Exploring SAP's Cloud Integration Technologies

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to identify the capabilities of the SAP Cloud Integration Suite

Cloud Integration with the SAP Integration Suite

Implementing a new ERP software is a perfect opportunity to re-evaluate the technology used to build and host your integrations. Any application that needs to send data to, or consume data from, SAP S/4HANA Cloud (public or private) will need to be set up with a new integration. The Integration Solution Advisory Methodology is a framework to help customers evaluate their landscape and build new integrations using the available tools.

Graphic showing the order in which to check different websites to find pre-built integration content.

Integration content in SAP Signavio Process Navigator

Check SAP Signavio Process Navigator to see if you can find a prepackaged solution process that addresses the integration requirements.

SAP builds these integration packages using the SAP Integration Suite, and the integrations run on SAP Business Technology Platform.

Because SAP has already built the integration package, you will find set-up instructions on how to activate the integration in your SAP S/4HANA Cloud system. As the owner of the integration package, SAP is responsible for the maintenance.

Integration content in SAP Help Portal

SAP provides integration content in the SAP Help Portal for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.

If you didn't find what you're looking for in Signavio Process Navigator, you might just find it in the SAP Help Portal.

Integration content in SAP Business Accelerator Hub

If none of the prepackaged integrations in SAP Signavio Process Navigator or the SAP Help Portal meet your needs, a custom integration will need to be implemented.

A library of integration packages, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), adapters, and other resources built by SAP and our partner developers is available in the SAP Business Accelerator Hub.

Content in the SAP Business Accelerator Hub is also built using technologies that run on the SAP Business Technology Platform such as the SAP Integration Suite.

A developer can build a custom integration package using APIs from the library, and monitor the integration using the SAP Cloud ALM operations apps moving forward.

Whether you use a packaged integration from the SAP Business Accelerator Hub or build an entirely custom integration by pulling together different APIs, the responsibility for maintaining these integrations is on the customer's IT team. However, SAP is responsible for maintaining the platform where the integrations live (SAP Business Technology Platform).