Powered By NetWeaver Certification option 3

[Former Member]

We have applied for Option 3 of the PBNW Certification. Option 3 only requires the development of EP iViews and XI content and the demonstration of end-to-end business scenarios. Right?

We are building an iView that will call an SOAP XI that will access our external system.

We also have a half dozen fields pulled from the external system that we would like to store in a R3 Backend module using the SAP XI interface.

Will writing the data to the R3 Backend satisfy the requirements for backend integration.

[clausc]

Hello,

please check again on http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn?rid=/webcontent/uuid/ab919ce1-0601-0010-4384-f25a892e0dea. [original link is broken] NW-XI-CNT + EP-BP is option 2.

If I understood correctly, you want to build an iView, that calls SAP XI through SOAP and transfers data to XI that is then forwarded into an R/3 system? What do you use to store the data into R/3? Is it a BAPI or IDOC?

If yes, then this scenario is absolutely ok to satisfy the requirements.

Bye, Christoph

[Former Member]

Christoph,

I am double checking on the Option 2 versus Option 3.

We are think of using a custom Remote Function Call (RFC) and make a function call instead of using standard BAPI? We are unable to map our data into a complete record (considering the required fields) into a backend system. Instead we need to perform some functions and write to a custom table of our own creation.

Just to be clear, our understanding is that you are certifying our Technical completeness for interaction with a backend system and not the soundness of the Functional business problem we are solving. We need to do something with the backend but the value of the something isn't evaluated.

Thanks,

Darold

[Former Member]

Greetings Darold,

In regards to your first paragraph, you should not create any custom code or tables in the SAP backend systems. It is for this very reason that your final certified business package and XI-content can be deployed on any standard SAP system and work (i.e. customers do not have to do any customization); However, should you require creating any custom ABAP/Java code and table, you will have to first have them certified. That is another certification process.

In regards to your second paragraph, you are correct in your understand but we would hope that our "certified" ISV(s) would bring value to our SAP eco-system.

Does this help?

John Ta