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SAP S/4HANA Cloud provides a digital core and standard business processes that can be extended through interfaces to other SAP solutions. APIs are available for extensions or integrations with third party or custom applications. The document discusses SAP's integration strategy including the SAP Best Practices Explorer, API Business Hub, and SAP Activate methodology for helping customers with integration projects. It also covers the different connectivity types including point-to-point and middleware options like SAP Cloud Platform Integration.

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5 Integration

SAP S/4HANA Cloud provides a digital core and standard business processes that can be extended through interfaces to other SAP solutions. APIs are available for extensions or integrations with third party or custom applications. The document discusses SAP's integration strategy including the SAP Best Practices Explorer, API Business Hub, and SAP Activate methodology for helping customers with integration projects. It also covers the different connectivity types including point-to-point and middleware options like SAP Cloud Platform Integration.

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud Integration Overview

The SAP Framework f…

SAP S/4HANA Cloud …

SAP Best Practices E…

The SAP Framework for


Customer System Landscapes
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Customer landscapes tend to be quite complex, with many integration needs.


To help customers transition into the digital economy, SAP built the Digital
Business Framework, a structured framework to help develop and execute your
digital business strategy. With this framework, the entire value chain will be
digitized including the core, which serves as the platform for innovation and
business process optimization.

With SAP S/4HANA at the core serving as the foundation for business
innovation and optimization, the entire value chain can be digitized. The digital
enterprise interconnects all aspects of the value chain to drive and anticipate
business outcomes in real time. Enterprises across industries can lead the
digital transformation by completely re-imagining business models, business
processes, and work. The key to success for the digital platform is the
seamless integration to connect all aspects of the value network.

With sophisticated integration options and built-in integration from SAP, you
can connect SAP S/4HANA Cloud with other SAP and third-party on-premise
and cloud solutions.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Integration


Overview
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SAP S/4HANA Cloud Integration Strategy

Integration becomes a key enabler for the digital transformation of


organizations. The figure, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Integration Strategy, illustrates
the integration domains and types of scenarios encountered when
heterogeneous components and systems need to be integrated. The systems
to be connected typically use different communication protocols and store
their data in different formats and structures. The figure shows the main
domains according to the ISA-M model. As cloud, mobile, and IoT scenarios are
added to customer landscapes, the scope of integration continuously
increases. Customers are challenged to extend their integration architecture to
address these new domains of integration to exploit the richness of
opportunities these areas offer.

On their journey to adopt innovations in the cloud, customers increasingly


extend and integrate their existing on-premise applications to the cloud.
Customers already using cloud solutions expect on-premise and cloud
solutions from SAP to integrate with each other, as well as with non-SAP
applications. The integration of business partners and business networks
(B2B) continues to be a key integration domain for customers. The same
applies to integration between businesses and governmental agencies (B2G).
User-centric applications such as SAP Fiori apps or mobile apps need provide
seamless integration with applications in the cloud or on premise to provide an
omni-channel user experience.

With the emergence of the IoT, customers face new challenges: they need to
integrate data from real-world objects such as sensors or assets with cloud or
on-premise applications, either for analytical or transactional processing. To
address these growing integration demands, customers and partners require a
consistent and flexible cloud integration platform that covers process, data,
user, and IoT-related integration scenarios. Such a platform is expected to lead
to less implementation effort, better control and compatibility, and greater
robustness, particularly if there are upgrades.

The goal of the future SAP integration strategy is to make integration between
SAP applications completely straightforward by aligning their processes and
related data models, including the publication of APIs. The target is to simplify
new integration solutions, especially for line-of-business (LoB) cloud
integration scenarios, and to further deepen integration between SAP
applications over time.

SAP S/4HANA offers a digital core of standard business processes which


can be extended with interfaces to other standard SAP solution. For further
extensions or integrations with third party or customer made applications,
APIs are available.

Let’s start with our effort to simplify the consumption of those integration
capabilities. Start exploring the SAP Best Practices Explorer. We made it
easier to find the best practices for integration with a filter called
integration. This allows you to find the many SAP to SAP and SAP to non-
SAP integration best practices and the predefined templates.

Second, finding the right API. APIs are the key building blocks for
integration and extensibility requirements. You can search the API Business
Hub easier, find needed business context and even better, try APIs out. SAP
will be publishing more than 100 APIs and 1000 operations check them all
out at api.sap.com.

Finally, speed up your projects. Many of the integration best practices can
also be accessed in the SAP Activate methodology for SAP S/4HANA
cloud, in the roadmap viewer. This way, you can find the necessary tasks
and deliverables based on the phase of your own implementation project.

Integration Overview with Jannick Peterschmitt

SAP Best Practices Explorer


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SAP S/4HANA Cloud Integration on the SAP Best Practices Explorer

On the SAP Best Practices Explorer, you can filter the scope items for
integration to have quick access too all pre-configured scenarios.

Hint

Access the explorer by clicking on the link:


https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/browse/categories/sap_s%254hana/areas
/cloud/packageversions/BP_CLD_ENTPR

Shu, Tenko
Interface Technologies

Application Program…

Connectivity

Application Programming
Interface

Interfaces are realized with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).


APIs are a piece of code that contain business logic that processes inputs
and outputs. You can think of an analogy of a guest requesting a dish from a
waiter, the waiter will transfer the request to the kitchen and when the
request is processed will serve the guest the finished dish (response).

APIs are used both to connect from an SAP S/4HANA Cloud system to
another system and to enhance the content of the S/4HANA Cloud scope,
such as by creating apps on the SAP Cloud Platform (SCP).
APIs can be implemented either using middleware, such as SAP Cloud
Platform or point-to-point with direct integration.

Application Programming Interface

Connectivity
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Connectivity Types and Tools

SAP connectivity options include point to point interfaces and interfaces


utilizing middleware.

Point to point interfaces can use direct connectivity, which is the go-to
connectivity type as it is easy to set up and works for SAP out-of-the-box
solutions. Point to point interfaces are also implemented with the SAP Cloud
Connector. The cloud connector is the lightweight connection tunnel solution
between SAP S/4HANA, HANA Cloud Platform applications, and any existing
SAP on-premise systems. It provides fine-grained control over on-premise
systems and resources that cloud applications need access to. It is relevant
only for SAP S/4HANA Cloud integration with SAP applications on Premise. It
is secured by a “lightweight VPN” connection.
Interfaces that use middleware can use SAP Cloud Platform Integration. This is
the preferred process integration cloud-based middleware. It offers
prepackaged integration content and is operated by SAP. The monitoring is
done by the customer and there are also extensibility options available.

SAP Process Orchestration is SAP’s widely adopted integration solution on


premise. Though the use of SAP Process Orchestration is not recommend in
the SAP cloud, the HANA Cloud Interface runtime has been down ported to it.
That allows integration flows designed with the HCI-PI can run on PO on
premise, too. This means custom applications need integration content (like
integration flows and mappings) designed only once and you can decide to run
them on premise or in the cloud.

Shu, Tenko

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