How can I connect to the ERP from a web development?

[juanforero5]

greetings experts,

My team is currently developing a web application. One of the requirements is to connect to a SAP ERP system and read information from specific tables. Cloud connector and dp agent have already been ruled out. What other connection alternatives can I use especially when the ERP system has access through a VPN?

thank you very much for your help. Regards.

[Martin-Pankraz]

Hi jdforero,

there are three options:

• SAP Cloud Connector (btw. why did you rule it out?)
• SAP Private Link Service (requires your target SAP to be on Azure)
• Public access via a Web Application Firewall, API Management solution etc.

So two private options and one public.

SAP BTP PaaS apps like Data Intelligence Cloud offer also VPN or virtual network peering with your hyperscaler of choice.

Let the community what approach you took in the end 🙂

KR
Martin

[juanforero5]

Hi martin-pankraz,

thank you very much for your answer, to put you in context we are developing a web application that will allow several of our clients to extract some balances and information from their ERP system, the architecture that has been proposed is more or less that of the image, The question is how we could have a connection with multiple ERP systems, if this is possible in BTP, what approach could I take? Thank you very much for your help.

[Martin-Pankraz]

What we shared is applicapable to multiple targets. Have a look here for the Private Link approach.

The concept stays the same with Cloud Connector too.