ABOUT CROSS APPS?

[Former Member]

HI,

I WANT TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCES BETWEN ALE,EDI AND BAPI , PLS SEND ME ANSWER IN SIMPLE WORDS BY TAKING AN EXAMPLE ?

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[Former Member]

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ALE:

ALE is SAP proprietary technology that enables data communications between two or more SAP R/3 systems and/or R/3 and external systems. When a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution such as R/3 is implemented, companies have to interface the ERP system with legacy systems or other ERP systems. ALE provides intelligent mechanisms whereby clients can achieve integration as well as distribution of applications and data. ALE technology facilitates rapid application prototyping and application interface development, thus reducing implementation time. The ALE components are inherently integrated with SAP applications and are robust, leading to a highly reliable system. ALE comes with application distribution/integration scenarios as well as a set of tools, programs, data definitions, and methodologies that you can easily configure to get an interface up and running.

Idoc & Idoc Types:

IDOC type and IDOC. An Intermediate Document (IDOC) type represents the structure of the data associated with a message type (DEBMAS02 for message type DEBMAS — Customer Master, and WMMBID02 for message type WMMBXY— Goods Movements), while an IDOC is an object containing the data of a particular message type. IDOCs are data containers with intelligence built in. Each IDOC contains one and only one business object. For example, an IDOC of type SHPMNT01, message type SHPMNT, will contain data only of one Shipment Document. Generally, the architecture of an IDOC is independent of the message type by virtue of ALE’s ability to redefine it for any message type.

Have a look at the following links:

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid21_gci879631,00.html

http://erpgenie.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=597&Itemid=80

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