AIF Use Case

[JunyiYu]

Hi Experts,

  I'm new to AIF and would like to understand the use case for this product.

   Why do we need AIF when there is PI available? or does AIF and PI serve different purpose?

    I read somewhere that AIF is for 'transactional error resolution' ' and PI is for 'Technical Integration'.

    Didnt quite understand the above statement.

  Thanks.

[Dimitri]

Hi,

In short:

SAP PI is the Service Bus of SAP, used to exchange messages between different internal and external parties over different protocols. Secured and non-secured.

SAP AIF is an add-on for your Business Suite to give more monitoring power to your business users. Data entering the back end system can be edited by business users, value mappings can be provided, etc. So, really for business users, no tricky technical stuff.

Hope this clarifies a little bit. If not, please revert.

Kind regards,

Dimitri