Ask Your ERP for SAP Business One
Plain-English questions over Business One’s own data, answered to the penny with a governed read-only query, every figure tied to the rows behind it, every question logged with a name.
Finance & reportingUpdated Oct 202620 ERPs
See it work on Business One.
Click through the steps. Fictional data, in Business One’s terms; the real thing runs on Business One.
Which accounts are more than 90 days beyond their terms, by salesman?
Five accounts, $76,792.50 in total. Three belong to Rick Alder.
| Salesman | Customer | Beyond terms | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| R. Alder | Bayview Decks | 118 days | $31,240.15 |
| R. Alder | Oak Hill Builders | 104 days | $9,870.00 |
| R. Alder | Ferry St Renovations | 97 days | $12,402.35 |
| T. Nguyen | Shoreline Electric | 101 days | $12,980.00 |
| T. Nguyen | Granite Peak Builders | 95 days | $10,300.00 |
5 rows from Business One’s open items, aged on each account’s terms · read at 6:02 am · query shown below
A governed, read-only query over the open items, aged on each account’s own terms. The rows come back with the answer.
The problem, as it happens in Business One.
The number exists in Business One. Getting it means knowing which screen, which report, which filter, or asking the one person who does and waiting until they’re free.
So people keep their own spreadsheets, and three versions of last month’s sales circulate on Monday.
How it works.
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Ask in English
Open accounts over ninety days by salesman. Drywall sales this month against last. What we paid a vendor in the third quarter.
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A governed, read-only query
Written against curated knowledge of Business One’s tables and terms codes, checked by a governor: select only, single statement, row-capped.
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The answer, cited
The figure, the table behind it, and the query, so anyone can check it. Validated against Business One’s own screens during setup.
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Export or automate
Excel or PDF in one click. Save the question as an automation and have it in your inbox every Monday.
How it connects to Business One.
Lunica reads Business One through a read-only login to the Business One database on SQL Server or HANA: the business partner master, open items, invoice history, purchase orders and receipts, the item master, whatever the question needs. Each query is written against curated knowledge of Business One’s tables and terms codes, so an account on Net 30 ages from end of month, and runs as a single select capped at a row count. The model sees the question, the schema context and the rows behind the answer, never the whole database.
Nothing is written to Business One by Ask, and nothing is sent on its own. The governor allows one read-only select per question and refuses everything else. An export is a file a person downloads; a saved question goes only to the inbox of the people you named. If an answer leads to a change, a credit limit, a price, a count, that change is keyed by your team in Business One, never by a query.
What a week looks like.
- The number comes from the system of record, not a spreadsheet.
- Every answer shows its work.
- Every question is logged with the user’s name.
- Monday’s report writes itself.
Questions
Can it change anything in Business One?
No. Every query passes a governor that allows a single read-only select and nothing else.
Is it accurate?
Answers are validated against Business One’s own screen values during setup, and every figure links to its rows so you can check.
Who can use it?
Anyone you give an account. Read-only accounts can ask; only named users can send or act.
Which Business One data can it see?
Whatever the read-only account is granted: the business partner master, open items, sales history, purchasing, inventory. The scope is set at onboarding and can be narrowed per user.
Does it run on our server?
Yes. Lunica runs on one Windows server inside your network, or beside your hosted instance, and every query runs there against a read-only login to the Business One database on SQL Server or HANA.
Does our data train anything?
No. The model sees the question and the schema context it needs, and nothing is used for training.
Does it need a server?
Lunica runs on one Windows server inside your network, or beside your hosted instance, set up and maintained by Lunica. It reads SAP Business One through a read-only login to the Business One database on SQL Server or HANA. There is no inbound connection from outside your network.
What does Lunica read in Business One?
The business partner master, open items and terms, purchase orders and receipts, the item master, quotes and order history, as each workflow needs them. Read-only, and only the rows a task is about.
Can it post to Business One?
Nothing lands in Business One without a person. What belongs in Business One goes back as the DI API or an import where one exists, or keyed by your team from what Lunica prepared.
What about our documents?
Invoice copies and scans keep living in the attachments on the document. Lunica reads them when a workflow needs one and never writes to them.
The same workflow, on another ERP.
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