Software application for interconnecting cloud-based solutions to on-premise systems that lack a native api

A server-implemented method for providing cloud-based web services to an on-premise system for corporate customers of financial institutions without a native application programming interface (“API”), comprising:

• receiving, by a cloud-based application, a light agent providing an API end-point preconfigured to communicate with the cloud-based application;
• the cloud-based application comprises:
• a database retrievably storing data and logic;
• and
• a web-based user interface;
• communicating by way of the light agent with one or more enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) server via an open database connectivity (“ODBC”) connection or by accepting flat files.;
• pulling information through the one or more ERP server, by way of the light agent, to the cloud-based application received by said on-premise system;
• each ERP server comprising one or more web-services comprising functionality for executing corporate payments through the financial institution, wherein the light agent runs as a windows service on the financial institution.