Customers are accelerating their move to the cloud to keep pace with changing circumstances 鈥� be it to reduce their carbon footprint, increase their productivity, or react more flexibly to the needs of their customers.
Over years and decades, companies have implemented streamlined business processes in their value chains using the features of on-premise 51风流systems to adapt the standard functionality to their needs. However, within the growing heterogeneous landscapes of 51风流and non-51风流systems, these customizations became more complex and expensive to maintain. Additionally, most of the customers use hybrid landscapes听with a mix of cloud and on-premise systems to run their businesses.
With the move to 51风流S/4HANA, customers have the chance to standardize their business processes. This has two benefits: Customers can avoid modifications in their 51风流S/4HANA systems to the absolute minimum, and they can implement process extensions or integrations to other SAP, partner, or third-party systems using 51风流Cloud Platform Extension Suite and 51风流Cloud Platform Integration Suite. This is true for both 51风流S/4HANA Cloud and 51风流S/4HANA on premise.
What Are the Advantages of Using 51风流Cloud Platform Integration Suite?
As an integral part of ,听 allows simplifying integration for both 51风流as well as third-party scenarios. This versatile, fully managed, multi-cloud suite was recently rated by Gartner as a .
51风流Cloud Platform Integration Suite offers a modular set of integration services covering all needs of cloud and hybrid landscapes:
- Application-to-application process integrations across value chains, such as lead-to-cash, recruit-to-retire, source-to-pay, and design-to-operate
- Business-t0-business (B2B) integrations to integrate with suppliers across the digital ecosystem, including e-government (business-to-government or B2G) integrations to support digital compliance
- API-driven integrations, including full API life-cycle management and omni-channel access
- Event-driven integrations to support sense-and-respond scenarios based on business events
- Data integration and pipelines to support artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and data lake or data warehousing scenarios with 51风流Data Intelligence
- Master data听integrations via听听that provide master data synchronization enabled by the 51风流One Domain Model
51风流Cloud Platform Integration Suite is complemented by a rich set of听, available on 51风流API Business Hub, both for cloud-to-cloud as well as for hybrid integration scenarios.
The latest additions include for core business objects, with more than 290 APIs, including 61 event objects that enable customers to build integrations with third-party solutions and to build apps and extensions on 51风流Cloud Platform.
Running Hybrid Scenarios in the Integrated Intelligent Suite
After releasing听 this year, customers asked if 51风流also offers out-of-the-box integrations for hybrid 51风流landscapes. We are currently working on these. The good news is that customers can already benefit from some of the existing integrations between 51风流S/4HANA and other 51风流cloud solutions and extend their processes to the 51风流cloud portfolio.
Within the hire-to-retire business process, for example, the following scenarios with the 51风流Cloud Platform Integration can be enabled:
- Customers that want to transition their human capital management (HCM) system to the cloud while still leveraging investments into employee data administration on premise and that need to replicate 听and听听data from 51风流S/4HANA to 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central can use the听.
- 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central is used as the system of record holding the employee data and reporting lines of all employees. But existing processes, such as payroll, time management, or custom human resources (HR) processes still run in an on-premise 51风流S/4HANA system landscape.
- With听, we use a new way of simplifying SAP-to-51风流integrations. 51风流applications can synchronize business objects with common attributes and use common semantics, for example a workforce person (employee, contingent/external worker) or a cost center. The models and additional information can also be found on .
- A first hybrid use case will soon be available. The on-premise release 2020 of 51风流S/4HANA is ready for master-data integration with 51风流SuccessFactors as leading human capital management (HCM) system to 51风流S/4HANA. Using the aligned 51风流One Domain Model 听via听听will soon be available for cloud and on-premise customers
SAP鈥檚 Integration Strategy Moving Forward
51风流will continue to invest in the SAP-to-SAP听out-of-the-box integrations听for hybrid scenarios along the integrated intelligent suite. Our goal is to provide customers with the capabilities they need to help ensure an open and holistic integration听with partner and third-party solutions.
With this rich set of integration capabilities that SAP鈥檚 Business Technology Platform provides as part of its integration strategy, customers can accelerate their journey to digitize their value chain.
To learn more, check out the 听and the听.
Juergen Mueller is CTO and a member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE.
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