Simplify Integration and Transform Your Organization Across Cloud and Hybrid IT Landscapes. SAP Solution in Detail SAP Cloud Platform Integration

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1 SAP Solution in Detail SAP Cloud Platform Integration Simplify Integration and Transform Your Organization Across Cloud and Hybrid IT Landscapes 1 / 13

2 Table of Contents 3 Quick Facts 4 Intelligently Transform and Innovate with Agility 6 Be Versatile: Connect People, Processes, Data, and Devices Everywhere 8 Be Dynamic: Accelerate Your Time to Results by Simplifying Integration 10 Be Enterprise-Grade: Achieve Trusted Integration Outcomes 12 Advance Your Agility and Competitive Advantage 2 / 13

3 Quick Facts Summary An intelligent enterprise is an integrated enterprise. This is a fundamental concept in resolving the most pressing problems facing today s business executives, from CIOs to chief data and innovation officers. The SAP Cloud Platform Integration suite connects people, processes, data, and devices everywhere, allowing people with different skill sets to leverage wide-ranging synergic integration approaches, intuitive tools, and prepackaged content. Through this versatile, dynamic, and enterprise-grade cloud integration platform, you can achieve faster results and gain greater business agility. Objectives Provide an agile integration framework Support ever-changing business operations Harmonize integration between on-premise and cloud applications, data, business-tobusiness networks, mobile apps, and the Internet of Things Overcome the governance, compliance, security, and technical debt challenges of ad-hoc integration approaches Solution API-first integration approach Synergic application, data, process, and user-experience integration across cloud and on-premise landscapes Prepackaged integration flows Third-party solution integration Published APIs ready for sandbox testing and consumption Intuitive Web tooling and AI-driven assistance Integration solution advisory methodology Enterprise-class governance Infrastructure security and scalability Benefits Increase business agility with connected processes, applications, and data that drive a real-time enterprise Extend business processes across hybrid environments for greater efficiency Expand competitive advantage with deeper data-driven insights, irrespective of the data s location Learn more Call your SAP representative, or visit us online. 3 / 13

4 Intelligently Transform and Innovate with Agility As the digital era evolves into the intelligent era, businesses are facing a host of new challenges. You need to be able to innovate efficiently and synergistically with your core business processes to impact business outcomes, act instantaneously, and capitalize on opportunities based on sound insights from up-to-date information. You must also be in a position to increase productivity by intelligently automating manual tasks. The key to creating an intelligent enterprise is avoiding silos that undermine business agility. The effective integration of data, processes, and ecosystems allows you to gain full-situation awareness and respond to change in real time. For example, you can take advantage of machine learning to extract insight from distributed data universes leveraging it to guide the next action at each point along a business process and across the value chain. Increasingly, data and application integration is being regarded as integral to digital transformation. Integration needs are widespread across the enterprise. No longer purely the purview of the IT department, integration has become a strategic goal for management one that must be achieved as quickly and efficiently as possible. However, traditional integration approaches no longer suffice for several reasons. Established methodologies cannot cope with the fast pace of technology innovation and business change. The separation between application, data, businessto-business (B2B), cloud service, mobile app, and IoT integration technologies and skills is unsustainable. And ad hoc approaches, such as do-it-yourself integration employed to achieve rapid integration, pose governance, security, and compliance challenges as well as technical debt risks. Connect people, processes, data, and devices everywhere with the SAP Cloud Platform Integration suite. 4 / 13

