The SAP Integration Suite is a comprehensive hybrid integration platform designed to support organizations in building an intelligent enterprise. Its core purpose is to:
- Integrate everything: Unifying data, processes, and applications from diverse sources such as on-premises systems, cloud services, mobile apps, third-party applications, and more.
- Accelerate connectivity: Providing prebuilt integrations, APIs, data graphs, and connectors to both SAP and non-SAP systems, enabling quick and efficient connectivity across the organization.
- Connect everyone: Facilitating seamless collaboration and data exchange among employees, customers, trading partners, and government agencies.
Key Capabilities include:
- Application integration
- API management
- Business-to-business integration
- Event-driven architecture
- Regulatory compliance
- Guided integration practices
Accelerators are included to speed up deployment and value realization, with features such as:
- Prebuilt integrations
- APIs & data graphs
- Business event management
- AI-assisted integrations
- Industry standards and business process maps
The platform is highly versatile, supporting various deployment models (hybrid, public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises) and integrating with a wide ecosystem including AI platforms, automation tools, data hubs, trading partners, and governments.
Data Space Integration is a capability within the SAP Integration Suite that allows licensed customers to conveniently, securely, and independently manage and exchange data space assets in decentralized data spaces.
Key points:
- Activation: Data Space Integration can be enabled by customers with SAP Integration Suite licenses.
- Control Plane: Acts as the component for discovering, managing, and monitoring data exchange activities.
- Data Plane: Cloud Integration is utilized as the data plane to facilitate data exchange and straightforward integration with SAP applications.
The architecture includes a control plane and data plane within SAP’s Data Space Integration, which interacts with third-party Eclipse data space components for:
- Discovery
- Contract negotiation
- Data exchange
This setup enables seamless and secure integration and collaboration between SAP (and non-SAP) applications and external business applications through standardized data space processes.
Data Space Integration supports multiple use cases within the Catena-X network, including:
- Parts traceability
- Carbon footprint management
- Quality management
- Demand and capacity management
- Circular economy management
- Supply chain compliance and incident management
- Digital twin
Certification by Catena-X
- Cross-company interactions are built on mutual trust.
- Certification is based on Catena-X standards to ensure transparency and reliability.
- The major principles of Catena-X are incorporated into certified components.