In this blog I am going to show you how to achieve RESTFullness with PI REST Adapter. Use this blog as a hands-on starting point to your RESTFull journey. I have followed the blog series at http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-60854 and it’s really full of information. With this blog I am going to share the example I prepared to practice REST Adapter, so as to give you head start.

Scenario

I am going to use the rest service http://www.thomas-bayer.com/sqlrest. This service gives information about Customer, Invoice, Item & Product. The iFLOW's that I created are REST to REST (just to keep it simple and show both sender and receiver configurations).

Concepts

The REST call in my example can go up to three levels deep. So I created three different iFLOW's representing three different entities.

Level 0 (IFLOW: Test_R2R): http://HOST:PORT/RESTAdapter/sqlrest/

Level 1 (IFLOW: Test_R2R_Level1): http://HOST:PORT/RESTAdapter/sqlrest/CUSTOMER/

Level 2 (IFLOW: Test_R2R_Level2): http://HOST:PORT/RESTAdapter/sqlrest/CUSTOMER/11/

iFLOW

Please import the attached iFLOW’s to run the scenario in your PO SP8 and above.

Some important REST adapter configurations

Sender REST Endpoint is same for all three iFOWS:

Since Level 0 is the default so use “/” in the URL Pattern in the sender REST.

Level 0 Receiver Rest is to be configured as follows

Level 1 represent Customer or Item or Product therefore in this configuration we use patters to capture the details of the Level 1 as “resource”. The Level 1 sender REST adapter need following configuration.

In the Level 1 receiver REST adapter the “resource” is read from the dynamic configuration and is used here to generate the right URL.

For the Level 2 sender REST adapter we now configure two parameters “resource” & “id”.

In the Level 2 receiver REST adapter the values of “resource” and “id” are read from the dynamic configuration to generate the right URL.

Good Luck!!

Introduction

Everyone knows that cloud applications are the hot topic these days. In the area of business travel, Concur is the market leader for cloud based travel & expense solutions. It is no wonder that SAP acquired Concur recently in SAP's march towards cloud era.

In the area of integration, Concur provides a rich and mature set of RESTful APIs. The online API documentation is very extensive, and it also provides a web-based UI to test those APIs without any external tool or creating custom programs.

One of the key areas of integration for Concur is the generation of the Standard Accounting Extract (SAE). Once the business expenses are approved on Concur, an extract of the approved expenses can be generated to be fed into a payment system. In SAP's case, this would typically be integrated into the Finance module on ECC as GL/AP postings. At this point in time, there is no prepackaged PI/PO content for integration with Concur. Hopefully with the acquisition, SAP will deliver prepackaged contents similar to those available for SuccessFactors and Ariba.

In this blog, I will share my experience for the integration centric process developed on PO's BPM to extract the SAE file from Concur. Consumption of Concur's RESTful API is achieved via Advancto's REST adapter as it requires OAuth 2.0 authentication method, which is not yet available on SAP's own REST adapter. The focus of the blog will be on the high level overview of the solution and will not go into too much details of each step of the implementation.

Standard Accounting Extract Process Flow

In order to extract the SAE file from Concur, 4 different APIs need to be executed in sequence. As such, it cannot be achieved by a single stateless integration scenario in PI. It requires a stateful process which can theoretically be achieved by an ABAP program, however it is well suited to be modeled in BPM as there are no business logic involved.

Following are the sequence of steps required to extract the SAE file via Concur's Extract Web Service:

1. Get Extract Definition
2. Post Extract Job Initiation Request
3. Get Extract Job Status - Repeat until Status = Completed
4. Get Extract File

Note: Step 1 can be skipped if the Extract Definition is always the same, therefore the same Definition ID is always used for Step 2.

Challenges

Whilst the sequence of steps is relatively straightforward to implement in BPM (sequentially go through each step), there are various challenges in order to achieve a robust solution.

1. Retry mechanism

Step 3 has to be repeated indefinitely until the status returned by the synchronous call is Completed. Depending on the load and resource availability of the Concur system, this could be as fast as 1 minute or as long as 3-4 hours! As such, a multi-tiered retry interval was implemented so that the step is not repeated every minute and therefore unnecessarily consuming resources on the PO system.

2. BPM Process Starting Trigger

In addition to the RESTful APIs listed above, I added an additional call to the ReportDigests API as the first step that triggers the start of the BPM. This API checks if there are any approved expenses in Concur. If there are no approved expenses, the BPM is terminated normally without further execution of the Extract APIs.

This first step is triggered by a sender REST communication channel in polling mode with a polling frequency of every hour.

3. Exception Handling for Step 2 (Post Extract Job Initiation)

Once an extract job for a particular definition has already been submitted to the Concur system, it will be queued in Concur while waiting for available resources. Concur does not allow more than one job for the same definition to be queued at the same time. Therefore if there is a long running job already submitted, a subsequent call of Step 2 will return an application error. A boundary event is defined for the fault message associated to this step to catch the application error. If there is an error, the BPM will be routed to the exception path to trigger an email notification and terminate normally.

4. Optimize BPM process context by reducing payload size

After completion of Step 4 to retrieve the generated extract file, the response of the web service call will be returned to the BPM process. It is possible that the response contains a large payload and thus increases the memory usage of the BPM process context. One approach to avoid loading the large response payload into the BPM process is by using the Claim Check Integration Pattern as described in the blog below. However, my system is on a lower SP so it was not available.

Claim Check enhancements in SAP Process Orchestration

An alternative approach was used whereby the response payload was zipped and encoded into a Base64 string. The Base64 content is stored in the following field in an XML payload. It is this XML payload that is returned back to the BPM process. This conversion is performed via a Java Mapping on the response flow of Step 4.

