In this digital age, Integration is becoming the top priority for organizations. Customers are now asking for a very well connected digital experience across all their engagements, whereas businesses don’t even want to lose the opportunity of collaborating with partners and co-innovating with customers within their network. Digital integration is becoming the new norm of collaboration. This opens up the doors for organizations to turn into Intelligent Enterprises.
SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise suite strategy’s cornerstone is Integration. SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite is SAP’s enterprise-level integration platform as a service (iPaaS) which simplifies and speeds up enterprise integration and helps organizations rapidly transition to Intelligent Enterprises. It basically talks about four various aspects of integration scenarios.
- Out-of-the-box Integration
- Open Integration
- Holistic Integration
- AI-Driven Integration
SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite is a portfolio of Tools and Services, which are available on SAP Cloud Platform and individually tackle different aspects of Integrations.
Over the time the LoB’s leaders from HR, Finance, Sales, and Procurement went ahead and deployed ready to run, best in class applications to move faster and be on top of the game always. This approach resulted in having multiple silos, where none of these silos were integrated with each other.
The data and processes spread across multiple apps obstructed the 360-degree view of the entire business, its customers, partners, employees, and other stakeholders. This started posing a bigger problem because no one has end to end view of any scenario, any use case and it became very hard to make decisions and overall picture of how things are progressing.
SAP Cloud Platform Integration comes very handily here as it builds the bridge between these silos. It provides a foundation to apply intelligence, create the connected digital experience, and enable digital interactions and which the customers have always been looking for.
To help organizations, The mission set is to simplify the integration and lower the cost of development ownership, thereby increasing agility, improving customer experience, and collaborating in real-time to achieve process excellence.
SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite is a one-stop solution for all the integration-related use-cases.
SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite can simplify the integration need and is SAP’s open, modular, and Intelligent Integration Platform as a service. (iPaas).
SAP Cloud Platform Integration supports all traditional and modern integration tactics, including the following:
- Application-to-application (A2A) Integration: Organizations can leverage this scenario in order to support & integrate their end-to-end processes such as Lead-to-cash, Procure-to-pay, and Hire-to-retire. This scenario also supports organizations, across all their cloud and on-premise systems, and even across SAP and non-SAP systems. SAP CPI suite puts on the table more than 150 open connectors and pre-packaged integrations, to their hubs such as ERP, Sales, Marketing, Campaigning, Socializing, Document Management, and many more.
- Business-to-business (B2B) Integration: Organizations would love to make use of this scenario as it supports not only old-fashioned Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) whereas it also brings Real-time, API-based integrations which can facilitate the B2B partnerships and make it even stronger. SAP CPI suite also supports the organizations with evolving setups using Blockchain to foster trustful associations in their business network.
- Business-to-government (B2G) Integration: This is also a great scenario that supports the organizations to make electronic interaction between businesses and their government agencies. Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India, Electronic Value-Added tax (e-VAT) in Spain, Pan-European Public Procurement Online (PEPPOL) across the European Union, and many more such projects are driving the e-government initiatives to perform digital interactions between businesses and government. SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite offers pre-packaged integrations to help organizations obey the regulations and help governments bring more transparency and thereby improving the governance.
SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite can enable real-time digital interactions which in-turn improve the business velocity and caters the need for collaboration with the customers, partners, suppliers, and vendors.
- Omni-Channel Integration: Leveraging this scenario the organizations can really support the Omni-channel access and also intensely improve the customer experiences. Organizations are making use of the real-time API based integration to create Omni-channel access and hide the complexity of underlying mixed landscapes.
- Digital Processes and Apps: With the help of APIs organizations can build their own apps and digitize them. This scenario helps them organizations to make use of workflows and the automated business rules using which they can build process-based digital applications and thereby integrating data silos while also creating a unified experience for their customers, employees, and partners.
- Event-driven integration: This scenario supports the decoupled integrations with various applications, people, and the Internet of Things, thereby converging the sense-and-respond arrays, with serverless function as a service and enterprise messaging. Organizations can sense different events that are happening in different parts of their organizations and able to respond to those events.
- Ecosystems and marketplaces: Organizations now days are heavily focussing on using open APIs to integrate into marketplaces. They are ruling business partnerships for organizations, and customers. With the help of the SAP CPI suite, this scenario enables organizations and their customers to build eco-systems via digital channels and create fresh revenue streams by monetizing APIs.
- Agile Data Grids and Microservices: Organizations can also make use of a real-time access layer to protect the heterogeneous transactions and back end systems, using in-memory data grids and leveraging microservices-based architectures. They can definitely make use of DIH (Digital Integration Hub). The in-memory data grid brings data from multiple sources and puts it HANA which can later be it is exposed as APIs developed as microservices.
SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite also creates a simplified connected experience which also leads to higher customer engagements.
To summarize, organizations can fast-track their digital journey using SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite. In this digital era, it’s important for any intelligent enterprise to exploit this versatile, dynamic, and enterprise-grade integration platform SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite helps the organizations to accelerate their path towards an intelligent enterprise by making integrations simpler.
Originally published on LinkedIn
Kunal Jauhari 