What is SAP Integration Suite?

The integration process has an important place in the digital transformation field because integration enables reliable, scalable, and efficient data access and use across ecosystems and process stages. The use of multiple integration technologies and different technologies available in companies provides information flows such as data sharing between companies or internal/external stakeholders, while making the work process dynamic. The need for integration capabilities in the cloud era is increasing day by day. Companies around the world strive to use data from multiple sources simultaneously and aim to streamline their digital business processes. At this point, the SAP Integration Suite comes into play. SAP Integration Suite offers companies dynamic processes and effective solutions. 

What is SAP Integration Suite? 

SAP Integration Suite is an AI-assisted integration platform as a service that enables to effective integration of cloud-based and on-premises applications and processes with the tools used by SAP. It provides pre-built integration packages, enabling developers to achieve value faster. Used to connect with SAP or non-SAP applications, the SAP Integration Suite offers the ability to execute integration content across the enterprise or via the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). Moreover, this platform provides access to business applications from a single platform and helps maximize efficiency by leveraging ready-made function modules. 

Capabilities of SAP Integration Suite

SAP Integration Suite consists of capabilities such as API Management, Cloud Integration, Master Data Integration, Event Mesh, Trading Partner Management, Integration Advisor, Data Space Integration, Open Connectors, Migration Assessment, Integration Assessment and Graph.

API Management

API management is an SAP Integration Suite feature that enables planning, developing, and managing interfaces for applications. It enables integration and data sharing between systems. What differentiates SAP Integration Suite's API management feature is the ability to implement comprehensive usage policies for APIs, monitor data traffic, control API access, and handle errors.

Cloud Integration

Cloud Integration is the core component of the SAP Integration Suite system and middleware is offered to users as a service.

Master Data Integration

Master data consists of key business-related data such as material, product, partner, etc. Master data integration utilizes APIs to ensure data consistency and enables real-time data flow between master data and connected business applications.

Event Mesh

Event Mesh is a feature used for event-driven communication. In an event-driven architecture, systems pass a message to an event broker when an event occurs on any system. The event broker makes the event available to those systems to enable other applications to decide which events are required.

Trading Partner Management

Trade Partner Management is a B2B integration feature that enables business documents to be sent and received electronically with business partners. It meets all B2B data exchange needs of businesses.

Integration Advisor

Integration Advisor is a feature that speeds up the process of developing integration content and has the functionality to create EDI mappings. Integration Advisor uses information from previously created matches when creating a new match and creates many matches automatically.

Data Space Integration

This feature is used to integrate SAP and non-SAP applications and to enable data exchange.

Open Connectors

The Open Connectors component helps businesses easily integrate non-SAP cloud applications.

Migration Assessment

The Migration Assessment feature helps to connect to the SAP Process Orchestration environment and to evaluate the interfaces in SAP PO tenants.

Integration Assessment

Integration Assessment helps users to view, evaluate, and update the integration strategy.

Graph

Graph is a new proposal called the sub-feature of API management. Graph is a feature used as a beta version. 

Why Do Companies Need SAP Integration Suite? 

There are many reasons for companies to use the SAP Integration Suite. These reasons maximize company efficiency and improve business processes. That is why the SAP Integration platform plays a critical role for companies. Some of the reasons are as follows: 

• Customize the Integration  
• Process Accelerate Innovation 
• Integrate Complex Business Processes in the IT Environment 

If we examine these subtitles; 

Customize the Integration Process 

SAP Integration Suite customizes integration processes for companies and maximizes efficiency by connecting experiences across the enterprise. Serving to harmonize all processes within the organization, SAP Integration Suite facilitates the integration process between various application environments and ecosystems and adapts the interactions between customers and employees. This way, companies can integrate and customize all SAP or non-SAP data while speeding up the entire integration process across the enterprise. 

Accelerate Innovation  

SAP Integration Suite enables to reuse of existing business processes and data to rebuild applications. The integration process becomes harmonized while mastering applications and processes across the enterprise. This improves company productivity. Reused data and applications, as well as APIs and integrations, can be combined and the business process becomes innovative. While this improves productivity, it is also a good experience for employees and users. 

Integrate Complex Business Processes into the IT Environment 

IT environments must include SAP and non-SAP solutions and that company data is accessible throughout the organization. SAP Integration Suite fulfills all these important points and simplifies the integration process. The presence of all kinds of solutions and data in the IT environment simplifies complex business processes. In this way, efficiency is maximized for companies while improving complex business processes. 

Create Integration Scenarios

SAP Integration Suite enables seamless integration of all steps from the beginning to the end of a business process using Cloud Integration. In short, it helps in creating and going live end-to-end process integration scenarios.

Manage Business Events

SAP Integration Suite helps design, publish, and consume business events to seamlessly integrate different systems and applications with event-driven architecture.

Benefits of SAP Integration Suite

SAP Integration Suite is an iPaaS solution that enables businesses to integrate, accelerate, and empower. It helps enterprises to digitize their core business processes, improve customer experience, and gain a competitive advantage. Also, SAP Integration Suite enables enterprises to drive greater agility through simplified connectivity and analytics.

With SAP Integration Suite, you can:

• Accelerate your digital transformation by integrating your enterprise data with external data sources.
• Unlock the full potential of your existing systems by connecting them with modern APIs.
• Enable seamless collaboration between your teams and partners using APIs.
• Digitize your business processes and create new revenue streams with applications in the cloud or on-premise.
• Reduce integration costs.
• Accelerate time to value realization
• Get real-time information
• Create personalised experiences
• Gain more insights about customers and improve customer experience.
• Connect SA and third-party applications.

SAP Cloud Platform Integration offers an open platform for building custom integrations with SAP S/4HANA using modern development languages such as Java, NodeJS or Python. This allows organizations to create custom solutions that meet their specific needs while leveraging the power of the cloud platform.

SAP Integration Suite Consultancy

For more than 10 years, MDP Group has been providing services for the successful realization of integration projects of enterprises with its 30 integration experts.  Our team, which has successfully implemented more than 500 integration projects in Europe, provides end-to-end support for your SAP Integration Suite processes.

You can contact us to get support for your integration projects.