5 A NEW INTEGRATION APPROACH Embracing a new versatile, dynamic, and enterprise-grade approach to integration can help you establish personalized and interactive relationships with your customers and partners through social media, business networks, mobile apps, and APIs. You can also integrate both cloud services and on-premise systems as well as smart things with back-end systems and data to achieve higher productivity and greater operational agility. Furthermore, in a corporate environment with increasingly volatile business relationships, you will be able to disintegrate as rapidly as you integrate. Carried out correctly, you can benefit from unparalleled efficiency and business model innovation. From stream ingestion and delivery of analytics, to Internet of Things (IoT) integration or robotic process automation, you will inevitably use a combination of diverse integration approaches, end points, and cross-platform (cloud, onpremise, or mobile) deployments. As integration requirements vary greatly across businesses and can be highly complex, no one size fits all. To meet such widespread and diverse integration needs, SAP Cloud Platform embodies a platform approach to integration with unique characteristics to deliver a versatile, dynamic, and enterprise-grade integration solution. THE THREE PILLARS OF INTEGRATION We offer a full range of support across three main areas (see the figure): Versatile integration with an API-first approach that allows you to quickly integrate cloud applications into your application landscape and achieve synergies between cloud and on-premise integration and between process and data integration Dynamic integration that speeds up your time to results by enabling people with varying skill sets, such as business users or analysts, to carry out integration tasks Enterprise-grade integration that gives you access to proven methodologies, API governance along with secure infrastructure in certified data centers, and a community of peers (SAP customers) with whom you can exchange ideas on how to achieve effective integration across your business Figure: Achieving the Agility to Intelligently Transform and Innovate Deployment Approaches End points API first Skills Prepackaged integration flows Harmonized third-party integration Web tooling AI-driven integration advisor Workflow and business rules Governance Security Methodology Multi-cloud deployments Peer community 5 / 13

6 Be Versatile: Connect People, Processes, Data, and Devices Everywhere The demands on your IT environment are growing increasingly complex and require different integration approaches. For example, you need to integrate heterogeneous applications (in the cloud or on premise) and data from IoT devices before pushing these large volumes of information into data lakes. You also need to capture B2B events and link actions across your supply chain. You must be able to connect anything with anything, such as on-premise data with on-cloud data, mobile with IoT, and so on. You may be diversifying your deployment paradigms, moving substantial portions of your application portfolios to the cloud. This reinforces the need for cloudbased integration to connect on-premise and cloud solutions into hybrid deployments and to achieve cloud-to-cloud integration. The SAP Cloud Platform Integration suite delivers a versatile platform that connects people, processes, data, and devices everywhere. You can smoothly orchestrate processes to reduce errors, costs, and maintenance efforts. You can streamline B2B processes, protocols, and security measures. You can also onboard new trading partners and manage, store, and browse all partner-related data. AN API-FIRST APPROACH The cornerstone of SAP Cloud Platform Integration is our API-first approach to integration that allows the creation of modular, decoupled application architectures, although we also support more traditional approaches. SAP API Business Hub speeds up integration projects by allowing you to search, discover, experience, and consume SAP and third-party APIs through a central catalog. Sandbox functionality facilitates API testing and prepackaged accelerators to help you integrate APIs into your applications and extensions. When it comes to high-volume event processing and analytics, we support event-driven application architectures in a number of ways. As a result, you can consume high-volume, high-velocity event streams (including IoT applications), detect anomalies and discrepancies in real time, and instantly take action with streaming analytics. You can scale applications, services, and devices across different technologies, platforms, and clouds to leverage live events using the SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Messaging service. Its device-messaging infrastructure can handle high volumes of message traffic to support activities such as monitoring sensor data streams and high-volume Web interactions. It can also capture events raised by SAP and third-party applications for example, submitting a new order, distributing it to subscribing applications, and then linking automatic actions. What s more, you can instantly activate functions in response to triggered events and scale them automatically to support unpredictable workloads with the SAP Cloud Platform Functions service. This service lets you allocate the required computation capacity to support a new loyalty program for which you offer a subscription gift, and automate the gift procurement process, for example. 6 / 13

