Course Overview
About Course
SAP Process Integration (PI), now part of SAP Process Orchestration (PO), serves as a powerful enterprise middleware—enabling reliable and scalable integration across SAP and non-SAP systems. As a component of SAP NetWeaver, PI acts as a central integration hub, leveraging an enterprise service repository, integration directory, adapters, and BPM for end-to-end orchestration
Over 40 hours, participants advance from foundational concepts (architecture, roles, and landscape) to hands-on technical skills—working with integration repository objects, mapping messages, configuring adapters like IDoc, SOAP, and JDBC, and orchestrating processes using BPM . Key labs include mapping IDoc to XML with real-time monitoring through the Runtime Workbench, ensuring robust exception handling, error logging, and reprocessing strategies.
Advanced modules introduce business rules and error handling, tailored for enterprise-grade deployment scenarios. Security settings—SSL, SSO, digital certificates, and user authentication—are also covered to ensure compliant, secure integrations. Performance tuning workshops allow learners to optimize interface throughput by manipulating adapter queues, caching strategies, and load balancing.
Participants also explore the SAP PI/PO stack’s hybrid integration model, which combines on-premise PI with cloud-based SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), preparing them for modern SAP landscapes and migration approaches. Monitoring tools and sys-admin tasks form part of the administrative training, enabling end-to-end system visibility and health checks.
The course culminates in a capstone project: building an integration scenario that processes IDocs from SAP ECC, maps to a target REST/SOAP endpoint through BPM, and implements error-handling and audit capabilities. Certification preparation includes mock tests and structured interviews aimed at achieving the SAP Certified Development Associate – Process Integration credential.
Graduates come away with a robust understanding of SAP integration middleware, ready for roles as SAP PI/PO Integrators, Middleware Architects, or Integration Consultants. This curriculum equips professionals to design, implement, and troubleshoot enterprise integration landscapes in both on-premise and hybrid environments.
Course Syllabus
- Module 1: Introduction & Landscape (3 hrs)
- Overview of SAP PI/PO architecture and evolution from XI to Process Orchestration
- Role as Enterprise Service Bus and integration broker
- Module 2: Integration Repository & Directory (4 hrs)
- Setup of Integration Descriptions, Message Mappings, Operation Mappings
- Configuring Sender/Receiver agreements, parties, and communication channels
- Module 3: Adapters & Protocols (4 hrs)
- Using File, SOAP, JDBC, IDoc, RFC adapters
- Deep dive into XML message format, adapter configurations, strategic routing
- Module 4: IDoc Integration & XML Mapping (4 hrs)
- IDoc structure and IDoc adapter mapping
- Integrating IDoc with SOAP/BPM through WSDL adjustments
- Module 5: Message Mapping & Runtime Workbench (4 hrs)
- Graphical mapping and XPath
- Use of AssemblyCache and RWB for alerts, monitoring, trace execution
- Module 6: Advanced Scenarios: BPM & Business Rules (5 hrs)
- Creating BPM flows and orchestration
- Error handling, reprocessing, and implementing business rules
- Module 7: Process Orchestration (PO) – Integration Engine (4 hrs)
- Combining PI, BPM, and BRM in a unified PO stack
- Synchronous/asynchronous interface handling
- Module 8: Security & Performance Optimization (3 hrs)
- SSL, SSO, certificate setup, and user authentication
- Performance tuning: adapter queues, cache, load balancing
- Module 9: SAP CPI vs On‑Prem PI/PO (3 hrs)
- Cloud Integration overview vs on-premise relevance
- Migration strategies and hybrid integration approach
- Module 10: Sys‑Admin & Monitoring Tools (3 hrs)
- Monitoring via Runtime Workbench, Alert Inbox, logs, performance statistics
- Module 11: Cross‑Scenario Integration (3 hrs)
- Integration across SAP ECC, BW, CRM, S/4HANA, and external systems
- IDoc/XML flows and message transformations
- Module 12: Capstone Project & Certification Prep (6 hrs)
- Build end-to-end scenario: IDoc ➝ mapping ➝ BPM orchestration ➝ target system
- SAP Certified Development Associate – Process Integration mock tests
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Key Features
- Sandbox environment with SAP PI/PO (7.x) stack
- Hands-on labs using adapters (IDoc, SOAP, File) and mappings
- Real business process simulations, including error handling and reprocessing
- BPM creation for service orchestration and process automation
- Monitoring workshops via Runtime Workbench and alerts
- Security configuration labs: SSL, certificates, SSO, user roles
- Hybrid integration simulation bridging on-premise and cloud (CPI insights)
- Capstone scenario: deliver a fully functional end-to-end integration
- Certification toolkit: mock tests, scenario-based interviews, documentation best practices



