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[Former Member]

Hi,

what is meant by business connector?How it is used in xi?

Regards,

rao

[aashish_sinha]

Hi,

SAP has already been providing its Customers with Business Connector, a tool which enables the exchange of XML messages among different SAP modules via a Message Transformation and Routing procedure through a proprietary programming. However, with its EAI strategy, SAP wanted to be much more far-reaching and this led to the development of the eXchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) within the SAP NetWeaver platform.

SAP has announced plans to stop producing new versions of the SAP Business

Connector (a license-limited version of the webMethods Integration Server) and is

actively encouraging customers to use their Business Connector implementations to

serve as u201Cpilotsu201D for conversion to SAP XI (Exchange Infrastructure). With the lack of

future support for the Business Connector, customers will either have to convert to SAP

XI (or another integration vendor), or stay on a back-dated version of the webMethods

Integration Server used to power the Business Connector.

In 1999, SAP selected webMethods as their vendor-of-choice for integration to and from

SAP applications. SAP purchased the right to distribute, at no-charge, a license-limited

version of the webMethods Integration Server (known then as the webMethods B2B

Server), branded as the SAP Business Connector, to all SAP users. As a result,

thousands of SAP users have benefited from the full functionality of the webMethods

Integration Server to integrate into and out of their SAP systems. Under the terms of

their license agreement, their use of the Business Connector is limited to integration

scenarios encompassing SAP-to-SAP and/or SAP-to-other third-party applications only.

Many customers, based on their positive experience using the Business Connector,

upgraded to a u201Cfullu201D webMethods license.

Hope this will help you.

Regards

Aashish Sinha

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