SAP Exchange Infrastructure: The official guide to integrating business processes using SAP XI technology

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. Plus, with added sections on specific applications—two detailed case scenarios on B2B Communication and system-spanning BPM—you'll learn how business management demands can be technically depicted and efficiently implemented. Highlights Include: 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