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2.1 Integration of Processes: 2 Basic Concepts

This document provides an introduction to key concepts of SAP NetWeaver Process Integration and an overview of tasks and tools involved in integration projects. It covers basic concepts in 3 phases: integration of processes, communication between process components, and monitoring and management of integrated processes. Process components represent parts of a business process performed in different departments or organizations, and exchange data to maintain the business process flow.

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2.1 Integration of Processes: 2 Basic Concepts

This document provides an introduction to key concepts of SAP NetWeaver Process Integration and an overview of tasks and tools involved in integration projects. It covers basic concepts in 3 phases: integration of processes, communication between process components, and monitoring and management of integrated processes. Process components represent parts of a business process performed in different departments or organizations, and exchange data to maintain the business process flow.

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1 Introduction NetWeaver PI.

These phases constitute the main


framework along which all concepts are
1.1 You can expect a lot from this
explained in more
Document detail throughout this document.
This document provides both an introduction to
the key concepts of SAP NetWeaver Process 2.1 Integration of Processes
Integration SAP NetWeaver PI is SAP’s implementation of
(SAP NetWeaver PI) and an overview of the tasks Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) middleware
and tools that come into play in integration and
projects. It is facilitates the integration of business processes
targeted at both beginners wanting to get involved that span different departments, organizations, or
in the topic and see their first example scenario companies. We will start by introducing the term
running, process component which will accompany us
and experts already involved in real-life throughout
integration projects and who need a handbook to this handbook. A process component is part of
help them keep the value chain of a business application or a
their orientation not lose the central theme. business
The document is organized in such a way that, if process. If we assume that a business
printed out, it can be used as a self-contained application ranges over different departments of
reference for one company, then a
getting a basic understanding of SAP NetWeaver process component usually represents one part
PI. of the process that is performed in one
In addition to this, when used online the department. The
handbook serves as the first point of entry to following figure displays an integration scenario
those parts of the SAP and shows the separation of a business
Library documentation that cover the key application into its
concepts in detail, as well as the procedures for process components (blue icons), as well as the
performing the connections between the process components.
necessary tasks end-to-end. Links to key In the
documentation chapters in each section point you example outlined in the figure, the process
to those parts of components run in three different departments of
the documentation where you can dig deeper into a company: A,
the topic touched on in the section. B, and C. Process components can run on
In detail: different systems, can be hosted in different
� Chapter 2 covers the basic concepts in short. departments of a
company, or can be implemented in completely different
� Chapters 3 – 6 cover the basic concepts in companies that have a business relationship to
detail and provide a description of the most each other. The process components exchange data with
important each other and thereby ensure that the value
tasks that come into play in an integration project. chain of the business process as a whole is maintained.
� Chapters 7 - 13 cover specific concepts in more
detail than in the preceding chapters.
Note: The concepts and tasks described in this
document correspond to release SAP NetWeaver PI
7.1 including SAP
enhancement package 1. It is stated explicitly if a
specific feature is not available before SAP
enhancement
package 1 for SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1.
Corresponding notes are added in blue boxes to give
an impression of customer scenarios that use a
specific concept of
SAP NetWeaver PI.
2 Basic Concepts
This chapter introduces the key principles and
basic concepts that form the three main phases of
SAP

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