The Value of Metadata in Integration
We live in a world where companies rely more and more on being able to make data-driven decisions, use data and information as competitive advantage and leverage AI and automation to increase their efficiency. The...
** Please be aware that this blog post is originally from 2020. Please see the latest blog on SAP ODM here: Harnessing Half a Century of Knowledge: SAP’s Journey of Enriching APIs with Business Metadata **
Integrating a set of independent software...
Context: This article is follow-up material to the course 'Writing testable code' but also of general value for all developers and development managers.
Why this article?
Maybe you or some of your developers have participated in the course ‘Writ...
Hi everyone
We are currently running the openSAP course “Writing testable code for ABAP” that focusses on unit testing with ABAP with the patterns and tools needed. And we are happy to see that several people are blogging about it on SCN. There were...
Dear ABAP Community,
some people say that you cannot use modern development practices with ABAP. That is not true at all - luckily. We had ABAP in eclipse and unit testing tools for a while now but what was missing was an external course to teach ho...
Hi Kate.
No, ODM and SAP Graph are independent and will stay that way. I know many people like the graphical representation of the ODM models (which are actually MDI models, i.e. for the Master Data Integration Service). These were nice to look at b...
Hi Karl. Great article. It was nice to see some of my own history with ABAP (kernel, ABAP Objects) in the blog and to remember the old times when we worked together.
ABAP is alive and well and moving forward!
Hi Ram
(Sorry for the late reply.)
The switch from a point-to-point to a hub-based integration, especially for master data, is quite involved. We are working on this intensely internally at SAP, at first using MDI for master data replication. To ma...
Hi Ram
The conversion from an internal / existing model (e.g. IDoc) to an ODM model happens within the application that reads / writes this object and it is different for each application.
What are you trying to do, what exactly do you need?
Regar...
Hi Vasiliy
I stumbled on your question just now and will try answer from the ODM perspective. My answer is general and not really dependent on MDI or any specific technology:
In distributed systems you need data replication for resilience and perfo...
