https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/purpose-ale-lsmw-bapi/m-p/2683392#M620485 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Dear Kishore,</P><P> Fine. But then LSMW and Bapi both load data in SAP. So how do I decide when to use what?</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Ratish</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:42:00 GMT Former Member 2007-08-26T14:42:00Z https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/purpose-ale-lsmw-bapi/m-p/2683390#M620483 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Dear All,</P><P> When is ALE, LSMW and BAPI used?</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Ratish</P><P>ratish_prem@yahoo.com</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:02:55 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/purpose-ale-lsmw-bapi/m-p/2683390#M620483 Former Member 2007-08-26T14:02:55Z https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/purpose-ale-lsmw-bapi/m-p/2683391#M620484 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Ratish,</P><P></P><P>Ale is a layer to communicate between two seperated systems, Lsmw is a tool to upload the data into sap system here we can get the data from IDOC also, Bapi is used to upload the data into sap database.</P><P></P><P>Reward if useful.</P><P></P><P>kishore</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:07:48 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/purpose-ale-lsmw-bapi/m-p/2683391#M620484 kishorepallapothula 2007-08-26T14:07:48Z https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/purpose-ale-lsmw-bapi/m-p/2683392#M620485 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Dear Kishore,</P><P> Fine. But then LSMW and Bapi both load data in SAP. So how do I decide when to use what?</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Ratish</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:42:00 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/purpose-ale-lsmw-bapi/m-p/2683392#M620485 Former Member 2007-08-26T14:42:00Z