November 2018
How to architect your Integration
© Figaf 2018

Cloud =
More integrations faster

• 20 minutes on the SAP keynotes
• SAP need to make it easy for customer to integrate their systems
• Line of Business Application out of the box
• Also make it easier to implement other applications
• Have an integration offering that customers want
Integration has high priority

Integration Pillars

Understand your integration

• Understand where you are going
• Without a goal or reason you will get spaghetti
• S/4 Hana and Cloud Products on the roadmap
• Understand that business will by SaaS or Cloud products then self to
bypass the integration
• Get it in project charter/method
Architecture

• A process from SAP that allow your to understand the tools and
concepts in your organisation
• Many high profile organisations is using it to create guidelines and
guide the process.
• Give recommendation to which patterns to chose
• Map the patterns to which that makes the most sense
• You can get access to the presentation for free, just search for ISA-
M for access
Integration Solution Advisor - Methodology

• Setup architecture board to understand needs
• How to evaluate the different integrations purchased by business
and how it works
• Roles in your organization with integration
• Make business case to improve the scope of the integration
department
ISA-M

CIO Guides for Integration
Further Information & Detailed Technology Guidance
9
• Describes SAP’s long term Vision for
Integration
• Key Integration Use Cases
• API Alignment
• Process Integration Guidance
• Data Integration Guidance
https://www.sap.com/documents/2017/05/eebd
96bd-b97c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.html
SAP Vision for Integrating
SAP Applications in Cloud
and Hybrid Environments
• Refined Guidance for Process, B2B and Data
Integration
• Integration Solution Advisory Methodology
(ISA-M)
• SAP API Strategy
• Integration Automation
• SAP S/4HANA Transition Guidance
https://www.sap.com/documents/2018/06/de323
8a0-077d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html
Process & Data Integration
in Hybrid Landscapes
Identity Lifecycle in Hybrid
Landscapes
• Reference Architecture for Identity and
Access Management
• Scenarios for Identity and Access
Management
• Standards for Authentication and
Provisioning
• SSO with SAP Cloud Platform Identity
Authentication
https://www.sap.com/documents/2018/05/38ce
7d25-067d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html
From the ISA-M SAP

Existing integration

• 11000 customers
• CEI in progress
• Test tool like the Figaf Test tool
• B2B tool
• Few other things planed
• 7.5 End of support 2025
• CPI on PI updates to add new functions
• Next PI version in 2022 (depending on partner)
• May not contain ABAP, BPM and BRM (depending on legal and Customers)
• Java upgrade to next relase 10-11
• Valid until 2030ish
PI Roadmap

• Be able to upgrade every 3-6 months, if you are using CPI on the PO
system
• Patch solutions faster
• Scalable can you grow the data volumn
What your landscape should expect

• PI is powerful for handling messages that are ”simple” and is easy
for EO/EOIO
• PI flows for pattern where it can be used out of the box
• Async and Sync
• Flows where a single lookup can be performed
• Bridges ?
• CPI for delivered content
• CPI for techinal processes
• BPM for user actions
Onprem Integration

• Gives you the option to use CPI on PI for the tecnial BPM
• Will be a large project getting it running it
• Seeburger migration to get to B2B Add-on
• Resources
• https://figaf.com/7-steps-sap-pi-po-migration/
• https://figaf.com/migrate-from-seeburger-to-sap-pi-b2b-addon-webinar/
Migration to single stack

• 7.5 will give you
• Some improvments that will not be back ported
• Test tool, B2B Option
• BPM UI update, but not recommended to develop new flow in
• Option to run CPI onprem, so you can make workflow on the system
• Extended support, needed to bridge de gap for next release
Single stack 7.31/7.4 upgrade to 7.5

• Existing process continue to run
• New techinal processes should be implmented in CPI if possible
• Workflow processes use Cloud Workflow
BPM/BRM

Survey
https://blogs.sap.com/2018/11/11/results-of-the-global-survey-for-sap-
integration-2018-part-1/
Planned release upgrade / migration for SAP PI/PRO?
Versions of SAP Process Integration

Cloud Platfrom Integration Suite
iPaaS

• A bundle of all the integration related products from SAP
• IPaaS
• Not a SKU yet but the Cloud Integration Enterprise Edition contains
many of the components
• Will make it eaiser to make integration because you have all tools
and can use the best suited, not the one you have
• Cloud Credits so you can run the applications that makes sense
• 8-10 different products or solutions
Cloud Integration Suite

• One place to
• Shop, Transport, Monitor and Manage
• You don’t have to look at too many different patterns that you want
to support
• Pay as you go
• Integrated product
• Cloud Integration Suite
• Trusted vendor
SAP First strategy

• May get a cheaper price/features at vendor direct
• Ie. Apigee has more features and probably able to fix issues faster,
or features will be delayed
• If the tool is not there from SAP you anyway need to do an RFP
Downsides of SAP first

• New cloud based mapping tool for B2B primary but also make sense
for A2A application
• Tool to create mapping for your EDI documents based on semantics
like
• Country
• Industry
• Uses a ML to make the best predictions of to find the best matches
• Generates XSLT to map the documents for CPI
• Will be able to use them onpremis on PI
Integration Content Advisor

• A harmonized open framework for making API based integration
• No reason to read all providers API documentation from each cloud
service. This is abstracted in the API
• Save a lot of time
• No need to custome connectors
• All groups of interfaces is ”identical” in the API
• Use it as hub to distribute data based on company
• 1mio API calls from 1.000 EUR/month
Open Connectors

• API will have a large role in the future integration
• One place to find all APIs and Integration content hosted by SAP
and all types of interfaces
• REST
• ODATA
• SOAP
• Events
• Integration content for CPI or API Management
API and API Hub

• The next gen workflow tool on Cloud Platfrom
• BPMN modelling tool
• 3 ways to create user tasks
• Code them self
• Templates
• Forms that allow you create simple form
• Scripting to run and test the implementation
• Requires portal, webide and Workflow service
Cloud Workflow

• A concept that allow (near) realtime masterdata to flow between
systems.
• One Cloud System will then own an object, and the other can then
subscribe to it
• Will simplify integration if masterdata is excluded
• GA?
Masterdata service

You need to do more with less
Operations

• Continues Integration. Understanding new way of developing and
deploy content. New way of developing and can speed up the
development.
• Agile (SAFe)
• Test driven development
• Get up to speed on what others are doing
• Regression testing when doing any changes
• Things are also changing in the SAP space on the area
Devops

• Integration is more important than ever, so you must be able to
identify problems and solve as fast as possible
• Faster response on incidents
• Share the knowledge
• Continues improvement of your support
• Testing in the process
Support

• Understand what to document
• Create documents that allow you to be agile and solve issues
• Not have a large burden on developers
Documentation

• Most integration developers is 40+
• You can outsource to Asia for development
• The architecure require some knowledge about all used tools and
how to set it into context
• Understand tools to be more productive, and understand what your
workers are doing
Skills

Tools to consider

• One tool that support the full development lifecycle of your
development
• Documentation of what is changed
• Testing of the changed interfaces
• Validate transports
• Operational support
• Handle both CPI and PI development
• Get started for free at:
figaf.com/irt
Figaf IRT

How Figaf IRT can speed up your
development
https://figaf.com/SpeedPI
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