In this lesson, the following topics are discussed:
- Positioning of the Integration Suite from a more technical perspective.
- Sources.
Positioning of the Integration Suite from a more technical perspective
SAP Integration Suite is the toolkit recommended by SAP to simplify and accelerate integration for SAP, partner, and third-party integration scenarios. The term iPaaS (Integration as a Service) was also coined for this purpose.
The following shows the SAP Integration Suite with its core capacities.
The capabilities are as follows:
- Integration Assessment
- Adopt a structured and well-directed method for designing and implementing your enterprise integration strategy.
- Enhance integration through optimal best practices: Streamline integration using a structured approach grounded in the SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M).
- Access recommendations for integration: Utilize the latest SAP integration technology recommendations to streamline processes and automate tasks.
- Produce documentation: Enhance communication between project teams and system integrators by thoroughly documenting your integration strategy and infrastructure.
- Engage in collaboration with the business: Respond more quickly with a built-in request feature from the business and manage changes more efficiently.
- Cloud Integration
- Develop and execute integration flows across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments for application-to-application (A2A), business-to-business (B2B), and business-to-government (B2G) scenarios.
- Utilize over 3,200 prebuilt integrations: Streamline integration between SAP and third-party applications and data sources.
- Accelerate your pace with a web interface assisted by AI: Efficiently design and oversee intuitive integration flows with speed and simplicity.
- Speed up interface implementations: Utilize message-mapping recommendations sourced from a crowd.
- Revamp integration in the cloud: Transition away from legacy on-premise integration tools like SAP Process Orchestration.
- API Management
- Ensure the security, governance, and transformation of your APIs through management and delivery processes, featuring an intuitive catalog, comprehensive documentation, and policies and protocols that foster innovation while protecting against threats.
- Standardize your APIs: Establish consistent URLs and APIs by utilizing your own domain, and expand the prebuilt SAP data model with Graph to facilitate connections between SAP and third-party systems.
- Safeguard your APIs: Defend against security threats, handle traffic, and cache data at the edge using over 40 preconfigured policies.
- Release and oversee your APIs: Drive innovation at a rapid pace with user-friendly APIs that can be swiftly published and managed under your own domain and branding.
- Integration Advisor
- Leverage a crowdsourced machine learning method to tackle major challenges encountered in business-to-business (B2B), application-to-application (A2A), and business-to-government (B2G) integration scenarios.
- Collaborate with standardized message formats: Enable the support of various business partners utilizing diverse industry-standard message formats.
- Achieve greater speed with message type definitions: Reduce implementation time by utilizing a library of prebuilt industry-standard message type definitions.
- Streamline message implementation: Establish and document message implementation guidelines tailored to industry and geographic content.
- Accelerate message mapping: Make the creation of message-mapping artifacts easier with AI-generated mapping proposals.
- Trading Partner Management
- Develop and upkeep trading partner profiles to capture the distinctive business-to-business (B2B) requirements of each partner.
- Streamline partner management: Simplify the management of B2B integration scenarios involving multiple trading partners.
- Accelerate partner onboarding: Initiate collaboration with new partners swiftly through an intuitive onboarding process.
- Create partner agreements: Establish trading partner agreements that delineate relationships and structure pertinent business transactions.
- Monitor integration with partners: Monitor your integrations with business partners to ensure seamless transactions.
- Exchange data with partners: Leverage robust cloud integration capabilities to share business data with trading partners.
- Open Connectors
- Streamline connectivity to over 170 third-party applications and solutions catering to collaboration, messaging, CRM, help desk, and various other scenarios.
- Achieve swift progress with preconfigured connectors: Streamline, standardize, and expedite connectivity with third-party cloud applications.
- Utilize RESTful APIs and JSON for your work: Benefit from open data formats, irrespective of the underlying architecture of third-party services.
- Convert data fields: Apply shared resource definitions from one or multiple third-party applications to a standardized format.
- Provide support for bulk data operations: Normalize the process of uploading and downloading data, irrespective of the underlying service architecture.
- Asssess Migration Scenarios
- Transition your landscape from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite, ensuring future readiness by migrating to an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS). Construct an enterprise landscape that is heterogeneous and hybrid, catalyzing the transformation of the organization into an intelligent enterprise.
- Optimizing solutions: Evaluate your existing integration landscape and review the key aspects. Estimate the potential migration effort.
- Enhance project planning: Set up the PI Migration Assessment feature and facilitate secure connections through internal or external access points. Identify technical hurdles and offer potential solutions.
- Expertise in implementation: Utilize the migration assessment tool and migration tool to provide SAP users with a modern and user-friendly experience, thereby expediting the migration process.
The add-on capabilities are as follows:
- Event Mesh
- Enable applications to communicate asynchronously in real-time across distributed landscapes using a fully-managed cloud service that embraces event-driven architectures. Implement scalable event-driven process integration patterns and handle peak loads across environments.
- Natively respond to application events: React more swiftly to events from core SAP solutions like SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors solutions, as well as from third-party sources.
- Establish connections across different landscapes and geographical locations: Distribute and subscribe to business events originating from both SAP and third-party sources across hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments.
- Effectively handle events with confidence: Administer, oversee, and visualize decentralized event streaming throughout distributed landscapes.
- SAP Graph
- Unified API for accessing SAP-managed data that can be used to create new extensions and applications using SAP data.
- Cloud Transport Management
- Management of software products between accounts in different environments by transporting them over different terms.
On-top capacities are as follows:
- SAP Business Accelerator Hub
- Jumpstart for integration projects with APIs, packaged integration content and adapters.
Resources
- Basic- and Standard Editions: SAP-Integration-Suite
- SAP Discovery Center: SAP Integration Suite in Discovery Center
- SAP Community: SAP Business Technology Platform
- SAP product page - Getting started with SAP BTP: Integration
- Technical point of view: Technical Landscape, Cloud Foundry Environment
Summary
We distinguish between core capabilities, add-on capabilities, and add-on capabilities. The core capabilities are implemented in the Integration Suite. The most important capabilities are API Management and Cloud Integration.