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This is a continuation of the blogpost series you may find at #WhatsNewInSAPIntegrationSuite. Today you oversee all our impressive updates released within the June and July timeframe. As we have already August, the next update will come very soon. Stay tuned and enjoy the lovely summertime.
Our highlights were:
- Accelerate development of integration flows with Generative AI assistance
- New adapters available
- Creation of new data type and message types
- New design guidelines added for the validation of integration flows
- Additional adapters for Edge Integration Cell
- Simulation support for Edge Integration Cell
- API validation policy for API artifacts
- Edge Integration Cell on Red Hat OpenShift
- Offline availability during periods of temporary connectivity loss
- Sizing recommendations for asynchronous messaging
- Support for outgoing connections through a HTTP proxy
- API anomaly detection reduces security and performance risks
- Maintenance of multiple target endpoints through UI
- Changes in user interface
- Make use of your own global custom codelists in Trading Partner Management
- Integrations with trading partners through value-added networks
- Support partners with subsidiaries
- Improved situational awareness with Event Mesh
- Additional data centers for advanced event mesh
- Modernization recommendations for on-premise integration scenarios
- Updates to the pipeline concept
- New rules added to Migration Assessment
- Migration tooling is now pattern based
- Support for message type objects in migration tooling
- New partner content on SAP Business Accelerator Hub
- Search and discovery of validated partner use cases on SAP Business Accelerator Hub
Cloud Integration
Accelerate development of integration flows with generative AI assistance
As a first step towards generative AI in our integration area we have extended the design-time tooling in that way that you can create integration flows with the help of generative AI and the unified customer landscape (UCL). Based on your description of a desired integration scenario and existing system instances from UCL, the generative AI tool creates an integration flow with sender and receiver systems. This improves your developer productivity and saves cost. Going forward, we will enhance this offering to include also mediation steps. This feature is only available for tenants with premium edition and as of today in some regions on AWS landscapes. Read the blogpost, watch the demo, and check out the documentation for more information.
New adapters available
We are happy to announce four new adapters in addition to our already rich set of built-in connectivity options. Make use of the new Coupa, NetSuite ERP, Snowflake, and Amazon DynamoDB receiver adapters. All these adapters are available on SAP Business Accelerator Hub and run within the cloud or on the optional Edge Integration Cell runtime.
Creation of new data type and message types
This feature is important for all customers in their journey moving from SAP Process Orchestration to the SAP Integration Suite. You can now import data and message types from the ES Repository along with dependent data types, or create new ones from scratch, or edit existing ones in Cloud Integration by e.g., adding new attributes. These new design time artifacts are stored as XSDs and can be reused in message mapping or in the XML validator flow step. For more information, see the documentation and read the blogpost.
New design guidelines added for the validation of integration flows
Additional design guidelines are added to help you further in designing integration flows in a robust fashion. The new design guidelines include checks to efficiently use scripts, handle security, optimize memory usage, and a few more.
Another new feature is that integration developers may skip a non-compliant design guidelines with consent by providing a reason. This action can also be reverted. See the documentation.
Edge Integration Cell
For running your integration scenarios in your private landscape using the optional hybrid integration runtime Edge Integration Cell runtime we are heavily working on offering you new features and adapters.
Additional adapters
We have increased the set of connectivity options. The following adapters now support also the Edge Integration Cell runtime profile: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM, Salesforce, SugarCRM, ServiceNow, Workday, Slack, MS SharePoint, MS Azure Storage, RabbitMQ, and Splunk.
Simulation support
Simulation was a limitation that we had for Edge Integration Cell. Now you may select also the Edge Integration Cell runtime in your designer and run simulations for your integration flows. See the details in our documentation.
API validation policy for API artifacts
We have extended the set of policies. You can now validate incoming messages against an OpenAPI 3.0 Specification using the API validation policy. In the OpenAPI Specification, you can define the expected message headers and query parameters for each API endpoint. See further details in the documentation.
