As enterprises accelerate their digital transformation journeys, adopting multiple cloud platforms has become a common strategy to leverage best-of-breed technologies, improve resilience, and optimize costs. However, integrating applications and services across diverse cloud environments—such as SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—poses significant challenges. SAP Cloud Platform Integration (SAP CPI) emerges as a powerful solution enabling seamless multi-cloud integration.
This article delves into how SAP CPI facilitates integration across multiple cloud platforms, enabling organizations to build a connected, agile, and scalable enterprise landscape.
Multi-cloud integration refers to the capability to connect and orchestrate applications, data, and processes across two or more distinct cloud providers. This integration allows enterprises to avoid vendor lock-in, optimize workloads based on cloud strengths, and support geographically distributed systems.
SAP CPI is a cloud-native integration platform designed to connect SAP and non-SAP systems in both cloud and on-premise environments. It offers several advantages for multi-cloud scenarios:
SAP CPI offers a rich library of adapters enabling communication with various cloud services and applications. For example:
Open Connectors simplify integration with non-SAP cloud applications such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, or Workday. CPI can orchestrate these connections alongside native SAP services, creating unified multi-cloud workflows.
SAP Event Mesh allows event-based messaging across clouds, enabling loosely coupled and asynchronous multi-cloud integrations. Applications running in different clouds can publish and subscribe to events through SAP Event Mesh, which CPI can process and route.
For secure, low-latency connections between SAP CPI and on-premise or private cloud resources:
Design APIs in CPI to expose and consume cloud services in a modular, reusable manner. API Management within SAP BTP complements CPI by managing API lifecycles, security, and analytics across cloud boundaries.
An enterprise uses SAP S/4HANA on SAP BTP as its ERP backbone but also leverages AWS for data lake services and Azure for AI/ML workloads.
SAP CPI empowers organizations to embrace multi-cloud strategies by providing robust, secure, and scalable integration capabilities. Its extensive adapter ecosystem, event-driven architecture support, and hybrid connectivity features make it an ideal platform for orchestrating workflows across diverse cloud providers.
By leveraging SAP CPI, enterprises can reduce complexity, improve operational agility, and unlock new innovation opportunities in a multi-cloud world.
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