A Practical Guide to Transitioning from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite

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2nd Dec 2025 - Added links to blogs by partners about free testing tool 

TL;DR (AI-assisted)

• SAP has invested heavily to help customers move from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite across each of the common customer transition paths.
• Product and tooling improvements ease transition: Improved features, and enhanced migration assessment (modernization recommendations, scenario clustering, message metrics) and migration tooling (pipeline support, automated discovery, receiver-determination migration).
• Enablement and programs: Migration Guide, upskilling course in SAP Learning, Discovery Center mission, partner ecosystem and certified migration partners, SAP Migration Factory (free assessment and personalized plan), plus Transformation Incentives.
• Testing and validation: up to 12 months free access to automated testing tools (Figaf Migration Edition and INT4 Shield) when migrating from SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite.
• Ongoing support and transparency: quarterly “What’s New” blogs, roadmap visibility, community resources and partner-authored migration guides to support phased or hybrid approaches.

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Since my last post Elevate from SAP Process Orchestration and Modernize your integration platform with SAP Integration ..., we’ve continued to invest heavily in the program and product-level that help customers move reliably and quickly.

Over the last several months we’ve seen customers pick different transition paths depending on business drivers, risk tolerance, and resource availability. The paths we most commonly observe are — Modernization, Consolidation, and Lift-and-Shift — each have clear advantages and trade-offs. In this blog, I will be describing these approaches and outline how we help making each of these transition paths much easier.

Transition Path 1: Modernization

Customers start on this path to ensure that integrations are also cloud-native and leverage the benefit of API/event-driven architecture using SAP Integration Suite and supporting cloud services.

This approach is preferred by customers who prioritize innovation, scalability, and long-term agility. While it does involve longer timeline to realize full benefits and may require investment into upgrading skills to understand the new paradigms, the customers will find long-term TCO benefits as this path helps in improving developer productivity with modern toolchains,  reusable and standardized APIs as well as improved operational efficiency.

Transition Path 2: Consolidation

Many of our customers are looking to reduce the number of integration platforms (platform sprawl) and address operational overheads by centralizing an enterprise-wide integration strategy.

This transition path will help organizations seeking simplification, fewer platforms to secure and monitor, and easier governance.

Transition Path 3: Lift-and-Shift

Moving existing interfaces to SAP Integration Suite with minimal code change. Often used as an initial wave to establish alignment with the cloud transition journey and to adopt the latest and strategic integration platform offered by SAP.

While this is the fastest path to moving away from legacy platform, here customers will miss the opportunity to adopt cloud-native patterns or bring in design efficiencies. This path may lead rework to realize full benefits, but is definitely useful as a pragmatic first step in a phased modernization strategy.

Phased approaches

We have also observed customers blend various approaches: modernize high-value or frequently changing interfaces, consolidate integrations that have been created across multiple platforms to a single enterprise-wide solution, and lift-and-shift stable integrations that require less change. This mix of approaches has been found to help deliver near-term simplification while paving the way for long-term modernization.

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To ease the transition paths chosen by customers and to make the migration/modernization approaches predictable and repeatable we’ve focused our investments on product, tooling, people enablement, and eco-system involvement.

This blog aims to consolidate the different blogs and sources of information available in this context to capture the improvements done in each of these areas in the last few months.

Product Enhancements

In the last few releases, we have consciously also invested in supporting features that will mainly support our SAP Process Orchestration customers when migrating to SAP Integration Suite like – import of Service Interfaces, Data Type, Message Type, Functional Libraries, ABAP proxy generation, guaranteed Exactly Once in Order support via JMS, AEM(design guideline), Pipeline concept, and many more

I highly recommend reading the "What’s new with SAP Integration Suite" quarterly blogs published by my colleagues which very well capture these enhancements - https://community.sap.com/t5/tag/WhatsNewInSAPIntegrationSuite/tg-p/board-id/technology-blog-sap

In addition, would like to point you to our strong roadmap - https://roadmaps.sap.com/board?PRODUCT=73554900100800003241 - that shows our intent to meet the customer expectations and needs mainly in the context of the modernization and consolidation related paths.

Do let us know if you are looking for a specific feature or functionality here - https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/2282

Improved Migration Tooling

We understand that the lift-and-shift path is the fastest and often seen as a tactical approach by some of our customers. To address this, we have provided migration toolings for automated discovery of interfaces on SAP Process Orchestration, assessment of the migration project (effort estimation and simplified planning), and automation to shorten the migration cycles through templated patterns and automated discovery.

We are happy to share that in the last few releases we have also invested and introduced modernization recommendations that help organizations to align their integration approaches with the best practices and integration strategy from SAP, leveraging the open and standardized protocols as well as the pre-built packages.

In addition, an improved assessment tool to cluster and group integration scenarios, helping improve migration planning, as well as extracting performance metrics such as message size and processing time to help customers/partners in planning the new landscape effectively. The migration tooling has also been enhanced with support of the pipeline approach, migration of Receiver Determination objects from SAP Process Integration dual-stack installations, and many more.

You can find the latest and comprehensive information on the tooling being maintained by my colleagues and integration experts here - https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-sap/master-blog-sap-process-orchestration-to-s...

