Can SAP’s SOA middleware be positioned as B2B gateway?
Yes, in general SAP’s SOA middleware can be positioned as B2B gateway: • A large portion of SAP’s customers use SAP NW PI for B2B scenarios. Therefore, B2B is one of the core scenarios that are supported by SAP NW PI, currently as well as in the future. For B2B scenarios specific capabilities (such as security handling via collaboration agreements) are provided with the SAP NW PI standard installation. • SAP has a partnership with Seeburger as EDI expertise partner. This partnership reaches from a product level to the implementation level. Up to now numerous EDI projects have been carried out successfully, and several reference customers from various industries exist, such as Kongsberg. • SAP’s SOA middleware is the key building block of SAP’s SOA infrastructure and supports a wide spectrum of scenarios. SAP’s SOA middleware is utilized in numerous use cases; therefore it is important that the SAP’s SOA middleware technology is independent of scenarios, use cases, tasks, etc. • The par
