This presentation discusses methods, tools, and best practices for integrating SAP with other platforms. It provides an overview of typical integration scenarios like integrating e-commerce platforms, CRMs, supplier portals, and custom applications. It also outlines the main SAP versions and how they can be integrated, such as using APIs, RFC calls, IDOCs, and oData services. Top considerations for integration include prioritizing real-time over batch sync and proper exception handling. The presentation is meant to help solutions owners, architects and consultants with SAP integration.

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SAP
INTEGRATION
Methods Tools and Best practices

2. OUTLINE
STRUCTURE OF THE PRESENTATION
Before you get statedo
Typical integration scenarios
Ways to integrate SAP
Top considerations while integrating SAP
A little about us
Futher references
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3. MEANT FOR
This presentation is meant for solutions owners,
technical architects, SAP Consultants, third party
integrator, CXOs and anyone else who may be
interested in integrating SAP with their own
platforms.
THE FOLLOWING AUDIENCE

4. Integraing SAP can be a complex task specially if you are just
about to start Certain basic details that you may want to
ensure are
SAP INTEGRATION - INTRODUCTION
BEFORE
STARTING
Which SAP version are we connecting with?
Is the expectation a real time data or batch integration?
How crucial is data sync. Also how will you handle the exceptions?
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5. THE TRUTH
In today's business environment,
companies will need to be agile
like never before, even though
they continue to have run on a
heterogenous IT landscapes .
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6. CRMeCommerce CustomCustomer Self
service
Supplier portal
TYPICAL SAP INTEGRATION SCENARIOS
Non SAP eCommerce
applications like Magento,
PIM Core and Shopify are
getting popular.
Cloud based CRM Solutions
like Salesforce, SugarCRM,
SuiteCRM and Zoho are
very popular with SAP core.
Publishing RFPs and
procurement information
along with managing
entire GR/ IR and accounts
payable over an integrated
portal.
Customers can see their
order history along with
their account receivables
statement along with
previous payments.
There are always need for
custom integration in
plant maintenance,
customer service and
other various areas of
SAP.
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7. This is the Saas based offering from SAP based on MS
Silverlight technology.
SAP BUSINESS BY DESIGN
SAP
VERSIONS
For small to mid sized businesses, built on .NET stack.
Economical solution for not so complicated businesses.
SAP BUSINESS ONE
The sixth edition of SAP's offering for large enterprise and
multi-national companies.
SAP ECC
This is the latest offering by SAP with HANA as its central
core of the solution bringing simplified architecture and in
memory heavy duty data processing.
S/4 HANA
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8. Integration methods for various SAP
versions
If SAP B1 is running on
MS-SQL, then DI-API
can be used else if the
environment is running
on HANA, HANA-API
can be leveraged.
SAP BUSINESS
ONE
The integration is
possible via custom
oData services. Some
SAP Business by
Design integration
examples can be found
here on GitHub.
BUSINESS BY
DESIGN
Apart from the ones
mentioned, under ECC,
oDATA is a popular
way to expose
services to be
consumed by third
party applications.
S/HANA
RFC calls and IDOCs
can be used to
integrate SAP ECC.
Generally, former are
for real-time sync
where as latter is for
batch processing.
SAP ECC
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9. TOP
CONSIDERATIONS
Real time integration must be quick and for small data
processing, else use batch sync process during non
working hours.
DO NOT SLOW DOWN SAP
Though SAP has very good error handling, you must take
care that you fully test and program you integration in a
way that users can easily identify, troubleshoot and re-
process the failed records.
EXCEPTION HANDLING
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10. ABOUT US
We offer pre-packaged integration solutions for
integrating SAP with the other applications. Some of
the applications that we integrate with SAP include
Salesforce
Magento
Shopify
Amazon marketplace
SugarCRM
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11. Continue reading about SAP
Integration methods out here.
FURTHER REFERENCE
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12. Thank You
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presentation do not claim any affliation with SAP.