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Christian Braukmüller - 09/02/2025 - 10:20

Thanks for the article. Some very good and valid points in there.

To get a bit out of the assumption, that the near past was fundamental different than the near future, I like to add something to this statement around Integration.

„In the old world, point-to-point connections like RFCs and IDocs kept systems talking to each other. In the new world, those links won’t be enough. [2] SAP wants you to adopt modern integration practices using BTP’s Integration Suite …“

In the old world there was SAP PO (or previously SAP BusinessConnector) to overcome the point to point connections - in every scenario where point2point wasn‘t a good idea.

In the new world Integration Suite is the new PO … and more previously in-house scenarios need something else than a point2point connection. Not because it necessarily is better, but mainly because with cloud there is not so much „inhouse“ anymore.
Even the core applications are running in different public clouds (including PaaS) and can‘t (or shouldn‘t) get point2point connections.

Christian

Volodymyr Vashchenko - 09/02/2025 - 11:49

Hi Christian,

Thank you for the comment. To be honest, I would have liked to write more about the middleware topic. You are of course correct that a PO and then a CPI solves the point-to-point issue. However, there is a need to discuss CPI, API gateways, event-driven architectures, and the possibilities of Datasphere's object store. The main point is that RFCs and Idocs are stable but not scalable. Readers should also ask themselves if they are on the right track for the cloud future, even though they mainly work with on-premises systems.

Fun fact: did you know that there are quite a lot of public cloud BAPIs that you can still access? This idea is supported by the following article: https://helpcenter.theobald-software.com/board-connector/knowledge-base/access-data-in-the-sap-public-cloud/#look-up-and-execute-bapis

I'll save that story for another blog :)

Best regard Volo

Xexer - 09/02/2025 - 12:54

Hi Christian, Hi Volo,

I have linked your comments, so you get a notification, when someone answers.

Greetings Björn