ESRI’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and SAP’s ERP software are an integral part of a powerful IT strategy. The power of SAP ERP including adapting to market changes, sensing and responding to customer requirements and extending processes beyond the organization, are further enhanced with the integration of ESRI’s GIS software.
There are five main technical interfaces available for integrating SAP’s ERP and ESRI’s GIS software.
The technical interfaces include:
SAP RFC Connectors - RFCs (Remote Function Calls) allow for remote calls between SAP ERP and ESRI’s GIS software.
Third-Party Connectors - Third-party connectors include the iWay Control Broker (CB) from Information Builders which is component-based and allows director connection to packaged and legacy back-end systems.
SAP Generic GIS Connector - The SAP GBC (GIS Business Connector) is a passive middleware that mediates between SAP solutions (designed for use with SAP ERP 4.5 and higher) and ESRI’s GIS software.
SAP EAI - SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI) is SAP’s enterprise application integration (EAI) software used to facilitate the exchange of information between SAP ERP and ESRI’s GIS.
Third-Party EAI -EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) is generally defined as the combination of platforms, business processes, standards and applications that result in the seamless integration of two or more enterprise systems.
Partner Solutions - The IMPRESS GEO I.APP is a pre-packaged solution from IMPRESS (an ESRI and SAP partner) that integrates SAP ALM/PLM applications and ESRI’s ArcGIS 8.x or 9.x GIS software.
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This post was written by techhair on June 4, 2008
