Defining SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Describe SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network

About Product Names in This Course

Note
  • The name SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network fully replaced SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway in January 2023, which itself replaced SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG) in May 2022. For simplification, this course will refer to SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network as "Managed Gateway for Spend&Network" or the "gateway", except in cases where the retired name still appears in the user interface.
  • The name SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network, add-on for SAP ERP fully replaced SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway, add-on for SAP ERP in January 2023, which itself replaced SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway, add-on for SAP ERP in June 2022. The name SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network, add-on for SAP S/4HANA fully replaced SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway, add-on for SAP S/4HANA in January 2023, which itself replaced SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway, add-on for SAP S/4HANA in June 2022. For simplification, this course will refer to the add-on for SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA as the "add-on", except in cases where the retired name still appears in the user interface.
  • The name Ariba Network was retired in April 2022. Ariba Network was split, and functionality from Ariba Network was made available in SAP Business Network. For simplification, this course will refer to SAP Business Network and as the "network", except in cases where the retired name still appears in the user interface.
  • The name SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition was retired and replaced by the name SAP S/4HANA.

Retired names may also be present in audio narrations.

SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network

SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network is an IaaS, or Integration-as-a-Service. It provides a simple and efficient way to integrate with SAP Ariba applications and facilitates fast transactions with trading partners. It is built on Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) which is built on top of SAP Cloud Platform (SCP).

Using the gateway, users can:

  1. Configure the integration between SAP Ariba applications and their SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA application to manage one or more back-end-systems.
  2. Specify cross references/value mappings.
  3. Validate and self-test transact documents before they go live.
  4. Monitor and track the overall integration lifecycle.

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