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Publisher SAP PRESS

Year / Edition 2022 / 1

Pages 479

Authors Adam Kiwon, Mark Lehmann, Manuel Männle, Martin Tieves

SAP Interface Management Guide

Address the challenges of managing hybrid SAP integration landscapes with this guide! Begin by understanding the integration architectures, styles, and standards at work in your SAP system. Then develop an integration strategy using frameworks like the Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M). Explore the features and functions of SAP integration tools, from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite. Finally, learn to govern and operate your integrated system. Master your interfaces today!

Develop an integration strategy for your hybrid SAP landscape
Learn about interface technologies like SAP Process Orchestration, SAP Integration Suite, SAP Data Intelligence, OData services, and more
Govern, operate, and manage interfaces throughout your integration environment

You'll learn about:

Hybrid Integration Concepts:
Explore integration architecture styles, from point-to-point integration to enterprise service buses. Learn about the process- and data-based integration styles used in SAP systems. Understand the frameworks and methodologies available for building your own integration strategy and managing interfaces.
Integration Tools:
Discover SAP interface standards and protocols, including OData services and RESTful services. Learn about SAP integration tools such as SAP Process Orchestration, SAP Data Intelligence, SAP Event Mesh, SAP Integration Suite, and more.
Governance and Operations:
Standardize the development and operation of interfaces. Create catalogs of integration overviews, develop and use reports, and outline company-wide integration policies. Learn to monitor, test, and manage the daily cycle of your integration landscape.

Key Highlights:

Hybrid integration
Interface management
Process-based and data-based integration
Operations
Governance
Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M)
SAP Process Orchestration
SAP Integration Suite
SAP Data Intelligence
SAP Solution Manager

