SAP Exchange Infrastructure provides open integration technologies that support process-centric collaboration among SAP and non-SAP components, both within and beyond enterprise boundaries.

When the components that support business processes are spread across heterogeneous systems, changes to those components can get expensive. SAP Exchange Infrastructure reduces the costs of, and removes the barriers to, true integration. It consolidates the knowledge necessary to access functionality, integrate systems, and drive business processes in a shared knowledge base.

Integration Made Easy

SAP Exchange Infrastructure overcomes the fundamental challenges of integrating across the IT landscape by providing:

• Complete openness – SAP Exchange Infrastructure builds on industry-standard technology, including Web services, XML messaging, and Java and Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standards. So it ensures future flexibility and extensibility.
• Solution life-cycle management – SAP Exchange Infrastructure covers the entire solution life cycle, including design, development, deployment, and change. It provides prepackaged SAP integration knowledge and enables you to construct a partner ecosystem by supporting third-party collaboration content and implementation knowledge.
• Lower total cost of ownership – SAP Exchange Infrastructure separates integration-related knowledge from underlying application code. So it enables a reliable, scalable IT infrastructure that integrates both SAP and non-SAP components.

Through the strength of its integration capabilities, SAP Exchange Infrastructure enables a new breed of adaptive business solution. And ensures process-centric collaboration across the extended value chain.