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ALE Integration Technology: Purpose

ALE (Application Link Enabling) is middleware that integrates business processes between SAP and non-SAP systems. It exchanges data asynchronously to keep information consistent across applications. ALE supports configuration, messaging, and ensures data distribution and synchronization between loosely coupled systems.

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ALE Integration Technology: Purpose

ALE (Application Link Enabling) is middleware that integrates business processes between SAP and non-SAP systems. It exchanges data asynchronously to keep information consistent across applications. ALE supports configuration, messaging, and ensures data distribution and synchronization between loosely coupled systems.

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ALE Integration Technology

Purpose
The integration technology Application Link Enabling (ALE) is an important middleware tool in
SAP's Business Framework Architecture (BFA). BFA is a component-based architecture enabling
software components from SAP and from other software vendors to communicate and be integrated with
each other.
ALE can integrate business processes between SAP systems and non-SAP systems as well as between
SAP systems.
Data is exchanged between applications and remains consistent in all applications.

Company-wide applications such as accounting, human resource management and sales


planning may be carried out in the company’s headquarters, whereas production and
materials management may be carried out in decentralized plants.
Application systems are loosely coupled in an ALE integrated system. Data is exchanged
asynchronously, whereby the data arrives in the receiver system, even if the receiver system cannot be
connected to at the time the data is sent. ALE uses synchronous communication for reading data only.
ALE provides administration, development and testing tools.
To use the ALE tools choose Tools  IDoc Interface/ALE.
ALE business processes are part of the standard SAP application system delivery. They are documented
in the Library of ALE Business Processes.
For more information about the required system settings see the Implementation Guide (IMG):
TransactionSPRO  SAP Reference IMG  SAP Web Application Server -> IDoc Interface/ALE
(or the transaction SALE).
For information on programming see the ALE Programming Guide.
To make it easier to assign ALE functions to specific user types, the following user roles have been
defined:
 ALE Administration SAP_BC_MID_ALE_ADMIN
 ALE Development SAP_BC_MID_ALE_DEVELOPER
 Logistics - Master Data Distribution SAP_BC_MID_ALE_MD_LO
 Accounting - Master Data Distribution SAP_BC_MID_ALE_MD_FI
 Human Resources - Master Data Distribution SAP_BC_MID_ALE_MD_HR

Implementation Considerations
Decentralized business applications ensuring data consistency are used because:
 The increasing globalization of markets has led to the physical division of organizational units.
 Business processes are not restricted to one organization only and more and more customers and
vendors are becoming involved.
 SAP system performance can be improved by distributing the business applications.

For further information about ALE implementation, see:


 ALE and the SAP R/3 Procedure Model.
Features
ALE supports the configuration and operation of distributed applications. ALE controls Messaging across
loosely coupled SAP systems, ensuring that data is always consistent.
Applications are integrated using a local database rather than a central one. There is no data retention.
ALE guarantees the distribution and synchronization of master data, Customizing data and transaction
data through asynchronous communication.
Synchronous communication is used in ALE to read data only.
ALE has many benefits:
 Application data can be distributed between different releases of SAP systems
 Data can continue to be exchanged after a release upgrade without requiring special maintenance
 Customers can add their own enhancements
 Communication interfaces enable connections to non-SAP systems.
 SAP R/3 and R/2 Systems can communicate with each other.
ALE has functions for monitoring messages flows and handling communication problems.

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