Enablement / Start your migration journey

With a focus to making sure that every customer and partner of ours is equipped to make the right decisions, we have been improving our migration guides, and learning assets. We have created the following:

1. Migration Guide for SAP Process Orchestration – that captures the details to be considered when integration practioners are preparing for the migration and can be used as a reference of best practices during the migration process itself.
2. SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite Migration - A 7+ hour upskilling course on SAP Learning - which helps you to develop expertise on migration, design migration/modernization plan, how to use the assessment and migration tools, and also includes a module on how to use the SAP Integration Suite, Edge Integration Cell
3. Get Started with Migration to SAP Integration Suite a Discovery Center Mission - this mission helps you explore tools like Migration Assessment and Migration Tooling, and learn about setting up connections between your SAP PO and SAP Integration Suite landscapes using the SAP Cloud Connector.

We also offer transformation incentives to customers* who are moving to SAP Integration Suite. The intention is to help our customers offset some of the perceived costs in the context of the transition.   (* - Additional terms and conditions may apply. Contact your SAP account executive for details.)

SAP's clean core philosophy is key to unlocking potential from IT landscapes and driving innovation. Refer to the blog Future-Proofing Enterprise Agility with SAP Integration Suite and Clean Core Principles to understand how SAP Integration Suite enables customers through their transformation journey.

Selecting the Right Partners for Transition

As part of SAP’s initiative to support our customer transitions, we have been fostering a vibrant community where SAP experts and partners connect through regular enablement calls, dedicated collaboration spaces, and shared best practices. This ongoing dialogue keeps everyone aligned and evolving together. We have expanded the global ecosystem of certified and enabled SAP partners — giving customers access to a broader network of migration experts with proven experience in SAP Integration Suite.

As a customer, you can benefit from the comprehensive and tailored migration services provided by SAP Services and Support, and our premium engagement offerings where you can get help from experts to start planning your move away from SAP Process Integration or SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite. You can also apply for a quick-start free assessment via the SAP Migration Factory.

The SAP Migration Factory for Integration is a free program powered by SAP services and a select group of partners that provides a quick, high-level assessment of your current integration landscape and delivers a personalized migration plan. The plan includes guidance on architecture, design, scope, sizing, education, timelines, and effort. It helps in preparing for a modernized, cloud-based integration platform with minimal risk. It is a complete acceleration engine for customers, partners, and SAP teams driving modernization with SAP Integration Suite.

In addition to being a channel to help our customers in their transition journey to the strategic integration platform of choice from SAP, it also focuses on the 3Es - Enablement, Execution, and Engagement. Learn about how our partners collaborate with us in bringing the best to customers in this blog.

Frequently Asked Questions

And finally, to make this a more holistic blog – here are some of the frequently asked questions that have been addressed by my colleagues and peers in the community.

1. When setting up SAP Integration Suite, how many Integration Suite tenants do I need in my landscape?

I recommend this blog - Blueprints for Success: Landscape setup recommendations for SAP Integration Suite . It captures how to approach tenant setup, the different factors that could impact your landscape decision. It also indulges in taking a view on the maturity of the integration practice in an organization and how this would reflect on your approach as well.

2. During the transition from SAP Process Orchestration, when should I consider using the SAP Integration Suite Edge Integration Cell container runtime?

SAP Edge Integration Cell is a deployable runtime component of SAP Integration Suite. You can install it on-premises or at an edge location (like a factory or store). It enables you to execute specific integration flows directly on-site, close to your systems/ applications, while still being centrally managed and monitored.

It can be a choice to address scenarios –

1. Real-time interaction with manufacturing systems, point-of-sale terminals, or critical local applications are needed, where cloud round-trip latency is unacceptable
2. Regulations or corporate policies strictly require certain data to remain within your on-premise network and not leave local boundaries before processing;
3. Remote sites or environments with unstable or limited network access to the cloud;
4. Scenarios where exposing highly sensitive on-premise systems directly to the internet or other network is a concern.

You can find more information on Edge Integration Cell here - https://help.sap.com/docs/integration-suite/sap-integration-suite/what-is-sap-integration-suite-edge...

3. Does SAP offer validation/testing tools?

Automated testing is crucial during migration. It helps reduce manual effort, identifies issues early in the process, and is critical in minimizing business disruption. When you are transitioning from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite, SAP has in collaboration with our partners INT4 and Figaf provided you with up to 12 months of free access to the automated testing tool. You can find more information here - Figaf Migration Edition (blog about free tool from partner) and INT4 Shield (blog about free tool from partner)

Also, drawing your attention to a few more relevant blogs in this context:

1. A well-written blog on the significance and value of modernizing with SAP Integration Suite - https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-members/how-modernization-with-sap-integration... 
2. There have been many questions from customers about moving from other vendors integration platforms to SAP Integration Suite.  Here are some good blogs written by our community members including partners, that deserve a read:
   1. https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-members/comparison-between-sap-cpi-and-mulesof...
   2. https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-members/migration-journey-from-mulesoft-to-sap...
   3. https://community.sap.com/t5/human-capital-management-blog-posts-by-members/how-to-migrate-boomi-int...
   4. https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-members/integration-consolidation-migrate-from...
   5. https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-members/a-smarter-move-from-boomi-and-mulesoft...