With this, the size of the payload loaded into the BPM was about 10% of the original payload size - a 90% reduction!

5. Multiple files from Extraction job

Depending on the extract definition configured in Concur, it is possible to have multiple files as the output of the extraction job. If there are multiple files, the response payload of Step 4 will be a Zip file containing multiple pipe delimited files.

In order to handle multiple files in the extraction, a custom Java mapping was developed to unzip the file and create additional attachments from each file in the Zip archive. The following document covers that solution.

Java Mapping: Unzip file and create additional attachments

References

As this was my first development on NW BPM compared to previous ccBPM developments on PI dual stack system, the following SCN articles came in very handy to shorten the learning curve for developing in NW BPM as well as implementing advanced error handling.

NetWeaver BPM for System-to-System Message Orchestration (Including Migration of ccBPM to NW BPM)

Integration Centric Process - Advanced Exception Handling in BPM

Appendix

Below is the full diagram of the BPM process flow.

Hi All,

I'm looking for SAP B2B dashboard monitoring and it's features with examples/screenshots. Can you guys help to detail it out pls

thx

mike

Hi experts,

We are facing an issue in XSLT mapping for one of the inbound scenario.

While executing the source message at mapping level, it is failing with the error text - "javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: com.sap.engine.lib.xsl.xpath.XPathException: Error parsing query -> java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method java.lang.Object.toString() of a null object loaded from local variable 'o'

Kindly help us on this issue!

FYI - We are facing this issue in PO 7.4 version.

Best Regards,

Uday.

Hi,

I'm having problem in operation mapping that i re-used in nw bpm.

In my scenerio in the operation mapping, a UDF writes on "TServerLocation" and in the next step of BPM, i have receiver determination rule which read from "TServerLocation" variable.

Below step calls OM which in PI.

(UDF writes on TserverLocation)

This next step, reads TserverLocation in receiver tab of Integration Conguration.

Receiver rule

So the problem is dynamic configuration doesn't write on TserverLocation or integration confiuration object removes in soap header somehow.

This was a ccBPM integration and all esr objects, mapping,udfs working fine. No problem with that.

I checked below blog but not get this work.

Dynamic Configuration not working with Integrated Configuration

Has anyone faced similar problem ?

Thank you

-Tahir

Hello,

Is there a way to easily perform the following mapping in ESR (graphical tool)?

Source:

<ShipFrom>CUST01</ShipFrom><ShipTo>CUST02</ShipTo>

Destination:

<Party>     <RoleCode>Z1</RoleCode>     <InternalID>CUST01</InternalID></Party><Party>     <RoleCode>Z2</RoleCode>     <InternalID>CUST02</InternalID></Party>

Party has occurence 0..unbounded.

RoleCode Z1 and Z2 are constants.

Thank you in advance for your help,

Guillaume

The latest SP of SAP Process Orchestration 7.31 / 7.4 has been shipped in March this year. So let me summarize what new features and enhancements it brought to you.

Substitution profiles

As a BPM task owner you need to assign one or more substitutes when on leave or otherwise unavailable. So far, more generic substitution rules were supported only, e.g., Anna substitutes John from 3rd of August until 11th of August for all tasks assigned to John. With the new substitution profiles you can categorize your tasks, and hence are able to define more specific task forwarding based on the kind of tasks. For instance, you may define a substitution rule for John that defines Anna as substitute for all HR related tasks during John's absence however excluding functional tasks. The substitution profiles are currently supported in the Unified Inbox and My Inbox. Furthermore, a public Java API is supported to manage substitution profiles. For more details, refer to the blog Maintaining Substitution Profiles for SAP BPM Tasks in Unified Inbox.

Further REST adapter capabilities

For provisioning and consumption of RESTful services, we have recently shipped a new so called REST adapter. With the latest SP, this adapter has been enhanced supporting the following new features:

• Custom error handling: You can maintain rules for defining how the message processing should behave in certain error situations. For instance, you would like to ignore particular error codes, or you would like to reply with a custom message based on message content, etc.

• Logging of raw JSON content before and after conversion: If your RESTful service supports JSON format, the original payload in JSON format is logged before converted into XML. This may be required for audit reasons.

• Authentication with OAuth 2.0 SAML Bearer Token profile.
• JSON to XML conversion enhancements to escape invalid XML name and XML name start characters: If the JSON request contains keys that would lead to invalid XML names, you can escape the invalid characters with the specified sequence, e.g., a blank, an ampersand, a number at the beginning, etc.

• Setting of custom HTTP header elements in REST receiver adapter: if you like to consume a RESTful service that requires specific http header elements added to the http request, you can specify those http header elements In the REST receiver channel. By using variables you can access payload as well as adapter specific attributes when defining the same.

If you like to learn more about the REST adapter capabilities, check out the following blog series PI REST Adapter - Blog Overview. We will soon add further blogs describing the new features in more detail.

Monitoring enhancements

Some of the monitors which are provided within the Configuration and Monitoring Home page (alias pimon) were still pointing to the Runtime Workbench (RWB). The issue with the Runtime Workbench is that the technology is not accessible. Over the time we have replaced RWB monitors with monitors running in the NetWeaver Administrator (NWA) which supports the accessibility product standards. The following new NWA monitors replacing the corresponding RWB monitors have been shipped with the current SP:

• Message status overview for the Integration Server
• CPA cache history
• Cache connectivity test

In the message monitor of the RWB it was possible to select a runtime component within your PI domain. Now, this is also supported in the NWA message monitor. This means that you are able to centrally monitor all messages within your PI domain including non-central adapter engines and SAP backend systems connected via ABAP proxies.