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Introduction
PART I Basics
1 SAP Interface Management in the Age of Digitalization
- 1.1 What Is Integration?
- 1.2 Evolution of Interface Technologies from SAP R/3 to SAP S/4HANA
  - 1.2.1 SAP R/3
  - 1.2.2 The SAP New Dimension Product Line
  - 1.2.3 Connectors
  - 1.2.4 SAP NetWeaver
  - 1.2.5 SAP Cloud Solutions
  - 1.2.6 SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- 1.3 SAP Interface Libraries
  - 1.3.1 SAP API Business Hub
  - 1.3.2 SAP Graph
  - 1.3.3 SAP Best Practices Explorer
  - 1.3.4 Other Libraries
- 1.4 Challenges for Interface Management
  - 1.4.1 Handling Integration Tools
  - 1.4.2 Integration Governance
  - 1.4.3 Operating the Integration Platform
  - 1.4.4 Organization
- 1.5 Summary
2 Integration Concepts and Technologies in the SAP Environment
- 2.1 Integration Architectures
  - 2.1.1 Point-to-Point Topologies
  - 2.1.2 Hub-and-Spoke Topologies
  - 2.1.3 Enterprise Service Bus
  - 2.1.4 Service-Oriented Architectures
  - 2.1.5 Microservices
- 2.2 Integration Styles
  - 2.2.1 Process-Oriented Integration
  - 2.2.2 Data-Oriented Integration
  - 2.2.3 Integration of User Interfaces
  - 2.2.4 Integration of Things
  - 2.2.5 Cross-Style Integration
- 2.3 Integration Technologies, Standards, and Protocols
  - 2.3.1 Web Services
  - 2.3.2 RESTful Services
  - 2.3.3 OData Services
  - 2.3.4 Remote Function Calls
  - 2.3.5 Message Queues
  - 2.3.6 File Transfers and Databases
- 2.4 Summary
3 Methods and Frameworks
- 3.1 Integration Solution Advisory Methodology
  - 3.1.1 Overview
  - 3.1.2 Integration Domains
  - 3.1.3 Integration Styles and Use Cases
  - 3.1.4 Technology Mapping
  - 3.1.5 Interface Assessment
  - 3.1.6 Architecture Blueprints
  - 3.1.7 Roles and Responsibilities
  - 3.1.8 Approach and Practical Use
- 3.2 Maturity Model
  - 3.2.1 Basics
  - 3.2.2 Maturity Model for Integration within the Integration Solution Advisory Methodology
  - 3.2.3 Approach and Practical Use
- 3.3 Integration Competency Center
  - 3.3.1 The Concept of Integration Competency Centers
  - 3.3.2 Approach and Practical Use
- 3.4 Hybrid Integration Platform
  - 3.4.1 What Is a Hybrid Integration Platform?
  - 3.4.2 Why Do You Need a Hybrid Integration Platform?
  - 3.4.3 Approach and Practical Use
- 3.5 Summary
4 SAP’s Hybrid Integration Platform
- 4.1 Vision
- 4.2 Components
- 4.3 Summary
PART II Tools of SAP’s Hybrid Integration Platform
5 SAP Process Orchestration
- 5.1 Overview of SAP Process Orchestration
- 5.2 Functions for Interface Management
  - 5.2.1 Supported Integration Domains
  - 5.2.2 Integration Capabilities
  - 5.2.3 Connectors
  - 5.2.4 Implementation of Interfaces
  - 5.2.5 Monitoring Interfaces
  - 5.2.6 Implementation of Cloud Content
- 5.3 Possible Use Cases
- 5.4 Summary
6 SAP Cloud Integration
- 6.1 Overview
- 6.2 Functions for Interface Management
  - 6.2.1 Supported Integration Domains
  - 6.2.2 Integration Capabilities
  - 6.2.3 Connectors
  - 6.2.4 OData Provisioning
- 6.3 Possible Use Cases
  - 6.3.1 Using Standard iFlows
  - 6.3.2 Creation of Individual Integration Scenarios
  - 6.3.3 Aligned Application Programming Interfaces
- 6.4 Summary
7 SAP API Management
- 7.1 Overview
- 7.2 Functions for Interface Management
  - 7.2.1 API Designer
  - 7.2.2 API Portal
  - 7.2.3 Developer Portal
  - 7.2.4 Other Functions
- 7.3 Possible Use Cases
  - 7.3.1 Creating an ERP Facade with SAP API Management
  - 7.3.2 Logging API Calls in Elasticsearch
- 7.4 Summary
8 SAP Event Mesh
- 8.1 Overview of SAP Event Mesh
- 8.2 Functions for Interface Management
  - 8.2.1 Message Clients
  - 8.2.2 Message Concepts
  - 8.2.3 Consumption of Messages
  - 8.2.4 Supported Protocols
- 8.3 Possible Use Cases
  - 8.3.1 Event Hubs
  - 8.3.2 Without a Message Broker
  - 8.3.3 With Multiple Receivers
- 8.4 Summary
9 Open Connectors
- 9.1 Overview of Open Connectors
- 9.2 Functions for Interface Management
  - 9.2.1 Standardized Adapters
  - 9.2.2 Shared Resources
  - 9.2.3 Formulas