Kubernetes cluster deployment on Red Hat OpenShift
We have extended the set of Kubernetes container application platforms of your choice and you are able now to deploy your Kubernetes cluster on Red Hat OpenShift. Next to the both hyperscaler-based Kubernetes offerings Microsoft AKS and Amazon EKS, you can use SUSE Rancher and Red Hat OpenShift. Alibaba Cloud and Google Kubernetes Engine are on our roadmap. Read the documentation and see note #3247839.
Offline availability during periods of temporary connectivity loss
You can now perform client certificate authentication and authorization for integration flow processing and API proxies in the Edge Integration Cell instance within the customer network. This Edge Local Authentication and Authorization is a fallback to the default cloud-based authentication and authorization in SAP BTP and synchronizes XSUAA security data. Initially, only certificate authentication is supported, further expansion for other OAuth flows and external IDPs are planned. Check out the documentation and note #3472645.
Sizing recommendations for asynchronous messaging
We have updated our sizing guide. Now you get also sizing recommendation for hardware resources in asynchronous messaging scenarios. It calculates CPU and memory requirements depending on number of messages per second and payload sizes. Check out the sizing guide for Edge Integration Cell for further details.
Support for outgoing connections through a HTTP proxy
The Edge Integration Cell runtime now supports you with routing of outgoing connections through a proxy. This is useful if your Edge Integration Cell is part of a network that is using an HTTP proxy to communicate with Edge Lifecycle Management Cloud. Read the documentation.
API-led Integration
API anomaly detection reduces security and performance risks
Since June already you are able to monitor actively an exceptional behavior with the help of the anomaly detection feature of API Management. This AI-based feature helps you to optimize your system performance by identifying irregularities as a sudden spike or drop in API calls, as well as an increase in latency or an increase in the number of detected errors. Patterns that deviate from the normal behavior are visualized and in addition subscribers can be promptly notified through emails to minimize the potential impact of an anomaly and to make sure the issues are addressed in a timely manner. This feature is available with SAP Integration Suite, premium edition and in some data centers. Check out the blogpost and read the documentation.
Maintenance of multiple target endpoints through UI
Previously, the only way to add multiple target endpoints was through API proxy zip update, and policies could only be added to the target endpoint that appeared first in the target endpoints dropdown menu. Now, multiple target endpoints can be added and maintained through the UI, and policies can be added to any target endpoint of your choice using the UI. See the documentation create an API proxy and edit an API proxy.
Changes in user interface
Find the previously named APIs that were located under Monitor in the navigation bar, now renamed to Analyze and located under Monitor and. The functionality remains unchanged.
The classic design of the API business hub enterprise has been removed and is no longer accessible.
B2B Integration
Make use of your own global custom codelists
Important for us to improve your developer efficiency wherever possible. Under Custom Type Systems, you can now create global custom codelists centrally and use them across all artifacts such as MIGs and MAGs. The codelists can be created manually or by uploading a csv file that is based on a standard code list. Refer to the documentation.
Integrations with trading partners through value-added networks
In the B2B Integration area we are happy to tell that we support communications with trading partners through value-added networks (VAN). You can create a new profile type communication partner, which holds the configuration of a VAN provider offering the communication service to trading partners. This profile holds centrally the AS2 partner ID and connection properties which can be used by different templates and agreements. Check out the documentation.
Support partners with subsidiaries
We have introduced Identifier Groups in company and trading partner profiles to enable the assignment of several individual identifiers to a group. This supports scenarios where the agreement are the same across multiple suborganizations of a company and want to use centralized processing with identical mappings. This innovation reduces the need for configuring multiple redundant agreements. The idea is to configure agreements using these identifiers groups, then, at runtime, the associated identifiers will be utilized. Refer to the documentation.
Event-driven Integration
Improved situational awareness with Event Mesh
Since early June already Event Mesh is part of the family. It is targeted for customers with SAP Integration Suite, standard or premium edition, reducing the time to get started with end-to-end event-driven architectures in or beyond the SAP event-driven ecosystem. And it provides the option to combine the event-driven integration with the classic process integration approach. Check out the blogpost and use the access to the Event Mesh documentation.
