Integrate Your Organization

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SAP landscapes are increasingly hybrid and heterogenous, with some products in the cloud and some on premise. The average SAP customer expectation is that products and software will work well together straight out of the box to provide connected digital experiences across omnichannel engagements.

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But with SAP’s growing portfolio of products together with its vision of an intelligent enterprise where end to end processes are enabled by a combination of products, it’s easy to become confused about how integration works. SAPDAY will guide you through your SAP Integration Journey, which is one of the most strategic priorities for Your Organization in the digital age. SAPDAY is Your Partner that bridges the gap, offering a great opportunity for You to become "The Smartest Organization". SAPDAY will create the connected digital experiences that Your Organization, Your People and Your Customers demand.

 

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Cloud Integration from SAP enables rapid, scalable innovation across Your Organization by empowering Your People beyond your central technology department to connect people, processes data, and devices everywhere. Your central technology teams can use this suite of services to create a culture of innovation and enable self service integration by defining the guardrails that transform Your People into citizen integrators. As a result organizational stakeholders can unify and customize user experiences, accelerate innovation by starting with integration and harness diverse synergic integration approaches, intuitive tools, self service capabilities and prepackaged content for rapid success.

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"The Smartest Organization" Is A Fully Integrated Organization

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Integration, the foundation of "The Smartest Organization", is becoming the number one strategic priority for organizations. With digital interactions now the de facto norm, connected, contextual, end to end digital experiences have become the new standard. Those seeking to prepare Their Organization for the future are using integration to empower customer, product, employee, brand and sustainable experiences. Continuously and in real time and turning insights into far ranging actions and "Benefits Realized".

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With the dynamic integration enabled by the SAP Cloud Integration, you can:

 

• Accelerate your time to results

• Democratize access to integration with prepackaged content and integrations and intuitive tools that can be used by Your People with different skill sets

• Use prebuilt integration packs for extended organizational processes

• Obtain harmonized integration with third party solutions and published APIs ready for testing and consumption  

• Leverage the SAP Cloud Integration built in semantic organizational knowledge to achieve quick organizational impacts

 

Objectives
 

• Support dynamic organizational needs

• Lower integration project costs while supporting flexibility, security and scalability

• Harmonize data use across technology landscapes

• Gain access to data wherever it resides, to Your People that need it now

• Overcome barriers posed by legacy integration strategies

• Approach integration with a strategic lens

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Solution

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• Enterprise class governance, security and scalability

• Synergic integration approach for applications, data, processes and user experiences across cloud and on premise environments

• API first integration approach

• Prepackaged, managed integration packs

• Broad catalog of third party integration connectors and integration packs

• Published APIs ready for sandbox testing and consumption driven assistance

• Intuitive Web tooling and AI

• Cloud hosted approach that saves time and cost

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Benefits

 

• Increased organizational agility with connected processes, applications and data 

• Greater efficiency to extend organizational processes across hybrid environments

• Enhanced competitive advantage with data driven insights

• Easy reuse of integrations using a repeatable, building block based approach

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SAPDAY Integration Services

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Integration Strategy

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With SAPDAY you will discover a simpler approach to shaping your SAP integration strategy. A solid SAP integration strategy is crucial for providing the agility your organization requires to meet rapidly changing organizational needs and optimize operations at a lower cost. When building this strategy, you must take into account a variety of pervasive integration requirements. To become "The Smartest Organization", you require a foundation of integrated organizational processes and integrated data.

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Your organization operates in a world that is increasingly digitalized and networked. The pace of integration is accelerating along digital transformation projects as organizations add technologies such as Cloud, Big Data, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), analytics and mobile capabilities to their existing landscapes. Organizations that embrace a holistic integration strategy see gains in customer satisfaction because this allows them to listen, understand and act upon market and customer specific requirements to manage experiences end to end.

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SAPDAY's Integration Methodology is the integration method for "The Smartest Organization" and helps you to define and execute an integration approach for your organization. It offers a simplified approach to designing and implementing multiple scenarios for SAP integration such as cloud and hybrid. SAPDAY supports both current and future integration requirements

along digital transformation projects.

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Follow the Right Path to Become an "Integration Star"

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SAPDAY's Integration Methodology allows you to raise the SAP integration maturity level of your organization by moving from a non systematic approach towards a well defined approach to enterprise integration. Your organization can leverage a single methodology covering integration styles such as process, data, user, IoT and analytics integration that is open to SAP and third party technologies. Benefit from this proven methodology that includes integration patterns, architecture blueprints and best practices for cloud and hybrid landscapes.

 

SAPDAY's enterprise architects and integration leads can help you choose how to adopt and extend the provided accelerators to meet specific integration needs. In addition to technical aspects, the methodology also gives you guidance for introducing an agile integration practice to your organization. With that, you can scale out the integration approach to make it part of the digital culture of your organization. You can cut through integration complexity by applying the SAPDAY delivered framework step by step along defined use cases. 