7 SUPPORT ACROSS CLOUDS AND THE GROUND We support protocols and provide technologies to enable a broad spectrum of use cases, including B2B, business-to-government (B2G), application-to-application (A2A), IoT, and mobile app integration. For example, with the SAP Cloud Platform IoT service, you can interact with physical assets such as machines using sensor technology and manage devices at scale. The service allows you to connect data from devices and sensors with applications and services running on SAP Cloud Platform for further processing. As a result, you can perform real-time analytics on large, live data streams or feed data into other business processes, for example. You can preprocess data close to the device where it is generated using edge gateway software on premise or in the cloud. This service helps you take a fast, efficient approach to IoT projects and connect devices supporting a broad variety of protocols, so you can process events at the edge of the network, detect anomalies, and take action. The SAP Cloud Platform Integration suite supports cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground integration, while providing content compatibility across the cloud and on premise. It connects cloud and on-premise data and processes for SAP as well as non-sap applications. It also complements on-premise SAP Process Orchestration software when used together as two elements of a hybrid integration platform. In summary, the versatile SAP Cloud Platform Integration suite connects people, processes, data, and devices everywhere by supporting a wide variety of synergic integration approaches. It does this by using an API-first integration approach while supporting more traditional integration methodologies and achieving synergy across application, data, process, and user-experience integration across the cloud and on premise. It offers the flexibility to adapt to different application architectures, use interapplication communication methods, and connect data that is at rest or in motion, such as event-driven architectures, standard communication protocols, and streaming data. Allow people with different skill sets to leverage wide-ranging synergic integration approaches, intuitive tools, and prepackaged content. 7 / 13

8 Be Dynamic: Accelerate Your Time to Results by Simplifying Integration Recognizing that time to results is a critical component for your business, the SAP Cloud Platform Integration suite aims at simplifying integration tasks and democratizing access to integrations by expanding the talent pool participating in the integration effort. The platform facilitates dynamic integration by providing intuitive tooling to empower different skill sets, from specialists to citizen developers (business users) and ad hoc integrators (business analysts and data scientists). It also leverages SAP s business and technology expertise to offer you a wealth of prepackaged content and services that accelerate time to results. PREDEFINED INTEGRATION FLOWS We deliver a range of features to increase the pace of integration, starting with more than 825 predefined integration flows. You can consume this prepackaged integration content (readily available at SAP API Business Hub), customize it using Web-based design tools, and model custom integration flows of choice. You can also use this prepackaged content to: Integrate the Concur Expense solution with SAP S/4HANA Cloud software and the SAP ERP application Connect SAP Fieldglass solutions with SAP S/4HANA Integrate the SAP Cloud for Customer solution with the SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central solution and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Retrieve data from Validic healthcare platform system entities Integrate SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA Cloud with line-of-business (LoB) cloud applications from SAP, such as SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Integrate our LoB cloud solutions with non-sap applications Enable travel and expense management by integrating Concur Expense with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP ERP Manage user provisioning by connecting the SAP Access Control application with SAP SuccessFactors solutions Select partner-provided connectors to popular applications from Salesforce.com, ServiceNow, and others Access SAP API Business Hub, the central catalog of all SAP and partner APIs, to build sample applications, extensions, and integration flows to both SAP and non-sap applications. Accelerate your discovery and prototypes using its sandboxing and testing capabilities. Expand competitive advantage with deeper data insights. 8 / 13

