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Kick-Start your SAP ABAP Platform integration journey with Microsoft
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Dear community,
Building on Frank’s “BTP ABAP Environment on Azure” release announcement we will take you on a journey of various Microsoft integration scenarios with ABAP over the coming weeks. Excited yet?🤩
Using the language flavor “ABAP Cloud” ensures you’re set for the future no matter in which deployment style you are in today. Plain cloud or “embedded” living next to your ERP – you choose.
Below integration scenarios are inter-changeable.
All presented scenarios rely on the RESTful ABAP Programming Model (RAP) exposing an OData service.
Reproduce for free with BTP free tier, Azure trial, and M365 developer sandbox. Find the associated GitHub repos here 👩🏽💻.
SAP BTP ABAP Environment (aka. Steampunk)
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🎓 Part 0 – Getting your dev environment ready Featuring SAP’s Academy YouTube playlist, SAP Developer tutorial and SAP’s GitHub repos |
Use SAP’s dev tutorials to get started with ABAP Development Tools (ADT on Eclipse), abapGit and BTP on Azure. |
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🙋🏽 Part 1 – Consume SAP RAP Business Objects from Microsoft Excel🔗 Featuring SAP’s CDS developer tutorial foundation and update enabled – CDS behavior |
Learn how to expose an OData service from a RAP object and execute “live” request from Excel. |
| 🌍 Part 2 – Govern your ABAP cloud APIs with API Management | Integrate your ABAP backed APIs into your general API Management umbrella with production ready X.509 client certificate authentication. |
| 🚀 Part 3 – Uplevel your ABAP Cloud API using GraphQL with Azure API Management | Expose your ABAP backend APIs as GraphQL for efficient queries and a single API endpoint to simplify app lifecycle. |
| 📦Part 4 – Store your ABAP Cloud data exports in Azure Blob Storage | Since the days of casually saving ABAP data dumps to the application server discs are gone, learn how to move to Azure Blob storage instead. |
SAP S/4HANA Cloud – ABAP Environment (aka. Embedded Steampunk)
Applies to private edition (SAP RISE, hyperscaler, and on-premise) and public edition (GROW with SAP)
| 🎓 Part 0 – Getting your dev environment ready | Rely on the same tutorials as listed above with focus on ADT. Ensure minimum release of 2022 for S/4HANA Cloud private edition and 2208 for public edition |
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🧠 Part 1 – Approve SAP process🔗 Featuring How to Create RAP Business Events in an On-Premise system |
Directly approve SAP processes from Microsoft Teams |
| 💡 Part 2 – Automatically generate a meaningful travel booking description on creation from SAP Fiori. | See the Microsoft AI SDK for SAP using the Azure OpenAI service in action enhancing your ERP master data create process from SAP Fiori and RAP. |
☝Applies to private and public edition
Supporting blog posts and sample repos
- DSAG ABAP Developer day with Microsoft and SAP SE engineering (github.com)
- SAP-samples: ABAP Flight Reference Scenario for RAP on ABAP Cloud Platform (github.com)
- SAP-samples: materials for workshops about the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) (github.com)
- Use abapGit to Transfer Your On-Premise ABAP Source Code to the Cloud | Tutorials for SAP Developers
- Import Content from abapGit Repository into the BTP ABAP Environment | SAP Blogs
- Getting Started with the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) | SAP Blogs
References
abapedia – ABAP API Definitions
ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model | SAP Help Portal
SAP Discovery Center – ABAP environment (cloud.sap)
ABAP Environment | SAP Help Portal
As always feel free to ask lots of follow-up questions and share your own steampunk scenarios with the community. See me to get your share of steampunk ninjacat unicorn stickers if you fancy those.
Cheers
Martin
Thank you for sharing, Martin! Could you please add the general "ABAP Development" tag to this post too? It's the tag most ABAPers are following, afaik.
Thank you!
Good callout Jelena! Thank you. Just updated.