Address the challenges of managing hybrid SAP integration landscapes with this guide! Begin by understanding the integration architectures, styles, and standards at work in your SAP system. Then develop an integration strategy using frameworks like the Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M). Explore the features and functions of SAP integration tools, from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite. Finally, learn to govern and operate your integrated system. Master your interfaces today!a. Hybrid Integration ConceptsExplore integration architecture styles, from point-to-point integration to enterprise service buses. Learn about the process- and data-based integration styles used in SAP systems. Understand the frameworks and methodologies available for building your own integration strategy and managing interfaces.b. Integration ToolsDiscover SAP interface standards and protocols, including OData services and RESTful services. Learn about SAP integration tools such as SAP Process Orchestration, SAP Data Intelligence, SAP Event Mesh, SAP Integration Suite, and more.c. Governance and OperationsStandardize the development and operation of interfaces. Create catalogs of integration overviews, develop and use reports, and outline company-wide integration policies. Learn to monitor, test, and manage the daily cycle of your integration landscape. Highlights: Hybrid integration Interface management Process-based and data-based integration Operations Governance Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M) SAP Process Orchestration SAP Integration Suite SAP Data Intelligence SAP Solution Manager
Looking for smooth integration for your complex system landscape? Whether you're starting fresh or migrating from SAP PI, we've got you covered! Learn to use the AEX to configure the system landscape directory, work with the ES repository, and manage the integration directory in SAP PO. Build integration flows, create a SAP BPM process, and get the most out of SAP BRM. Updated with the new Push API, user-defined search, the SAP Cloud Platform Integration engine, practical exercises, and more!
The book describes the complete project process in individual steps for SAP S/4HANA project management based on the SAP ACTIVATE implementation methodology. By imparting knowledge based on experience with real SAP projects, the book supports project managers in developing skills and qualifications that will lead them to the successful management of SAP projects. In this context it emphasizes the crucial role of human interaction from the start to the successful completion of projects and provides useful tips on how to recognize and avoid pitfalls. Enriched with a wide range of material such as templates, checklists and practical examples, the book provides concrete guidance for project managers and participants on how to successfully manage ongoing projects. The book is valuable for both beginners and experienced project managers and also gives decision makers and stakeholders an excellent insight into the planning and management of large projects.
This book offers a comprehensive guide to implementing SAP and HANA on private, public and hybrid clouds. Cloud computing has transformed the way organizations run their IT infrastructures: the shift from legacy monolithic mainframes and UNIX platforms to cloud based infrastructures offering ubiquitous access to critical information, elastic provisioning and drastic cost savings has made cloud an essential part of every organization’s business strategy. Cloud based services have evolved from simple file sharing, email and messaging utilities in the past, to the current situation, where their improved technical capabilities and SLAs make running mission-critical applications such as SAP possible. However, IT professionals must take due care when deploying SAP in a public, private or hybrid cloud environment. As a foundation for core business operations, SAP cloud deployments must satisfy stringent requirements concerning their performance, scale and security, while delivering measurable improvements in IT efficiency and cost savings. The 2nd edition of “SAP on the Cloud” continues the work of its successful predecessor released in 2013, providing updated guidance for deploying SAP in public, private and hybrid clouds. To do so, it discusses the technical requirements and considerations necessary for IT professionals to successfully implement SAP software in a cloud environment, including best-practice architectures for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS deployments. The section on SAP’s in-memory database HANA has been significantly extended to cover Suite on HANA (SoH) and the different incarnations of HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) and Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI). As cyber threats are a significant concern, it also explores appropriate security models for defending SAP cloud deployments against modern and sophisticated attacks. The reader will gain the insights needed to understand the respective benefits and drawbacks of various deployment models and how SAP on the cloud can be used to deliver IT efficiency and cost-savings in a secure and agile manner.
