SAP NetWeaver Process Integration - Product road map overview
A product road map describes how the feature / function capabilities in a SAP product or technology are planned to progress over time, in general..
- Today = changes in the current release version
- Planned Innovations = changes planned in upcoming development releases (next 12-18 months)
- Future Direction = proposed themes for a product or technology beyond the planned releases
The product road maps are targeted for use by IT planners, enterprise architects, SAP Consulting, and SAP consulting partners.
Today :
In Process Orchestration:
- Support for enterprise integration patterns
- Migration support from PI dual stack to Java-only
- Integrated monitoring of BPM and PI Java
- nZDM for PI dual stack
- Integration to sales on demand
- Prepackaged integration content portable between PI and HCI
B2B offering:
- UI for customizing the standard EDI messages and creating new messages
- Improved technical and functional acknowledgement handling and monitoring
- Enhanced EDI content and converter modules
Planned Innovations :
In Process Orchestration:
- nZDM for BPM and PI Java
- Integration visibility via SAP Operational Process Intelligence
- Message flow monitor in SAP Solution Manager
- Process Orchestration on SAP HANA
- Technical error handling for BPM
B2B offering:
- B2B trading partner management
- EANCOM format support
- Drummond certification for AS2 adapter
- Enriched EDI Content Manager with message comparison UI
Future Direction :
In Process Orchestration:
- Additional product enhancements based on customer feedback
- Further connectivity options such as WS-RM, REST
- Additional cloud application integration scenarios
B2B offering:
- Improved UIs for NRO, plain (in-house formats) and other converters
- Additional connectivity and EDI standards support based on customer feedback
- Extension to core B2B standards
- Large file transfer support
- Intelligent mapping support
- Integration with HCI
- SLA monitoring
References :
http://scn.sap.com/community/b2b-integration/blog/2013/02/04/b2b-sp1-released
http://help.sap.com/nw-secure-connect
http://help.sap.com/nw-b2b-addon
http://service.sap.com/roadmap > Product and solution road maps > Database and Technology
http://scn.sap.com/community/process-orchestration/blog/2013/08/08/webcast-replay-roadmap-of-process...
Process Integration road map contact : alexander.bundschuh ( Special thanks to Alexander Bundschuh for contribution )
