#1 most frequent
United States of America
46.2%48 installations of 104
What is NetWeaver Process Integration?
SAP NetWeaver Process Integration is an application integration solution.
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
Simple transformations
Simple data transformations are calculations, data type conversions, aggregations and search and replace operations
Category average: 8.1
Data model creation
Ability to create and maintain data models using a graphical tool to define relationships between data
Category average: 8.4
Integration with data quality tools
Integration with tools for cleansing, parsing and normalizing data according to business rules
Category average: 7.9
Areas for Improvement
Complex transformations
Complex data transformations are data normalization, advanced data parsing, etc.
Category average: 7.2
Testing and debugging
Tool to debug and tune for optimal performance
Category average: 7.1
Connect to traditional data sources
Ability to connect to traditional data sources like relational databases, flat files, XML files and packaged applications
Category average: 8.8
Who Buys & Uses NetWeaver Process Integration
#2 most frequent
Germany
21.2%22 installations of 104
#3 most frequent
India
4.8%5 installations of 104
To integrate, administer, develop
Pros
- Combined advantages of advanced business application programming (ABAP) and Java
- SAP with [other] SAP products and SAP with other solutions
- Real-time customer service
- Cascade data model
Cons
- Non-user-friendly monitoring
- Integration between SAP and non-SAP [products] is not easy
Return on Investment
- It reduces integration costs.
Other Software Used
SAP NetWeaver MDM, Visual Studio.NET, SAP NetWeaver Application Server
SAP PIPO
Pros
- Integration between SAP applications
- Supports Active directory integration.
Cons
- Has limitations on consuming different types of Queues. Like JMS queue.
- Has limitations on datatypes and size of the message in the queue
- Have limitations in connecting to Kafka. This can be solved with 3rd party adapters
- Have limitations on processing large files.
Return on Investment
- Development cycle is fast on PO .
Alternatives Considered
webMethods Business Process Management and Apigee Edge
Other Software Used
Apigee Edge, webMethods Business Process Management
NetWeaver Process Integration - An Enterprise Service Bus System with Strong Monitoring Capabilities
Pros
- Strong monitoring capabilites. NetWeaver Process Integration also offers a web service for developing custom reporting for message monitoring.
- Can develop business process workflows with BPM.
- Supports many technologies like SFTP, Oauth, REST, SOAP etc.
- Can cross map different integrations like SOAP XML to file.
Cons
- Complicated UI. Could be more simple.
- Need more clear instructions on development environment.
- Hard to debug errors.
- Have many dependencies like Basis support.
Return on Investment
- Since it is the backbone of the integrations, downtime should be minimal to none. We had problems when the system was down and it was hard to get it up.
- Decrease in development costs because mapping and transformation between systems can be done in NetWeaver Process Integration.
- Can make business decisions on the BPM, thus reducing development costs.
Sap PI rocks!
Pros
- Java language support
- Powerful monitoring
- Rich connection adapters
Cons
- Cluster configuration guides and support for robust and high available runtime
- Shoud be easier to read message flow on monitoring
- Oauth 2.0 native support
Return on Investment
- All enterprise service messages are able to be traceable
- We have to switch to SAP Web Dispatcher from cluster because of some network and [database] difficulties.
Alternatives Considered
Oracle BPM Suite