SAP Integration Platform

Automate and extend processes online with an SAP integration platform

Unify your landscape of diverse IT architectures seamlessly with the SAP Business Connector component. With open and non-proprietary business-to-business (B2B) integration standards, you can secure bidirectional, real-time, and asynchronous communication, electronic data interchange (EDI), and data synchronization between your IT systems and SAP solutions.

Why SAP Business Connector?

Because reusing existing IT infrastructure and expertise lowers the cost of deployment. Our component provides an integration platform to increase efficiency across the business and the customer experience by allowing tight enterprise application integration (EAI) between your third parties’ and customers’ infrastructures.

With SAP Business Connector, you can:

Provide business partners with B2B integration tools, BAPI programming interface, and intermediate document formats (IDoc) through online, secure XML-based services with minimal disruption and ramp-up time
Integrate trading partners to automate data exchange and extend the reach of your SAP software infrastructure to third parties, customers, banks, and government agencies
Support real-time data integration to allow bidirectional data transfer between online resources and SAP applications
Connect your in-house legacy system or third-party application with an in-house SAP software system
Implement and roll out EAI and EDI integration initiatives within days, not months

Learn how SAP Business Connector can simplify the lives of business users and IT staff:

Functional Capabilities

Standardized access to data
Create XML-based services within your organization quickly and easily. Provide uniform access to SAP solutions and third-party systems with the stable, precisely defined, and well-documented BAPI programming interface.
Third-party connection to business systems
Empower your business partners with online access to application-level functionality. Trigger synchronous and asynchronous messaging and processing seamlessly and transparently.
Remote function calls (RFC)
Access all functionalities of the SAP software infrastructure without requiring third-party applications to understand data types, ABAP programming language, or the communication protocol.
B2B integration between trading partners
Get information that is available through an SAP integration server. Unify B2B processes and systems to extend the SAP software infrastructure to third parties, customers, banks, and government agencies.
IDoc routing capabilities
Route IDocs based on the criteria you specify. Choose from a variety of out-of-the-box transport types, such as routing of an IDoc to another SAP solution system or to an external system in an XML format.

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Technical Capabilities

Deployment

Integrate SAP software systems over the Internet
Allow synchronous and asynchronous communication with SAP software systems through transactional and queued RFCs
Support bidirectional communication to and from SAP software systems

Transformation

Strengthen service levels to process IDocs and BAPIs
Engage existing releases with simplified XML and through the Internet

Harmonization

Bring together error handling of BAPIs and RFCs on the XML level
Route IDocs, RFCs, and BAPIs
Benefit from embedded tools for the BAPI programming interface

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System requirements for SAP Business Connector

System and software requirements vary according to specific customer scenarios. Please refer to the “SAP Business Connector Sizing Guide” for details. Also, please see the “SAP Business Connector Product Availability Matrix” for the latest information on updates and releases.

System Requirements	Details
Operating system	Microsoft Windows x86/x64 Linux x86/x64 AIX on PPC 64bit Solaris on Sparc 64bit HP-UX on Itanium 64bit
Java platforms	Java Virtual Machine for SAP software, version 5 or 6 (recommended) Java 5 or 6
Hardware	Physical memory: 128 MB (minimum) or 256 MB (recommended) Free disc space: 250 MB (minimum) or 400 MB (recommended)
Web browsers	Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Microsoft Internet Explorer

SAP Product Availability Matrix*

SAP Sizing Guide

Licensing and purchasing options for SAP Business Connector

All customers and partners that have purchased an SAP software license are entitled to receive SAP Business Connector. The licensee has the right to use the component to integrate SAP solutions with any SAP and non-SAP software. Customers that want to integrate two non-SAP systems directly should use SAP Process Integration and SAP Process Orchestration technologies.

All SAP connectors are licensed without an additional fee and as part of the respective license agreement. However, each developer using a connector is required to obtain a respective development license. Also, all users accessing application functionality through the relevant connector are required to be licensed under a respective solution or component license.

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For general licensing information, consult Licensing SAP Software: A Guide for Buyers

Implementation

Ensure a successful implementation and maximize your ROI with information resources that support the different phases of SAP Business Connector – from planning and installation to operation.

- Plan
- Install
- Operate

Plan your installation

Check if the prerequisites for obtaining the SAP Business Connector are met by completing the prerequisite questionnaire. After receiving a confirmation response from SAP customers and partners will be granted access to SAP Business Connector.

Confirm that you have a license key

Obtain a permanent license key for SAP Business Connector after completing the questionnaire. To extend your authorization, please contact an SAP user administrator*.

Download the software

The SAP Business Connector is shipped as a self-extracting executable. No additional software is required to run it. The installer, however, requires Java Runtime 5 or higher to be installed on the system.

Need additional help with your implementation?
Contact SAP Digital Business Services or SAP Enterprise Support services

Find an SAP partner to help with your implementation

Complete the installation steps

Refer to “Master Guide: SAP Business Connector”* for a step-by-step overview of the installation process, including a list of required tools and associated documentation.

Need additional help with your implementation?
Contact SAP Digital Business Services or SAP Enterprise Support services

Find an SAP partner to help with your implementation

Manage your SAP applications

Refer to “Application Operations Guide: SAP Business Connector”* to learn how to manage, maintain, and run your SAP applications at peak performance.

Ensure the security of SAP Business Connector

Download the “SAP Business Connector Security Guide”* for important information on ensuring the security of your software.

Innovate with developer tools

Read the “SAP Business Connector Developer Guide”* to explore the capabilities and use cases for the developer tool for SAP Business Connector.

Innovate with developer tools

Refer to the “SAP Business Connector Certificate Tool Kit Guide”* to
learn how to generate and request SSL certificates for using https communication.

Need additional help with your implementation?
Contact SAP Digital Business Services or SAP Enterprise Support services

Find an SAP partner to help with your implementation

Upgrades

Plan and carry out a successful upgrade to the latest release of SAP Business Connector – so you can take advantage of the new features and capabilities right away.

- Plan
- Upgrade

Identify the upgrade paths

Download the Product Availability Matrix to review upgrade paths for SAP Business Connector.

Download the matrix now*

Plan your upgrade

The Upgrade Master Guide contains important information about SAP Business Connector upgrade planning.

Read the guide*

Plan landscape changes

The Landscape Planner lets you visualize your existing system landscape, simulate changes, and analyze the impact.

Use the planner*

Identify dependencies

Use the Upgrade Dependency Analyzer to determine if your upgrade will have an impact on your other systems.

Access the analyzer

Size the implementation

Use the Web-based Quick Sizer tool to help you select an economically balanced system based on your requirements.

Open the Quick Sizer tool*

Complete the upgrade steps

Refer to “SAP Business Connector Upgrade Master Guide” for an overview of the upgrade process, including a list of required tools and associated documentation.

View the guide*

Download SAP Business Connector

Get technical release information*

Download installations and upgrades*

Download support packages and patches*

Need additional help with your upgrade? Contact SAP Digital Business Services or SAP Enterprise Support services

Find an SAP partner to help with your upgrade

Support

Get the support you need to keep SAP Integration Platform running at peak performance. Our experts can help you maximize the value of your software, take advantage of new business models and capabilities, and more.

Troubleshoot and Maintain

Search our knowledge base, log incidents, obtain license keys, download software, and more

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Ask the Community

Visit the software support and maintenance community on SCN.

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Contact Support

We're here to help. Get in touch with SAP Digital Business Services using one of these options:

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