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SAP Integration Suite is the cloud integration platform that SAP operates and that is subscribed to on SAP BTP. It reaches on-premise systems through SAP Cloud Connector, and Edge Integration Cell covers scenarios where data must never leave the company network.
SAP PI/PO is the on-premise integration platform that manages message traffic between SAP and non-SAP systems from one hub. Mainstream maintenance ends at the end of 2027 and extended maintenance at the end of 2030.
Moving from SAP PO to SAP CPI (new name: SAP Integration Suite, Cloud Integration) means deciding, interface by interface, between tool-based migration and redesign. SAP's migration tool moves ICO and receiver determination objects, while adapter modules and JDBC and RFC lookups are rebuilt by hand.
SAP PI/PO comes with an on-premise licence and a maintenance schedule; SAP Integration Suite is bought on a subscription or consumption model. In SAP Integration Suite, messages processed with SAP's prepackaged SAP-to-SAP content are not billed as long as the content is not modified.
API Management lets an organisation publish, protect and measure its APIs from a single layer placed in front of its back-end systems. In SAP Integration Suite it has five components: API Portal, Developer Hub, API Runtime, API Analytics and API Designer.
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is the exchange of business documents such as orders, despatch advices and invoices between companies in standard formats, without manual data entry. On the SAP side documents usually travel as IDocs, and the middleware maps between the IDoc and the partner's document standard.
SAP BPM, or SAP NWBPM, is the component of SAP Process Orchestration that models and runs processes with BPMN 2.0. In the cloud, SAP points to SAP Build Process Automation as the target, where the Decisions capability takes the place of SAP BRM rules.
An integration consultant designs and builds the way ERP, CRM, production, e-commerce, logistics and finance applications work together. They add the most value at the start of a project, when the interface list is drawn up with the scope.
Clean Architecture is a layered approach that keeps business rules independent of the database, the user interface and frameworks. Its one unbreakable rule is that source code dependencies point only inwards.