Challenges of SAP Integration in Business Ecosystems

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Challenges of
SAP APPLICATION INTEGRATION IN BUSINESS
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Challenges

1. Meeting business goals and catering to LOB
   requirements on 3rd party apps
2. Integration with third party apps
3. Data volumes
4. Use of open standards
5. Solution cost - implementation and maintenance
6. Ease of use and access to support services
7. 24x7 monitoring and uptime
8. Availability of internal IT skills and resources
9. Security

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Business Operations Challenges

• Business Operations Challenges
• Delivery of integration solutions to meet
  strategic business goals effectively
• Business processes that require SAP to be
  connected to multiple systems
• Flexibility to quickly add new software
  applications and functionality without
  significant delays
• Dependency of the SAP Application Integration
  being in place so that the ROI for the deployment
  of third-party applications can be realized
• Costs of SAP Application Integration as
  percentage of the LOB business case

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Technical Challenges

• Architecting a SAP Application Integration for
  multiple systems that can all communicate with
  SAP API Integration using different technology
• Ability to provide infrastructure scalability for
  SAP Application Integration into third-party
  applications, which may be deployed into
  geographically dispersed sales teams
• Having the technical skills to design and deliver
  SAP Application Integration solutions
• Ongoing maintenance costs - people and management
  of non-SAP third party software upgrades
• Total Cost of Ownership

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The Answer HokuApps SAP Applications Integration

• A SAP Application Integration solution that
  eliminates the need for hardware is compelling.
  But few solutions are simply plug and play.
• Most only provide tools to create and maintain
  custom and specialized connections are provided,
  which require in-house or contracted third-party
  development and add cost to the total cost of
  ownership and speed of deployment.
• The technological differences between how
  organizations have traditionally deployed
  on-premise SAP Application Integration and what
  is required for cloud-centric ones can be a
  significant challenge.

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• The rapid adoption of SAP Application Integration
  with other applications by the LOB to meet
  business objectives and change business processes
  requires SAP Application Integration with
  multiple systems, each of which may communicate
  with SAP using slightly different technology.
• There is a need therefore for companies to
  utilize a strategic SAP Application Integration
  that delivers flexibility, agility, and lower
  ownership costs. Organizations must then meet the
  need SAP Application Integration with different
  systems and maintain existing hardware with the
  same integration layer.

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