Characteristics to Check Before Getting Started with SAP Cloud Platform Integration

By William Spencer

Cloud computing affects critical aspects of a business in the current milieu. A wide range of operations —  sales, human capital management, marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, finance, pricing, and orderin g— stand to benefit from SAP Cloud Integration. As businesses transition to the Cloud, they require migration and integration solutions.

Each vendor providing SAP ERP cloud solutions creates their own interface to the application. This challenges IT organizations, especially ones with extensive global branches. Each branch would struggle to comprehend and manage unique application interfaces. Integrating applications from Cloud to Cloud and Cloud to on-premise can pose myriad problems. It is for these reasons that the HokuApps SAP Cloud Integration solution is invaluable to a modern enterprise IT.

SAP Cloud Integration Capabilities

 

• SAP Cloud Integration promotes flexible work practices such as working from home or mobile computing. These are processes that require access to data and files from anywhere and at any time
• SAP Cloud Integration facilitates effortless implementation of applications offered as a software as a service (SaaS). With SAP ERP cloud solutions, they can be configured and functioning in a matter of days.
• SAP Integration solutions are low-cost.
• SAP Cloud Integration reduces the need for IT resources for maintaining servers and infrastructure.
• SAP Cloud Integration minimizes monetary and technical impacts from software upgrades and maintenance

Benefits of SAP Integration

Adopting third-party applications may imply the creation of additional silos of information. These may end up as disparate sources of information, inhibiting ease-of-use due to the creation of a hybrid architecture that operates on-premise solutions as well as Cloud-based SaaS applications. SAP Cloud Integration of applications and data can be central to boosting business efficiency. SAP Cloud Integration ensures that business users can access the requisite data with minimal friction, resulting in optimized productivity and enhanced customer interaction.

SAP Cloud Integration can provide multiple benefits related to business goals:

• Data migration to new Cloud-based SaaS applications.
• Offering one overview of customer information in Cloud and on-premise applications, for instance, a Cloud-based CRM system and an on-premise Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
• Information usage from Cloud marketing automation in e-commerce tools.
• Connectivity between private Cloud systems and business partner software

A SAP Cloud integration solution bridges the gap between on-premise systems and new Cloud applications, platforms and infrastructure. SAP Cloud Integration must ensure a swift and easily usable methodology for the integration.

HokuApps SAP Cloud integration provides seamless integration of Cloud applications with on-premise systems, as well as Cloud applications-to-Cloud applications. The HokuApps SAP Cloud Integration environment operates with regard to business requirements applications, and business user requirements. SAP integration solutions simplify the entire process of integration.

The HokuApps Approach to Integrating Applications

As is true with any tool, there exists preferred practices to implement designs. A poor design would mean protracted integration timelines or even failure while processing large volumes of data. Each endpoint varies in requirement and integration flow must be able to use the features available to reap the benefits. For example, processing data in batches to optimize the speed of transactions.

HokuApps offers a SaaS installation model. Its SAP Cloud Integration tools allow Cloud-to-Cloud, Cloud to on-premise and on-premise to on-premise integration. This facilitates both real-time and batch integration.

Developing Integrations

A project must contain integration workflows or orchestrations. At the point of project completion, it must be instantly published to the runtime environment.

 

SAP Cloud Integration offers the following competences:

• Ability to develop integrations from scratch with a drag-and-drop design palette
• A template integration repository that enables reuse of existing workflow integrations
• Built-in connectivity to more than 500 Cloud applications.
• Built-in transformation abilities that enhance data quality before it reaches the target system
• Built-in functions that transform data from source format to a format required by the target. In addition, the ability to create pertinent mapping rules.
• Capability to create refined workflows that incorporate error-handling routines and re-try logic.
• Capability to process messages in batch or real-time.
• Publishing completed integration workflows with one click.
• A Connector Development Kit (CDK) for building connectors to custom applications that expose standards-based interfaces.

HokuApps Connectors

The HokuApps SAP Cloud Integration platform contains inbuilt connectors for over 500 applications. However, setting up a connector for each application in the market is not feasible. Companies often choose to connect to their own internal applications. One can use web services that provide generic connectivity or use the database to connect to applications. But the HokuApps’ custom Connector Development Kit (CDK) can develop a specific connector to an application. The HokuApps custom connector will save time and resources on IT services that would be required to set up a connector.

The CDK is a wizard-driven tool that facilitates creating a connector to abstract, specific functionality of the application, for example inserting new records or updating existing records. The CDK provides tools required to not only create the connector but also to perform varied functions such as unit testing, integration testing, packaging and deploying the connector.

Availability and Scaling in SAP Cloud Integration

The HokuApps SAP Cloud Integration architecture and design offers a multitude of features that ensure dependable and swift service as well as maximum availability:

• Parallel appliance capability
• Orchestration design to optimize efficiency
• Significantly reduced downtime for deployment of updates to projects
• Significantly reduced maintenance downtime for upgrades to the appliance

Why Your Business Needs SAP Cloud Platform Integration

SAP Cloud Integration offers companies numerous capabilities that satisfy their business needs. In addition, SAP Cloud Integration also creates a hybrid architecture that includes both on-premise systems and the Cloud.  SAP Cloud Integration eradicates the gap between existing systems (on-premise and Cloud-based) and the new Cloud-based platform, applications and infrastructure.

 

HokuApps’ SAP Cloud Integration resolves the challenge of integrating Cloud applications with on-premise systems, Cloud applications-to-Cloud applications as well on-premise to on-premise applications. The SAP Cloud Integration platform comes with a graphical development environment that powers built-in connectivity to many Cloud and on-premise applications. It also provides reusable solution templates that are downloadable from the HokuApps solutions repository.

The HokuApps SAP Cloud Integration platform is ideal for leaders, executives, and architects seeking ways to integrate Cloud applications with their on-premise applications. The HokuApps SAP Cloud Integration solution is a major asset for any company looking for seamless resolution of its integration challenges.