instructions in the Requirements section.

Supported destinations

When you create a flow that uses Infor Nexus as the data source, you can set the destination to any of the following connectors:

• Amazon Connect

• Amazon Honeycode

• Lookout for Metrics

• Amazon Redshift

• Amazon S3

• Marketo

• Salesforce

• Snowflake

• Upsolver

• Zendesk

You can also set the destination to any custom connectors that you create with the Amazon AppFlow Custom Connector SDKs for Python or Java . You can download these SDKs from GitHub.

Notes

• When you use Infor Nexus as a source, you can run schedule-triggered flows at a maximum frequency of one flow run per minute.