SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) is the heart of SAP’s hybrid integration strategy, enabling seamless connectivity across cloud and on-premise applications. Beyond standard connectivity, advanced integration scenarios leverage the broader SAP Cloud Platform (now SAP Business Technology Platform - BTP) services ecosystem to build intelligent, scalable, and flexible enterprise solutions.
This article dives into Advanced Integration with SAP Cloud Platform Services, focusing on how CPI interacts with various SAP BTP services to enable richer, smarter integrations.
Modern enterprises demand integration solutions that go beyond data movement and protocol bridging. Advanced integration incorporates:
- Intelligent processing using AI and machine learning
- Event-driven architectures and asynchronous communication
- API management and lifecycle governance
- Extension capabilities for custom business logic
- Monitoring and analytics for proactive operations
SAP CPI, when combined with complementary SAP Cloud Platform services, fulfills these advanced integration requirements.
- Governs the creation, deployment, and consumption of APIs.
- Provides advanced policy management (security, rate limiting, caching).
- Enables API monetization and analytics.
- Integrates tightly with CPI to expose integration flows as managed APIs.
- Supports event-driven, asynchronous integration patterns.
- Facilitates reliable event routing between SAP and third-party systems.
- Enables scalable, decoupled architectures with publish-subscribe models.
- Works seamlessly with CPI for event-based integration flows.
- AI-powered tool for accelerating message mapping and interface design.
- Provides recommendations based on SAP and industry standards.
- Integrates into CPI design-time to speed up development.
- Allows embedding of complex business logic and decision tables.
- Decouples rules from integration flows for easier management.
- Enhances flexibility and maintainability of integrations.
- Automates and orchestrates business processes across applications.
- Can trigger or be triggered by CPI integration flows.
- Supports human tasks and multi-step workflows.
- Orchestrates data pipelines combining integration and data processing.
- Extends CPI’s capabilities for advanced data wrangling and analytics.
- Connects data warehousing, IoT, and machine learning services.
- Use CPI to create integration flows that process incoming events.
- Publish processed data to SAP Event Mesh for asynchronous consumption.
- Expose APIs via SAP API Management with security policies.
- Automate workflows triggered by API calls or events.
- Utilize SAP Integration Advisor to generate and optimize mapping templates.
- Apply business rules dynamically during message transformation.
- Leverage machine learning services on BTP for predictive data processing.
¶ Scenario 3: Hybrid Extensions and Custom Logic
- Develop custom microservices on SAP Business Application Studio.
- Invoke these services within CPI integration flows for specialized processing.
- Manage and monitor extensions using SAP BTP tools.
- Design loosely coupled, event-driven integration architectures.
- Use API Management for securing and monitoring all exposed services.
- Incorporate business rules to externalize logic from integration flows.
- Leverage SAP Event Mesh for scalability and reliability in messaging.
- Continuously monitor integration health via SAP Cloud Platform tools.
- Automate deployment pipelines using DevOps services on SAP BTP.
Advanced integration with SAP Cloud Platform services empowers organizations to transcend traditional integration limits. By combining SAP CPI with API management, event mesh, business rules, and intelligent advisory tools, enterprises can build agile, scalable, and intelligent integration landscapes.
These advanced capabilities enable seamless connectivity, rapid innovation, and proactive management of enterprise integrations, driving business transformation in a cloud-first world.