Create Purchase Orders in S/4HANA by enabling a public API from a S/4HANA On-Premise System using SAP API Management and Cloud Connector

API Management, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Integration Suite, SAP S/4HANA

The use case I wanted to set up was to expose an API from a S/4HANA on-premise system to consume it in a custom application developed in SAP Business Technology Platform, which its purpose is to create a Purchase Orders in the S/4HANA system. Prerequisites: Important note: Make sure your Cloud Connector is running otherwise […]

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Cloud Integration (SAP CPI / BTP CI) – On-Premise FTP connectivity by enabling passive mode

SAP Integration Suite, Cloud Integration

Introduction FTP supports two modes. These modes are called Standard (or Active) and Passive (or “PASV”). The Standard mode FTP client sends PORT commands to the FTP server. The Passive mode client sends PASV commands to the FTP Server. These commands are sent over the FTP command channel. Standard mode FTP clients first establish a […]

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Principal Propagation in SAP Integration Suite from external system to SuccessFactors

SAP Integration Suite, Cloud Integration, SAP BTP, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP Business Suite

Introduction This blog post covers the use case for communicating an external system or client (for example Postman) with SuccessFactors using Principal Propagation in SAP Integration Suite, that is forwarding the identity of a user across several systems. Prerequisite for that to work is that the propagated user has an e-mail assigned to him and […]

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Principal Propagation in SAP Integration Suite from external system to an SAP Backend

SAP Integration Suite, Cloud Integration, SAP BTP

Introduction As explained in SAP Cloud Integration help page, you can set up Principal Propagation, that is forwarding the identity of a user across several systems. With the migration from SAP Cloud Integration in Neo environments to SAP Integration Suite in Hyperscalers the question arises if it can be still set up. The answer is […]

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Authentication between SAP Cloud Integration and SAP SuccessFactors using oAuth

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP Integration Suite, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

Introduction Basic authentication has been the way of communication between SAP Cloud Integration and SAP SuccessFactors. However, progessing to more secure ways of authentication mechanisms both SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Cloud Integration have enhanced capabilities to support oAuth based mechanisms. In this blog, the primary focus is on configuring connectivity between SAP SuccessFactors and SAP […]

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Central monitoring of integration scenarios using SAP Cloud ALM

SAP Cloud ALM, Cloud Integration, SAP Integration Suite

Central monitoring of the entire IT landscape covering cloud-based applications and legacy on-premise solutions is more and more crucial today to oversee and react on business-critical incidents. Within this blog I will explain how SAP Cloud ALM and especially the Integration & Exception Monitoring application of this platform helps business and integration experts in their […]

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Loading SAP S/4 HANA Exchange Rates from OANDA Foreign Exchange Rate API through CPI integration

SAP Integration Suite, Cloud Integration

We recently had a requirement to load SAP S/4 HANA Exchange Rate tables from OANDA, one of the leaders in foreign currency exchange arena – https://www.oanda.com/ In SAP, exchange rates are stored in the TCURR table and you can use transaction code OB08 to show the maintenance view to the table: So now, our requirement […]

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Publishing Events from S/4 HANA to Event Mesh for Cloud integration for external systems

SAP Integration Suite, Cloud Integration

For the past few months, I have been working on an S/4 HANA new implementation leveraging the SAP integration suite – Cloud Integration, Event Mesh, API Hub, Integration advisor, etc. In this blog, I wanted to capture sending out business transaction events from S/4 HANA to the Event Mesh and having CPI read from the Event Mesh and then process the event, read additional data from S/4 HANA using the OData API to enrich the message, and then publish to an outbound queue for downstream systems.

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