Introduction to SAP Integration Suite

Explore the overview of SAP Cloud Platform Integration, its integration platform as a service model, adapters, pre-packed content, development tools, and licensing.

Explore cloud service models—infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service—and SAP cloud platform's integration platform as a service for cloud and on-premise integration.

Understand on premise integration and cloud to cloud integration, including two-way IDoc with local web services, B2B exchanges, and AS2/EDI patterns using SAP PO and CPI.

Explore SAP CPI, a cloud platform integration that combines services for cloud-to-cloud and on-premise integration, API management, and data integration with predefined integration content.

Explore adapters in SAP cloud platform integration, including Ariba, AS2, S4, REST, SOAP, and connectors like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services, to plan migration from Po to CPI.

Clarifies the real differences between CPI and PO, debunks misconceptions, and guides when to choose SAP CPI for cloud integration and per-use subscription models.

Discover pre-packed content in CPI: import pre-developed interfaces and integration flows by adjusting connection parameters. Reuse SAP API Business Hub templates for success factor and SAP ERP integration.

Explore the cost models and licensing for SAP cloud platform integration, including pay-per-use cloud credits and fixed subscriptions, with details on instances, connections, and enterprise edition.

Explore how SAP cloud platform integration (CPI) enables on-premise and cloud-to-cloud integration with pre-packed content, API, OData, and connectors, and why SAP is moving from HCI to CPI in cloud.

Define a technology platform as a collection of components that enables the development and deployment of applications, services, or products, forming a unified ecosystem that standardizes, scales, and enables innovation.

Explore SAP BTP as a cloud platform as a service that provides in-memory capabilities and unifies database and data management, analytics, application development and integration, and intelligent technologies.

Explore how an intelligent enterprise uses data-driven decision making, automation, and AI to transform operations through real-time analytics, seamless process integration, and agile, scalable cloud platforms.

Explore the four technology pillars of SAP BTP—database and data management, analytics, application development and integration, and intelligent technologies. Leverage SAP Hana Cloud, Data Warehouse Cloud, and AI services.

Explore how SAP BTP acts as a unified technology platform unifying data analytics, AI, and integration to enable an intelligent enterprise with SaaS tools and business processes.

Explore virtualization by contrasting physical and virtual resources, and learn how a hypervisor creates multiple virtual machines from a single physical host, enabling cost savings and flexible testing.

Explore hardware, software, network, desktop, server, storage, data, application, and GPU virtualization, with real-world examples from hypervisors, VMware, and cloud platforms.

Discover Docker and container basics, understand containerization, and see how Docker images create portable, isolated environments that ensure your app runs the same across any environment.

Kubernetes automates container management with pods, master and node architecture, API access, and services, enabling self-healing, scalability, rolling updates, and portability across cloud or on-premise infrastructure.

Compare virtualization and containers to understand differences in isolation levels, startup time, and resource use, with hypervisors and virtual machines versus docker containers for legacy apps and cloud native workloads.

Explore how containers enhance cloud computing by making applications more efficient, scalable, portable, and easier to manage. Docker and Kubernetes enable isolation and rapid deployment across environments.

Explain microservices as small, independent services that each handle a single task, enabling independent development, scalability, fault isolation, and technology-agnostic tool selection across cloud providers.

Compare SAP cloud environments, focusing on Cloud Foundry and SAP Neo. Explain why SAP emphasizes Cloud Foundry, noting Cloud Foundry as an open source platform as a service.

Explore Cloud Foundry, an open source multi-cloud platform as a service governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, embraced by SAP to provide runtimes, multi-cloud deployment, frameworks, and database services.

Explore SAP Neo as a SAP-managed cloud platform as a service, partnered with Cloud Foundry to provide Cloud Foundry offerings through SAP.

Explore the SAP environment options, comparing new environments and Cloud Foundry, where Cloud Foundry offers more industry-standard options and multi-cloud deployment, while SAP manages the platform as a service.

Explain how SAP Integration Suite, a component of SAP BTP, unifies cloud integration tools to connect systems, share data, and enable real-time, AI-assisted data mapping across SAP and non-SAP apps.

Explore SAP BTP integration services—CPI, API management, integration advisor, event mesh, open connectors—and the four integration principles and seven components of the SAP integration suite.

Explore SAP BTP accounts, learn how global accounts, subaccounts, entitlements, and tenants organize regions, quotas, and services for SAP Integration Suite deployments.

Describe how the cloud integration runtime executes interfaces inside tenants, now containerized instead of VMs, using SAP Integration Suite and tools across subaccounts and global accounts.

Explore how SAP Integration Suite uses Apache Camel as its runtime framework, converting graphical integration flows into Camel routes executed in tenant runtimes.

Understand SAP integration architecture within the SAP BTP technology platform, detailing sender and receiver flows, tenants, cloud integration, runtime, workers, the load balancer, and roles like integration developer and administrator.

Create an SAP BTP trial account, access SAP Integration Suite, assign the integration provisioner role, and build an integration flow using the integration scenario.

Navigate the SAP integration suite workflow by using discover, design, monitor, and deployment tabs; build flows with pre-built packages, the flow designer, adapters, mapping, and error handling.

Explore the components of the SAP integration flow, including sender and receiver, adapters, mapping and transformation, routing, data persistence, exception handling, security, and monitoring.

Describe the participants step in the SAP integration flow, defining sender and receiver systems, external call participants, adapters, and communication protocols to enable secure message exchange.

Define and orchestrate execution of an integration flow with an integration process, including message processing, transformation, and routing; modularize logic with local integration processes and handle errors via exception subprocesses.

Explore the event step in SAP integration suite, including end message, terminate message, escalation, and timer start events; learn error handling, flow control, signaling success, and scheduling integration flows.

Explore the mapping step in sap cpi, transforming data across formats with message, operational, xslt, and value mappings using graphical tools and groovy or javascript for xml, json, and csv.

Explore the transformation step in SAP Integration Suite, using content modifier to adjust headers, properties, and body, converters, EDI extractors, filters, message digest, and scripts to process and format messages.

Describe how the call step in SAP integration suite enables external and local calls to external services or sub-processes, using HTTP, OData, or SOAP, with mapping, deployment, and testing.

Describe the security step in SAP CPI, including decryptor, encryptor, signer, and verifier, to ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity in integration flows.

Validate incoming XML payloads against an XSD schema to ensure data quality, compliance with business rules, and robust exception handling within SAP CPI integration flows.

Learn how the persistence step enables reliable messaging in sap cpi by using data store operations, persist message, and write variables for storage, logging, and debugging.

Learn SAP integration adapters and connectivity options across source, external call, and target levels. Identify HTTP, SOAP, OData, file-based, database, and cloud adapters for secure, effective integrations.

Explore the discovery option in SAP Integration Suite to access pre-built integration content, APIs, connectors, and templates, enabling faster deployment and reduced custom development.

Navigate the design tab in the SAP Integration Suite to create, configure, and deploy integration flows with drag-and-drop interface, using pre-built content for data transformation and mapping, routing, and security.

Explore the monitor option in SAP Integration Suite to track integration flows, adapters, and API usage with real-time dashboards, troubleshoot errors, and optimize performance.

Explore the settings tab in the SAP Integration Suite, a central hub for configuring product profiles, transport, ES repository, custom tags, and malware scanner to improve security and integration operations.