Illustrating the SAP Integration Suite

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Identify the capabilities of SAP Integration Suite.
  • Identify the potential use-cases for SAP Integration Suite.

SAP Integration Suite

The figure gives an overview of the integration in scope of SAP BTP.

To have a completely connected IT landscape for your intelligent, sustainable enterprise, you need to integrate the software solutions. With SAP Integration Suite, you get an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that allows you to seamlessly integrate on-premise and cloud-based applications and processes with tools and pre-built content managed by SAP.

SAP Integration Suite

Illustration of the capabilities of the SAP Integration Suite
Modernize integration and future-proof your integration strategy:
  • Reduce complexity with AI-powered development and recommendations built into the tooling.
  • Deploy with trust and security through a cloud-native environment managed by SAP.
  • Enable AI-assisted business-to-business (B2B) integrations using popular electronic data interchange (EDI) libraries and acknowledgment framework.
Achieve seamless business processes at scale:
  • Compose and innovate processes flexibly with API-led integration.
  • Respond faster to customers, employees, and partners with real-time processing.
  • Integrate applications across diverse application landscapes and ecosystems.
Accelerate connectivity of your business processes:
  • Take a system approach to solving common integration challenges with built-in guidance.
  • Support DevOps and simplify lifecycle management of integration artifacts.
  • Streamline any-to-any, SAP, third-party, and e-government integrations with thousands of pre-built integrations and connectors.

You can find the latest descriptions and positioning of the SAP Integration Suite here.

You can read the solution brief here.

Built of the SAP Business Technology Platform Integration Suite

Entry screen of the SAP Business Technology Platform Integration Suite

The SAP Integration Suite consists of a set of tools tailored for simplified enterprise integration of hybrid, large, and heterogeneous environments.

The SAP Integration Suite service on SAP BTP contains four core capabilities:

Cloud Integration:
  • Hybrid and cloud application integration offering an intuitive web interface with built-in templates supporting A2A and B2B/B2G scenarios for SAP and non-SAP.
  • Cloud technology with strong security focus and infrastructure availability.
  • Prepackaged integration content to jump-start integration projects and get productive quickly with the option of extension to include custom requirements.
  • Ability to integrate with business networks within a broad ecosystem.
API Management:
  • Design your APIs based on open standards like Open API specification and OData.
  • Develop your APIs by exposing and composing back-end interfaces from apps or middleware.
  • Protect your APIs from security threats, manage traffic, and cache your data on the edge with 40+ in-built policies.
  • Monitor and analyze your API usage, performance, and error handling.
  • Engage with application developers and monetize your digital assets through APIs.
Open Connectors:
  • Out-of-the-box connectors to 170+ non-SAP applications.
  • Select connectors you need and authenticate through providers.
  • Build your own connectors with normalized features including authentication, pagination, error handling, and search.
Integration Advisor:
  • Proposal service with machine learning approach.
  • Crowdsource-based learnings.
  • Automatic generation of documentation and runtime artifacts.
  • Community collaboration for creating and maintaining tailored integration interfaces and mappings.

The SAP Integration Suite is a SAP managed multi-cloud service that provides the flexibility to run the same integration artifacts across multiple environments. Moreover, integration is further simplified through the power of artificial intelligence.

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SAP Integration Suite Example Use Cases

Illustration of three different use cases for the SAP Integration Suite.

As an intelligent, sustainable enterprise, you need to integrate all the applications and business processes to have a fully combined and integrated landscape.

To combine and integrate these solutions, you can use the SAP Integration Suite and its out-of-the-box scenarios. In this way, you can integrate your system landscape based on your needs.

In addition to that, you can use the open connector capabilities from the SAP Integration Suite to integrate non-SAP applications in this landscape too.

See here: to get more information about the open connectors.

Learn more about SAP Integration Suite in our free learning journey, Developing with SAP Integration Suite.

Key Takeaways Of This Lesson

SAP Integration Suite is a service in SAP BTP you use to integrate business processes and applications. You can use prepacked, out-of-the-box integration, open connectors, or the holistic integration capabilities. You can also use AI-driven integration to simplify the development of integration scenarios. SAP Integration Suite is the choice for all your integration scenarios.

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