A practical handbook packed with expert advice on architectural considerations for designing solutions using SAP BTP to drive digital innovation Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format Key Features Guide your customers with proven architectural strategies and considerations on SAP BTP Tackle challenges in building process and data integration across complex and hybrid landscapes Discover SAP BTP services, including visualizations, practical business scenarios, and more Book Description SAP BTP is the foundation of SAP's intelligent and sustainable enterprise vision for its customers. It's efficient, agile, and an enabler of innovation. It's technically robust, yet its superpower is its business centricity. If you're involved in building IT and business strategies, it's essential to familiarize yourself with SAP BTP to see the big picture for digitalization with SAP solutions. Similarly, if you have design responsibilities for enterprise solutions, learning SAP BTP is crucial to produce effective and complete architecture designs. This book teaches you about SAP BTP in five parts. First, you'll see how SAP BTP is positioned in the intelligent enterprise. In the second part, you'll learn the foundational elements of SAP BTP and find out how it operates. The next part covers integration architecture guidelines, integration strategy considerations, and integration styles with SAP's integration technologies. Later, you'll learn how to use application development capabilities to extend enterprise solutions for innovation and agility. This part also includes digital experience and process automation capabilities. The last part covers how SAP BTP can facilitate data-to-value use cases to produce actionable business insights. By the end of this SAP book, you'll be able to architect solutions using SAP BTP to deliver high business value. What you will learn Explore value propositions and business processes enabled by SAP's Intelligent and Sustainable Enterprise Understand SAP BTP's foundational elements, such as commercial and account models Discover services that can be part of solution designs to fulfill non-functional requirements Get to grips with integration and extensibility services for building robust solutions Understand what SAP BTP offers for digital experience and process automation Explore data-to-value services that can help manage data and build analytics use cases Who this book is for This SAP guide is for technical architects, solutions architects, and enterprise architects working with SAP solutions to drive digital transformation and innovation with SAP BTP. Some IT background and an understanding of basic cloud concepts is assumed. Working knowledge of the SAP ecosystem will also be beneficial.
Are you ready for the next generation of SAP Process Integration? Meet SAP Process Orchestration! This is your complete guide to the tools and components of SAP PO. Learn how to build and configure interfaces, and then use SAP BPM to manage your business processes. Thanks to both a practical and comprehensive approach, you'll find out how to configure the System Landscape Directory, create an iFlow, monitor message processing, create BPM processes, and so much more. Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX)Learn how to configure and work with the System Landscape Directory, Enterprise Service Repository, the Integration Directory, and message processing. SAP Business Process ManagementHere's your guide to everything SAP BPM: perform administration tasks, learn how to automate business processes, and build human-centric and system-centric processes from scratch. MigrationIf you haven't switched from SAP Process Integration to SAP Process Orchestration, chances are you will soon. Get ahead by learning what changes are coming, and benefit from practical information about migrating business processes. Highlights: Administration and development tools System Landscape Directory Enterprise Service Repository Integration Directory iFlow Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX) Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) SAP Business Rule Management Java proxies Monitor business processes
SAP is a market leader in enterprise business application software. SAP solutions provide a rich set of composable application modules, and configurable functional capabilities that are expected from a comprehensive enterprise business application software suite. In most cases, companies that adopt SAP software remain heterogeneous enterprises running both SAP and non-SAP systems to support their business processes. Regardless of the specific scenario, in heterogeneous enterprises most SAP implementations must be integrated with a variety of non-SAP enterprise systems: Portals Messaging infrastructure Business process management (BPM) tools Enterprise Content Management (ECM) methods and tools Business analytics (BA) and business intelligence (BI) technologies Security Systems of record Systems of engagement The tooling included with SAP software addresses many needs for creating SAP-centric environments. However, the classic approach to implementing SAP functionality generally leaves the business with a rigid solution that is difficult and expensive to change and enhance. When SAP software is used in a large, heterogeneous enterprise environment, SAP clients face the dilemma of selecting the correct set of tools and platforms to implement SAP functionality, and to integrate the SAP solutions with non-SAP systems. This IBM® Redbooks® publication explains the value of integrating IBM software with SAP solutions. It describes how to enhance and extend pre-built capabilities in SAP software with best-in-class IBM enterprise software, enabling clients to maximize return on investment (ROI) in their SAP investment and achieve a balanced enterprise architecture approach. This book describes IBM Reference Architecture for SAP, a prescriptive blueprint for using IBM software in SAP solutions. The reference architecture is focused on defining the use of IBM software with SAP, and is not intended to address the internal aspects of SAP components. The chapters of this book provide a specific reference architecture for many of the architectural domains that are each important for a large enterprise to establish common strategy, efficiency, and balance. The majority of the most important architectural domain topics, such as integration, process optimization, master data management, mobile access, Enterprise Content Management, business intelligence, DevOps, security, systems monitoring, and so on, are covered in the book. However, there are several other architectural domains which are not included in the book. This is not to imply that these other architectural domains are not important or are less important, or that IBM does not offer a solution to address them. It is only reflective of time constraints, available resources, and the complexity of assembling a book on an extremely broad topic. Although more content could have been added, the authors feel confident that the scope of architectural material that has been included should provide organizations with a fantastic head start in defining their own enterprise reference architecture for many of the important architectural domains, and it is hoped that this book provides great value to those reading it. This IBM Redbooks publication is targeted to the following audiences: Client decision makers and solution architects leading enterprise transformation projects and wanting to gain further insight so that they can benefit from the integration of IBM software in large-scale SAP projects. IT architects and consultants integrating IBM technology with SAP solutions.
