WebSphere Business Integration for SAP

The need to integrate heterogeneous environments without replacing existing IT infrastructures is growing more and more. Standard application providers offer a wide range of business applications, running on different platforms, and implemented in different languages. A sophisticated Enterprise Service Architecture is required to overcome the challenges implied by such a heterogeneous infrastructure and make the whole enterprise controllable.

The WebSphere Business Integration architecture provides different Integration brokers and a multitude of application and technology adapters. It is an essential software component in IBM's e-business on demand strategy. SAP Exchange Infrastructure is SAP’s strategic technology platform for process integration and connectivity of SAP components and non-SAP components.

This IBM Redbook illustrates how to integrate data and processes located in SAP back-end systems using WebSphere Business Integration middleware technology. It describes two WebSphere Business Integration adapters:

IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for SAP V5.5.0
IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for SAP Exchange Infrastructure V1.0

These adapters are utilized to demonstrate the integration capabilities they provide.

Part 1. Overview
Chapter 1. Introduction and book structure
Chapter 2. Business Integration technology concepts
Part 2. Business scenario solution design
Chapter 3. Business case scenario
Chapter 4. Solution approaches and technology options
Chapter 5. Solution design
Part 3. Business scenario solution implementation
Chapter 6. Environment setup
Chapter 7. Use Case 1: WBIMB using WBI Adapter for mySAP.com
Chapter 8. Use Case 2: WBISF using WBI Adapter for mySAP.com
Chapter 9. Use Case 3: WICS using WBI Adapter for mySAP.com andJDBC
Chapter 10. Use Case 4: Integration of SAP XI with WBIInterChange Server
Chapter 11. Best practices and lessons learned
Appendix A. Scripts, source, and test data
Appendix B. Additional material

• TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview, GG24-3376-07
• Guide to Data De-duplication: The IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway, SG24-7652-00
• IBM System Storage DS4000 and Storage Manager V10.30, SG24-7010-06

Publish Date
30 December 2004

Last Update
18 April 2005

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Author(s)

Saida Davies is a Project Leader with the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO). She is a certified senior IT specialist and has fifteen years of experience in IT. Saida has published several Redbooks on various business integration scenarios. She has experience in the architecture and design of WebSphere MQ solutions, has extensive knowledge of IBM z/OS operating system, and a detailed working knowledge of both IBM and Independent Software Vendors' operating system software. A customer facing role with IBM Global Services included the development of services for WebSphere MQ within the z/OS and Windows platform. This covered the architecture, scope, design, project management, and implementation of the software on stand-alone systems or on systems in a Parallel Sysplex environment. She has a degree in Computer Science and her background includes z/OS systems programming.

• Saida Davies

Khirallah Birkler is an IT Architect for IBM SWG Germany. He joined IBM six years ago and started at the central site of IBM that installs, tests, and assesses all new SAP products, releases, and tools. In the last three years, he has been working for the Software Group Business Partner Technical Support in the Boeblingen lab. His main responsibility is to evaluate, design, and architect areas where IBM and SAP software can be used in conjunction. Khirallah helps worldwide key customers assess scenarios where IBM software can be placed to complement SAP infrastructures. He has seven years experience in the J2EE software development area. He is an IBM Certified Systems Expert for WebSphere Application Server V5 and has five years of experience with SAP Basis, from 4.0 to the latest NetWeaver release. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology Management from the University of Cooperative Education, Stuttgart. Khirallah has played an extensive role in further discussions of this redbook, providing updates, re-writes, and reviews to complete this redbook.

• Khirallah Birkler

Niall Cargill is a Senior IT Specialist with the IBM Software Innovation Center and has been in the IT industry for seven years. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Niall is a Sun Certified Java Programmer for the Java 2 Platform. He also holds product certifications in IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 4 and Version 5, as well as IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer Version 4 and Version 5. Niall has five years of experience working with WebSphere Application Server and its supporting products.

• Niall Cargill

Tino Friedemann is a IT Specialist with the IBM Software Group, Germany. He joined IBM six years ago and has been working in the SAP area for the last two years. Tino has a public certification as an IT-Systems Engineer and is currently studying for a degree in Computer Science while working as a full-time employee at IBM. Tino is also a Certified Lotus Sametime and WebSphere Studio Developer. At IBM Software Service for Lotus in Mainz, he is responsible for driving the WebSphere technology in the SAP market. He supports Business Partners, Customers, and IBM colleagues all over the world. Tino is a technical speaker at many public events, such as Cebit, IBM Software Symposium, and Developer Camp. He supports WebSphere and Lotus product development, in order to include the customer and the partner requirements as well as experiments into these products. Technologies like Meta-Portal initiatives at IBM and SAP adapter innovations in Business Partner products were mainly driven by him.

• Tino Friedemann

Reinhard Heite is an IT Specialist with IBM Germany. He has fifteen years of experience working for IBM and his areas of expertise include distributed computing, IT security, and designing and implementing e-business solutions. He holds a degree in Computing Science from the University of Bonn and received a Ph.D. in Computing Science from the University of Erlangen. Currently, he works for the IBM/SAP Collaboration Technology Support Center (CTSC) in Waldorf, on interoperability scenarios between IBM WebSphere and SAP NetWeaver. Reinhard has played an extensive role in further discussions of this redbook, providing updates, re-writes, and reviews in order to complete this redbook.

• Reinhard Heite

Tony Shan is a Lead Systems Architect at Wachovia Bank. He has extensive experience in leading life-cycle design and development of large-scale distributed systems on diverse platforms using a variety of cutting-edge technologies and unified/agile methodologies. Tony holds three Masters degrees in Engineering and Science, and is a Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer, Sun Certified Enterprise Architect, and IBM Certified e-business Solution Designer, as well as a Sun Certified Faculty Instructor. He is a member of numerous professional associations and honorary societies. Tony is also a co-founder of the Greater Charlotte Rational User Group. He has been a speaker at different conferences and taught courses on various topics in a public corporate training program. Tony co-authored the redbook WebSphere MQ Solutions in a Microsoft .NET Environment, SG24-7012, published in 2004.

• Tony Shan

Sudha Chandra Veerni is a Senior Software Engineer for Miracle Software Systems (I) Pvt Ltd. He holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from Andhra University, India. He has over four years of experience in the IT industry in the areas of EAI / B2B applications and Web Development. His areas of expertise include SAP-ABAP/4, Enterprise Application Integration using WebSphere Business Interchange Server, WebSphere MQ, and WDI.

• Sudha Chandra Veerni

Torsten Wilms is an IT Specialist at IBM Global Services. He works for the IBM AMS SAP World Wide Beta Test Site in Germany, which is the SAP Customer Competence Center within IBM that installs, tests and assesses all new SAP products, releases, and tools. He also works in the EMEA AMS IGA on demand Center of Competence, which supports AMS in their efforts to become an on demand business. After obtaining his degree in Business Information Systems, he joined IBM in 2001. He has experience with SAP and IBM WebSphere products as well as with J2EE and Lotus Notes software development. Torsten has played an extensive role in further discussions of this redbook, providing updates, re-writes, and reviews to complete this redbook.

• Torsten Wilms

ISBN

0738491896

IBM Form Number
SG24-6354-00

Number of pages
714