Integration at SAP
Many companies struggle with rigid, isolated business processes. To build the "intelligent enterprise", organizations must integrate, adapt and enhance their core business processes and system functions.
SAP provides a range of tools, services and programming models for integrating and extending your systems and solutions. You have many choices and paths for doing this. Below, you’ll find just some of the examples of the ways in which you can integrate and extend your software, though the options are unique to each developer and each company.
SAP Integration Suite lets you use best practices and guidelines to integrate and extend your applications and systems.
Relevant Products
ABAP Restful Application Programming Model
This helps you build enterprise SAP Fiori apps and services on SAP S/4HANA and SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment. It orchestrates SAP technologies like Core Data Services (CDS) and OData with new concepts, guidelines and tools to offer a new programming model for ABAP development - regardless of whether you want to start from scratch or reuse existing business logic.
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See official SAP help documentation
SAP Integration Suite
SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite provides you with tools and capabilities that allow you to connect your processes and data and create enterprise-wide integrations. Use it when you need to integrate different SAP and non-SAP systems and their functions for greater efficiency, for example.
SAP Gateway
SAP Gateway, an integral part of SAP NetWeaver, lets you connect devices, environments, and platforms to SAP systems, using the Open Data (OData) Protocol.
SAP Cloud Platform Connectivity (including SAP Cloud Connector)
SAP Cloud Platform Connectivity (including SAP Cloud Connector) allows your SAP Cloud Platform applications to access remote cloud-based or on-prem services.
Access in-depth resources on the SAP Community
See official SAP help documentation
SAP Cloud Platform Open Connectors
These are a variety of open APIs that allow you to connect and integrate with a range of third-party service providers.
SAP Cloud SDK
This is a software development kit for consuming, building or extending SAP services and applications in the cloud. It also provides continuous deployment facilities for your DevOps processes.
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SAP API Business Hub
Provides a single access point for API and integration content for SAP products and solutions, third-party providers and select SAP partners.
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SAP Cloud Platform Workflow Management
Provides a workflow system that lets you design, build, deploy and manage complex business processes particularly where you need to incorporate human interactions into the flow.
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SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Messaging
This lets you create queues and build asynchronous processes that communicate via event-based messages. Use it when you need to create responsive applications that work independently and participate in event-driven business processes inside your company, and across your business ecosystem.
Access in-depth resources on the SAP Community
See official SAP help documentation
SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
SAP Cloud Application Programming Model is a framework of languages, libraries, and tools for building enterprise-grade services and applications. This framework combines broadly adopted open-source and SAP tools and technologies, along with guidance and best practices that help you focus on business-specific logic.