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Volume 9 (2007)
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Issue 4 (July/August)
Easily integrate unstructured and semi-structured data into SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (formerly XI) using the
Conversion Agent 
by Prasad Illapani, PI RIG Specialist, SAP Labs LLC
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Prasad Illapani is a Platinum RIG Specialist with the SAP NetWeaver Integration team at SAP Labs LLC in Redmond,
Washington. He focuses both on the development and systems areas of SAP Process Integration (PI). He is a regular
speaker at WIS, TechEd, and SDN conferences and works closely with SAP Product Definition/Management, Development, and
Field Services teams in the PI area. He also teaches PI 3.0 training classes and workshops for partners, customers, and
consultants. Prasad has been with SAP Labs for almost six years. During this time, he was part of the SAP SRM team
working as an RIG specialist in various SAP SRM integration projects. Prior to joining SAP, he worked as an SAP
technical consultant with an SAP partner company. Prasad holds a master's degree in Computer Science and a bachelor's
degree in Civil Engineering. You can reach him at prasad.illapani@sap.com.
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SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (PI) — formerly Exchange Infrastructure (XI) —
offers a high level of flexibility in connecting your SAP and non-SAP systems using one of the dozens
of adapters offered by SAP and SAP partners. But adapters are not your only option — this article
explores a powerful (often less expensive) alternative called the Conversion Agent, a tool that
dynamically converts unstructured data from Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, plain text,
etc., and semi-structured formats such as HL7, SWIFT, HIPA, ANSI X12, and COBOL to PI-compatible
SOAP XML. This article takes you on a tour of the tool's capabilities and shows you how easy it
is to use by walking you through a step-by-step example.
Categories:
Process Integration,
XML
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