We’re known for helping businesses implement ERP solutions on time and under budget. A key reason we can do that is through a fit-to-standards approach and the use of SAP tools that can greatly streamline the implementation process. Two of those tools are the SAP Integration Suite and the SAP Business Technology Platform.
An ERP system serves as the nerve center for your business, encompassing all applications, data, and processes within the organization. As a holistic solution, an ERP must connect with everything. That means integrations.
Before SAP Cloud ERP, integration support often meant helping a business select middleware and developing custom integrations for less common connections. We had some ways to speed up integrations even then, but the tools available with SAP Cloud ERP take easy integrations to a whole new level.
The SAP Integration Suite is an integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) designed for seamlessly connecting on-premise and cloud-based applications, data, and business processes with your shiny new SAP Cloud ERP system. We leverage the Integration Suite like an easy button for setting up many of the connections between your ERP and third-party systems.
The Integration Suite comes with more than 3,400 prebuilt integrations and connectors for both SAP products and widely used third-party solutions. Instead of having to create these integrations from scratch, we can quickly deploy and configure these prebuilt integrations for accelerated connectivity and faster overall system rollout.
These integrations and connectors are developed and maintained by SAP and its partner ecosystem, so they are also robust and proven solutions. They also live on the SAP cloud platform, ensuring 99.95 percent uptime, multizone availability, failover prevention, and elastic scaling.
In addition to prebuilt integrations, the SAP Integration Suite also makes it easy to connect with third-party cloud services via a large API library maintained on the platform. The centralized API hub comes with more than 4,000 APIs from SAP and its partners, which simplify development of new functions and integrations that are not already prebuilt.
With the combination of prebuilt integrations and the API hub, we can quickly connect our client’s ERP with Shopify, Amazon, UPS, EDI, and other systems. AI-assisted mapping within the platform further speeds up the rollout process by cutting down on manual configuration of these connections.
The SAP Integration Suite helps your business improve time-to-value, reduce total cost of ownership, and future-proof the ERP by leveraging this scalable, cloud-based integration solution.
Resiliency is a second part of establishing integrations with your core ERP system. You don’t want connections that break or get disrupted when software updates and evolves. We help your ERP solution leverage the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) for flexible stability.
The BTP is part of what makes SAP Cloud ERP special and better suited for the pace of business and technology innovation today than legacy systems.
Instead of a large, centralized ERP modified with custom integrations and add-ons, SAP Cloud ERP is a small core that handles basic system logic and connects modules and services into a unified whole. This “clean core” architecture keeps the base ERP free from modifications that could interfere with standard updates, and it helps ensure that your integrations don’t break later as the system evolves.
Instead, the applications and integrations your business relies on live in the SAP BTP.
This approach allows for integrations that are both more robust and resilient. This is achieved by the solution’s event-driven architecture that triggers automated workflows and actions based on real-time events in the core ERP, unified data management that serves as a central hub for exposing the ERP and integrations to a centralized data store, and its modular structure that abstracts functionality to a cloud layer that sits above the ERP.
With the BTP, we can help your business build more robust and resilient integrations, and more easily add additional integrations later as you expand, or your needs change. This is done both with premade integrations and with the BTP’s validated, low-code editor for custom integrations.
With the use of the SAP Integration Suite and the SAP Business Technology Platform, we can help your business implement a modern, growth-focused cloud ERP on time and under budget.
Forget what you’ve heard about hulking ERP rollouts that take forever to implement and consume years of staff time. With these integration tools and the SAP Cloud ERP architecture, we can help you implement a full, enterprise-ready ERP solution in as little as 90 days.
Learn more about SAP Cloud ERP and its easy integration tools, or how we can help take the pain out of ERP rollout, by contacting one of our experienced consultants. You can call us at (801) 642-0123 or reach us by email at info@nbs-us.com.