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Assess Your Integration Approach

 

On the journey to becoming "The Smartest Organization", there could be many reasons you may consider refreshing your integration reference architecture, such as extending the existing landscape with new cloud applications. SAPDAY's Integration Methodology offers a simplified top down approach to performing such an integration strategy assessment. First, you perform a high level scoping on the level of integration domains (such as on premise to cloud) that are relevant for your organization as of now, midterm and long term. Second, from a predefined catalog, you can choose required integration styles, such as process and data integration and use case patterns. The latter one describes typical enterprise integration use cases in a technology vendor agnostic fashion.

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Process Integration Use Case

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• Application to application integration: Chaining organizational process steps between applications by the exchange of transactional data

• Master data integration: API based exchange of master data across applications

• Organization to organization integration: Exchanging organizational documents with trading partners following standard electronic formats

• Business to public sector integration: Transforming transactional data into predefined exchange formats and transferring it electronically to external legal or tax authority systems for compliance

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Design Your SAP Hybrid Integration Platform

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For most organizations, a single integration technology is not enough to support the variety of integration requirements. Therefore, you need to design your hybrid integration platform by leveraging a combination of integration technologies to cover current and future integration needs.

 

SAPDAY's Integration Methodology guides you through this design phase. You map the set of scoped integration use case patterns to integration technologies. While doing so, you can also consider context factors that may influence the selection of integration technologies, such as the enterprise reference architecture or your existing investments. For accelerating the hybrid integration platform's design, the methodology also provides sample technology mappings leveraging the SAP Business Technology Platform portfolio. SAPDAY allows you to properly document the integration platform design, which can also help back up investment decisions.

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Define Your SAP Integration Best Practices

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To keep pace with the volume of integration requirements needed to enable organizational transformation, you need to scale out integration development work across your organization. With SAPDAY's Integration Methodology, you can acquire integration best practices to support a distributed and agile approach to integration development. These best practices include:

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• Integration do's and don'ts that act as guardrails for developing organizational grade integration scenarios

• Architecture blueprints that describe which integration technologies to leverage in orchestration per integration use case pattern, complemented with decision criteria that allow developers to find out which blueprint to apply and how to apply it to Your Organization

• Integration guidelines to deliver best practices for designing integration scenarios

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By taking advantage of proven best practices, Your Organization can reduce implementation time, effort and cost while delivering a high quality integration design quickly. Reuse predefined architecture blueprints and adapt them to your needs.

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Enable Integration Empowerment

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The digital era requires an agile delivery model for enterprise integration that quickly responds to evolving organizational needs. You have to rethink responsibilities and processes to be able to deliver integration at scale. SAPDAY's Integration Methodology is designed to support you on this journey as it enables you to embrace integration development outside of traditional integration practices.

 

You can leverage a catalog of personas with defined responsibilities in an integration context, which includes new personas such as application developers and organizational users who are empowered to implement integration scenarios on their own. You can also explore options for setting up an integration center of excellence that best fits your organization's future state. Finally, you need to adapt your integration governance policies to better meet the needs of a distributed and more diverse integration practice. Leverage the methodology to define such policies for the digital age while enabling integration quality at the same time. Embed integration into the digital culture of your organization.

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SAPDAY's Integration Center of Excellence

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Our SAP Integration Center of Excellence with its expert teams in SAP integration, functional, technical, testing and quality to help Your Organizations regardless of size and industry to transform your SAP integration landscape, transform your organizational potential, improve organizational operations and open new organizational channels. The SAPDAY Integration Center of Excellence can be built either:

 

• Onsite so that you can own it and SAPDAY provides you with an effective handover

• Remotely if you do not have the expertise to manage SAP Integration ongoing or that is your preference is to outsource Your SAP Integration Capabilities

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Achieving SAP Integration Excellence to Unlock True Innovation

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With SAPDAY's Integration Methodology, you can follow a proven approach to implementing an enterprise integration approach that addresses many of the integration requirements where organizations are transitioning toward becoming "The Smartest Organization". These range from the need to integrate on premise, cloud and hybrid applications from SAP or other suppliers to integrating legacy and custom built apps. A simpler scoping approach walks you through the use cases of assessing your current integration strategy, integration approach, designing a hybrid integration platform, defining integration best practices, and enabling a practice of empowerment at your organization.

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You can take advantage of predefined accelerators that cover common integration best practices and also include specific ones for integration technologies from SAP. The methodology also addresses organizational aspects of integration, helping you position integration as a both a strategic and operational imperative and accelerate the path to a more holistic approach to integration.​

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Summary

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A well defined and executed SAP enterprise integration approach delivers end to end organizational processes and consistent data to accelerate the speed of innovation while also lowering costs. But how can organizations become "The Smartest Organization"? SAPDAY's Integration Methodology can help you with this critical undertaking.

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Objectives

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• Establish integration as a recognized discipline that embraces digital transformation​

• Enable an agile integration practice to keep pace with rapidly evolving organizational conditions

• Improve integration delivery and quality at a high scale

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Solutions

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• Comprehensive framework for transitioning toward a mature integration model

• Clear adoption path along defined use cases

• Proven integration best practices for cloud, on premise and hybrid landscapes

• Open and extensible methodology

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Benefits

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• Embrace a holistic integration strategy covering many integration styles

• Introduce a hybrid integration platform that helps ensure organizational continuity while enabling organizational innovation

• Establish an agile integration practice as an integral part of your organization’s digital culture

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