Item: NetWeaver Process Integration
Rating: 8
Author: Bora Aymete

Overall Satisfaction with NetWeaver Process Integration

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

NetWeaver Process Integration is being used for orchestrating the integrations between SAP Hybris e-commerce suite and other systems. It is used only for e-commerce systems. It helps with managing business process workflows, mapping integrations, and monitoring messages. It is the backbone of the Hybris integrations, as it is being used as an ESB.

Pros and Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is more suitable for heavy load messaging systems and can develop business workflows when needed. It is not suitable for simple systems because it needs a team for support and development.
It also works out of the box with SAP systems supporting IDOC format. Works well with mapping SOAP and REST services.

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