Simplified connectivity with third-party applications

Have we told you about how companies’ IT landscapes are becoming more and more heterogeneous? Yes, we have, several times. And here we are again starting a section by pointing out this fact. This is because we will now be discussing an SAP Integration Suite capability, Open Connectors, that helps alleviate handling the integration challenges between applications from different vendors.

You can think of Open Connectors as a convenience layer that formalizes outgoing integration to third-party applications. So, what do we mean by that? First of all, you can build the required integration without using Open Connectors. However, it provides many features that accelerate the development of these integration scenarios.

The elements of SAP Open Connectors

First, let’s have a look at the structural elements of SAP Open Connectors that are depicted in Figure 7.6:

Figure 7.6: The elements of SAP...