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I am happy to share the news that an updated version of the integration architecture guide has been released! Based on SAP Business Technology Platform offerings available today, this document provides you with detailed guidance on how to evolve your existing integration architecture. As before the integration guide is structured along the concepts of the SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology, such as integration styles and integration use case patterns.
This blog post gives you an overview about the most important news delivered with this version of the guide.
Process Integration
This chapter has been updated to include recommendations regarding the latest capabilities of SAP Integration Suite such as the new Edge Integration Cell option, Data Space Integration and Advanced Event Mesh.
You can also find consolidated information about how to elevate toward SAP Integration Suite – be it from SAP Process Integration/Orchestration or from SAP API Management and/or SAP Cloud Integration on SAP BTP Neo cloud platform. In the first case, Edge Integration Cell plays an important role: Deployed in customer-controlled environments, it allows you to run your integration scenarios locally within your own environments, without going through the public internet. Migrated existing integrations flows can be redeployed to and run by the Edge Integration Cell.
Event-Driven Integration
Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a well-known approach for designing and building decoupled, hyper-connected software systems and it’s rapidly gaining popularity in the world of enterprise integration due to its reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. This chapter describes the role and interplay of SAP EDA solutions such as SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh, SAP Cloud Application Event Hub, further capabilities of SAP Integration Suite and technologies for event-enabling SAP applications.
Event-Driven Architecture in the Enterprise
Data Integration
The guide also describes the role of SAP Datasphere with regards to data integration options. SAP Datasphere enables a business data fabric architecture and supports integration use case pattern like data ingestion, virtual data access, and data transformation and orchestration.
User Integration
There is also a major overhaul of this chapter to provide recommendations regarding the latest SAP solutions which enable a central entry point for users to business solutions. These are SAP Start, SAP Mobile Start, SAP Build Work Zone (standard and advanced edition) and SAP Task Center.
Cross-solutions entry point on SAP Business Technology Platform
Furthermore, the technology recommendation for the chatbot integration use case pattern of the SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology reflects now the latest innovations by introducing Joule: Joule is a generative AI-based assistant embedded in SAP’s cloud enterprise portfolio that provides proactive, contextualized insights from various data sources.
New Content Format and Access Point
In addition to updating the content of the integration architecture guide we also changed its format: The guide is now available as documentation at SAP Help Portal and comes with benefits such as easier navigation and search, option to bookmark, subscribe and to provide feedback to the content.
The integration architecture guide is an integral part of SAP BTP Guidance Framework which is the central access point for architects, developers and administrators to build and run enterprise-grade solutions on SAP BTP.
Integration architecture guide at SAP BTP Guidance Framework
The integration guide belongs to the decision guides of the framework and is interconnected with other assets of SAP BTP Guidance Framework such as the documentation of the SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology and SAP BTP reference architectures (for integration).
Enjoy reading the new guide! It would also be great to get your feedback, for instance which integration topics should be addressed with the next update. If you have any suggestions feel free to leave them as comments to this blog post. Happy integrating 😊
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