Outlook retains the original message and attachment; the CRM owns identity, assignee and opportunity context; the ERP owns the fiscal customer, catalogue, tax and accounting documents. Before integration, we agree which system may create or change every object and field. The connector does not infer that ownership or maintain two silent masters.
An illustrative reference flow receives a Microsoft Graph notification for an Outlook message or attachment, queues the event and deduplicates its identifiers, resolves identity and ownership in the CRM, validates customer, SKU and tax in the ERP, then prepares a reviewable order, record or task. A person approves ambiguous matches and sensitive writes; the outcome, errors and decision remain in the connector log. This is a design pattern, not a customer case or outcome promise.