Furthermore, in the send test message UI as an alternative to the payload editor you can now upload the payload from a file which is more convenient compared to copy&paste especially when testing your scenarios with large files.

Copy and resend of successful messages from archive

In the previous SPs we have introduced a new feature that allows you to copy and re-send already successfully processed messages. The use case is to retrieve lost messages within your receiving backend system in case that a recovery is not otherwise possible. With the previous shipment, it was possible to copy messages from the data store only. However, in most cases those messages would have been archived already. With the current enhancement, copy from archive has been added. The copy from archives behaves like the copy from data store, i.e., both modes are supported copy and immediate sending and copy only.

Enhanced message flow search for rules in compound flows

As a prerequisite for using the Message Flow Monitor in SAP Solution Manager, the integration scenarios deployed on your landscape, i.e., the so called message flows, are automatically discovered. This discovery is part of the Integration Visibility core component running on your PI system. In case of integration scenarios running through two PI runtime components, e.g., a b2b scenario that connects an SAP Process Orchestration system with a non-central adapter engine running in the DMZ, two message flows are combined in a so called compound flow. In order to be able to discover such compound flows, you need to maintain rules that define which message flow is the predecessor and which is the successor message flow. So far, when defining those rules, the only information available to pick the right message flows was their flow names. Two message flows can actually have the same name and hence it was sometimes hard to find the right message flows. With the current enhancement you have five additional attributes which are displayed in the rules editor: flow id, sender component, sender interface, receiver component, and receiver interface. To be able to see those additional columns you need to switch to the Expert mode.

Large file handling for SFTP adapter

The SFTP adapter is part of the PI Secure Connectivity add-on 1.0. We have recently released a new patch for SP4 of the add-on adding content conversion and large file handling capabilities to the SFTP adapter. The content conversion capabilities are the same like in the file adapter, i.e., supporting conversion from flat file to XML and vice versa. For large file handling we do support two approaches: chunking and message file transfer bypassing the PI runtime. For former mode, the incoming large messages are divided into chunks of configurable size, and aggregated at PI outbound. For latter, the large file is moved to a target directory without entering the PI runtime. Only the metadata of the file transfer such as file location, file name, file size, etc., are put into the PI runtime. For more details, see SFTP Adapter - Handling Large File.

For more details of all new 7.31 SP15 / 7.4 SP10 features, refer to the release notes.

Hello:

We've some Rest Full JSON services, which will be published to be consumed for an external system.

We're discussing about the convenience of passing it throught SAP PO or consuming it directy.

If we pass it throught SAP PO, it implies an HTTP > XML > HTTP conversion, and it's possible that the performance may be affected.

What do you think about this scenario?.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

How to convert a filename which is being polled from a SAP directory into lowercase filename.. Ex. ABcd100115.xml to abcd100115

Hi PO BPM Gurus,

We have multiple PO BPM’s running at the same time in our environment, each BPM is doing a WS call to SAP ECC to post transactions.  During the day, some messages will error out in BPM saying that cannot invoke the service reference without any other detail.  In this case I just restart the BPM and the goes in cleanly.   What could be the possible cause of error?

Rgds,

Yves

Hi All,

We are upgrading one interface from ABAP mapping to Graphical/Java mapping in PI upgrade.(7.1 dual stack to 7.4 version)

In ABAP mapping there is character conversion like below.

  encoding    = '1164'

      replacement = '?'

We want to implement the same functionality either through Java or graphical mapping . But we are not sure what are the range  of characters that need to be converted to '?' and also what is the most optimized way to achieve this functionality.

Below are few sample of characters coming in the file:

б,л,к,У,М,л,и,о,ф..etc

Do you look for a way of integrating your SAP PI landscape with other REST services or to publish a REST service yourself using an SAP PI Endpoint?

If yes, then this blog could be of interest for you.

Do you have already had a look at the SAP PI REST Adapter and its configuration and now you feel “a bit overwhelmed” by the amount of settings?

If yes, then this blog is also the right one for you.

We have prepared a collection of blog entries for the REST Adapter that shows architectural concepts and configuration of the SAP PI REST Adapter and explain the internal processing steps. We also added some sample scenarios to make it easier for you to understand how your scenario can be implemented using the PI REST Adapter.

Let's get started.

The first Blog in this series is about the REST Adapter concept and its configuration capabilities. It is a good ramp-up start for working with the REST adapter. It is called

PI Rest Adapter - Don't be afraid

The next blog in the series deals with a simple scenario that shows how to consume a synchronous RESTful service. In the example, the target URL is set dynamically by using variables.

REST Adapter - Consuming synchronous RESTful service

A useful scenario is the next one that shows how to call a SAP function module via PI’s RFC adapter, and expose the same as a RESTful service.

PI REST Adapter – Exposing a function module as RESTful service

If you like to know more about JSON conversion within the REST adapter, take a look here:

PI REST Adapter – JSON to XML conversion

In case of the provisioning of RESTful services using a REST sender adapter, you have full flexibility for defining the endpoint of the service. An example of a dynamic endpoint can be seen here:
PI REST Adapter – Defining a dynamic endpoint

Within the REST adapter we have shipped a set of pre-defined adapter specific atributes that can be used to control the message flow. Furthermore, you have the possibility to define own custom attributes. An example is shown here:

PI REST Adapter – Using dynamic attributes

A new concept in PI which is unique to the REST adapter is that you are able to expose one and the same endpoint for addressing multiple Integration Flows. Besides the dynamic endpoint definition explained above, this gives you one more option in the definition of endpoints and your routing rules.

PI REST Adapter – Same endpoint for multiple Integration Flows

How the full set of CRUD operations can be mapped to the operations of a Service Interface in SAP PI is shown in the following example.

