Advantage of PI Mail adapter??

[Former Member]

HI all

What is the use of XI/PI mail Sender/Receiver Adapter when SAP ECC can itself communicate with email servers without PI/XI?

is there any additional advantage of using XI/PI mail adapter?

Regards

Satish

[Former Member]

Hello Satish,

PI is a middleware designed for SAP and NonSAP scenarios ,

it is used for communiating b/n two heterogenous system or can also be used for two homogeneous systems

In case of other scenarios like Invoice has to be sent in the form of flatfile or any other format (desired by customer) can be done by utilising PI and mail adapter.

I have summarised one scenario like this there can be many if you want process orders based on mail adapter this also can be done

Hope this gives you a clear picture

Rajesh

[Former Member]

Thank u one and all for your responsed

true we can use XI mapping capabilities for sending a Mail.Apart from this do we have an extra advantage of using mail receiver adapter when we are using a Mail receiver adapter?

Thank u

Regards

satish

[JoelTrinidade]

Hi Satish,

There will always be points of overlapping functionalities .... but then if you have XI involved in as many integration scenarios you avoid getting trapped in something know as the "integration spaghetti".

Lookup "integration spaghetti" to know its full impact....

http://www.english.bcc.com.pl/pad_files/aw_files/260_EN_AW_SAPXI_20070820-ang.pdf

Regards

joel

Edited by: joel trinidade on Feb 27, 2009 5:41 PM

[prateek]

The answer should be SAP ECC could also communicate to file servers directly. Still we make Idoc to file scenario using PI

PI/XI is a middleware which should handle communication across all non-SAP to non-SAP systems. Therefore it makes sense to have as many adapters as possible. Technically too, say a mail sender scenario where XI pops up the mail from mail server. How do you think any receiver on its own would be able to receive the message.

Regards,

Prateek

[Former Member]

Hi Satish,

In addition to what Prateek said, You can also use the complex mapping capabilities of XI which is not possible in direct communication.

Regards,

Sudheer.