CCM 2.0 : system landscape option

[Former Member]

Hey,

do you need XI when you not split up CCM (as catalog authoring tool and search engine)?

What are the best experiences until know about splitting up CCM?

Greetz

Krisje

[Former Member]

Hi,

1- do you need XI when you not split up CCM ?

Yes, XI is then mandatory for the publication process.

2- What are the best experiences until know about splitting up CCM?

It is quite difficult to have a real experience on that (CCM 2.0 has just been released).

In my last project we choosed to use the CCM with CAT & CES on the same client than the SRM Server. We made this choice in order to:

-Simplify the architecture and the number of systems

-Simplify the master data management (if CCM is not on the same client than SRM, you'll have to synchronize master data in the CCM client for Vendors, UOM, Currencies, ...).

-Simplify the CCM developments (where we needed to access SRM Server data)

SAP communicates on a better workload management if CAT and CSE are separated, but I don't think anyone can have a real experience on that for the moment.

Hope it helps.

Vadim

[Former Member]

Hello,

just a correction of Vadim's answer:

1- NO !!! if CAT & CSE are on the same server/client, you don't need XI for publication process.

XI is mandatory for:

- all XML load files upload

- Product/contract/IR extraction from SRM & R/3

- publication in case of distributed deployment.

2- You must balance TCO against performance.

So the architecture decision must be driven by your volumetrics (SRM & CCM) and your sizing results.

Rgds

Christophe