PI REST Adapter - Map CRUD operations to Service Interface Operations

If you like to learn more about the various options that the REST adapter supports for handling error situations, check out the following blog.

PI REST Adapter - Custom error handling

Some RESTful services require specific http headers. The following blog shows you along a use case how you can add custom http header elements to the receiver REST adapter.

PI REST Adapter - Define custom http header elements

Still not found what you were looking for?

No problem! Just let us know what kind of information is missing and how we can help.

Was recently working on a project and was surprised ( did not read fine print in the documentation) late in the project that namespace of XML document in the contract (WSDL) changes when you move from Dev - QA -Prod .

Ammm ! The challenge I had was, the WSDL (bottom up design approach) was used to generate JAXB code for Java Mapping.... so I was tightly coupled to contract . (too much effort to maintain code per landscape)....

Possible Options :

1. Re Import the WSDL from third party system (QA, Prod..), update reference to Service Interface and mappings ...( Effort , Against the Governance , Will not work for my scenario , Additional effort of managing Java Mapping code base per landscape....)

2. Change the namespace at Runtime in Adapter Module ...

option 2 looks good for my problem, resulted in me building this custom adapter module..... it is generic and can be used for any Interface..., configurable component..  can transport your ESR objects  ... and use adapter module to change the namespace....

* is it good practice ? .. sure it falls under message transformation.....

Attached is adapter module java class ( saved in txt..)... that you can copy paste in adapter module project.....

Adapter Project/Code is dependent on open source jar file JLIBS

Require following jar file and can be downloaded from below link

Jar Files: jlibs-core.jar,jlibs-xml.jar, and jlibs-xmldog.jar

Downloads - jlibs - Common Utilities for Java - Google Project Hosting

In addition to above, you require standard PI jar files for adapter module development. (Follow below link for adapter module development)

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c0b39e65-981e-2b10-1c9c-fc3f8e6747fa?overridelayout=t…

Attached is adapter module configuration steps ..(communication channel)

Adapter module configuration sample

Hi Folks,

I suppose this might be a common issue. When I send an IDOC from PO to ECC and select the following options in the IDOC receiver receiver Channel I see the sender port is populated as TRFC instead PO sender port. This looks to be a default instead can't we have the actual Port of PO populated?

Regards

Kalyan.

Has anyone seen the following issue?

We are having a problem in PI production with the authentication on the proxy since we upgraded to 7.4

The PI system uses a proxy user to connect to the German authority.

Since we upgraded to 7.4 whether or not the connection works is determined by the last person that logged on to the server.

This should not make any difference, since the integration builder is configured to use a proxy user to authenticate to the proxy for

the Elster communication channel.

However, the proxy logs shows that PI is using anonymous instead of the proxy user which is defined in the communication channel.

This is the cause of the symptom mentioned earlier.

Regards,

Aubrey Smith

Hello Experts,

    I have done CTS+ Configuration. I can capture the design objects in pi development.But Quality and Production system are showing not valid configure organizer client in tms.

Please help me this.

Thanks.

Dear All,

I'm working on a scenario where we are using BRF+ created in SAP ECC.

Since the business rules change frequently,we decided to used BRF+ instead of NWBRM where user/functional consultant can maintain rules easily.

The application is already created in ECC based on business requirement now I have to used this rules in interface to transfer data based on rules.

How can I call BRF+ rules through message mapping?

Can we used rfc lookup or soap lookup like we do in NWBPM in SAP PO 7.4.

Regards

Niraj

Hi Experts ,

               i had a scenario of file to idoc. here we are having the Process Orchestration environment which is a single stack environment. if it is idoc to file we have to configure the following

1. 1.     Configurations in Netweaver Administrator.

•         1. Settings in Application Resources i.e. inbounRA ( inbound Resource Adapter) Properties such as max thread count ,modifying  the Local property value as true

                2. Create a JCO RFC provider Destination

        2. Configurations at sender system(ECC)

1. 1. Create a logical system
2. 2. Create a Rfc destination of type T by using transaction code (SM59)
3. 3. Create a port by using the transaction code (we21)
4. 4. Create a Partner profile of type outbound by using the transaction code (we20)
5. 5. If it is master data then create the distribution model by using the transaction code (bd64)

Here we are not importing the metadata in pi because we creating the sender communication channel which runs on java stack.

So in case of file to idoc what are the Pre requisites i need to do ?

If there is any mistakes in my under standing please correct me

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HANA Cloud Integration: Webinar Series In this blog Meghna Shishodiya announces a new HANA Cloud Integration (HCI) webinar series starting on May 29 with an overview, architecture and security aspects. Bookmark the blog for upcoming dates and join us to learn everything you wanted to know about hci and get your questions answered. May 2014

Intelligent Business Operations global webcast on 12/6: Infuse bigdata insights into your business processes in realtime This webcast will showcase real-life examples of how to work smarter by infusing #BigData insights into your processes, how to take corrective actions when or even before issues occur, anticipate what will happen using predictive analytics, gain real-time visibility into your end-to-end operations. Register for the live event on 12/6 and/ or to get the slides and replay. June 2014

SAP Middleware solutions at SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG 2014 For all who are at the exciting venue, here is a compilation of all must see SAP Middleware sessions and demo theaters at SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG annual conference. June 2014

Middleware Tech Academies at Saphila 2014 - 9&10 June If you plan to attend the conference do not miss the Intelligent Business Operations ibo hands-on workshops. On both 9 & 10 June you can learn more about the SAP IBO technology bundle and try the software. June 2014

