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NetWeaver Process Integration

Score9.8 out of 10

11 Reviews and Ratings

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What is NetWeaver Process Integration?

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration is an application integration solution.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features NetWeaver Process Integration has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 11 ratings of NetWeaver Process Integration's features
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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: 7.1

  • Testing and debugging

    Tool to debug and tune for optimal performance

    Category average: 6.9

  • Connect to traditional data sources

    Ability to connect to traditional data sources like relational databases, flat files, XML files and packaged applications

    Category average: 8.7

Reviews

What users are saying about NetWeaver Process Integration.
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To integrate, administer, develop

Incentivized
Onur DemirView profile
Software Developer in Finance and Accounting at Stonefish (1001-5000 employees employees)

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

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Customer Service (10,001+ employees employees)

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

Incentivized
Bora AymeteView profile
Systems Analyst in Information Technology at Koton Mağazacılık (5001-10,000 employees employees)

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!

Incentivized
Mustafa Yildirim, MSc, PMP, PSMView profile
Java Developer in Information Technology at Koton Mağazacılık (5001-10,000 employees employees)

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