Question:
Hi
we are considering a number of options to web enable Sales Orders, Accout Payments etc... we already have a web app written with ASP and DCOM calling SAP RFC and BAPI.
We are now wanted to connect to our different versioned SAP and non-SAP systems and are considering SeeBeyond as "middleware" between web and different backends.
I am wondering if anybody else has considered this or other interfaces (eg SAP BC, TIBCO or Sonic) - good bad or indifferent ?
thanks
Pete
Answer:
since it seems you are comfortable with Microsoft technologies, I would strongly suggest looking at Microsoft BizTalk Server.
I have used the product and I feel that you can reuse a lot of components you have already developed in VB/ASP/C# etc. You would also find the development tools very familiar and easy to debug and deploy.
Answer:
since it seems you are comfortable with Microsoft technologies, I would strongly suggest looking at Microsoft BizTalk Server.
I have used the product and I feel that you can reuse a lot of components you have already developed in VB/ASP/C# etc. You would also find the development tools very familiar and easy to debug and deploy.
Answer:
SeeBeyond is very expensive if you are not using its full EAI potential.
SAP BC is free and will do what you describe with ease....
j
Answer:
I am unhappy with SAP BC it is quite basic and lacks monitoring and strong error recovery features. I strongly favor Microsoft BizTalk over SAP BC, SeeBeyond is too difficult. TIBCO is good but is expensive.
Clinton
Answer:
We use BC4.6.It doesn't seem to have lot of features.The monitor tool is so bad.Is there any way we can replace BC with 4.7 Enterprise Web application server and netweaver tools .Have any one done this?
GB
Answer:
From working on BAPI integration project to SeeBeyond, the SeeBeyond wouldn't recognize the custom BAPIs subclassed from SAP BAPIs. From my experiences, it should be the SAP BC due to the development resource pool, documentation and robust toolsets. Only thing is it's not going to be supported by SAP but I am almost sure that the WebMethod will take over. Otherwise consider the SAP XI.
Answer:
NONE OF THEM!
You will spend more time getting them to work than you would EVER want to.
Here's what we did... get an inexpensive app server such as a J2EE app server (try JBoss it's free) or Biztalk from MS. Then get an adapter from someone like IBI or Librados (http://ww.librados.com.
If you need data transformation try either XSLT.