Additional data centers for advanced event mesh
SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh is now available in additional landscapes: on Google Cloud Platform in Europe (Frankfurt) and in US Central and on Amazon Web Service in Brazil (Sao Paulo). See the full list at the SAP Discovery Center.
Migration Assessment and migration tool
Supporting our SAP Process Orchestration customers in their journey to SAP Integration Suite is one of our key investment areas. During last development takts we have released the following innovations:
Modernization recommendations for on-premise integration scenarios
You can now receive modernization recommendations for integration scenarios you are evaluating for a migration from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite. The aim of these recommendations is to improve your integration practice and make use of standardized protocols like SOAP, REST, and OData, modern integration styles such as API-led integrations or event-driven integrations and leverage pre-built integration content from the SAP Business Accelerator Hub. You find the recommendations in a report and in a dashboard after the scenario evaluation. For detailed descriptions, see the modernization recommendations in the migration guide for SAP Process Orchestration and the documentation.
Updates to the pipeline concept
To run integration scenarios on cloud in an asynchronous manner, we had published a documentation how to set up the pipeline concept and offered also a Process Integration Pipeline package on SAP Business Accelerator Hub. The latest version of this package covers custom error handling and improvements of the IDoc inbound processing flow. Furthermore, we have introduced a testMode header to implement your own logic how to deal with messages in test mode.
New rules added to Migration Assessment
We have extended the list of rules applied during evaluation. Now there are rules available that count the number of inbound interfaces, receivers of an integration scenario, determine the number of fields in which file content conversion is used, etc.
A set of characteristics according to which the application evaluates whether an integration scenario can be migrated and what effort you can expect.
Migration tooling is now pattern-based
To cover the migration of much more Integrated Configuration Objects (ICO) and be more generic, our migration tooling has switched from a template-based towards a pattern-based migration approach. Your ICOs need not necessarily match a specific template anymore to be ready for a migration. It is sufficient that the ICO is similar to one of the supported patterns to achieve migration. The migration tooling analyses the ICO that are evaluated as migratable via the Migration Assessment capability and maps it with the patterns. Based on the pattern, it creates an equivalent integration flow in Cloud Integration.
Support for message type objects in migration tooling
As message type and data type objects are available in SAP Integration Suite that you may import or create from scratch, you can now also generate integration flows that contain references to message type and data type objects using the migration tooling. Refer the documentation.
Business Accelerator Hub
Search and discovery of validated partner use cases
We are very excited to announce a new type of accelerator, the content category VPUC on the SAP Business Accelerator Hub. SAP-validated partner use cases are solution packages helping you maximize the return on investment on your SAP BTP venture. Checkout the blogpost read the documentation.
New partner content
Lots of new partner content has been published on SAP Business Accelerator Hub by Kaar Technologies, PiLog, Coveo, Qintesi, Crave InfoTech, Tarento, Wipro, KPMG, Twenty5, and RealCore. Check out the blogpost explaining all the details.
How to stay tuned to recent and upcoming innovations?
The SAP Road Map Explorer is your one-stop shop for all SAP Integration Suite innovations. You can easily check out the latest innovations and follow what is planned for the following quarters. All recent innovations also cover under the tab Features further links to blogposts or documentation.
We also refer to the complete list of new releases in our documentation: What’s New in SAP Integration Suite.
And if you have not heard of our monthly webinars, I suggest you sign up to get an invitation to the upcoming ones. Our team of Product Management experts host these webinars and showcase the latest and greatest updates regarding all SAP Integration Suite capabilities. The webinars take place on the last Tuesday of every month and the next one is already scheduled for August 27th.
In case you have missed our last monthly webinar, don’t worry. Visit 2024 Learning Sessions for SAP User Groups on SAP Integration Suite for all recordings, presentations, and Q&As.
Are you aware of the Release Navigator for SAP BTP? It consolidates release information across SAP BTP products and services easing you the way to find product release related notes, blogposts, and webpages. For your convenience use the direct link to the SAP Integration Suite section of the Release Navigator.
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