Intelligent Business Operations #IBO Technical Academy in the UK on 30th May - free seats available! With this blog Tony Read invites you to join SAP and CompriseIT for a hands-on workshop on Intelligent Business Operations covering SAP Process Orchestration and SAP Operational Process Intelligence on HANA. The workshop is free for all SAP customers and prospects. There are 3 dates in the UK and we start on May 30th. Email Tony to book your seat today. May 2014

SP11 of SAP Process Orchestration 7.31 is now available in Public Cloud! In this blog Abhinag Palvadi announces the upgrade of the SAP Process Orchestration trial offering to an instance with the latest available version - SP11 equivalent to SP6 of SAP Process Orchestration 7.4. Check it out! May 2014

2014 Global SAP Process Integration survey with special topics BPM and Orchestration The 2014 PI survey is now open and this year the special topics are BPM and Process Orchestration. The survey aims to collect information about the latest state of positioning, organization and use in companies using SAP Process Integration or SAP Process Orchestration as their integration platform. You will find all details and survey access link in Holger Himmelmann’s blog. Participate and help beat the 2013 response record! May 2014

May 27th - join us for an SAP Process Orchestration Roadmap Webinar! In this webinar SAP Product Management will highlight the latest innovations and planning for SAP Process Orchestration. You will also learn how Process Orchestration customers can benefit by enabling intelligent business operations ibo on the SAP HANA platform and how to take advantage of other Middleware offerings such as SAP Gateway and SAP HANA Cloud Integration hci. May 2014

2014 Webcast Series: Tap into business agility with SAP Middleware solutions These informative public webcasts will showcase the advantages of SAP Middleware offerings that build on the trusted SAP NetWeaver technologies and leverage SAP HANA and the cloud. We start on April 30 - join us for a talk on Intelligent Business Operations: Infuse Big Data insights into your processes in real-time. April 2014

New roadmap for SAP Process Orchestration is now available In this blog Christian Loos announces that the former individual PI and BPM product roadmaps have been combined into one single Process Orchestration roadmap. Review all planned innovations and stay tuned for the upcoming roadmap webcast. April 2014

What is new in SAP Process Orchestration 7.31 SP10 & 11 | 7.40 SP05 & 06 In this blog Stephan Schluchter provides you with detailed overview of all new features and enhancement like technical error handling in BPM, value help, BPM OData start process service and inbox enhancements, as well as operating and monitoring enhancements, improved runtime behavior of adapter engine, B2B enhancements and more. Also read about the new SuccessFactors (SFSF) adapter which is now available as part of the release independent SAP PI, connectivity add-on 1.0. April 2014

Introduction to Intelligent Business Operations powered by SAP HANA If you are a Process owner, you have certainly imagined what it would be to have real time visibility into day to day business operations. What if you could see problems before they hit? If you are a Process developer, you have always wanted tools for solving business requests to IT in real time. In this blog Silvio Arcangeli explains how Intelligent Business Operations with SAP HANA can help you quickly and firmly set your organization towards real time business navigation even in heterogeneous IT landscapes and/ or currently no SAP footprint. April 2014

A new CEI – influence the new set of goal-driven smart process apps build on OPInt levering SAP HANA Alan Rickayzen invites you to a new customer engagement initiative project for development of goal-driven smart process apps. This is a new set of domain-specific applications that are both intelligent and pro-active dealing with both standardized and unforeseen business situations to reach specific business goals. Apps will be built on SAP Operational Process Intelligence opint powered by HANA. Don't miss the opportunity to influence the development. Deadline April 9th - join now!April 2014

Survey: usage of cloud based business scenarios and their integration Your opinion counts! With just 5-10 mins of your time you can support a scientific study carried out by Itelligence AG, SAP and the University of Paderborn. Udo Paltzer invites you to take a short survey to help us understand your requirements, knowledge, acceptance, complexity and safety concerns around using "services from the cloud". Mar 2014

SAP Middleware newsletter – the newest addition to the SCN newsletters family! Free monthly insight into all innovations in ALM, Software Logistics, Software Defined Data Center solutions, Virtualization & Cloud Management, Architecture, Process Orchestration, Decision Service Management,Operational Process Intelligence, SAP HANA Cloud Integration, Big Process and Big Data and powerful technology bundles like Intelligent Business Operations with SAP HANA. Mar 2014

Value Help in SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration Value Help or Search Help (often referred to as F4 Help in the ABAP world) is available as of SAP NetWeaver 7.31 SP10 | 7.40 SP5. With this blog Abdul-Gafoor Mohamed has started a series of blogs aiming to introduce you to the various aspects of Value Help. Mar 2014

The new B2B Trading Partner Management functionality explained In this blog Shilpa Nair and Sarath Sasi provide a summary and links to all recent content on the new Trading Partner Management functionality shipped with SP2 of the SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration B2B Add-on. Feb 2014

Improved monitoring of B2B scenarios running on SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 SAP customers using the B2B add-on with SAP NetWeaver Process Integration & Orchestration may benefit from the latest enhancements shipped with SP02 of the B2B add-on. In this blog series, Alexander Bundschuh focuses on the new improvements which help enhance monitoring and tracking of your B2B business transactions. Also he gives details about the new central monitor with SAP Solution Manager 1.0 SP10, the so called Message Flow Monitoring, which provides you with an end-to-end insight into the correct closure of A2A and B2B conversations. Jan 2014

IFG Survey: Central PI Monitoring with SAP Solution Manager Monitoring is a key challenge according to the global 2013 PI survey. To gain a better understanding of the situation and requirements, the IFG for PI and SAP have launched a follow-up survey with focus on central PI monitoring with SAP Solution Manager. Read all details in Holger Himmelmann’s blog and participate. Jan 2014

