Setting up Integrations with Available Resources

For SAP Best Practices business processes in SAP Signavio Process Navigator with "integration" in the title, the integration content is available within the process as "Set-up instructions".

For new implementations, these business processes would be activated in the system the same way other business processes are activated (with Solution Builder). After activation, follow the set-up instructions from Signavio Process Navigator to set up the rest of the integration.

For system conversions, Solution Builder cannot be used to activate any SAP Best Practices business processes in the converted systems. Instead, the SAP Fiori apps involved in the process are activated, and the process itself is manually built by the partner line of business (LoB) configuration expert using the IMG (Implementation Guide) and customizing capability (transaction code SPRO). If the business process is set up to mirror the SAP Best Practices process, you could then use the set-up instructions available in Signavio Process Navigator to complete the integration set-up.

Additional integration content can be found in the SAP Help Portal for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition → Integration.

Make sure to do a thorough search across Process Navigator and the SAP Help Portal to identify predelivered integration content provided by SAP.

Before moving forward in the setup of an SAP Best Practices integration, check to see if the integration is supported by the free Cloud Integration Automation Service (CIAS). This service runs in SAP Business Technology Platform. The Plan for Cloud Integration Scenario app to launch the service can be accessed from SAP Cloud ALM or the SAP Maintenance Planner. If an integration scenario is supported by CIAS, you can use a guided workflow to partially automate the integration setup, instead of following the integration set-up instructions and completing the steps manually in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. You can also assign integration tasks to different roles to ensure the person with the right permission can execute each task, and the service tracks who completed each task in the workflow. The types of tasks the CIAS are:

• Automated tasks, where the respective applications provide APIs, which allows the CIAS to automate the corresponding configuration step.
• Semi-automated tasks, which may include customer-specific data to partially automate certain tasks. For example the customer tenant URL required for connecting systems to each other.
• Manual tasks, which will show the respective excerpt of the setup guide for the responsible person to apply the necessary setting manually before confirming the task.

Watch this video to learn more about the Cloud Integration Automation Service.

Not all SAP Best Practices integrations relevant for public cloud are supported by CIAS, but it's worth checking to see if you can save yourself some time on the setup of the integration scenarios in your LoB area. While the CIAS is always free to use, it does require some initial setup to subscribe to the service, as described in the SAP Help Portal here.

After subscribing to the CIAS, it can be accessed from two locations:

• SAP Cloud ALM in the SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation section → Cloud Integration Automation Service app
• SAP for Me in the Services & Support dashboard → Application Lifecycle Management tab → Maintenance Planner → Plan for Cloud Integration Scenario app

The SAP Business Accelerator Hub (formerly, SAP API Business Hub) is a public catalog of integration, extension, and many other content resources produced by SAP and our partner developer ecosystem primarily through the SAP Business Technology Platform tools & services. The APIs on the SAP Business Accelerator Hub are documented in the open API format, which is a vendor-neutral open-source format that makes it as easy as possible to connect SAP applications to non-SAP applications. Customers can trust the stability of these APIs because SAP requires the content on the Business Accelerator Hub to have a deprecation policy that defines versioning, compatibility of changes, and applicability.

If you have thoroughly searched SAP Signavio Process Navigator and the SAP Help Portal and have not found an SAP Best Practices integration scenario that addresses your customer's integration requirement, it's time to consider a custom development. As an implementation consultant with expertise in a line of business (LoB), it's not your responsibility to develop the custom integration, but you should use your expertise to identify as many resources as possible in the Business Accelerator Hub that could be used by developers to build the integration or extension that's needed to address a customer requirement.

We call these integrations "customer-driven", because developer(s) from the customer side should be involved in designing and building the content so they know where the integrations live, and how to maintain and monitor them through future release upgrades. Initially, customer developers may not be familiar with the wide range of prebuilt resources available in the Business Accelerator Hub, so as a consultant, your responsibility is to share the information with them, and ultimately keep track of the progress of each integration requirement documented in SAP Cloud ALM from the Fit-to-Standard workshops you are responsible for until all have been resolved.