Internet of Things in Biomedical Engineering presents the most current research in Internet of Things (IoT) applications for clinical patient monitoring and treatment. The book takes a systems-level approach for both human-factors and the technical aspects of networking, databases and privacy. Sections delve into the latest advances and cutting-edge technologies, starting with an overview of the Internet of Things and biomedical engineering, as well as a focus on ‘daily life.’ Contributors from various experts then discuss ‘computer assisted anthropology,’ CLOUDFALL, and image guided surgery, as well as bio-informatics and data mining. This comprehensive coverage of the industry and technology is a perfect resource for students and researchers interested in the topic. Presents recent advances in IoT for biomedical engineering, covering biometrics, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, computer vision and various network applications Discusses big data and data mining in healthcare and other IoT based biomedical data analysis Includes discussions on a variety of IoT applications and medical information systems Includes case studies and applications, as well as examples on how to automate data analysis with Perl R in IoT
The goal of this book is to present a modeling framework for the Virtual Organization that is focused on process composition. This framework uses Predicate Calculus Knowledge Bases. Petri Net-based modeling is also discussed. In this context, a Data Mining model is proposed, using a fuzzy mathematical approach, aiming to discover knowledge. A Knowledge-Based framework has been proposed in order to present an all-inclusive knowledge store for static and dynamic properties. Toward this direction, a Knowledge Base is created, and inferences are arrived at. This book features an advisory tool for Mergers and Acquisitions of Organizations using the Fuzzy Data Mining Framework and highlights the novelty of a Knowledge-Based Service-Oriented Architecture approach and development of an Enterprise Architectural model using AI that serves a wide audience. Students of Strategic Management in business schools and postgraduate programs in technology institutes seeking application areas of AI and Data Mining, as well as business/technology professionals in organizations aiming to create value through Mergers and Acquisitions and elsewhere, will benefit from the reading of this book.
So, everyone knows that the integration technologies from SAP have now been unified, but you want to know: What is the SAP Integration Suite? And how do I manage an integrated enterprise landscape with it? Get the answers to these and other questions as this book takes you on a tour of the new SAP Integration Suite. The book covers: the Integration Advisor (how it supports the development of interfaces and mappings using crowdsourcing and machine learning), open application programming interfaces (APIs), integration scenarios (end-to-end process integration), and more, and includes crucial features that you need to know how to use. You will see how the SAP Integration Suite works as an open, enterprise-grade platform that is a fully vendor-managed, multi-cloud offering. You will understand why it is the integration platform that SAP advises you to use to streamline and expedite your integrations in SAP and third-party integration scenarios. You will appreciate its process quality along the entire value chain and how it enables API design and runtime control. You will get familiar with the pre-built integration packages available to facilitate quicker, comprehensive integrations. And you will see how It supports a variety of integrations (including trading partners): blending of cloud and on-premise applications, mixing of master data, blending of business-to-business (B2B) and electronic data interchange (EDI), blending of business-to-government (B2G), blending of data and pipelines, and mixing of event-driven integration. What You Will Learn Understand SAP Integration Suite and its core capabilities Know how integration technologies, such as architecture and supplementary intelligent technologies, work within the SAP Integration Suite Discover the services for pre-packaged accelerators: SAP API Management (enables simple digital experiences for customers, partners, employees), the Integration Advisor (automatic integration), and the SAP API Business Hub (Open Connectors that fast-tracks connectivity with non-SAP cloud applications) Utilize integration features to link your on-premises or cloud-based systems Understand the capabilities of the newly released Migration Assessment (estimate the migration effort with SAP Process Orchestration scenarios) Who This Book Is for Web developers and application leads who want to learn SAP Integration Suite
Master the SAP product ecosystem, the client environment, and the feasibility of implementing critical business process with the required technical and functional configuration. SAP Project Management Pitfalls is the first book to provide you with real examples of the pitfalls that you can avoid, providing you with a road-map to a successful implementation. Jay Kay, a SAP Program Manager for Capgemini, first takes a deep dive into common pitfalls in implementing SAP ERP projects in a complex IT landscape. You will learn about the potential causes of failures, study a selection of relevant project implementation case studies in the area, and see a range of possible countermeasures. Jay Kay also provides background on each - the significance of each implementation area, its relevance to a service company that implements SAP projects, and the current state of research. Key highlights of the book: Tools and techniques for project planning and templates for allocating resources Industry standards and innovations in SAP implementation projects in the form of standard solutions aimed at successful implementation Managing SAP system ECC upgrades, EHP updates and project patches Learn effective ways to implement robust SAP release management practices (change management, BAU) Wearing a practitioner’s insight, Jay Kay explores the relevance of each failed implementation scenario and how to support your company or clients to succeed in a SAP implementation. There are many considerations when implementing SAP, but as you will learn, knowledge, insight, and effective tools to mitigate risks can take you to a successful implementation project.
