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Hi All,

My clinet has ECC 6 and needs to talk to other non-sap systems. I understand that we need to have a middleware to make this happen. I was thinking to implement XI. But i came to know that even to implement XI some hardware procurement is necessary. And we are running out of time. To implement XI itself would be a mini project of 4-6 months (correct me if i am wrong).

Is there any other way to get data into SAP without usage of middleware. Say i need to import customer master, material master, pricing into SAP from JD Edwards and Mainframes.

Can anyone give me all the required details on how to achieve feasible solution on this.

Regards,

Jayant

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HI Jayanth,

Adding to the above points experts said.XI in long run helps you out in turning the traditional middleware oriented integration to SOA based.I think you know the benifit of SOA.It drastically reduces the integrating complexities once its in place with out doing much changes in the existing integration solutions in the enterprise.Since you are going to integrate ECC6 with other legacy system.It will be best solution to have XI inplace rather than going for seperate connectors for different application integration whose functionality is limited for those integrated iterfaces only.XI can provide complete integration solution for any type of integration.

Thanks,

Ram.