Preface

15

Who This Book Is For

15

How This Book Is Organized

16

Acknowledgements

17

Conclusion

18

1 Introduction

19

1.1 Customer Context

19

1.1.1 The Evolving Integration Landscape

20

1.1.2 Integration Maturity

21

1.1.3 Planning Your Level of Maturity

23

1.1.4 Defining Your Steps to an Integration Platform

24

1.2 Intelligent Enterprise Vision

25

1.2.1 What Is an Intelligent Enterprise?

26

1.2.2 Benefits

28

1.2.3 Value of Integration

30

1.3 Hybrid and Heterogeneous Landscapes

32

1.3.1 What Are Hybrid and Heterogeneous Landscapes?

32

1.3.2 Future Landscape Trends

33

1.3.3 Data Access and Usage

33

1.4 Why Simplify Integration?

34

1.4.1 Traditional Approaches

34

1.4.2 Forward-Looking Approaches

35

1.4.3 Building Block Approach

36

1.4.4 Integration Center of Excellence

38

1.5 APIs and the Intelligent Enterprise

39

1.5.1 Establishing an API-First Architecture

39

1.5.2 Enterprise API Hubs

40

1.5.3 Establishing an API Mesh

42

1.6 SAP Integration Suite

44

1.6.1 Integration Types and Data Sources

45

1.6.2 Event-Based Integration

46

1.6.3 Data Intelligence

48

1.6.4 Process Integration

50

1.7 Related and Complementary Solutions

52

1.7.1 Internet of Things

52

1.7.2 Last-Mile Integration

54

1.8 Summary

55

2 SAP Integration Suite at a Glance

57

2.1 Supported Integration Patterns

58

2.2 Capabilities

62

2.3 Operations

65

2.3.1 Landscape

65

2.3.2 Security

69

2.3.3 Provisioning

72

2.3.4 Monitoring

86

2.4 Summary

91

3 Prepackaged Integrations

93

3.1 SAP API Business Hub

94

3.1.1 Salient Features

94

3.1.2 Exploring SAP API Business Hub

96

3.2 Prepackaged Accelerators

103

3.3 Building Applications, Extensions, and Integrations

106

3.3.1 Discovering APIs

107

3.3.2 Testing APIs with the API Sandbox

108

3.3.3 Consuming APIs

109

3.3.4 Discovering Integration Packs

121

3.3.5 Consuming Integration Content

123

3.4 Partner Onboarding

126

3.5 Summary

128

4 Open APIs

129

4.1 Exploring API Management

130

4.1.1 Use Cases

130

4.1.2 API-Based Integration Architecture

132

4.1.3 Digital Integration Hub

134

4.1.4 Creating Your First API

135

4.1.5 Deploying and Testing APIs

137

4.2 API Management Lifecycle

139

4.3 Integration with Other SAP Integration Suite Capabilities

141

4.3.1 Creating an API Provider

142

4.3.2 Discovering the Cloud Integration Endpoint

144

4.3.3 Managing the OData Endpoint

147

4.3.4 Creating a Product and Exposing the API

149

4.4 Summary

152

5 Designing Integration Scenarios

153

5.1 Exploring Cloud Integration

153

5.1.1 Discover

153

5.1.2 Design

154

5.1.3 Monitor

159

5.1.4 Settings

164

5.2 Flexible Pipeline Steps

165

5.2.1 Participants

166

5.2.2 Process

166

5.2.3 Mappings

167

5.2.4 Transformations

169

5.2.5 Call Steps

173

5.2.6 Routing Steps

174

5.2.7 Security

176

5.2.8 Validator

176

5.2.9 Persistence

176

5.3 Connectivity

177

5.3.1 Out-of-the-Box Connectors

178

5.3.2 Adapter Development Kit

181

5.4 Creating an End-to-End Integration Flow

182

5.4.1 Business Requirements

182

5.4.2 Prerequisites

183

5.4.3 Creating an Integration Package and Artifact

183

5.4.4 Adding Connectors

186

5.4.5 Message Mapping

188

5.4.6 Creating a Custom Text Format

193

5.4.7 Configuring Adapters

195

5.4.8 Executing and Monitoring Your Integration Flow

198

5.5 Summary

200

6 AI-Driven and B2B Integration

201

6.1 Intercompany Integration

201

6.1.1 Open Integration

202

6.1.2 B2B and EDI Integrations

204

6.2 Integration Advisor

210

6.2.1 Overview and Getting Started

210

6.2.2 Library of Type Systems/Custom Type Systems

215

6.2.3 Message Implementation Guidelines

216

6.2.4 Mapping Guidelines

219

6.2.5 Runtime Artifacts Generation

221

6.3 Summary

222

7 Third-Party Integration

223

7.1 Connecting to Third-Party Applications

224

7.1.1 Navigating to Open Connectors

224

7.1.2 Simplify Connectivity to Third-Party Cloud Applications

226

7.2 Exploring Third-Party SaaS Digital Content

235

7.3 Managing a Third-Party CRM Instance

237

7.3.1 Creating a Common Resources Template

237

7.3.2 Managing the HubSpot Instance Using API Management

241

7.3.3 Discovering the Open Connectors Instance

243

7.4 Building an Integration Scenario

245

7.4.1 Creating a Service Instance and Service Key

246

7.4.2 Deploying Your Credentials on Your Cloud Integration Tenant

252

7.4.3 Modeling an Integration Flow

253

7.4.4 Testing the Scenario

263

7.5 Summary

265

8 Event-Driven Integration

267

8.1 SAP Event Mesh as an Event Hub

267

8.1.1 Asynchronous Integration

267

8.1.2 Event Messaging Scenarios

270

8.1.3 Messaging Protocols

273

8.1.4 Centralized Event Bus

274

8.1.5 SAP Event Mesh Setup

276

8.2 Decoupling Integration Scenarios Using Event Patterns

279

8.3 Event-Driven Extensions

282

8.4 SAP Integration Suite with SAP Event Mesh

285

8.5 Event-Driven Integration of SAP S/4HANA with Non-SAP Apps

288

8.6 Summary

290

9 Future Developments

291

9.1 Recent Innovations

291

9.1.1 Harmonized User Experience

292

9.1.2 Low-Code API Development

292

9.1.3 SAP API Business Hub: A New Experience

294

9.1.4 Centralized Monitoring and Reporting

297

9.1.5 API Business Hub Enterprise

298

9.2 Future Roadmap

299

9.2.1 Cloud-Based B2B Integration

299

9.2.2 Improved High-Availability Support

300

9.2.3 Hybrid Deployment Options

301

9.3 Summary

301

A Solution Blueprints

305

A.1 Customer Transformation Journey

305

A.2 Accelerated Cloud Agility with SAP Integration Suite

307

A.3 SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA Migrations

310

A.4 Digital Integration Hub

312

A.5 Enterprise-Wide Integration Landscape

315

A.6 Industry Transformation

317

A.7 Summary

320

B Advisory Program

321

B.1 High-Touch and Low-Touch Engagement with SAP

321

B.1.1 High-Touch Engagement

322

B.1.2 Low-Touch Engagement

325

B.2 Defining Integration Guidelines for an Organization

327

B.3 Integration Community

328

B.4 Summary

331