9 ENLARGING THE TALENT POOL We embed artificial intelligence (AI) into our integration services to empower ad hoc and citizen developers. One such example is the integration content advisor for SAP Cloud Platform. Part of the self-learning integration network, the integration content advisor helps close the gap between the business specifications and technical requirements of implementations reducing misinterpretations, errors, costs, and unnecessary activities. The service facilitates collaboration and interaction through a shared knowledge base, includes insights based on intelligent crowdsourcing, and promotes the reuse of content as well as a common understanding among integration partners. The integration content advisor contains a machine learning enabled central directory, along with powerful tools that reduce the need for manual definition and implementation of requirements and let you run simulations with integration partners. Advanced machine learning functionality allows it to automatically generate interface and mapping content at the businessdomain level. In a similar vein, we offer intuitive, Web-based, graphical-modeling tools to develop, configure, and monitor A2A, B2B, and other integration scenarios. You can combine SAP Cloud Platform IoT with the SAP IoT Application Enablement toolkit of reusable microservices and application templates to build IoT applications more quickly, securely, and at scale. For example, the toolkit enables the easy creation, monitoring, control, and distribution of digital representations, or digital twins, of real-world objects such as machines or products. It also allows you to leverage services to manage the storage of Big Data. SIMPLIFYING CONNECTIVITY AND WORKFLOWS As part of the integration suite, the SAP Cloud Platform Open Connectors service includes more than 150 open connectors to third-party applications, such as Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Amazon Web Services, SugarCRM, JMS, AS2, RFC, and the process direct adapter in SAP Cloud Platform Integration. You can build custom application processes by extending preconfigured flows or using the included standards-based application connectors, and create additional adapters with the software development kit. The features include: Normalized authentication, error handling, search, pagination, and bulk support, regardless of the underlying architecture across the various SAP and non-sap cloud or on-premise APIs, through the preconfigured connectors Standardized events that support polling and Web hooks, irrespective of the event support provided in the underlying end points Built-in interactive API documentation in OpenAPI Specification to explore, test, and try out the APIs from one place Build-your-own canonical model or common resources to provide one-to-many integrations across the various preconfigured connectors Open connectors work in conjunction with other services, such as SAP Cloud Platform Integration, SAP Cloud Platform API Management, and SAP Cloud Platform Workflow. 9 / 13

10 We provide optimized transition paths to SAP S/4HANA Cloud to facilitate the transition from on-premise to cloud deployments as well as workloads and business rule services. You can customize, modify, and extend applications in the cloud using the SAP Cloud Platform Workflow service. You can create tailored workflows to optimize human-centric activities that span applications and organizations. You can also provide mobile access to enterprise data and applications, automate decisions with business rules, and allow partners and customers to build, run, and manage workflows from simple approvals to end-to-end processes. Simplify the development of application extensions in the cloud by relying on the SAP Cloud Platform Connectivity service. It enables you to easily and securely connect your applications running on SAP Cloud Platform to your on-premise landscape. In this way, you can foster engagement with customers, employees, and partners by providing standards-based access to SAP applications. Additionally, the SAP Cloud Platform OData Provisioning service broadens your reach to a larger ecosystem of developers by allowing them to automatically access SAP application data and business logic through standard RESTful APIs, without requiring a specialized understanding of SAP software. In summary, dynamic integration lets you accelerate your time to results and democratize access to integration with prepackaged content and integrations, as well as intuitive tools for people with different skill sets. You can use prepackaged integration flows for extended business processes, harmonized integration with third-party solutions, and published APIs ready for sandbox testing and consumption. With its built-in semantic business knowledge, you can achieve quick business impacts with the SAP Cloud Platform Integration suite. Extend business processes across hybrid environments for greater efficiency. 10 / 13

11 Be Enterprise Grade: Achieve Trusted Integration Outcomes Our mission is for you to be able to use integration for positive business outcomes and lower implementation risks. This means helping ensure that what is connected and shared across the value chain is always secure and that the privacy of all data is protected. It also requires the adoption of new best practices and learning from the experience of others. Therefore, we are committed to helping you deliver enterprise-grade innovation by providing not only state-of-the-art, secure, scalable, and reliable technology, but also proven methodologies and ecosystem support. To help ensure that integration outcomes are business ready and to reduce business risk, the SAP Cloud Platform Integration suite provides a comprehensive integration solution advisory methodology and access to an active peer community for networking and advice. The methodology supports enterprise architects in shaping integration strategies. You can access an extensible set of integration styles and use-case patterns that are technology agnostic and map them to SAP and third-party integration technologies relevant to your specific context. You can use the methodology to assess and update your integration strategy or derive integration guidelines for your organization as a step toward systematically formalizing integration as a digital business enabler. With enterprise governance, including API management for policy enforcement and control in distributed environments, you can oversee and promote APIs. You can also use a publishing repository to share data with open standards while enforcing policies to meet security and scalability needs. In addition to securely provisioning data and improving monitoring and reporting capabilities, the SAP Cloud Platform API Management service can help you achieve significant cost and efficiency savings by eliminating errors through data exchange automation. It also facilitates shorter mobile app development times and simplifies collaboration with key stakeholders. Secure your applications with the SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication service. By supporting single-sign-on functionality, the service provides users with easy yet safe access to the data and solutions they need. As the daily operations within the SAP Cloud Platform Integration suite, such as the installations, upgrades, sizing, and hardware management, are carried out on your behalf, you are free to focus on developing new scenarios. Also, our multi-cloud approach with SAP data center security that is certified according to international standards provides you with flexibility, along with peace of mind. Achieve faster results and gain greater business agility with a versatile, dynamic, and enterprise-grade cloud integration platform. 11 / 13

