Usage of PI

[Former Member]

Dear All,

My scenario:

1) R/3(ECC) - - - PI(7.1) - - - MDM(7.1)

2) Portal(EP) - - - PI(7.1) - - - MDM(7.1)

If the above two scenarios were able to connect the corresponding servers directly then why do we need PI in between to connect those.

Could anyone give some justifications for the above stated query.

Thanks in Advance,

Lavanya.B

[former_member200962 · Accepted solution]

why do we need PI in between to connect those.

same as it is for other scenarios....message conversion/ monitoring etc etc

[Former Member]

Apart from the above listed features, PI plays a key role when you want to have the data sending across from ECC to MDM to be in different format and to make use of BPM (Business Process Management) to implement any logic and proces the messages.

Regards

sekhar

[Former Member]

Hi Lavanya,

It is basically used for Monitoring the data flow.Please go through this link for the message flow in MDM from PI for both sender and receiver : http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmdm71/helpdata/en/48/d1bc1b696d230ee10000000a42189b/frameset.htm.

Hope this answers your question.

Ravi

[stefan_grube]

> 1) R/3(ECC) - - - PI(7.1) - - - MDM(7.1)

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> 2) Portal(EP) - - - PI(7.1) - - - MDM(7.1)

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> If the above two scenarios were able to connect the corresponding servers directly then why do we need PI in between to connect those.

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> Could anyone give some justifications for the above stated query.

If possible to connect directly, do not use PI. Never use PI in a portal scenario.

[Former Member]

Hi Stefan Grube ,

Thanks for your reply .

We are going to use BPM-Portal tool from sender side to connect MDM7.1(receiver) so in this scenario, is PI needed to

connect those two systems?Kindly suggest on this.

Regards,

Lavanya.B

[stefan_grube]

If you do not use portal from SAP, then you should ask the vendor of the portal.

The EP from SAP can talk to any SAP system without PI.

Edited by: Stefan Grube on Feb 1, 2011 10:10 AM

[former_member208856]

PI System is for sending data from one system to another system. EP System does not have its database, the data exists in MDM System.

In the scenario of EP to PI to MDM, there is no use of PI System as EP System can connect directly with MDM System.