Technical Articles
Sailing Smooth With API Management – Pt-1
November is always bundled with wisdom (#TechEd Sessions) and nice gestures – giving us an opportunity to express our gratitude (#thanksgiving). Thanks to TechEd and all SCN community members for their contribution.
Well said, “Intelligent Enterprises Are Integrated Enterprises” SAP’s Cloud Integration 2021 Highlights Bearing this as a mission statement; am coming up with a series on API Management. There are already lot of blogs and articles over SCN on API Management – do checkout for more details (few of the latest).
| Link | Topic & Author |
| https://blogs.sap.com/2021/11/17/sap-integration-suite-free-tier-is-now-available-on-sap-btp/ |
SAP Integration Suite Free Tier is Now Available on SAP BTP By: Gautham Krishna |
| https://blogs.sap.com/2021/01/11/sap-api-management-discover-apis-from-cloud-integration-manage-them/ |
SAP API Management: Discover APIs **** By: Shruthi M Arjun |
| https://blogs.sap.com/2021/01/08/sap-cloud-integration-step-towards-building-api-based-integrations/ |
Step towards building API based integrations By: Deepak G DeshPande |
| https://blogs.sap.com/2020/06/22/part-1-enable-sap-cloud-platform-api-management-in-cloud-foundry-environment/ |
Blog Series By: Divya Mary |
Why am I coming up with these series since already plenty of good articles are available?
Since a lot being offered by SAP now; new and open additions to the offerings have given opportunity for self-explore to customers and partners. Am trying to simplify my learning experience in a sequential mode (with a series of articles).
- Overview & System setup (Cloud Foundry trial account)
- POC – Registering CPI SOAP Service
- POC – Registering external OData service (Northwind Service)
- POC – Registering SuccessFactors OData service (through API Management)
Who can follow these?
Any technical or functional consultant (SAP & Non-SAP) – ABAPERS, Integration consultants (PO/CPI/Boomi/Any), UI/UX consultants, SaaS (SuccessFactors/Fieldglass/Concur/Any), JAVA etc. Sky is the limit.
APIs are lying
API Management helps to Govern, Publish & Promote APIs in a secure and scalable environment
Setting Up API Management Services On Cloud Foundry (Trial Account)
- Sign up for free trial account New Customers -> Contact us
- Fill the form with basic details and submit
- Select the region that is closer to you (Home – Global Accounts) -> “Create Account”
Select region and create account
- Welcome to SAP BTP Trial
- Go to your trial account (valid for 365 days)
- Go to Services -> Service Marketplace and create search “Integration Suite”
- Select the capability (for APM – “Design, Develop and Mange APIs”)
- Go to your trial account (valid for 365 days)
- Add Roles Assigning User Roles
- Navigate to your subaccount & create a new role collection and add below roles
- APIManagement.Selfservice.Administrator (to access API Portal UI & services)
- AuthGroup.SelfService.Admin (for API Business Hub Enterprise onboarding)
- Navigate to your subaccount & create a new role collection and add below roles
- Launch SAP Integration Suite (Services -> Instances and Subscriptions -> Go to Application)
- Launch API Management (Manage Capability) – Get the links (API Portal and API Business Hub)
- Launch API Portal
- Launch API Business Hub
With this we are all set with the “trial account setup for API Management – Cloud Foundry”.
Refer next blog on POC – Registering CPI SOAP Service
POC – Registering external OData service (Northwind Service)
POC – Registering SuccessFactors OData service (through API Management)
Any question or feedback will be appreciated!