SAP Integration Suite
Monthly Updates – March 2021
Ehsan Amiryousefi, Alex Bundschuh, Finny Babu
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Agenda
• Product Updates
o Integration Suite “Booster” for Trial
o Kafka Adapter
o “New” Integration Flow Guidelines
o Enhancements in PO 7.5 SP20
o Updates in AIF in S/4
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Integration Suite “Booster” for Trial
A Booster is a set of guided and interactive steps that enable you to
select, configure, and consume services on SAP BTP to achieve a
specific technical goal.
“Enable Integration Suite” booster will
help automate assigning roles for
activated capabilities and creating
service instance/key for Cloud
Integration.
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Demo
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Kafka Adapter- What is Kafka
Topic A
Partition 0 Topic A
Publish Messages to Topic A Partition 0 Consume Messages from Topic A Partition 0
Partition 1
(Leader)
Broker 2
Kafka Replicates Replicates Kafka
Producer Consumer
Topic A
Topic A Partition 1
Publish Messages to Topic A Partition 1
Partition 0 Consume Messages from Topic A Partition 1
(Leader)
Broker 1
Kafka Cluster
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Kafka Adapter- Today and Tomorrow
▪ Current State
– Inbound and Outbound Adapter
– Available in CF (2101)
▪ Next Steps
– Add Connection Test
– Provisioning of Kafka Adapter in NEO (2103)
▪ Kafka Adapter Blog Available
– https://blogs.sap.com/2021/03/16/cloud-integration-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-
kafka-adapter/
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Demo
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Latest Integration Flow Design Guidelines
New guidelines published in Feb/March 2021
▪ Error handling: Extend integration flow with
exception subprocess (end event vs. error end
event vs. escalation end event)
▪ Learn the basics: Modify content – when to use
what
▪ Learn the basics: Delta synchronization
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New features shipped with SAP Process Orchestration 7.5 SP20
▪ Cloud integration runtime enhancements ▪ Message monitoring improvements
– FTP adapter support – Keep last selected time period
– Mail adapter supporting OAuth 2.0 – Security log entries in case of copy and edit of
– JSON mapping in message mapping messages
– New message status Cancelled and Discarded – Improved EOIO sequence monitor
▪ Test tool enhancements ▪ XML data archiving supporting compression
– Negative tests (test with error messages) ▪ Resend Web Services reliable messaging with
– Message preprocessing WS-security applied
▪ REST adapter
– PATCH method on sender side See release notes
– Update of Apache http library
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New features shipped with Connectivity Add-on 2.0
▪ Availability of the OData adapter on the sender's
side as a polling adapter
▪ Dynamic setup of the OData resource path
▪ Batch processing in the adapter for SAP
SuccessFactors solutions
▪ Support for adapter-specific message attributes
▪ Sending of dynamic HTTP headers
▪ Channel-level configuration of connection timeout
parameters
▪ Channel-level HTTP traces
▪ OData metadata caching
▪ Extended scope of dynamically evaluated dates
See blog
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New SAP Application Interface Framework features in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2102
▪ Pull technical error information from SAP Cloud Integration into AIF
S/4HANA
Sender System SAP Cloud Integration
Outbound
Integration
Message Monitoring
Flow Steps
Creation
AIF
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New SAP Application Interface Framework features in SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA 2020 FP1
▪ Fiori UI: Navigate to
application from key fields
▪ Fiori UI: Set process status
and comments
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Interact with #IntegrationBlackBelt
Speaker
Daniel Graversen is the founder of Figaf
and an SAP Mentor.
He has been working with integration
for 17 years and has been creating a
number of different tools to simplify
SAP Integration.
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Invitation: “Integration Black Belts”
“Interact with Integration Blackbelts”
• Speakers from customers / partners / stakeholders /
consultants to share their innovations, solution
architecture, best practices and integration patterns
• 20 mins slot
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