BAPI

[Former Member]

hi,

can anyone explain about BAPI.

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[Former Member]

Hi,

Business Application Program Interfaces allow developers to integrate third-party software into SAP's R/3 product.

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SAP R/3 is typical of enterprise platforms in that it forces its users to reconceptualize the way information is used in a company. Integration and data transport become the keywords, and data ceases to be treasure in the vault—it becomes a living thing, flowing through the company like water.

Think of the pre-ERP universe as a series of small lakes, some connected, some not. Each lake (company) is filled with data. Occasionally, boats venture from the shore to the middle of the lake for some data. Occasionally, one of these boats transfers data from one lake to another.

With the advent of ERP, a canal system—SAP R/3—is installed. A vast network of bidirectional waterways takes the place of the lakes. Small, powerful ships and barges populate these waterways, keeping data in constant motion.

For the SAP consultant, IDocs are the barges. And Business Application Programming Interfaces—BAPIs—are the small, powerful ships that keep these barges of data moving.

Check this Links,

http://www.sapbapi.com/

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid21_gci948835,00.html

http://www.sap-img.com/abap/ale-bapi.htm

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[amit_khare]

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[raymond_giuseppi]

Look at <i><a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/5c/f3f0371bc15d73e10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm">General Introduction to BAPIs (CA-BFA)</a>

<b>Purpose</b>

BAPIs (Business Application Programming Interfaces) are the standard SAP interfaces. They play an important role in the technical integration and in the exchange of business data between SAP components, and between SAP and non-SAP components. BAPIs enable you to integrate these components and are therefore an important part of developing integration scenarios where multiple components are connected to each other, either on a local network or on the Internet.

BAPIs allow integration at the business level, not the technical level. This provides for greater stability of the linkage and independence from the underlying communication technology.</i>

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[Former Member]

<u><b>Definition</b></u>

A Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI) is a precisely defined interface providing access to processes and data in business application systems such as R/3.

<u><b>BAPIs of SAP Business Object Types</b></u>

BAPIs are defined as API methods of SAP business object types. These business object types and their BAPIs are described and stored in the Business Object Repository (BOR). A BAPI is implemented as a function module, that is stored and described in the Function Builder.

<u><b>BAPIs of SAP Interface Types</b></u>

As of Release 4.5A BAPIs can also describe interfaces, implemented outside the R/3 System that can be called in external systems by R/3 Systems. These BAPIs are known as BAPIs used for outbound processing. The target system is determined for the BAPI call in the distribution model of Application Link Enabling (ALE).

BAPIs used for outbound processing are defined in the Business Object Repository (BOR) as API methods of SAP Interface Types. Functions implemented outside the R/3 System can be standardized and made available as BAPIs. For further information see BAPIs Used For Outbound Processing.

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Integration</b></u>

BAPIs can be called within the R/3 System from external application systems and other programs. BAPIs are the communication standard for business applications. BAPI interface technology forms the basis for the following developments:

<u><b>Connecting:</b></u>

New R/3 components, for example, Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) and Business Information Warehouse (BW).

Non-SAP software

Legacy systems

Isolating components within the R/3 System in the context of Business Framework

Distributed R/3 scenarios with asynchronous connections using Application Link Enabling (ALE)

Connecting R/3 Systems to the Internet using Internet Application Components (IACs)

PC programs as frontends to the R/3 System, for example, Visual Basic (Microsoft) or Visual Age for Java (IBM).

Workflow applications that extend beyond system boundaries

Customers' and partners' own developments

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[Former Member]

Hi,

SAP created the Business Framework to allow the technical integration and exchange of business data among SAP components and between SAP and non-SAP components. Important components of the Business Framework are the Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs), which represent visible interfaces at the component boundaries and whose properties serve to integrate these components.

The integration can include both components within a local network and components that are connected with one another through the Internet.

BAPIs allow integration at the business level, not the technical level. This provides for greater stability in the link, and independence from the underlying communication technology.

You can get all the standard SAP BAPI functions with the transactions code 'BAPI'.

Check the following links:

http://www.sapbrainsonline.com/TUTORIALS/TECHNICAL/BAPI_tutorial.html

http://sap-img.com/bapi.htm

http://www.sapmaterial.com/bapi.html

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Bhaskar

[Former Member]

BAPI stands for Business API(Application Program Interface).

U can use BAPI tcode and check the available BAPI's for each module. It is nothing but a function module.