Whats the difference between PROCESS INTEGRATION & INTEGARTION PROCESS

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hey All

I was just going through one of the tutorials provided in

http://www.help.sap.com , its related to Process Integartion Scenario and i also came across one more tutorial related to Integration Process.

For * Process Integration* it was there like *A Process Integration scenario is a design object of the Enterprise Services Builder, is uniquely identified by a name and a namespace, and is subject to versioning.*

url : http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/en/ec/21ee117a909f44a8b69794b9ed6221/content.htm

for Integration Process it was +*An integration process is an executable cross-system process for processing messages. In an integration process you define all the process steps to be executed and the parameters relevant for controlling the process.

You apply integration processes when you want to define, control, and monitor complex business processes that extend across enterprise and application boundaries. The design and processing of integration processes is also known as cross-component Business Process Management (cross-component BPM, ccBPM), or service orchestration.

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url :

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/en/3c/831620a4f1044dba38b370f77835cc/content.htm

So my question is , whether both are same or different , as far my view it different , i think integration processes is one of term inside Process integration as told in URL , please guys see to this

[Former Member]

Hi Abhishek,

Yes, All are different.

Process Integration is the name of the SAP's product which was earlier known as XI.

Process Integration scenario is the the end to end graphical scenario which you can create and provide all your configurations at place. Inside PI, you can create a PI scenario.

Integration Process is ccBPM which is again present inside PI.

It is based on BPEL where you can design your stateful processes which includes more than 2 systems.

You can also show Integration Process under graphical representation of PI scenario.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Piyush