Automating Migration of Artifacts

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to implement tools to automate the migration of artifacts with minimal manual intervention.

Introducing Semi-Automated Migration

Automating the migration from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite involves the use of a migration tool that is part of the Cloud Integration capability of the SAP Integration Suite. This tool helps to transfer integration scenarios from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite efficiently. Key features and benefits of this migration process include:

  • Accelerated migration process, reducing the time taken compared to manual migrations.
  • Reduced risks and costs associated with migration projects.
  • The ability to safeguard customer investments by moving them to a modern integration platform.
  • A simplified and UI-based migration wizard that allows users to select and migrate integration scenarios without prior knowledge.
  • No dependencies on the migration assessment capability of SAP Integration Suite to start the migration.

Also, the migration assessment capability of SAP Integration Suite provides an automated process to analyze and evaluate existing on-premise SAP Process Orchestration software in preparation for migration. It reduces assessment efforts and provides up-front transparency of estimated migration costs. Support and tools such as the Migration Guide for SAP Process Orchestration are available to assist in this process, making it more streamlined and efficient for businesses. The service also includes deliverables like migration assessment capability configuration, cloud connector connectivity support, assessment reports, and migration strategy recommendations based on expert analysis.

Using Migration Assessment

The Migration Assessment feature allows you to evaluate your SAP Process Orchestration system before migrating to the SAP Integration Suite.

Migration assessment helps you to estimate the technical efforts required for the migration process and determines how various integration scenarios can be migrated. It focuses on extraction and assessment of your current landscapes design time artifacts. This capability serves as the basis for your overall migration planning.

The figure shows the SAP Offerings, here Automatic Assessment, to migrate from SAP Process Orchestration on the left side to SAP Integration Suite on the right side.

Key Benefits

  • Automatic process to extract and assess integration scenarios from SAP Process Orchestration.
  • Reduces the effort of an assessment to hours instead of days or weeks vs. manually.
  • Proactively reduces the risk of a migration project.
  • Helps in decision-making of integration scenarios in a phased manner.
  • Provides up front transparency on estimated migration costs.

Before using the Migration Assessment tool, it must be activated within the SAP BTP cockpit and appropriate access rights must be granted to users.

How to run Scenario Evaluation using Migration Assessment

In this Demo you will learn how to run a scenario evaluation using the Migration Assessment.

Running Scenario Evaluation using Migration Assessment

Business Scenario

You are an integration developer and you want to evaluate the extracted integration scenarios using the Migration Assessment.

Exercise Options

You can perform this exercise in two ways:

  1. Live Environment: choose Start Exercise, and from the entry page choose Open PDF Document. Follow the steps described in this pdf in your own system landscape.
  2. Simulation: choose Start Exercise, and from the entry page choose Start Tutorial. Watch the step-by-step instructions within the simulation.

Note

We recommend running the simulation first.

Using Migration Tooling

Migrating integration scenarios manually from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite can be an error prone process and may require a significant investment in human effort. SAP Process Orchestration customers have made significant investment over many years and to be able to take advantage of all the new innovations in SAP Integration Suite.

Migration Tooling is a feature in the Cloud Integration capability of the SAP Integration Suite that enables you to semiautomate the migrations of integration scenarios from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite. Before you migrate an integration scenario, it is important to assess the migration of the integration scenarios using the Migration Assessment capability of SAP Integration Suite.

Migration Tooling is a pattern-based feature in the Cloud Integration capability of the SAP Integration Suite that helps you migrate integration artifacts from SAP Process Orchestration and SAP Process Integration to SAP Integration Suite.

The figure shows the SAP Offerings, here Semi Automatic Migration, to migrate from SAP Process Orchestration on the left side to SAP Integration Suite on the right side.

The Migration tool automatically creates interfaces in SAP Cloud Integration based on design time artifacts in SAP Process Orchestration based on current scenarios supported through a template-based process. For cases where the artifacts match scenarios supported, much of the migration may be automated, with some manual changes still possibly required. The goal with the migration tool is to ultimately delivery a migration time savings of approximately 60 to 70% through automation.

Key Features of the migration tool

The migration tool offers streamlined capabilities to facilitate the transition from SAP Process Orchestration and SAP Process Integration systems to SAP Integration Suite, supporting a range of integration artifacts and specific versions of the on-premise software. Here's an overview of the key features:

  • Migrate integration artifacts from your SAP Process Orchestration and SAP Process Integration systems to SAP Integration Suite as Integration Flows.

  • Currently, migration of Integrated Configuration Objects (ICO) is supported.

  • Migration is currently supported for the following versions of the on-premise software:
    • 7.31 SP28 and above

    • 7.40 SP23 and above

    • 7.50 SP06 and above

Supported components

In the current scope, the migration tooling supports the migration of ICOs that contain the following components:

  • Communication Channel: HTTP, REST, SOAP, IDOC, FTP, XI, and SFTP.
  • Events: Timer
  • Flow Steps: Message mapping, Java mapping, XSLT mapping, Function Library, Imported archive, XML to JSON Converter, JSON to XML Converter, and Routing.
  • Interface Objects: Service interface, Message type, Data type, Context object.
  • Service Interface: RFC and IDoc.

If your ICOs contain channels, events, or flow steps that aren't mentioned here, you would require additional manual effort for the migration.

How to Migrate Integrated Configuration using Migration Tool

In this Demo you will learn how to migrate Integrated Configuration using the Migration Tool.

Migrating Integrated Configuration using Migration Tool

Business Scenario

You are an integration developer and you want to migrate an Integrated Configuration from you SAP Process Orchestration landscape using the Migration Tool.

Exercise Options

You can perform this exercise in two ways:

  1. Live Environment: choose Start Exercise, and from the entry page choose Open PDF Document. Follow the steps described in this pdf in your own system landscape.
  2. Simulation: choose Start Exercise, and from the entry page choose Start Tutorial. Watch the step-by-step instructions within the simulation.

Note

We recommend running the simulation first.

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