What is EAI

[Former Member]

Hi,

What is EAI stands for Enterprise Application Integration. What are the different EDIs and What is the RossetNet?

Thanks,

satish

[Former Member]

Hi ,

Check this thread also if you want more on EAI...

sekhar

[Former Member]

Hi,

EAI stands for Enterprise application interface. Generally it is used interchangeably with middleware. eg. seebeyond, SAP xI, TIBCO are some of the EAI tools.

EDI: is nothing but electronic data interchange. It follows certain formats that are understood universally. It's more to do with the standard formats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Interchange

There are certain EDI products also in the market which help in coverting your company local data into a standard understood universally.

Rosettanet:

is one of the standards followed in the supply chain management.

http://www.rosettanet.org/Rosettanet/Public/PublicHomePage

difference between EDI and rosettanet:

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2004/12/RosettaNet.html

Regards

Vijaya

[Former Member]

Hi Satish,

I will give you a few links which will help you understand more about EAI,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAI

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/adc7c390-0201-0010-ebb2-c86...

EDI systems communicate either through a value added network or based on agreement, partners do communicate using secure FTP. Seeburger adapter has all these protocols available ready-made.

To know more about the same, go trough these links,

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/818a20be-0601-0010-e3b8-ac3...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/135b0b94-0701-0010-f6a9-86a...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/6dc02f5d-0601-0010-cd9d-f4f...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9f72e81d-0b01-0010-149a-81c...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/4f58802d-0a01-0010-e58b-d13...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b0b355ae-0501-0010-3b83-8f2...

http://www.seeburger.com/fileadmin/com/pdf/SAP_Exchange_Infrastructure_Integratio_Strategy.pdf

/people/bla.suranyi/blog/2006/06/08/sap-xi-supports-edifact

And about ROSETTANET just go through the info below,

RNIF adapters support the data communication standard – RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF) defined by RosettaNet. This standard defines RNIF protocols version 1.1 and 2.0. The RNIF adapters 1.1 and 2.0 are based on these protocols.

The adapters change the XI message format to the required RosettaNet message format. The adapters also change the format of messages from partner systems to the XI system.

You use RNIF adapters to send messages between the Integration Server and a RosettaNet-compliant system.

Please refer to the replay of following webinar on Know-how network calls that has live demo on how to configure the RNIF Adapter.

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/webinar?rid=/library/uuid/c189119d-0801-0010-a6a2-f0b010e727ac

For more information about RNIF you can also visit, www.rosettanet.org :

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/42/f3d07f074e1bcae10000000a11466f/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/3d/99743f3d4b0866e10000000a114084/content.htm

http://sap.co.il/SAPPHIL04/PDF/Track2/NESS_XI30_Overview.pdf

/people/paul.medaille/blog/2005/07/20/sap-launches-inititative-for-industry-content

http://www.sap.com/solutions/netweaver/components/xiadapters.epx

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9928db90-0201-0010-6894-ffa...

There are 3 software components related to RosettaNet that are offered by SAP:

ROSETTANET

ROSETTANET CRM

ROSETTANET ERP

The component ROSETTANET contains mainly the definitions of the PIP's, while the components ROSETTANET ERP and ROSETTANET CRM contain (most importantly) the mappings against the respective SAP backend (CRM or ERP).

If you look for complete support of PIP's including the mapping to the backend (IDoc or BAPI) you need to check which PIP's are supported in ROSETTANET CRM or ROSETTANET ERP. Here the document you find following the link in the SAP service marketplace is correct. As of today SAP offers mappings for the following PIP's:

PIP3A4

PIP3A7

PIP3A8

PIP3A9

PIP3B2

PIP3C3

PIP3C6

If you are only interested in the PIP definition, you need to check the content of the component ROSETTANET (here you don't find the latest information on the service marketplace). In general, SAP is working on making all PIP's available in that component. If you are missing some PIP you can contact SAP, e.g. via this forum and the PIP's will be added and made available very soon.

Currently you find the following PIP's:

PIP2A12

PIP3A1, 3A2, 3A4, 3A6, 3A7, 3A8, 3A9

PIP3B2, 3B12, 3B13, 3B14

PIP3C3, 3C4, 3C6

PIP4A1, 4A5

PIP5C1, 5C2, 5C3, 5C4

PIP6C1, 6C2

Also important to mention is that SAP works with some partners that also offer mappings for some PIP's, for example 3C4 and the PIP6C* series.

Regards,

Abhy