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This SAP blog has been written by mostafa.sharaf and mariatrinidad.martinezgea.
Many enterprises are running their businesses with the help of the ERP Cloud – SAP Business ByDesign (ByD) or S/4HANA Cloud, however we certainly realize that many of customers’ requirements are beyond any ERP capabilities.
In addition, looking at today’s challenges in many aspects, decision makers cannot only depend on a capable system that enables their business effectively and resiliently, but also to sustain and fuel rapid growth.
Hence the main question that comes in mind: How to overcome the unprecedented market challenges? How to adapt towards new business trends? How can you seamlessly integrate your ERP system to other solutions, since this is becoming no longer a choice for many enterprises!
The key to overcome such challenges lies in operating a resilient system that can offer great extensibility options. While extensibility matters, Integration is fast becoming the number-one strategic priority for organizations in the digital age.
Looking at SAP ByD, indeed it is designed as an open solution, where it offers several options to extend and as well integrate with other solutions.
Below you can see the different options for extensibility and integration with the SAP ByD:
Let’s for example imagine if we are able to build new sets of cloud-based apps using the side-by-side approach where apps can run independently from the backend, whilst extending the digital core in SAP ByD. Thus, these loosely coupled apps will be able to push/pull data to/from an SAP ByD system thanks to the help of SAP BTP, and with the least possible dependency.
Such kind of apps can be offered on subscription based model, which will certainly generate new recurring revenue streams, not to mention the invaluable opportunities to open new routes to markets…etc.
Well! We might all wonder what is actually the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP)? It is the platform for the Intelligent Enterprise. Customers can achieve agility, business value, and continual innovation through integration, data to value, and extensibility of all SAP and third-party applications and data assets.
As SAP Cloud Platform evolves, it is considered one of the core pillars powering SAP BTP and has indeed become a key element within SAP broader platform offering, rather than a stand-alone offering. Its strong integration and extension capabilities are now available as services that run on SAP.
One of the SAP BTP great capabilities is now called SAP Integration Suite, which was recently recognized by Gartner in its 2020 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service (EiPaaS) and Magic Quadrant for Multiexperience Development Platforms respectively.
The SAP Integration Suite is an open and modular integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that supports to seamlessly integrate and connect applications, processes, and people with speed and ease.
The SAP Integration Suite offers several capabilities, as for example the SAP Integration Suite, which enable to integrate SAP & non-SAP whether cloud & on-premise applications, and process messages in real-time scenarios spanning different companies, organizations, or even departments within one organization.
Below diagram indicates the tremendous business opportunities for customers by integrating SAP ByD to other applications or systems whether for marketing, e-commerce, or service field…etc, be it on-premise or on-cloud thanks to the help of SAP Integration Suite.
SAP ByD provides more than 300 standard web services that can be leveraged to integrate any kind of 3rd party software.
In the following quick demo, we are going to showcase a proof of concept on how enterprises running SAP ByD, can connect to an E-commerce solution like Shopify for B2C or B2B scenarios through an integration scenario about Sales Orders, that is built on top of SAP Integration Suite:
You can download the package of the integration scenarios from here.
You can download the SAP ByD's oData Service for Sales Order from here.
You can download the presentation in PDF format from here.
This is the high level diagram of the integration scenario between Shopify and SAP ByD:
This is how my Shopify store looks like, along with the open orders:
This is the integration flow based SAP Integration Suite of Shopify store and SAP ByD:
This is the business area of Sales Orders in SAP ByD, showing a sales order coming from Shopify:
In the following detailed demonstration, we are going to explain how the integration scenario between SAP ByD and Shopify was built scenarios on top of SAP Integration Suite:https://youtu.be/zTA4DBn7Tx8
such proof of concept, partners and customers would realize that this integration scenario’s is a product agnostic, as the only part dependent on the backend is the one that touches the backend itself!
In the following quick demonstration, we are going to explain how the same integration scenario could be used between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Shopify, in order to prove the above mentioned conclusion:
This is the high level diagram of the integration scenario between Shopify and SAP S/4HANA:
This is the integration flow based SAP Integration Suite of Shopify store and SAP S/4HANA Cloud:
This is the Sales Order’s business area in SAP S/4HANA, showing a sales order coming from Shopify store:
Now It is interesting to see that two above mentioned integration scenarios (SAP ByD & SAP S/4HANA Cloud) are basically the same but as stated before, the only difference is in the part that touches the backend, as shown below diagram:
You can download the package of the integration scenarios from here.
You can download the SAP ByD's oData Service for Sales Order from here.
You can download the presentation in PDF format from here.
Learn more about SAP Integration Suite
To learn more about this topic, please read the blog – SAP Cloud Platform Integration for SAP Business ByDesign webinar , which provides a set of presentations and as well a recorded session on the SAP Cloud Platform Integration for SAP ByD. In this blog you have an overview on how you can develop SAP ByD integration scenarios.
In addition, there is another blog – SAP Cloud Platform Integration for SMBs, samples, that provides several integration samples and as well a complete step by step guide with instructions starting with the creation of a SAP Integration Suite based trial tenant and going over a set of very simple scenarios demonstrating how to connect to your SAP Byd tenant.
To learn more about SAP ByD oData API, please read this blog – SAP Business ByDesign – OData API Examples
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