12 With ISO certification, our data centers contain hundreds of surveillance cameras with digital recording, fully monitored doors, thousands of environmental sensors, biometric access to secured areas, and multiple redundant Internet connections from multiple carriers. We also have a security and facility support team on-site 24x7. Features of our secure provisioning and infrastructure include multitenancy, data isolation, audit logs, role-based access, data privacy and protection, and data storage and backup. Our secure communication ranges from HTTPS, SFTP, and basic authentication at the transport level to encryption, decryption, signing, and signature verification at the payload level. In summary, enterprise-grade integration allows you to achieve positive integration outcomes and lower business risk across the value chain by leveraging secure, reliable, and fully managed services and trusted methodologies. You can benefit from capabilities such as the integration solution advisory methodology, enterprise-class governance with effective policy enforcement and control (including API management), comprehensive security, and professionally managed infrastructure scalability and reliability. To help ensure that integration outcomes are business ready and to reduce business risk, we provide a comprehensive integration solution advisory methodology and access to an active peer community for networking and advice. 12 / 13

13 Advance Your Agility and Competitive Advantage Improve your business agility and sustainable competitive advantage like never before with integration services for SAP Cloud Platform. You can use a comprehensive approach to connect your business through versatile, dynamic, and enterprise-grade integration. With the SAP Cloud Platform Integration suite, you can optimize activities and enable tailored processes that span cloud-to-cloud and cloudto-on-premise applications, improving enterprise efficiency and reducing errors, costs, and maintenance efforts. Collaborate with your business partners using traditional EDI-based or modern API-based communication, integrate with government authorities to comply with legal requirements, or connect with social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook. Through our API-first approach, you get the versatility to address the full spectrum of integration challenges, simplifying delivery and gaining a single platform for your process and data integration. You can search, discover, experience, and consume the right APIs from SAP and select partners for your digital transformation projects. You can overcome the governance, security, and compliance challenges of ad hoc integration approaches and reduce technical debt risk. With dynamic integration, prepackaged integration flows simplify integration tasks, while Web-based tooling provides resources for different stakeholders so you can expand your talent pool participating in the integration effort. You can also advance your business agility by incorporating real-time data from non-sap applications through harmonized integration with third-party solutions. And you can deliver faster results to better match business demand. Open connectors working in conjunction with other services running on SAP Cloud Platform support both SAP and third-party use cases. For further interoperability, you can use prepackaged integration scenarios built originally for the SAP Cloud Platform Integration suite and execute them on SAP Process Orchestration. You can use data mappings developed on SAP Process Orchestration and deploy and reuse them in the integration suite. These complementary services can help improve your overall integration experience and allow you to benefit from innovations in the cloud while leveraging your existing software and improving your return on investment. SAP Cloud Platform API Management, with API-first governance, enables enterprise-grade security, traffic management, and performance monitoring. You can use a sound methodology to develop modern integration capabilities, avoid the pitfalls of ad-hoc or do-it-yourself integration approaches, and lower implementation risk, cost, and time to market. Finally, you can join the SAP Community that connects thousands of users, developers, consultants, and SAP mentors and students to share ideas, learn, and innovate. FIND OUT MORE To learn more about how you can unify your hybrid landscape, call your SAP representative today or visit us online. 13 / 13

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