Whitepaper: Intelligent Business Operations with SAP HANA This new whitepaper by Thomas Volmering and Harsh Jegadeesan demonstrates how you can significantly improve your business operations leveraging the co-deployment of SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration and SAP Operational Process Intelligence on the SAP HANA platform. Jan 2014

TechEd 2013 Replays on SAP's Orchestration and Integration Solutions Missed TechEd? Replay sessions on demand! In this blog Gabriela Gahse highlights the available recordings from TechEd Las Vegas 2013 on SAP Operational Process Intelligence, B2B with Process Orchestration and HANA Cloud Integration as well as Business Rules and Decision Service Management with SAP. Jan 2014

What's new in Process Orchestration 7.31 SP09 | 7.4 SP04 Key enhancements with SP09 are SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration on HANA, ability to co-deploy SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration and SAP Operational Process Intelligence opint  on the same HANA system and ValueHelp API. This blog by Mariana Mihaylova highlights all enhancements for customers running Business Process Management, Process Integration and Orchestration scenarios. Dec 2013

Released: SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration B2B Add-On SP2 In this blog Piyush Gakhar highlights the main enhancements with the latest SP like Trading Partner Management, new Messages Support for Tradacoms and EANCOM. Read this blog for a full overview of all new EDI and B2B features and enhancements. Dec 2013

Roadmap for SAP HANA Cloud Integration In this presentation Udo Paltzer provides an overview of the current capabilities and uses cases, as well as the roadmap for SAP HANA Cloud Integration (HCI). Do not miss the HCI library on SCN where you can find everything about hci in one place. Nov 2013

SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration @ SAP TechEd Bangalore 2013 If you are attending Bangalore this week, use this blog by Alexander Bundschuh to build your Integration and Orchestration agenda. Join our experts to find the latest and greatest about BPM | PI | Process Orchestration, SAP HANA Cloud Integration, Business Rules, B2B and SAP Operational Process Intelligence powered by SAP HANA. Nov 2013

First Process Orchestration Tech Academy in the UK, Nov 27th 2013 An invitation for SAP customers and/or prospective customers from SAP and CompriseIT. Join us in an interactive and engaging workshop where you will have the opportunity to build an app in a day. Try hands-on and enjoy the simplicity of the SAP Process Orchestration platform in a live environment.

SAP HANA Cloud Integration – Early Customer and Partner Project In this blog Udo Paltzer shares details about the opportunity to get hands-on experience with SAP HANA Cloud Integration. Join the program and become one of the early adopters!

Results: Global SAP NetWeaver PI Survey 2013 - Part 1 of 2 and Part 2 of 2 These two blogs by Holger Himmelmann reveal the results of the 2013 global SAP NetWeaver PI survey. Thanks to everyone who participated and shared their feedback!

SAP HANA Cloud Integration (HCI): Getting Started The first set of projects is underway, and now is a good time to get a closer look at the hci space. Review this blog by Meghna Shishodiya and also the SAP HANA Cloud Integration: An Intro by Sujit Hemachandran and join the conversation.

Big-Data Decision-Making made better with Business Rules in SAP HANA This is the first of series of blogs by Archana Shukla focusing on various aspects of business rules in SAP HANA to help you discover, learn, build, use and execute rules in form of decision tables.

SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration @ SAP TechEd 2013 teched_amsterdam is in full swing now! Find out from Alexander Bundschuh what you will experience in the areas of SAP NetWeaver BPM | PI | Process Orchestration, SAP HANA Cloud Integration, Business Rules and B2B.

SAP Operational Process Intelligence @ SAP TechEd 2013 If you are lucky to be at teched_amsterdam make sure you get yourself up to speed with sapopint on SAP HANA. In this blog Benjamin Notheis reveals a bit of what the sapopintteam has prepared for you for this year's TechEd.

Applying Process Mining Techniques to Process Observer Data using the ProM Toolkit In this blog, Bernd Schmitt shows an interesting approach for applying process mining techniques on top of log information for your business processes created with the Process Observer.

Webcast: SP1 of B2B Add-on with SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration> Overview and Roadmap This session is part of the ramp-up knowledge transfer program and will be presented by Piyush Gakhar from SAP Product Management. Read this blog for details and join us on Sep 30 or Oct 1!

What's new in SAP Process Orchestration 7.31 SP8/7.4 SP3 + Video In this blog Christian Loos shares all new enhancements for customers running Business Process Management, Process Integration and Orchestration scenarios. He has highlighted the most important new features in a short video.

Q&A: Process Orchestration Webcast Series In June SAP delivered a series of 5 webcasts. Check this Q&A blog to find a handful of answers to many important questions for all customers running or who consider running BPM, PI and Orchestration scenarios. Also check the related blogs. Replays of all 5 webcasts will be available until the end of 2013 to all registrants.

The Process Black Box – SAP Operational Process Intelligence shines a light inside + Webcast Recording Read SAP Mentor Owen Pettiford to find out how sapopint on SAP HANA compliments SAP NetWeaver BPM and SAP Business Workflow in moving towards being a Process Centric Organization. Also read Thomas Scaysbrook who is sharing useful Tips for your 1st business scenario with SAPOPInt.

Step by Step guide to update Advanced Adapter Engine System to Process Orchestration System Upgrade of AEX System to PO System is supported from 7.31 SP0 onwards. In this article Abhinag Palvadi explains in detail the steps of the upgrade.

Webinar Replay: The SAP NetWeaver BPM Roadmap If you could not join us on July 18th, you will find the recording in this blog. This webinar is a walk through current and future capabilities of SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management, SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management and SAP Operational Process Intelligence.

Global SAPNetWeaver PI Survey 2013: new record and 4 weeks to go! The survey will be closed on August 24th. Read more in Holger Himmelmann’s latest blog and do not miss to share your feedback. Thanks to everyone who already participated.

SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration – the best is yet to come! In this blog Volker Stiehl explains why you should opt in for Process Orchestration as your single Middleware platform from SAP. Also check in detail What is new in SP7 of SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration 7.31 and see all new and continuous investments that make SAP’s Middleware platform best in class.

Process Orchestration Highlights from SAPPHIRE NOW 2013 Read about Eduardo Chiocconi’s experiences and share yours if you have attended. Take a look at the two customer stories to find out how Bank of America and AmerisourceBergen are excelling with SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration.

Global Survey for SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 2013 The 2013 PI survey is now on and the focus this year is, not surprisingly, B2B and EDI. More details and survey access link in Holger Himmelmann’s blog. We look forward to your participation!

SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration Webcast Series 2013 Join us for a 5 webcast series to hear latest news about Process Management software from SAP: SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration including B2B capabilities, SAP Operational Process Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management. Please share with anyone who may be interested. We look forward to meeting you there!

Try SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration in Public Cloud! SAP is giving you a free license to try SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration in the cloud. Read this blog to find out how to get started.

BPMN within NWDS (NetWeaver Developer Studio) - Not just a Development tool! In his blog Thomas Scaysbrook points out the importance of using a BPMN modeller as early as possible in the process design and shares useful tips for aiding Business & IT communication and collaboration as the process is coming to life.

#SAPOPInt - Bipedal Process and Data Intelligence on #SAPHANA... Stop Hopping - RUN! In this blog Alan Rickayzen shows how inbuilt SAP HANA capabilities help Business users see a panoramic view of the business processes and respond to situations in real-time as they emerge.

* What is new in SP6 of SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration 7.31 Find out about the multiple new features and enhancements for Business Process Management, Process Integration and Orchestration scenarios. See how integration between SAP NetWeaver PI and BPM has been tightened further.

* Attending SAPPHIRE NOW? Catch up with Process Orchestration Champions! and Meet Workflow and BPM Champions at ASUG Annual Conference If you are lucky to be on site in Orlando, May 14-16, we invite you to explore first-hand what’s new in the SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration area. If you are attending SAPPHIRE NOW or ASUG Annual Conference or both, you will enjoy great content and speakers. Read all highlights in Mariana Mihaylova's blogs.

* You must try this! Test Drive SAP Operational Process Intelligence powered by SAP HANA

Get your hands on SAP Operational Process Intelligence powered by SAP HANA with the test drive we have created for you. Find out more in Harshavardhan Jegadeesan’s blog. Also check this video and find out how to join Ramp up here.

* Get your *free* BPM Enterprise Pattern models for SAPNetWeaver Process Orchestration here

In this blog Jocelyn Dart explains what are enterprise patterns for, what does it take and how to use them, plus shares a free download to help those of you who are getting into the wonderful world of SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration.

* Last call ASUG members! Join Monday webcast on Process Intelligence - first steps

If you've used SAP Business Workflow, SAP NetWeaver BPM or Process Observer, with this session Alan Rickayzen will show you how you can reap the benefits with SAP Operational Process Intelligence on SAP HANA.

* Released: SP1 of B2B Add-on and SFTP PGP with SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration

In this blog Piyush Gakhar introduces SP1 of the B2B and Secure connectivity Add-ons which bring variety of new features and enhancements.

* SAP Operational Process Intelligence powered by SAP HANA is here – join ramp-up now!

Read this document to find out more about this new offering and how to join ramp-up. Check out the overview video and share your thoughts on the related blog byPeter McNulty.

* Upgrade options to the latest Process Integration or Process Orchestration

In this blog William Li provides guidance on licensing, installation and upgrade for customers who are looking to move on to a higher release of PI or to Process Orchestration.

* Try SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration in Public Cloud!

Our customers and prospects can now try SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration and gain confidence in the solution before buying it. Also check this blog by Borislav Yovchev to find out how to Launch your instance via AWS CloudFormation

* 1) Configuring Async/Sync Bridge on SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration and 2) Configuring Sync/Async Bridge on SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration

In article 1) Alexander Bundschuh shows how to connect an asynchronous to a synchronous system via an async/sync bridge, and in 2) shows sync/async bridge. In both articles are described two approaches: purely within the messaging system via adapter module processor and via a BPM process.

* Enterprise Patterns in Process Orchestration – 1) Claim Check, 2) Composed Message Processor and 3) Scatter Gather

Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) help solve recurring problems in the integration of enterprise applications. In these articles Abdul-Gafoor Mohamed and Prashant Gautam introduce EIPs in the context of SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration. 8 Feb 2013

* Updates and information:

1) SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration in 2012 by Eduardo Chiocconi

2) December SCN Spotlight

3) Important for Partners: SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration on SAP PartnerEdge by Mariana Mihaylova24 Jan 2013

* Positioning of Process Orchestration and Data Services

In this document Florian Koeller outlines the delimitation between SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration/ Integration and SAP BusinessObjects Data Services.

* Moving Integration Directory Artifacts from dual stack to single stack

In this blog Meghna Shishodiya is providing an overview of the Directory Content Migration Tool.

* Consolidated view on release notes for Process Integration and Orchestration

Do you consider moving from a dual-stack installation towards Java-only to benefit from the latest improvements with SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration? Alexander Bundschuh’s blog is a must read guide if you are looking for feature comparison, understanding on which installation option would match your requirements and what target release you should go for.

* TechEd 2012: Process Orchestration session replays!