- 9.3 Possible Use Cases
- 9.4 Summary
10 SAP Data Intelligence
- 10.1 Overview
- 10.2 Functions for Interface Management
  - 10.2.1 Data Governance
  - 10.2.2 Intelligent Functions
  - 10.2.3 Data Orchestration and Monitoring
  - 10.2.4 Data Processing
  - 10.2.5 ABAP Integration
  - 10.2.6 Integration with SAP Business Technology Platform
- 10.3 Possible Use Cases
- 10.4 Summary
11 Data Integration Tools
- 11.1 Overview
  - 11.1.1 SAP Data Services
  - 11.1.2 SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server
  - 11.1.3 SAP HANA Smart Data Integration
  - 11.1.4 SAP Cloud Integration for Data Services
  - 11.1.5 SAP Replication Server
- 11.2 Functions for Interface Management
- 11.3 Possible Use Cases
- 11.4 Summary
12 SAP Application Interface Framework
- 12.1 Overview
- 12.2 Functions for Interface Management
  - 12.2.1 Technologies
  - 12.2.2 Monitoring
  - 12.2.3 Error Handling
  - 12.2.4 Checks, Mappings, and Actions
  - 12.2.5 Events
  - 12.2.6 Tests
- 12.3 Possible Use Cases
- 12.4 Summary
13 Digital Integration Hub
- 13.1 Overview of the Digital Integration Hub
  - 13.1.1 Definition
  - 13.1.2 Description and Concept
- 13.2 Digital Integration Hub from SAP
- 13.3 Possible Use Cases and Recommendations
  - 13.3.1 Use Case 1: Publishing Product Data Application Programming Interfaces
  - 13.3.2 Use Case 2: From Reactivity to Real Time
- 13.4 Summary
PART III Interface Management Tasks
14 Governance
- 14.1 Principles and Policies
  - 14.1.1 Guidelines for IT Usage
  - 14.1.2 Build Architecture and Integration Principles
  - 14.1.3 Monitoring and Review of Integration Principles
- 14.2 Development Guidelines
  - 14.2.1 Technology Guidelines
  - 14.2.2 Standardization
  - 14.2.3 Centralization
  - 14.2.4 Integration Logic
  - 14.2.5 Loose Coupling
  - 14.2.6 Modern Transmission Technologies
  - 14.2.7 Naming Conventions and Documentation
- 14.3 Cataloging
  - 14.3.1 Use Case Examples for Interface Catalogs
  - 14.3.2 Creating Interface Catalogs
  - 14.3.3 Component-Specific Catalogs
- 14.4 Reporting
  - 14.4.1 SAP EarlyWatch Alert
  - 14.4.2 Cost Allocation
  - 14.4.3 Quality and Performance
  - 14.4.4 Component-Specific Reporting
- 14.5 Summary
15 Operations
- 15.1 Monitoring and Alerting
  - 15.1.1 Aspects of Interface Monitoring
  - 15.1.2 Separation of Tasks in Interface Monitoring
  - 15.1.3 Synchronous versus Asynchronous Interfaces
  - 15.1.4 Error Notifications
  - 15.1.5 Cross-System Monitoring
- 15.2 Test Management
  - 15.2.1 Areas of Application of Tests
  - 15.2.2 Organization and Management of Tests
  - 15.2.3 Component-Specific Tests
  - 15.2.4 Test Tools
- 15.3 Change and Transport Management
  - 15.3.1 New Development of an Interface
  - 15.3.2 Change of an Interface
  - 15.3.3 Versioning and Management
  - 15.3.4 Component-Specific Transport Methods
  - 15.3.5 Interface Landscape Comparison
- 15.4 Summary
16 Organization
- 16.1 Product-Oriented Organizational Models
  - 16.1.1 Basics about DevOps
  - 16.1.2 Culture Change in IT Organizations
  - 16.1.3 Product Orientation
  - 16.1.4 Impact and Realignment of Integration Management
- 16.2 Roles
  - 16.2.1 Capabilities of a Modern Integration Team
  - 16.2.2 Roles of a Modern Integration Team
- 16.3 Responsibilities
  - 16.3.1 Use Case 1: Project Context
  - 16.3.2 Use Case 2: Request for Change
  - 16.3.3 Use Case 3: Backend Integration
- 16.4 Summary
17 Platform Tools
- 17.1 SAP Solution Manager
  - 17.1.1 Overview
  - 17.1.2 Process Management for Interface Documentation
  - 17.1.3 Landscape Management for Monitoring
  - 17.1.4 Change Management within the Framework of Interface Management
- 17.2 SAP Partner Solutions
  - 17.2.1 Figaf DevOps Tool
  - 17.2.2 Int4 IFTT
  - 17.2.3 UDO
  - 17.2.4 WHINT Solutions
  - 17.2.5 ITARICON Tools
  - 17.2.6 Other Useful Tools
- 17.3 Summary
18 Summary and Outlook
- 18.1 Summary
- 18.2 Outlook
- 18.3 Closing Words
Appendices
- A Bibliography
- B The Authors
Index

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