XI or 3rd party product

[Former Member]

Hi All,

From EDI perspective, XI requires external EDI adapters.

So what are the pros & cons of opting for XI or another 3rd party product.

Appreciate if someone could throw some light on it.

Thanks,

Best regards,

Prashant

[former_member223537 · Accepted solution]

Hi Prateek,

Could you please elaborate on adapter module ? If we do not require external EDI adapters, then that would be gr8 !.

Assuming XI & 3rd party product, both meet our requirements, then based on Cost/Scalability, which would be beneficial ?

Thanks,

Best regards,

Prashant

[prateek · Accepted solution]

Adapter modules are functionality we add to our existing adapters. For EDI purpose, we may create an adapter module for file adapter. This module will parse the EDI file into the XML format based on various rules that are part of EDI specifications (e.g. ANSI X12, EDIFACT). This adapter module could be developed both for sender side and receiver side.

U may view the adapter module development related details here.

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e21106cc-0c01-0010-db95-dbfc0ffd...

Regards,

Prateek

[prateek]

<i>From EDI perspective, XI requires external EDI adapters.</i>

For some specific requirements, EDI files can be handled by using conversion agent or developing an adapter module. So in that case, external adapters would not be required.

XI is suitable both for the SAP and non SAP systems integration. Ur integration requirements like the quantity of msg, msg size, type of communication etc are the factors on which the evaluations about pros and cons could be made.

Pros would always be the architecture of XI and future support by SAP. Cons could come into picture if both the communicating parties does not involve any SAP system

Regards,

Prateek