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Integration Architecture
Foundational and intermediate concepts of SAP Integration Architecture: why integration strategy matters for enterprise landscapes, core integration patterns and styles, technology options across ECC, S/4HANA and BTP, and the trade-offs architects must evaluate when deciding how systems exchange data reliably, securely and at scale.
Overview
Foundational and intermediate concepts of SAP Integration Architecture: why integration strategy matters for enterprise landscapes, core integration patterns and styles, technology options across ECC, S/4HANA and BTP, and the trade-offs architects must evaluate when deciding how systems exchange data reliably, securely and at scale.
Lessons in this topic
- Why Integration Architecture Matters in SAP LandscapesIntroduces the business and technical reasons integration architecture is a distinct architect-level discipline, covering common integration scenarios and the cost of getting it wrong.
- Integration Architecture Operating Model: Monitoring, Cost Governance, and Roadmap EvolutionEstablishes how an enterprise sustains a hybrid SAP integration landscape long-term through operating model design, monitoring and alerting strategy, cost governance across integration platforms, and a phased roadmap for evolving toward clean-core-aligned integration.
- Comparing Integration Technology Options and Trade-offsCompares major SAP integration technology options (point-to-point, SAP Process Orchestration, SAP Integration Suite on BTP, direct OData/API calls) and the trade-offs architects must weigh for each.
- Choosing Integration Patterns: Point-to-Point, Middleware and API-Led ApproachesCompares core integration patterns available to SAP architects and the trade-offs between direct connections, middleware-brokered flows and API-led design across ECC and S/4HANA landscapes.
- Designing Hybrid Integration Architecture for Clean Core S/4HANA LandscapesExplains how to design a hybrid integration architecture that combines synchronous and event-driven integration on BTP while keeping the S/4HANA core clean, addressing NFRs, security, and governance.