Strengths

[Former Member]

What are the SAP XI/PI strengths.

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Sushma

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Sushma,

Below are some Imp & Related links of XI/PI mighe be helpful to you

SAP XI /PI is currently in market service pack etc

Find out here some important links on PI7.1

XI 3.0 and PI 7.0:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/c9/9844428e9cbe30e10000000a155106/frameset.htm

PI 7.1:

Refer the below links:

Introduction:

Step-by-Step guide for Processing Huge Messages

Modelling Tool in PI7.1

Validations using JAVA

All you want to know about PI7.1

Blogs Regarding Mappings:

More links on this Discussion forum:

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Venkat Anil

[Former Member]

thanks

[Former Member]

Different Middleware tools in the market are SAP XI------SAP EAI tool

TIBCO

Webmethods

Mercutor and genetron(EDI)

In the market most famous and emerged Middleware is TIBCO and SAP XI. TIBCO is a High end integration technology where as SAP XI is sap subsidiary EAI tool so, It is Basically Integration between SAP, Non SAP(File systems, Database systems, Remote clients, Mail server, EDI systems, Messaging systems, Portals.

For TIBCO you should have exp or knowledge on JAVA

For SAP XI you should have SAP ABAP(ALE/IDocs/RFC) and JAVA also.

So XI3.0/PI7.0 is still under developing as per my Knowledage its haveing good future.

And in general...

Advantages of XI:

u2022 Easy Integration with SAP products & components (RFC, IDOC, Proxy).

u2022 Data security as expected from any SAP product.

u2022 Standards based - XML, XSD, Xpath etc

u2022 Ability to communicate with other messaging systems/products.

u2022 Business Process Management

u2022 Synchronous & Asynchronous communication possible.

u2022 Complex processes for communication possible instead of only sending and receiving (business process management) (connect e.g. asynchronous and synchronous steps, define complex communication scenarios)

u2022 Mapping etc possible to accomplish in Java. Platform independent Java components.

u2022 Big range of adapters for different technologies / tools (SOAP, Mail, JDBC, CDIX...)available in standard or offered by other companies (EDI e.g. by Seeburger).

u2022 Process functionalities inside XI to modify content in the communication channel on own defined rules for business purposes.

u2022 Central monitoring for data communication for all your communication between different systems.

[Former Member]

Hi,

1. right now you are using point to point connection which is not the best way.

2. XI is a middleware tool (you can send message to many apdaters: SOAP, mail, file/ftp ) by XML messages .

3. Error handling and Sloving the error easrier.

4.Integrate with SAP and Non SAP applications..........

5.XI has it's own Monitoring to track the incoming and outgoing messages

6.Synchronous and Asynchronous communication

7.Reusable components

8.Reducing cost of development work in future

9.End to End montoring the messages in SAP XI is great

10.Maintance is easeir .

11.The biggest Advantage of XI is that it supports web services.

12.It has the feature of business process management(BPM) which enables us to impliment the

business logic.

13.XI has a hub-n-spoke model as compared to publish -n-subscribe model of many other middlewares.

Others could be related to the pre delivered content that XI provides for various business solutions.

For more comparisons with other middlewares check this link

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

[Former Member]

Hi,

For more details check this URL:

Thanks.

Boopathi

[Former Member]

Thanks to all

When Compare to other EAI tools what are major diffrences.?

[prateek]

One major point would be, it is recommended by SAP

XI has a hub-n-spoke model as compared to publish -n-subscribe model of many other middlewares. Others could be related to the pre delivered content that XI provides for various business solutions.

Here is a system support related discussion

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

Regards,

Prateek

[Former Member]

Hi Sushma,

1) SAP XI is to provide single point of integration of all systems inside and outside the corporate boundary across technologies and organizational boundaries.

2) The main feature is openness, flexible and transparency to the integration process. It is based on ESA and SOA.

3) The overall concept is to drive integrated business process across heterogeneous and highly dynamic landscapes in a more manageable cost effective way.

4) The basic idea is to provide runtime infrastructure which allows heterogeneous systems to be tied together with fewer connections and at the same time, in order to connect those applications and messages flow from one application to other, have a centralized storage of integration knowledge.

Lavanya B.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Refer this article

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/systemsmanagement/asug%2bbiti%2bstrategic%2bgoals...

and also

1) Eager to work in a dynamic environment where flexibility, pro-activity, team spirit and customer focus

are the keywords

2) Able to work independently as well as part of a team ensuring that the teamu2019s objectives and deliverables are attained

3) An excellent communicator with clients and customers

Regards,

Surya