In the evolving enterprise IT landscape, organizations increasingly rely on diverse cloud services to drive innovation and business agility. SAP Cloud Platform (now part of SAP Business Technology Platform - BTP) offers a rich portfolio of cloud services—from analytics and machine learning to IoT and business process management—that organizations can leverage to build intelligent applications. Effective integration with these SAP Cloud Platform services is essential to unlock their full potential and create seamless, intelligent business processes.
This article explores the essentials of Integrating with SAP Cloud Platform Services using SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), helping businesses build connected and extensible solutions.
SAP Cloud Platform services include a broad range of managed cloud capabilities that support application development, data management, process automation, and more. Some key services include:
SAP CPI acts as the central middleware hub to orchestrate data and process flows between SAP Cloud Platform services and other cloud or on-premise systems. It offers the following advantages:
Many SAP services expose APIs (REST/SOAP/OData). Using SAP CPI’s API adapters, integration flows can consume these APIs to exchange data or trigger actions. For example, invoking the SAP Workflow Service API to start or monitor workflows.
With SAP Event Mesh, applications can communicate asynchronously using event messages. SAP CPI can publish or subscribe to events, enabling loosely coupled, scalable integration scenarios. For example, triggering downstream processes upon receipt of an IoT device event.
SAP CPI can orchestrate multiple SAP Cloud Platform services together—for instance, a business process where a decision made by the Business Rules Service triggers a workflow in SAP Workflow Service and updates analytics dashboards in SAP Analytics Cloud.
SAP CPI supports scheduled or real-time synchronization of data between cloud services and on-premise systems, ensuring consistency across landscapes.
An integration flow might:
Integrating with SAP Cloud Platform Services via SAP Cloud Platform Integration empowers businesses to harness the full power of SAP’s intelligent enterprise capabilities. By orchestrating services, enabling secure API consumption, and adopting event-driven designs, organizations can build agile, connected, and intelligent solutions that drive competitive advantage.