Professional Documents
Culture Documents
5 Conclusion................................................................................................................... 10
6 References .................................................................................................................. 11
3.4 Comparison
The below Table help clients choose whether On-premise Middleware or iPaaS platform is more suitable
for their organization.
Based on our experience of HANA Clould Integration in various Customer Projects, below are some
observations:
Process Integration: Also called HCI-PI, this is mainly used to orchestrate business process, system to
system integration (A2A and B2B Integrations) and for real-time or near real-time integration.
Benefits
Pre-packaged scenarios Number of pre-packaged content available with SAP/Non-SAP
Easy-to-use tooling
Effective and responsive support from SAP
Smooth version upgrade
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Observations
Encoding option is available to zip (Compress) the file, but specifying file name during
configuration is not supported.
Namespace prefix defined by SOAP Adapter internally before the call, customized namespace
prefix not allowed in the current release.
If asynchronous message failed in HCI, re-process or restart failed message is not possible.
Should provide options to test mapping during development in Eclipse.
Exactly Once-in-Order scenarios are currently not supported.
Data Service: Also called HCI-DS, is a Cloud ETL tool, mainly used for synchronization of bulk data
transfer using batch jobs.
Benefits
Direct read from ABAP Tables / Extractors & flexibility without coding.
Efficiently and securely performing ETL (extract, transform, load) tasks to move data between
On-premise and the Cloud systems.
Tenant Isolation: For each customer system connected to SAP HCI, separate resources(d/b
schema, CPU, memory) are allocated.
The entire communication, security and encryption handling is maintained by SAP on Cloud.
Lower TCO: Cost-effective as hardware is owned by SAP.
Observations
In case a huge volume of data needs to be fetched from more than 30-50 tables at same time,
more than one HCI Agents is the preferred option.
Monitoring tool required more functionality to analyze the data load.
In case of data load failure, restart functionality is not available.
Use delta extraction for high volume data load.
*This impact of license is not included here, since it depends on the scenario for which the solution needs to be
deployed.