Designing application integration scenarios

Suppose you have already established an integration methodology. In this case, for a given scenario, you have done a big part of designing your integration simply because you will build on top of an integration pattern prescribed by your methodology.

We will start with designing typical process integration scenarios that can be implemented using the Cloud Integration capability of SAP Integration Suite.

As you may remember from our previous discussions, standards and protocols are crucial for integration, as they reduce complexity. There are several of them, and the more your integration platform supports, the better coverage you have for efficiently resolving integration challenges. Leveraging these together with the transformation, mediation, and orchestration capabilities, you can formulate and build integration flows.

Anatomy of an integration flow

An integration flow is designed to process the message that traverses Cloud...