21 June 2016, again we had a rockin’ meeting @SAP HQ Walldorf. Udo Paltzer and his team organized the HCI Infoday for partners and customers. It’s the perfect event to meet your fellows and share some knowledge, aside having a great time. The event was loaded with people, even a waiting list was there, so for next time, be on time with your registration!
This year, all presenters had 15 minutes to do their thing, I liked this approach, keeping all attendees and myself :lol: awake for the whole day!
Together with our customer ENECO respresented bij Marco Verhoef, my colleagues Guido Koopmann and Igor Mitrovic, presented our business case on the financial aspect s of HCI. Conclusion on this case, is that we realized between 50% to 70% off Annual TCO:
HCI is a promising platform, but there is still some work to do. Hereby a list of likes and missing things from all presenters:
Likes
* Flexible Pipeline, very transparent processing steps
* Deployment Options (externalized parameters)
* Open Standards Based & Modern Architecture (Apache Camel, Karaf)
* Reusability Options (ESR PI Interfaces & Mappings)
* No costs for hardware and installation
* Multi-tenant and scalable architecture
* Automated failover
* Rolling software updates
* Pre-delivered integration content that is simple to download and deploy
* Development and monitoring through either Web UI environment or Eclipse
* Detailed integration guides available on SAP Service Marketplace
* Shorter project timescales
* Restarting messages from HCI Message Monitor
Missing
* Prepackaged b2b adapters
* Transport mechanism
* Optimized monitoring
* Some more adapters like FTP, JDBC, RFC
* Interface Design Governance of PI
* Switch between WebUI <-> Eclipse, still some problems
* Security Concept is extremely tough (SFTP connectivity has to be requested one by one)
* Quarterly updates, information about changes could be better
* Customers only get two HCI tenants (Test and Production)
* Tools to help you create your own WSDLs and XSDsB2B capabilities, like handling with interchange numbers of transactions
* Have an option to publish Integration Package directly to the Content Catalog
* Import of XSLT mapping through Web UI, XSLT mapping test in UI
* In comparison to PI/PO, graphical mapping in HCI is limited – e.g. display queue, copy payload from clipboard…
At last, Udo and team, thanks for organizing, all arrangements where perfectly done!
If you are interested in the presentations, click here & for us in the meanwhile :cool: :
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