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Process Integration
- A Beginner's Guide to Implementing SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) -
Paving the Way to Seamless Integration
by Manish Agarwal, Senior Technical Architect, Infosys Technologies Limited
Most SAP customers integrate their SAP and legacy systems using point-to-point interfaces, which can be laborious to develop, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot. SAP now offers a better way — SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI), an integration middleware that provides a single integration backbone across all SAP and non-SAP business systems. This article is the first in a two-part series that introduces you to the SAP XI toolset and explains the overarching principles behind SAP XI design, configuration, and deployment. Using an example SAP XI integration scenario, this first installment walks you through the initial setup and configuration tasks. The second installment covers the integration scenario design and configuration, and addresses aspects of SAP XI solution deployment, maintenance, and management.
- A Beginner's Guide to Implementing SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) —
Designing and Configuring an SAP XI Integration
by Manish Agarwal, Senior Technical Architect, Infosys Technologies Limited
Most companies that rely on SAP for their core business systems also have a mix of non-SAP systems that form an integral part of their business operations. In the past, you had to resort to brittle point-to-point interfaces or third-party middleware to integrate these systems, but not anymore. Based on open standards, SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) not only seamlessly integrates your SAP and non-SAP systems, it easily incorporates your existing middleware and point-to-point solutions for a simplified and standardized landscape. This article is the second in a two-part series that introduces the SAP XI toolset and shows you how to implement an SAP XI integration. The first installment walked you through the initial setup of an example integration; this second installment details its design and configuration.
- 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
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.
- Improve the flexibility of your SAP solution landscape with the new Adaptive
Computing Controller 7.1
by Nils Krugmann, Technology Consultant, SAP Consulting Integration Solutions
Management, SAP Germany
Adaptive computing is a virtualization approach and decouples your SAP application instances from the underlying hardware, allowing you to dynamically assign resources. If a particular server doesn't fulfill an application's performance requirements, the Adaptive Computing Controller (ACC) 7.1 can quickly move the instance to a more powerful server. This article describes the adaptive computing landscape, shows you how to install ACC 7.1 on SAP NetWeaver, including configuring the ACC instance, reporting instances to the System Landscape Directory, and configuring the application services, so you can securely move a system from one server to another.
- Mastering SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure 7.0: Successfully integrate SAP applications
into a non-SAP, non-XML
world
by Eduard Neuwirt, Senior Developer, SAP AG
Manfred Reinart, Development Architecture, SAP AG
A central hub for all system-to-system communications
a company might face — between non-SAP systems,
SAP systems, and even external business partners
over the Internet — can have a big bottom-line
impact for almost every organization. SAP Exchange
Infrastructure (SAP XI) was designed to accommodate
these scenarios. Using a recent integration project
as a case study, this article aims to demonstrate
that integrating SAP and non-SAP systems is relatively
easy, and that SAP XI is ready for productive use
today as a central messaging hub. It also provides
a cookbook of ready-made solutions to common scenarios,
including lessons learned and potential pitfalls,
that you can refer back to in your daily work.
- Provide more efficient master data management integration with SAP’s new mass
interfaces and extractor programs
by Michal Krawczyk, SAP Integration Consultant, BCC, Poland
Enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) requires that you update your approach to building applications that use master data objects, such as customer or vendor data, especially in terms of integration with SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) or other MDM tools. SAP has introduced mass message interfaces
for transferring master data, as well as programs for both IDoc and ABAP proxy message types. Find out what steps are necessary to configure the new mass message interfaces and extractor programs to achieve the greatest productivity.
- Quick Tip: Simplify Model-Based Integration Content Configuration by Using Process Models
by Peter Gutsche, Dr., SAP AG (November 2009)
A new feature in SAP enhancement package 1 for SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1 allows you to use predefined process component interaction models as configuration templates. This helps automate integration content configuration. Find out about the basic configuration steps involved in using these process component interaction models.
- SAP Business Connector 4.8 and SAP NetWeaver PI Compared: When to Use Each
by Ulrich Schmidt, Senior Developer, SAP AG (October 2009)
Understand what integration platforms are and how you use them with SAP systems. Find out the similarities and differences between SAP’s two main integration platforms: SAP Business Connector and SAP NetWeaver Process Integration.
- SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1: Process Integration Modeling a Challenge? ES Repository Simplifies with a Top-Down Approach
by Peter Gutsche, Dr, SAP AG (October 2009)
Software architects and developers involved in service-oriented architecture projects can use the Enterprise Services Repository to design integration content following a top-down approach. This approach facilitates your design work because you have an overview of the content objects that belong to your integration scenarios as well as how these objects are related to each other. Keeping your design work and the created content transparent and interlinked saves you time and effort.
- SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1: Plan for and Achieve Better Performance When Integrating Legacy Applications
by Susanne Rothaug, Solution Manager SOA Middleware, and Udo Paltzer, Product Manager SOA Middleware, SAP AG (August 2009)
Explore the fundamental performance improvements that have been made in SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1. Learn how to make these changes part of your project when planning the performance of your integration scenario for a legacy application.
- Use SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1 tools for provisioning and consuming enterprise services in ABAP
by Prasad Illapani, Solution Architect, NW-RIG, SAP Labs LLC and Dr. Susanne Rothaug, Product Manager SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG
What is the best way to create and provision enterprise services in a service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) environment? This article shows you how to model, implement, configure, publish, and consume enterprise services in ABAP using the tools of SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) 7.1 to provide and consume enterprise services, including using SAP Enterprise Services Repository and the Services Registry. It also shows you how to test the enterprise service with the SAP Web Services Navigator tool. Learn how to create language-independent service interfaces and their platform-specific back-end representations.
- Using SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (PI) to ensure the safe transfer of data across security domain boundaries
by Eduard Neuwirt, Senior Developer, and Manfred Reinart, Development Architect, SAP AG
Your data is one of your most valuable assets, so you protect it by separating it into systems with varying levels of security, depending on the sensitivity of the information. But what if processes running in lower-level security areas need to access data stored in higher-level security areas? This article shows you how to use SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (PI) 7.0 in conjunction with a security gateway to ensure the safe transfer of data between high and low security domains. PI serves as a flexible and transparent integration platform while the security gateway acts as a firewall, enabling data to cross domain boundaries without compromising security.
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