A Practical Guide to SAP Cloud Integration

2.1   Integration Platform as a Service

SAP’s iPaaS currently includes the following services (and the offering is continuously evolving):

• API Management
• Cloud Integration (CPI)
• Connectivity Service
• Event Mesh (Enterprise Messaging)
• Integration Advisor
• Open Connectors
• SAP Data Intelligence
• SAP Edge Services
• SAP IoT

Two different editions of SAP CPI are currently available: the Process Integration (PI) edition and the more comprehensive enterprise edition. The PI version includes three connections and ten gigabytes of bandwidth per production environment. One connection is an application, typically an IP address, through which messages are exchanged. Additional connections can be licensed, with additional costs. The enterprise edition, on the other hand, includes additional services (e.g., B2B adapter, covered in Section 8.1, and Enterprise Messaging, see Section 8.6) and is not limited in the number of connections.

Since 2019, SAP has been bundling these rather self-sufficient services under the term SAP Integration Suite (see Figure 2.1). The aim is to improve their coexistence and interaction and to make them easier to market.

SAP Integration Suite is currently licensed in three different editions, each providing a different number of environments:

• Basic—SAP CPI
• Standard—contains the Basic scope including:
  • JMS (see Section 4.2.20),
  • API Management (see Section 8.5),
  • Open Connectors (see Section 8.7)
  • Integration Advisor (see Section 8.3)
• Premium—contains the Standard edition including:
  • Alert Notification Service (see Section 3.3.3)
  • Transport Management Service (see Section 3.6.2)

Figure 2.1: SAP Integration Suite