SMS from a SAP system

[Ganimede-Dignan]

Hi forum,

I would send SMS message from a SAP system (an ECC 6.0 as example). How ?

what kind of hw/sw do we need ?

Regards.

Ganimede Dignan

[athavanraja · Accepted solution]

it depends on the service provider (mobile phone) some providers offer a service where in you can send an email to the number (something like countrycode+mobilenumber@serviceprovider.com) and that would get delivered as sms. There are various options, but all depends on what your service provider offers

You dont need any additional software/hardware other then ECC 6.0

[Ganimede-Dignan · Accepted solution]

Thx,

do you know other solution ? ... with an in-house HW/SW ?

Regards.

[eddy_declercq · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Pls check the possibilities of the SAPconnect Communication Interface concerning SMS at

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/42/ea000fb4b31a71e10000000a422035/frameset.htm

Eddy

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[stephenjohannes · Accepted solution]

Ganimede,

For SMS you probably should consider using a 3rd party gateway provider. These providers usually will have a web services interface. This interface then can be invoked via the web services toolset available in ECC 6.0. It should be relatively easy to call the webservice from your system.

The key part is to find a provider that works for your country. You can use this wikipedia article as a good starting point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateways

If you are looking at US & Canada, then I can give you some more ideas. For other countries you might try mblox or clickatell.

Good luck,

Stephen

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

If your ECC system is setup for emailing (using an SMTP gateway), then that might be the easiest, cheapest method to send messages to SMS if the phone provider has email SMS.

The above WikiPedia article is good..particular the table of email conversions for phone providers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateways#Email.2Fweb_to_SMS

[Ganimede-Dignan · Accepted solution]

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