Are you among the thousands SAP customers using SAP Process Integration / SAP Process Orchestration?
If yes, you’re aware that this product is impacted by SAP NetWeaver 7.5 maintenance strategy, as explained in this blog post: indeed, the maintenance of SAP Process Integration and SAP Process Orchestration will be extended in accordance with SAP NetWeaver 7.5, with mainstream maintenance until end of 2027 with option of extended maintenance until end of 2030.
Let’s consider that it typically takes a year to get business case approvals and then it takes time to convince stakeholders and cooperate in development and productive cycles: you should start your move to SAP Integration Suite in 2024 to be sure to have the migration completed by 2027. That’s why I’m happy to guide you on the path that will let you adopt SAP Integration Suite, the modern way of integrating your SAP and non-SAP systems for the best business outcomes.
What is SAP Integration Suite?
SAP Integration Suite is an integration platform-as-a-service – iPaaS – that helps you quickly integrate on-premises and cloud-based processes, services, applications, events, and data. With SAP Integration Suite, you accelerate innovation, automate more processes, and realize a faster time to value.
SAP Integration Suite helps you quickly connect systems, automate business processes, and harmonize experiences across the extended enterprise. It comes with:
- Prebuilt integrations managed and updated by SAP and by our valued partners
- Harmonized access to popular third-party cloud applications
- Tools for designing, publishing, and managing APIs
- AI-assisted development and integration optimization
- Tools-based, guided approach to define, document, and govern you>integration strategy
To get an overview, watch our 4 minutes video What is SAP Integration Suite
To delve deeper into SAP Integration Suite, read our 44 pages Feature Scope Description.
With SAP Integration Suite comes SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology, which defines your proven path toward integration excellence to successfully move from SAP Process Integration / SAP Process Orchestration.
What is SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology
SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology has been created by our experts to provide a standardized approach to integration. With SAP ISA-M, you can accelerate your digital transformation and become an integrated intelligent enterprise.
Our methodology offers a comprehensive framework that helps accelerate hybrid integration platform design, safeguard integration projects based on SAP best practices, and enable an agile integration practice across your organization. As you answer the assessment questions, you’ll learn more about the five levels of maturity and gain insight into where your business stands – and what to do next.
With SAP ISA-M you raise your organization's integration maturity level, moving from ad hoc integration to a systematic approach based on well-defined integration standards:
You will find all the links to resources related to this methodology in Katrin von Ahsen’s blog post.
What is Event Driven Architecture?
Event Driven Architecture is more and more popular simply because the world is more and more real-time.
Let me share just 2 business examples of this
- Inventories must be updated as soon as sales happen
- Maintenance teams need to know of breakdown as soon as possible
Let me go back to the very basics to quickly introduce Event Driven Architecture aka EDA:
- An event is a significant change in the state of a system.
- Notification events or data events can be sent from the event source to inform other counterparts of the change.
- A message holding the event description in an encoded format is sent through an event broker, in charge of properly distributing the events.
- Event consumers have registered with the event broker and are informed of the event, so they can appropriately react to it.
From a business perspective, with EDA you take advantage of
- Improved reaction time and lower costs through full automation of real-time business processes
- Smarter business decisions based on up-to-date information
- Open ecosystem across vendor boundaries
- Organizational empowerment through social-media communication style
From a technology perspective, you benefit of
- Loose coupling for flexibility and scalability
- Improved fault tolerance using suitable patterns
- Incremental growth and higher-quality operations through step-by-step addition of event consumers and event sources
- Real-time technical integrations and extensions
In SAP event-driven ecosystem as it is today, Event Sources can be
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- SAP ERP
- SAP SuccessFactors solutions
- SAP Marketing Cloud
- SAP Data Intelligence
- SAP CPQ
- other SAP solutions
- third-party solutions
and Event Consumers can be
- SAP Integration Suite
- SAP Build
- SAP BTP services and apps
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- SAP ECC using add-on
- SAP BTP, Kyma runtime
- SAP Data Intelligence
- other SAP solutions
- third-party solutions
And as the most powerful and reliable event broker, we bring Advanced Event Mesh.;/p>
What is Advanced Event Mesh?
Advanced Event Mesh for SAP Integration Suite is a complete event streaming, event management, and monitoring platform that makes software event brokers available as a service. With advanced event mesh you can create event broker services in minutes, build a model of your event mesh to design and help implement it, and monitor your services and event mesh to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Learn more on Advanced Event Mesh technical concepts in this blog post from Luiz Guilherme Cerqueira Campos.