1) SAP TechEd 2012 Online Covering SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestrationby Benjamin Notheis and 2) SAP TechEd 2012 Online-2by Mariana Mihaylova

*What's new in SAP NetWeaver BPM 7.31 SP05

EhP1 for SAP NetWeaver 7.3 SP05 was released at the end of October. In this blog Christian Loos explains the enhancements included for BPM and Process Orchestration scenarios.

*SAP TechEd Online - a Personal Experience Part 1& Part 2

Missed Vegas? In this blog series Shabarish Vijayakumar will be summarizing takeaways from key SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration, Cloud Integration and Mobility sessions he watched online. Watch session replays of your choice at SAP TechEd Online!

*Download and Installation of SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration 7.31

*SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration SAPPHIRE NOW+TechEd Madrid 2012:

quick guides on sessions with PI focus by Alexander Bundschuh and on BPM focus by Benjamin Notheis. Build your PMC track agenda from here!

*SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration PI | B2B | BPM | BRM on SCN - October

October blog-newsletter by Mariana Mihaylova for all highlights in the Process Orchestration area.

*SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration technology in Healthcare

SAP NetWeaver PI brings tremendous value to Healthcare providers with the Health Level Seven (HL7) adapter. Read Bettina Lieske’s blog to find out how Haga Hospital connected more than 300 SAP and non-SAP apps benefitting patients, doctors and management.

*SAP’s B2B Integration Strategy

SAP has a 360 degree solution approach covering all aspects of the B2B integration needs of your organization: OnPremise, OnDemand and Hybrid. In his blog Piyush Gakhar introduces SAP’s Strategy for B2B Integration. Covering all available B2B solutions from SAP, this paper helps you determine when each of them is best to be used.

*SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration and SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management at SAP TechEd 2012

Here is your Process Orchestration/BPM quick guide by Benjamin Notheis

*SAP TechEd 2012 Sessions covering Process Orchestration with focus on Process Integration

Here is your Process Orchestration/Process Integration quick guide by SAP’s Alexander Bundschuh.

*Getting Started with SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration

A crisp SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration overview by Piyush Gakhar including licensing and deployment options for new/existing customers. Feel free to reach out to him if any questions.

*Workflow and Orchestration Solutions from SAP – Overview and Positioning

With this blog Eduardo Chiocconi introduces a collaborative whitepaper designed to help SAP Customers, Partners and Professionals with understanding workflow and orchestration solutions from SAP. Included are also details on interoperability and comparative summary with usage recommendations for each solution.

*New SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration RDS for EDI available now!

Migrate easily and cost efficiently from your legacy B2B integration solution to SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration using the new Electronic Data Interchange rapid deployment solution. Read more in Katrin Ahsen’s blog.

*Using SAP NetWeaver BPM for Stateful System-Centric Message Orchestration (Including Migration from ccBPM to SAP NetWeaver BPM)

With SAP NetWeaver Process Orchesteration 7.31 (PI, BPM and BRM) you can design integration with stateful processes using SAP NetWeaver BPM and PI. In this blog William Li shares useful insights about using SAP NetWeaver BPM to replace ccBPM in PI. He has taken the time to create a detailed article on the topic. You will find a link to it in the blog.

*Global Survey for SAP NetWeaver PI

We welcome you to participate in the global PI survey for 2012. Read Holger Himmelman’s blog and feel free to post questions or feedback. 20 June 2012

*Webinar Series: SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration

Register and join us for a series of webinars in July covering new capabilities of SAP NetWeaver PI, BPM and BRM, the road ahead and B2B!

*Early Experience with SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration 7.3 EhP1

SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration 7.3 EhP1 is already generally available. In this blog  Meghna Shishodiya provides a useful summary of ramp-up feedback from our certified ramp-up coaches who worked closely with our customers during ramp-up.

*SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration 7.31 Is Now Generally Available!

Our teams worked around the clock and the unrestricted shipment was approved 2 weeks before the planned date. Read William Li’s blog to find out about all the new features and benefits available as of now to all our customers.

*Welcome to SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration 7.31 and to the Process Orchestration space!

*Upcoming workshop: Process Excellence with BPM and Mobility - Jumpstart for Business and IT, November 8-9, PA, USA

Compiled by Incture Technologies and SAP Education this workshop is a great jumpstart for beginners but will bring fresh insights for anyone experienced in BPM on how process excellence is achieved with SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration and Mobility suites. Read more in Ritesh Menon’s blog.

*How SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration Can Assist and Improve the Capabilities of Mobile Applications

SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration is an innovative solution bundling SAP NetWeaver BPM, BRM and PI. This combination can easily extend your existing and new applications into the mobile environment, beyond the existing system-to-system integrations. In this blogWilliam Li outlines the different options and benefits.

*The Future of Process Orchestration with SAP

This session highlights the reasons why, as the pace of change accelerates, organizations' ability to adapt is hampered by the inflexibility of their process logic being locked in code. It provides an overview of SAP's Process Orchestration strategy and how it can provide a unified platform to enable organizations to more flexibly address change in their business.

*Experience SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration at SAPPHIRE NOW

If you are attending the event we welcome you to join the Process Orchestration sessions! For more details see this blog.

*Join the SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration 7.31 Ramp-Up! 

With SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration, you can now leverage the capabilities of the dual stack in a single stack based out of Java. You can now deploy the BPM engine on the same system instance as PI and take advantage of a lower TCO and higher flexibility. Nominations are accepted until May 31st 2012. Several workshops will be offered, so get registered and contact Sujit Hemachandran should you have questions.

Quick links:

*Get started with SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration

*Watch the SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration demo tour to learn how the software helps you reduce integration costs through one solution.

*Take a look at Process Orchestration Customer Testimonials to learn from peers how they avoided expensive customization and reaped immediate value for their organizations.