Companies today face their own set of problems because of their age-old solution approach, making integrations troublesome. However, these problems now come in a new avatar. Business expansion, acquisition, and consolidation introduce many heterogeneous components into the IT landscape.

Further, the advent of the cloud brings in another set of problems for seamless integrations for companies. Whether between different business models like B2B, B2C, or inter-departmental LoBs; integration has become a complex affair.

Accely's SAP S/4HANA platform is one such integration platform that aims to resolve such problems by offering a ready staging for integrated content. This cloud integration offering forms the SAP Business Technology Platform's cloud base, and it puts together data gathered from various sources, enabling quicker decisions based on real-time data.

The in-memory database that SAP HANA provides as a service (Database-as-a-Service or DBaaS), puts together parts from the line of different businesses along with the SAP Business Suite of products.

Experience Cloud Database with the SAP HANA Cloud

SAP HANA Cloud helps to develop data solutions with modern architectures and get business-ready suggestions in real time, as it forms the base of the SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform).

Tasks that SAP HANA Cloud can perform:

• Organizations can use this cloud platform for deployment
• It is flexible and has a low total cost of ownership in the long term
• High processing power through multi-tenant and multiple parallel processing capabilities
• It can do real-time data processing

What differentiates the SAP HANA Cloud database from others?

1. It uses real-time data to help you make better decisions: SAP HANA Cloud can be used to process any data type and perform quick analysis on live transactions, without the need to refer to multiple tools. This in turn becomes very beneficial for scaling up a business.
2. Helps combine data from multiple levels inside an enterprise: This platform helps in data integration, developing apps and tools throughout the cloud, and storing volatile data on-premise.
3. To gain proper insight into business data: With SAP HANA Cloud in your ecosystem, you can now tap into action-oriented business information over one single source. A reliable and secure platform available to relevant users for their use, SAP HANA Cloud provides multiple levels of user-based and role-based access inside an organization.

Critical Capabilities of SAP HANA Cloud

• One source of data and truth to make sure everyone in an organization bases business decisions on the same data
• Integrates data between different sources with great ease
• SAP HANA smart data access and virtualization reduce the chances of data duplication
• Multi-level data storage can come in pretty handy
• A query-able data lake can be extracted from cold data storage
• Proper storage of data can be used to optimize the cost and performance ratio
• Independent access to high-speed data can be achieved anytime
• Computing and storage management is done independently
• Scaling up and down is easy with no up-front cost

SAP Cloud Integration

SAP Cloud Integration helps in integrating the cloud with other on-premise applications. This service provides the power to process real-time messages across different SAP implementation companies, organizations, or different departments in an organization.

SAP Integration Suite is one such service that helps to integrate processes, APIs, and Open Connectors seamlessly. These services are not available independently but as a part of the Integration Suite only.

Supported Protocols of SAP S4HANA Cloud

The first job is setting up an integration between a remote system and Cloud Integration. The protocols that can be used to ensure a secure transport channel are HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure), SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol), and SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).

What kind of systems can be integrated into the cloud?

The following list will provide an idea about the kinds of remote systems that can be integrated

• On-premise systems, like SAP depending on SAP NetWeaver
• Cloud Apps like SAP Cloud for Customer or SAP SuccessFactors
• SFTP servers
• Others like email servers or SOAP clients

A particular communication protocol is considered depending on the system which is to be connected. Adapters are elements that help in supporting dedicated systems through dedicated communication protocols. The adapter configures the details of technical communication between the remote system and the integration platform.

Steps for Cloud Integration Setup in the Neo Environment

Step 1: Log in to the SAP BTP cockpit. When the client subscribes to any SAP Cloud Integration platforms editions, they receive one or two emails from SAP and then have to log in using the given credentials. If the client has chosen a subscription license, steps 2 and 3 need not be performed.

Step 2: Creating a Sub Account

Step 3: Configure the SAP Cloud Integration Service by enabling the Process integration, and after that is done, the tenant has to be configured.

Step 4: Managing Member Authorizations: Once access to SAP Cloud Integration is obtained, new users can be added, and roles can be assigned to them. Only after that, the integration flow can be started.

Cloud Integration Monitoring

Integration and monitoring with SAP Focused Run help monitor data flow between different systems within the digital landscape and other external components. Data is directly pulled from the public cloud or is piled up on the managed system side and supplied to the SAP Focused Run system.

You can find the following features in the advanced integration monitoring application:

• Documents Monitoring
• Integration Error Monitoring
• E2E Monitor: End-to-end message stream monitoring
• Communication Monitoring: It means monitoring the performance of RFC destinations, tRFC queues, or qRFC web service messages
• Process Integration Monitoring: Monitoring for PI messages and integrating SAP PO domains
• Cloud Monitoring
• Data Replication Monitoring: It indicates monitoring SLT replication of data

In Conclusion

Cloud integration of the SAP HANA system is very beneficial as it allows real-time data analysis and provides instant solutions. Also, the SAP HANA in-memory database can be integrated with the cloud and on-premise devices. Certain things have to be kept in mind, like if the system is capable of cloud integration or if the system follows the basic secure integration protocols. Constant monitoring and maintenance are also required to check for any faults in the system and rectify them as soon as possible.