SAP CPI (Cloud Platform Integration)

Learn SAP CPI concepts - Message Splitting, Mapping, Adapters, Enricher, Cloud Connector, more. Become a CPI Consultant.

A warm welcome to the SAP CPI (Cloud Platform Integration) course by Uplatz.

SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) is a cloud-based integration platform offered by SAP. It allows organizations to integrate processes and data between cloud applications, on-premises solutions, and other external partners and systems.

CPI provides pre-built integration content, tools for designing, monitoring, and managing integrations, as well as capabilities for data mapping, transformation, and routing. It supports various integration scenarios such as application-to-application (A2A), business-to-business (B2B), and business-to-cloud (B2C).

With SAP CPI, businesses can streamline their operations, improve data consistency, and enhance overall efficiency by connecting their diverse set of applications and systems seamlessly. SAP CPI provides a comprehensive and flexible platform for integrating applications, systems, and data across hybrid landscapes, enabling businesses to streamline processes, improve agility, and drive digital transformation.

The key features of SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) are:

1. Cloud-Based Integration: SAP CPI is a cloud-based integration platform, which means there's no need for on-premises infrastructure. This enables scalability, flexibility, and easy access from anywhere with an internet connection.

2. Pre-Built Integration Content: CPI offers a library of pre-built integration content for popular scenarios and applications, reducing development time and effort. These pre-packaged integrations cover various SAP and non-SAP applications.

3. Integration Development Tools: CPI provides graphical tools for designing integrations, including a web-based integration designer. These tools enable developers to create integration flows visually, making it easier to define message mappings, transformations, and routing rules.

4. Connectivity Options: CPI supports a wide range of connectivity options, including adapters, protocols, and standards for integrating with cloud and on-premises systems. This includes SOAP, REST, OData, JDBC, JMS, SFTP, FTP, and more.

5. Monitoring and Management: CPI offers built-in monitoring and management capabilities for tracking the performance and health of integration flows. Developers can monitor message processing, view error logs, and set up alerts for critical events.

6. Security and Compliance: Security is a top priority for SAP, and CPI provides features for securing integration flows and data. This includes encryption, authentication, authorization, and compliance with industry standards and regulations.

7. Scalability and Performance: CPI is designed to handle large volumes of data and transactions, ensuring scalability and performance for mission-critical integration scenarios. It supports horizontal scaling and load balancing to accommodate growing workloads.

8. API Management: Integration with SAP API Management allows organizations to expose their integration interfaces as APIs, enabling easier consumption by external partners and developers. This includes capabilities for API security, versioning, and analytics.

9. Lifecycle Management: CPI provides tools for managing the lifecycle of integration artifacts, including version control, deployment, and rollback. This helps ensure consistency and reliability across development, testing, and production environments.

10. Extensibility and Customization: While CPI offers pre-built integration content, it also allows developers to extend and customize integrations as needed. This includes adding custom logic, scripting, or extensions using Java or Groovy.

SAP CPI - Course Curriculum

1. What is SAP

2. Overview of BTP

3. What is Integration

4. Types of Data Formats

5. Subscription to Integration Suite

6. Introduction to SAP CPI

7. Ways to Monitor CPI Logs

8. Types of Converters in CPI

9. Router and General Splitter

10. Types of Splitter and XML Modifier

11. Filter

12. Multicast and Exception Sub-process

13. Process Call and Local Integration Process and Events

14. Request Reply and Send

15. Content Enricher and Poll Enrich

16. XML Validator and Looping Process Call

17. Types of Data Stores

18. Persist and Message Digest

19. Content Modifier and Write Variable

20. Aggregator and Idempotent Process Call

21. ID Mapping and Message Mapping

22. Functions in Message Mapping

23. Adapters in CPI

24. Cloud Connector

25. General Topics of CPI