Enterprise Management provides a comprehensive infrastructure to support imports and exports. Templates, objects and data are combined to provide access to the application in a simple but flexible way.

Imports and exports are governed by templates, which define the interface between an object and the outside world. The data fields and tables are described, along with information about the structure of the external data.

Through the templates, data can be sent to an Enterprise Management object. An object is defined by a group of tables and screens, as well as the standard business logic associated with the fields and the update, including entry rules and validation. They represent the complete entity and are used throughout Enterprise Management to provide a consistent definition for input, from the user interface to importing.

There are two ways to transmit data for imports and exports: