
Explore hybrid SAP PI process integration training with detailed theory and hands-on practice, led by a large team of consultants and multiple instructors, designed for certification and career-based learning.
This session introduces SAP process integration and exchange infrastructure, explains NetWeaver process integration basics, and outlines the tasks, tools, and object creation involved in real life integration projects.
Explore why SAP PI uses single stack or dual stack in a hub-and-spoke architecture to connect SAP and non-SAP systems, with integration engine, adapter engine, and design-time tools.
Explore SAP PI process integration engines—integration engine, adapter engine, and BPM engine—and their mapping runtime, pipeline steps, and hub and spoke structure.
This conclusion recaps the introduction to lcp and process integration, reviews architecture and a single stack, and surveys the ms cp home page with esr and system landscape directory links.
Explore the SAP NetWeaver PI components, including the integration engine, the business process engine, and the adapter engine.
Explore ESR features and ESR objects in SAP PI process integration, including the centralized depository for design objects, namespace management, authorization, and object type classification.
Define a service interface layout and service registry, set interface operations, publish status from inactive to active, and review messaging standards, security, and centralized monitoring in enterprise integrations.
Explore enterprise architecture and how services are published and consumed in a platform independent model, bridging providers and consumers through enterprise services and business logic.
Explore the system landscape directory and its features describing software components, landscape models, and the middleware role linking diverse systems and environments.
Discover the software catalog that centralizes information on available software, its components, licenses, and patches, and learn to map software units to customers and manage deployments.
Explore how the system catalog defines technical and business systems and links software components and bundles for SAP PI process integration.
Learn to use the system landscape directory in pi to import software components into the enterprise services repository and apply Java support packages for ongoing updates.
Explore the features of the enterprise services repository ESR, including software components, software catalog, and creating technical and business systems, plus integration objects and folder-based organization with namespaces.
Explore the enterprise services repository overview, detailing application profiles, authorizations, language-specific translations, namespaces, software components, and data type definitions in SAP PI processes.
Model enterprise services in the ESR by designing aggregate and global data types, defining service interfaces and operations, and detailing message structures for stateless and stateful integration patterns.
Explore process component architecture within a service oriented, model driven environment, using the ESR to map graphical process models to the actual services and data types used.
Explore the integration directory in SAP PI Process Integration, covering collaboration profiles and agreements, communication channels, and the roles of business systems, processes, and message transformations.
Explore integration scenarios and collaboration profiles to group configuration objects, design cross-system processes, and transport scenario templates across environments using the configuration assistant and collaboration components.
Learn how communication components, business components, and business systems connect in SAP PI, covering integration processes, message flows, channels, adapters, and cross-system collaboration.
Configure routing rules for sap pi, focusing on receiver determination, interface determination, and message processing, and establish collaboration agreements to ensure secure, channel-specific communication.
Explore value mapping and cache updates in SAP PI process integration, detailing how mappings across systems use identification schemes, agencies, and object types, with cache-driven updates.
Explore collaboration and integration concepts in SAP PI process integration, focusing on communication components, business systems, and integration processes, identify adoption gaps and collaboration agreements to guide decisions.
Learn a file-to-file ESR scenario by importing a software component, defining a namespace, configuring data types, and creating outbound and inbound service interfaces and message mappings.
Explore how to navigate the integration directory, create a configuration scenario, and assign business systems and communication channels to enable SAP PI process integration workflows.
Explore SAP PI mapping overview, including structure and message mappings, source/target data types and operation mappings, and practical steps to design, implement, and test interface mappings.
Explore run-time workbench concepts in SAP PI process integration, including mapping techniques such as message mapping, operation mapping, and XSLT mapping, plus pipeline and alert configurations.
Explore graphical mapping and Java mapping in SAP PI process integration, design mappings between source and target messages using standard and user-defined functions, and implement Java-based transformations.
Explore XSLT mapping and ABAP mapping techniques, using external mapping programs with predefined templates to transform substructures, imported archives, and template-based transformations on the app engine.
Explore value mapping techniques, including fixed values, standard and user-defined functions, and source and target property definitions. Understand context handling, queues, and multi-step transformations that split or consolidate messages.
SAP has renamed SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure -- SAP NetWeaver XI -- as SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI). NetWeaver PI serves as the integration engine for SAP's implementation of SOA middleware. With NetWeaver PI, SAP has included pre-built integrations for connecting SAP systems to each other and to non-SAP systems. But many SAP users are still not sure what the difference is between NetWeaver PI and NetWeaver XI.
SAP calls XI an integration mediator between entities with varying requirements in terms of connectivity, format, and protocols. According to SAP, XI reduces integration costs by providing a common repository for interfaces. The central component of SAP XI is the SAP Integration Server, which facilitates interaction between diverse operating systems and applications across internal and external networked computer systems.
The components of the SAP XI system are available via a web interface for configuration, integration design, system landscape definition and integration server monitoring.
SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP PI) is SAP's enterprise application integration (EAI) software, a component of the NetWeaver product group used to facilitate the exchange of information among a company's internal software and systems and those of external parties. Before the current version, SAP PI was called SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI). Like other NetWeaver components, SAP PI is compatible with software products of other companies.
SAP calls PI an integration broker because it mediates between entities with varying requirements in terms of connectivity, format, and protocols. According to SAP, PI reduces the TCO by providing a common repository for interfaces. The central component of SAP PI is the SAP Integration Server, which facilitates interaction between diverse operating systems and applications across internal and external networked computer systems.
PI is built upon the SAP Web Application Server.
First release of SAP Exchange Infrastructure was XI 2.0. Later on, releases 3.0, 7.0, 7.1, 7.1 EHP1 and 7.3 followed. From release 7.0 onwards, SAP Exchange Infrastructure has been renamed as SAP Process Integration (SAP PI).
SAP PI / XI is SAP's middleware technology ( Formerly known as SAP XI or Exchange Infrastructure ). XI is used to connect SAP with different non-SAP SAP systems. There are built-in adapters that can directly connect SAP to other standard third party systems with minimum customization involved. It relies heavily on SAP's Netweaver Platform. For SAP Training, Remote SAP Access
5 Reasons for using SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1
Use Process Integration as an SOA backbone
Establish ES Repository as the central SOA repository in customer landscapes
Leverage support of additional WS standards such as UDDI, WS-BPEL and tasks, WS-RM
Enable high-volume and mission-critical integration scenarios
Benefit from new functionality such as principal propagation, XML validation and BAM capabilities