Simplify Integration with SAP HANA Cloud Platform

SAP HANA Cloud Platform is an in-memory cloud platform for today’s increasingly networked, mobile, social, and data-driven world. With the power of SAP HANA, you can rapidly build and deploy applications in the cloud that provide new capabilities or extend the capabilities of existing applications that reside either on premise or in the cloud. The applications you build on SAP HANA Cloud Platform can help your business achieve greater agility while increasing worker productivity and customer satisfaction.

When building a new application, it is important to consider how it will interoperate with your existing applications and data within your application landscape. Generally, you will want to integrate the application with others so as not to create information silos or data inconsistencies, or require users to perform laborious and error-prone double entry. Often this integration requires the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) to both read and update cross application data. With the built-in integration and connectivity services of SAP HANA Cloud Platform, you can simplify how your applications connect, exchange data, and link processes with your application landscape whether on-premise, in the cloud, or deployed across a hybrid landscape.

Service Options SAP HANA Cloud Platform has three different subscription options depending on your needs: SAP HANA Infrastructure Services, SAP HANA DBServices, and SAP HANA AppServices. Both SAP HANA Infrastructure Services and SAP HANA DBServices allow for building HANA applications in the cloud leveraging native HANA development technologies like HANA Extended Application Services XS engine and SAP River. You would choose between SAP HANA Infrastructure Services and SAP HANA DBServices depending on if you only need infrastructure to leverage your existing SAP HANA license, or if you need both infrastructure and an SAP HANA license. SAP HANA AppServices builds upon these capabilities with additional application development capabilities such as mobile, portal, analytics, and integration.

Data Integration One key benefit to using SAP HANA Cloud Platform is the ability to leverage the built-in native SAP HANA capabilities—whether it is leveraging advanced predictive analytics and text mining capabilities or performing native HANA development with HANA Extended Services XS engine and SAP River to deliver real-time insight into your applications. In most cases, you will move data into the SAP HANA database from outside sources in addition to persisting data that your application creates in order to take advantage of the HANA capabilities. With SAP HANA Cloud Platform, data integration capabilities you can extract, transform, and load data into and out of your HANA application with ease. An easy-to-use web-based tool is provided to configure and manage the movement of data, which greatly simplifies the process.

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Data Integration

Connectivity Service When SAP HANA AppServices is used, SAP HANA Cloud Platform provides several additional components for integration. These include (a) a connectivity service that consists of an API that application developers can use to consume remote services, (b) an account-specific configuration for application connections to HTTP, RFC, and mail destinations, and (c) a secure tunnel from the SAP HANA Cloud Platform application to the customer’s on-premise network using the SAP HANA Cloud Connector. The SAP HANA Cloud Connector allows you to selectively expose resources from your on-premise landscape to the SAP HANA Cloud Platform. By using the connectivity service, you can simplify programmatic access to exchange data with other applications using the HTTP, RFC and Mail protocols. Your application developers can leverage the connectivity service to connect to remote applications using APIs without the complexity of securely accessing systems outside of the firewall.

Connectivity Service

Complementary to the connectivity service is SAP Gateway, which can be used to provision easy-to-use web services using the REST/OData standards from your back-end SAP systems, such as SAP CRM. These services can be then be configured for HTTP access from the SAP HANA Cloud Platform by configuring an HTTP destination with basic authentication, no authentication, or configured for single-sign-on, which assures that the back-end service is authenticated and authorized by using the end-user logon credentials. Additionally the HTTP destination can be deployed to the HANA Cloud Portal landscape for use in developing portal

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applications. An example scenario that could use this connectivity is a site that contains a simple web form used to collect sales leads that are then routed to SAP CRM.

Process Integration In many cases, the application you build will work in concert with a set of applications either within your landscape or with external parties such as business partners, either by receiving messages from other applications to process or by sending messages to other applications as a result of application processing. Available with SAP HANA AppServices, Premium Edition are the process integration capabilities of SAP HANA Cloud Integration. This cloud-based integration platform allows you to flexibly orchestrate processes by connecting your application to other applications, whether on-premise or in the cloud within your organization, or outside your organization.

Integrations are graphically modeled, not hard coded, which simplifies the integration development and allows for faster adaption when end-points or interfaces change. Integration content is stored in a content repository that promotes reuse and governance. Rich libraries of adapters, such as SFTP, SOAP, IDoc, OData, and SuccessFactors, ease the integration with other applications. Operations are eased with the built-in management and monitoring capabilities such as message monitoring, audit and logging, high availability, advanced security configurations, and secure key storage. Also available with subscriptions to SAP Cloud applications, such as SuccessFactors BizX Talent Management and SAP Cloud for Customer, are prepackaged integration content that can be reused thus lowering the cost of integration even further. When integrations need to be changed, you can use the graphical modeling environment in SAP HANA Cloud Integration. This means that in most cases, you will not need to modify your application’s source code, as the application logic is separated and loosely bound from the integration logic—thus simplifying changes.

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Summary Whether it is using data integration capabilities to extract, transform, and load data into SAP HANA, leveraging basic connectivity for calling back-end services, or modeling advanced integrations to orchestrate your processes together, SAP HANA Cloud Platform simplifies the integration of your custom cloud applications with the rest of your application landscape whether in the cloud or on-premise.

If you would like to learn more about SAP HANA Cloud Platform and the types of powerful applications you can build, be sure to visit http://hcp.sap.com where you will find many examples, learning materials, and blogs.

To get started with the SAP HANA AppServices, be sure to visit and register for a free SAP HANA Cloud Platform developer account where you can start to build your own data-driven, social, and mobile application. For further information about SAP HANA Cloud Integration, be sure to visit https://cloudintegration.hana.ondemand.com.

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