This cloud platform incorporates best practices, expertise, and technology for event-driven architecture (EDA) on a single platform. As a SaaS solution, it provides:
- everything you need to accelerate your organization’s EDA adoption, allowing you to fulfill modern use cases that demand real-time, intelligent event streaming
- an intuitive, unified interface to design, deploy, manage, monitor, and govern your event streaming infrastructure (including the events that flow over it) in the most secure manner.
To delve deeper on Advanced Event Mesh, browse our Help Portal content on SAP Integration Suite, Advanced Event Mesh and learn with the missions available in SAP Discovery Center.
What about Edge Integration Cell?
Edge Integration Cell is an optional hybrid integration runtime offered as part of SAP Integration Suite, which enables you to manage APIs and run integration scenarios within your private landscape.
The hybrid deployment model of Edge Integration Cell enables you to:
- Design and monitor your integration content in the cloud.
- Deploy and run your integration content in your private landscape.
To learn more about how hybrid deployment works using Edge Integration Cell, see Hybrid Deployment Using Edge Integration Cell.
To compare hybrid deployment with the standard deployment model of SAP Integration Suite, see Standard Deployment in the Cloud.
Edge Integration Cell supports the following use cases:
- Security or compliance use cases
In many enterprises, sensitive data must be managed and controlled inside the enterprise's firewall. In addition, there could be strict architectural restrictions and you want to keep your data within your private landscape.
- Getting a migration path for SAP Process Integration / SAP Process Orchestration customers
SAP Process Integration / SAP Process Orchestration is used by many customers for ground-to-ground integration scenarios. Edge Integration Cell allows these customers to benefit from the newest innovations that come with SAP Integration Suite, with the option to design and monitor integration content in the cloud, and deploy and run their scenarios exclusively in their private landscapes.
In both cases, we recommend using a hybrid integration approach for enterprise-wide connectivity.
For more information about the supported features and limitations of Edge Integration Cell, see Edge Integration Cell Runtime Scope. Read more from Piyush Gakhar, in his blog post “Announcement: Hybrid Integrations with Integration Suite”. Read also Finny Babu’s “Next-gen hybrid integration with SAP Integration Suite & Edge Integration Cell – Introduction & Setu...” and Ashutosh Kumar Singh’s “Edge Integration Cell: Design, deploy and manage APIs”.
How to move?
To get the latest information on the migration from SAP Process Integration / SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite, we prepared a dedicated web page. You will learn about SAP Integration Suite capabilities, and evaluate top business challenges to streamline processes, enhance productivity, and simplify the way people, data, and systems work together. You will also discover pre-built integrations available on SAP Business Accelerator Hub: indeed, you can connect and integrate applications and business partners with thousands of pre-built integrations, connectors, APIs and more.
For more information on the new tools and the established services you can also check out this blog post from our expert Arti Gopalan.
And to facilitate this move, we bring you a comprehensive Migration Guide for SAP Process Orchestration.
This online document describes what you need to know when you want to migrate from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite. It covers a variety of topics related to the migration process:
- Introduction to SAP Integration Suite: Before you start your migration, get to know SAP Integration Suite, learn about its advantages, and get an overview of the migration process from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite.
- Landscape: Assess your existing integration landscape and plan your target landscape.
- Connectivity: Learn how to move your connectivity options to the connectors and adapters of the SAP Integration Suite.
- Security: Get an overview of the security aspects you must consider while migrating and how to manage them in SAP Integration Suite.
- Error Handling and Logging Strategy: Learn about cloud-based error handling and logging strategies and understand the different approaches available to you.
- Interface Governance: Understand how interfaces are governed in the cloud and how to manage them across multiple landscapes.
- Interface Migration: Discover the different aspects involved in moving interfaces from SAP Process Integration and SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite, as well as scenario and object assessment and how testing can be automated.
We also provide you with
- 12 months free regression test tool
- SAP Migration Factory with 2-3 weeks of free service
- SAP Services and Support offered in our Preferred Success and MaxAttention programs
And our valued partners are bringing powerful migration tools such as FIGAF and INT4.
Keep in touch!
Now, you should have access to all the information you need to consider your migration from SAP Process Integration / SAP Process Orchestration toward SAP Integration Suite.
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