SAP HANA Cloud Integration (HCI) from a developers perspective

From a developer’s perspective, I can say that it’s always nice to try new products and see how they work. I had the privilege of being able to test out HANA Cloud Integration (HCI) during the trial period.

I really liked it! It seemed to be a tool that made it easier for developers to work on applications. It is interesting to see how much things have evolved since the start of XI 3.0, about 11 years ago. 

The environment is an online platform, which makes it very easy to develop. You do not need to download a lot of stuff to develop and enhance your projects. It is based on flows. You can send messages through the BPMN (Business Process Model Notation). You will be shown what is going on, receiving relevant details.

You don’t have the processing flow you were used to in the Process Orchestration (PO) stack. You’re basically taking a message and sending it somewhere else.

The Essentials on SAP NetWeaver Process Integration - A SAP Mentor 2010 Series

The Essentials on SAP NetWeaver Process Integration - A SAP Mentor 2010 Series Authors: Michal Krawczyk and Shabarish Vijayakumar ISBN: 978-0-9842350-0-1 MSRP: $59.95 Pages: 304  Purchase it today from Amazon

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When to use PI, BPM and Business (ABAP) Workflow

Matt Harding has written a great blog detailing the question as to when to us SAP NetWeaver PI vs. BPM vs. SAP Business Workplace (ABAP Workflow).
Check out the article on SCN.

SAP PI/PO learning survey - By Daniel Graversen

Learning SAP PI/PO is always interesting, just as it is to learn other concepts. 

PICourse.com created a survey to figure out how learning SAP PI/PO can be made easier. The survey also focused on the methods used by current developers to learn SAP PI/PO when they started their careers.

One of the questions was referring to the difficulty of learning SAP PI/PO - I wanted to find out why does it take such a considerable amount of time for people to master the skills associated with SAP PI/PO. An important detail we need to mention here is that during a 2-week course you will learn everything a developer needs to know. However, mastering SAP PI/PO will take much longer - you will probably need years of experience before you can do integration work without anyone else's help.