SAP is most popular backend, Why does someone need API Management on top of SAP Backend ? What value would Apigee bring if API Management needed on top of SAP Backend ?
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Hi @Anil Sagar , @Sesh Ram ,
We use Apigee on top of SAP and to date all of our apigee work has SAP as either the back-end or the client to Apigee proxies.
By way of explaining where Apigee provides advantages, here are some examples of where we use Apigee on top of/with SAP:
Sales reporting/CRM API: Supporting an ipad app for our sales teams providing BI and CRM features
Inventory API: Reflecting warehouse inventory changes in SAP that take place in our partner's warehouse on their non-SAP warehouse management system
Shipping API: SAP is the client to APIs provided by carriers (e.g. FedEx) so that we can create shipments and labels from within SAP
We have some others in the works but the advantages from using Apigee are largely the same as those above.
Future initiatives are likely to include APIs for our retail and ecommerce - for a business that uses SAP, Apigee with SAP will play a part in those too.
In addition to the above, Apigee also provides the dev portal. We have yet to make full use of this but it remains a key part of our strategy for visibility of our interfaces to SAP (and other systems).
This is for our internal teams both technical and non-technical and, our partners that we expect to use APIs exposed through Apigee.
This inference is from the conversations I have had with SAP customers. Like any other application, SAP also comprises of several modules which are available to be exposed as APIs. While implementing SAP or doing further development these services are found to be difficult to be identified,packaged and distributed. Apigee helps in coming up with developer friendly API packages for the target audience.
As a stage-0 maturity, this accelerates the kick off of any transformation program.
Hi @Anil Sagar , @Sesh Ram ,
We use Apigee on top of SAP and to date all of our apigee work has SAP as either the back-end or the client to Apigee proxies.
By way of explaining where Apigee provides advantages, here are some examples of where we use Apigee on top of/with SAP:
Sales reporting/CRM API: Supporting an ipad app for our sales teams providing BI and CRM features
Inventory API: Reflecting warehouse inventory changes in SAP that take place in our partner's warehouse on their non-SAP warehouse management system
Shipping API: SAP is the client to APIs provided by carriers (e.g. FedEx) so that we can create shipments and labels from within SAP
We have some others in the works but the advantages from using Apigee are largely the same as those above.
Future initiatives are likely to include APIs for our retail and ecommerce - for a business that uses SAP, Apigee with SAP will play a part in those too.
In addition to the above, Apigee also provides the dev portal. We have yet to make full use of this but it remains a key part of our strategy for visibility of our interfaces to SAP (and other systems).
This is for our internal teams both technical and non-technical and, our partners that we expect to use APIs exposed through Apigee.
This is super cool @Neil Munro & Absolutely great information. Thank you for taking your valuable time & sharing the same with Apigee community. I am sure this is helpful for many others.
Awesome @Neil Munro. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Another use case that we have implemented at a retailer is mirroring data in SAP hana into API BaaS. SAP Hana turns out isn't optimized of significant # of concurrent reads.
SAP is a partner of Apigee, and we have been through many joint implementations together.
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