By connecting Salesforce and SAP S/4HANA, you can use both CRM and ERP effectively for your business operations, instead of worrying about the data exchange, duplicate data entry and availability of data in other platform.
SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite
SAP Cloud Plaform Integration Suite is an open integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).
It provides a modular set of services which work closely together to support a comprehensive set of end-to-end integration to Salesforce and other systems.
There are two ways of leveraging SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite in order to integrate SAP S4/HANA with Salesforce:
Option 1: SAP Cloud Platform Integration Service
Option 2: SAP Cloud Platform Open Connectors Service
Integration Touchpoints
The SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite supports the Salesforce integration of the following business transactions:
- Replicate sales order To SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
- Replicate sales contract to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
- Update account to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
- Receive sales pricing from SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
- Receive availability information from SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
- Replicate sales order to Salesforce.
- Replicate account to Salesforce.
- Replicate product master data to Salesforce.
Option 1: SAP Cloud Platform Integration Service
Opting to this option provides out-of-the-box integration content with more than 1100 predefined integration flows and mappings.
SAP Cloud Platform Integration Service delivers pre-configured integration flow packages to accelerate integration projects in application to application scenarios with business partners or public authorities.
It provides core integration patterns and security capabilities for safe and reliable processing and data integration. It lets you leverage a broad choice of protocols: HTTP, RFC, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP.
SAP Platform Integration Platform supports different message formats and also offers message converters.
Key Features
You can integrate SAP S/4HANA with Salesforce using SAP Cloud Platform Integration with a Salesforce adapter.
SAP Cloud Platform Integration offers you an easy setup process and you can connect to your Salesforce system using the same set of credentials.
It provides a wide range of integration flows and value mappings, and also support for replicate, receive, and update operations to Salesforce usage of subscription and streaming features, and a schema generation tool for easy mapping development.
SAP Cloud Platform Integration is the preferred option in scenarios which profit from quick time to value through out-of-the-box integration content.
Option 2: SAP Cloud Platform Open Connectors Service
Includes approximately 160 open connector to non-SAP cloud applications such as Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and Amazon Web Services.
The SAP Cloud Platform API management service supports an API based integration approach by enabling simple access to more than 900 APIs from SAP and partners.
SAP customers can leverage SAP Cloud Platform Open Connectors especially in scenarios where they need to integrate with more than one non SAP system, or when they want to take advantage of the REST based API approach in multiple consumption channels, like mobile and web applications, policy executions and API management in SAP Data Intelligence.
Key Features
The service provides comprehensive connectivity to non SAP systems. It offers approximately 160 prebuilt connectors to non SAP services such as Salesforce.
Also it provides a unified API layer irrespective of the back-end of the application you’re integrating with.
Key features: normalized authentication, error handling, events, polling, and pagination regardless of the non SAP service architecture.
This allows you to build a consistent data model across one ore more connectors into a normalized resource.
Further more, you can leverage open restful APIs and JSON data format easily embeddable within any product.
