Getting Started with SAP HANA Cloud Integration

John Mutumba Bilay is a senior software engineer and enterprise integration consultant at Rojo Consultancy. With more than 12 years of international experience in information technology, including eight specifically devoted to SAP, his speciality is software development, integration, and business process automation. Dr. Peter Gutsche studied physics at Heidelberg University, Ruperto Carola. After getting his PhD in 1999, he started working as a documentation developer at SAP. Today he is a knowledge architect and is responsible for and coordinates the documentation for SAP HANA Cloud Integration. Volker Stiehl studied Computer Sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. When he joined SAP in 2004, his primary focus was on presales activities involving the Java EE stack of the SAP Web Application Server. In summer 2005, he joined the product management team of the Composite Application Framework where he was responsible for preparing specifications for composite applications development. With the introduction of SAP NetWeaver CE, his area of responsibility was extended to include the design of composite application architectures and their implementation using composition tools, such as the Composite Application Framework, Guided Procedures framework, or the SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer. Volker Stiehl speaks regularly at various conferences, such as SAP TechEd, SAPPHIRE, and JavaOne, about the topics related to the architecture and development of composite applications. Prior to joining SAP, he worked at Siemens as a consultant for distributed J2EE-based architectures and integration architectures using SAP integration technologies.

. Foreword by Bernd Leukert. 13

. Preface. 17

. Structure of the Book. 18

. Sample Applications. 21

. Who This Book Is For. 22

. Acknowledgments. 23

1. Introduction to SAP HANA Cloud Integration. 27

1.1. The Role of SAP HANA Cloud Integration in a Cloud-Based Strategy. 28

1.2. Use Cases. 31

1.3. Capabilities. 38

1.4. Editions. 45

1.5. Summary. 47

2. Getting Started. 49

2.1. Architecture Overview. 49

2.2. Tools and Processes. 67

2.3. Running Your First Integration Scenario. 73

2.4. Summary. 95

3. Integration Content Catalog. 97

3.1. Introduction to the Integration Content Catalog. 97

3.2. Consuming Prepackaged Content. 101

3.3. Terms and Conditions of Using Prepackaged Integration Content. 117

3.4. Prepackaged Content Provided by SAP. 120

3.5. Creating Your Own Content Package. 128

3.6. Summary. 132

4. Basic Integration Scenarios. 133

4.1. Working with SAP HCI’s Data Model. 133

4.2. Content Enrichment by Invoking an OData Service. 153

4.3. Working with Mappings. 168

4.4. Summary. 179

5. Advanced Integration Scenarios. 181

5.1. Message Routing. 181

5.2. Working with Lists. 192

5.3. Asynchronous Message Handling. 211

5.4. Summary. 226

6. Special Topics in Integration Development. 227

6.1. Timer-Based Message Transfer. 227

6.2. Structuring of Large Integration Flows. 240

6.3. Developing Adapters Using the Adapter Development Kit. 249

6.4. Summary. 275

7. SAP HCI Operations. 277

7.1. SAP HCI Operations: Overview. 278

7.2. Monitoring SAP HCI. 280

7.3. Summary. 301

8. SAP HCI Security. 303

8.1. Technical System Landscape. 304

8.2. Processes. 314

8.3. Data and Data Flow Security. 318

8.4. User Administration and Authorization. 363

8.5. Summary. 368

9. Productive Scenarios Using SAP HCI. 369

9.1. SAP Financial Services Network. 369

9.2. Integration of SAP Cloud for Customer and SAP ERP. 375

9.3. Integration of SAP Cloud for Customer with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Enterprise Edition. 380

9.4. Integration of SAP SuccessFactors and SAP ERP. 381

9.5. Integration of SAP Applications with the SAP Ariba Network. 386

9.6. Summary. 388

10. Outlook. 389

10.1. Integration Content Management. 390

10.2. Partner Adapter Support. 391

10.3. API Support. 392

10.4. B2B Support. 393

10.5. Messaging Service. 394

10.6. Hybrid Deployments. 395

10.7. Security. 395

10.8. Applications Supported by SAP HCI. 396

10.9. Summary. 396

. Appendices. 397

A. Abbreviations. 399

B. Literature. 405

C. The Authors. 409

. Index. 411