SAP Exchange Infrastructure (Hardcover)

~ Jens Stumpe (Author), Joachim Orb (Author) "SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) is just one component of the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, which is summarized briefly in the next section..." (more)
Key Phrases: Integration Builder, Integration Repository, Integration Directory (more...)

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Product Description

This book provides technical consultants, system architects, and administrators with a complete and comprehensive introduction to SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI), Release 3.0 Feature Pack (SP4).

Learn the ins and outs of SAP's Integration Broker, and get a guided tour of the design of collaborative processes, the development of interfaces, Messages, Proxies, Mappings, and more. You'll also receive in-depth information and learn how to configure the system-spanning process for a specific system landscape, based on these development objects.

Readers will also benefit from chapters devoted to running-time components (Integration Server, Integration Engine, Proxy Running Time, and Monitoring Tools) as well as system-spanning BPM.

Highlights:

• Basic principles of process modeling
• First steps in Integration Builder
• Design and Development - Collaborative Processes, Interfaces, Messages, Proxies, and Mappings
• Configuration of system-spanning processes
• Running time - Integration Server, Integration Engine, Proxy Running Time, Monitoring Tools
• Case scenarios - System-spanning BPM, B2B Communication

About the Author

Jens Stumpe joined SAP in 1998 with a degree in computer science. Since then, he has been responsible for documentation in several different technical areas. Currently, he is part of the SAP NetWeaver Product Management team. He spent the last three years documenting SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI), putting his many experiences with various SAP XI workshops to good use. Dr. Joachim Orb completed his doctorate in meteorology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. In 1998, he started working at SAP Labs France, where his main focus was the development of SAP standard interfaces. In 2002, he joined SAP AGÂ’s SAP NetWeaver Regional Implementation Group (RIG). Since then, he has been involved in the rollout of SAP XI in Europe, where he develops workshops, holds training courses, and advises customers on SAP XI implementation.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 267 pages
• Publisher: SAP PRESS, 1st edition; 1 edition (May 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159229037X
• ISBN-13: 978-1592290376
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #739,351 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good high level but not technical, July 27, 2006

By	Harrison Holland (Norfolk, VA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This was a very difficult book to read because it is so incredibly dry, like many other SAP Press books.

It provides an excellent overview of SAP XI, and explains the architecture very well. It also gives very good business examples. Unfortunately, I was looking for something much more technical, and this was not detailed enough for me. I had much better luck figuring out how to use XI on my own rather than reading this book.

Perhaps I just had the wrong idea as to what sort of a book this was.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything as the title suggests...very good!!, January 10, 2007

By	Arjun Kansiawala (Vienna, VA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an excellent book on XI, and I am not sure what the other reviewers where expecting from this book. I can agree that sometimes the language in the books a little difficult to understand, but that would not stop me from recommending this book to other XI users. Author provides an in-depth analysis for each component in XI. Here is how the book is organized:

Chapter 1 and 2 are essential for understanding all subsequent chapters, fundamentals of XI are explained here. Chapters 3 through 5 concentrate on design and development with SAP XI independently of specific system landscape. Chapter 6 summarizes everything discussed in previous chapters: It describes how you can configure the cross-system process for a specific system landscape, based on the developments made at the logical level. The order in which the topics are addressed reflects the chronological order of the corresponding steps in the SAP XI integration project. Chapter 7, which deals with SAP XI runtime, could be read concurrently with all other chapters. Chapter 8 completes the first part of the book with its description of the cross -component BPM, which marks the transition from stateless to stateful communication.

To illustrate how SP XI is applied in a business context, the second part of the book examines two customer scenarios that have been realized with SAP XI. Chapter 9 describes how cross-component BPM is used as part of an XI scenario at the Linde Group. Chapter 10 shows how the B2B features of SAP XI help connect a CRM system to an electronic marketplace over the Internet.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not so good, September 15, 2008

By	Cervin (Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This book is worth while reading through if you dont know what SAP XI (PI) is. But if you have some XI (PI) experience and is looking for answers or good examples, please check elsewhere or on-line instead.