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Microsoft is committed to providing you with technical information on how to better integrate Microsoft and SAP solutions, reduce complexity, and have a continued focus on TCO. As such, providing the latest technical details and know-how on how to implement and integrate Microsoft and SAP technologies is of utmost importance. From learning about details on Microsoft SQL Server for SAP environments to integrating SAP applications with the Microsoft Office System, you'll find a breadth of knowledge in this section.

Such technical information is always a work in progress as new versions of technologies are released, best practices are refined, and some technologies are no longer applicable. Therefore, bookmark this page and return often. We're confident you will find helpful information to aid in your efforts of either implementing SAP on the Microsoft Windows and SQL Server platform or integrating SAP with Microsoft .NET.

Please click on the links below for individual technical documents and resources.

BizTalk Server

What is BizTalk Server? BizTalk is a business process management (BPM) server that enables companies to automate and optimize business processes. This includes powerful, familiar tools to design, develop, deploy, and manage those processes. For more information, see the Microsoft BizTalk and SAP site on Microsoft.com.

Interoperability Resources - BizTalk Server
Integration Topic Document Abstract Date

BizTalk Server, SAP NetWeaver

 Best Practices Using Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0

This article provides you with the best solutions for implementing and achieving optimal performance, scalability, and functionality in your applications; it also covers best practices when using the Microsoft® BizTalk® Adapter Pack as stand-alone or in association with Microsoft BizTalk Server and offers suggestions that can help you optimize the design of your application.

11/2008

BizTalk Server, SAP NetWeaver

 Positioning BizTalk Adapter Pack over Previous BizTalk Server Adapters and over Previous ADO.NET Providers

Microsoft delivers software solutions to enable a flexible integration and application infrastructure. The area of integration is of particular importance and relevance today. Typically connecting to heterogeneous and Line of Business (LOB) systems has become an important task for many customers. As a result this most often increased development costs and application complexity. In this document we give an overview of the various integration components. The objective is to explain a unified and open approach on the technology of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) programming model.

11/2008

BizTalk Server, SAP NetWeaver

 Positioning SAP Enterprise Services vs. Microsoft BizTalk Adapter 3.0 for mySAP Business Suite

Microsoft and SAP deliver software solutions to enable a flexible integration and application infrastructure. It is well known that connecting a Line of Business (LOB) system has become an important task to many customers and the area of SAP is of particular importance and relevance today.

In this document we first give an overview of the integration components and then we describe usage scenarios for setting up interoperability between SAP and other software solutions using Microsoft® BizTalk® Adapter Pack.

11/2008

BizTalk Server, SAP NetWeaver XI

 BizTalk Server 2006 and SAP XI Developer Productivity Study

Microsoft engaged Crimson Consulting Company, to conduct a comparative study of developer productivity with integration servers Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 and SAP XI 3.0, using mySAP ERP in heterogeneous environments. A third-party lab specializing in professional services practices for Microsoft BizTalk Server and SAP XI executed the study per Crimson's direction.

01/2007

BizTalk Server, BizTalk SAP Adapter

 BizTalk Server 2006 SAP Labs

Several in-depth lab exercises that demonstrate Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 capabilities by integrating various heterogeneous applications and systems in a business-to-business (B2B) environment.

06/2006

BizTalk Server 2004, SAP NetWeaver XI, WebServices

 Reliable Messaging between SAP XI 3.0 and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Using SOAP Compliant Communication

Reliable Messaging is critical for Web services. Many business problems require that the participants can be sure of the completion of message exchanges. Synchronous communication is not always an option due to its limitations concerning availability of the participants and performance issues. Reliable Messaging is therefore a key feature needed for asynchronous communication using web services. In May 2004 SAP and Microsoft announced to work on interoperability between SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft .NET based on advanced web services which will allow amongst others Reliable Messaging and an adapter less integration between Microsoft BizTalk and SAP XI infrastructure. These features will be available with the upcoming major releases of SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft .NET. However customers are requesting a solution based on existing technologies. Therefore, this whitepaper outlines how Reliable Messaging using SOAP compliant communication between SAP XI 3.0 and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 can be achieved that fulfils the Quality of Service exactly once leveraging features and functions of the existing products.

10/2005

BizTalk Server, mySAP Business Suite, http

 IDoc-based Adapterless Communication between SAP NetWeaver Application Server and Microsoft BizTalk Server

This white paper demonstrates how to integrate Microsoft BizTalk Server and SAP NetWeaver Application Server without using additional adapters. Microsoft BizTalk Server uses the HTTP IDoc XML Interface SAP NetWeaver Application Server offers for sending and retrieving IDocs in XML format. The paper contains a walk-through for setting up the SAP NetWeaver Application Server to enable them to post and retrieve IDocs in XML.

08/2005

BizTalk Server, NetWeaver XI

 Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 - SAP XI 3.0 Interoperability

This white paper provides a concept on how to integrate Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 and SAP XI based upon a scenario of both integration platforms acting as cooperating systems and integrating different parts of the application landscape. The white paper combines conceptional work on a double-hub integration architecture and practical experiences from existing projects. A double-hub integration architecture consisting of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 and SAP XI 3.0 encapsulates all SAP centric integration scenarios and interfaces within the XI hub and all other scenarios within the BizTalk hub. To achieve a seamless and comprehensive connection between those two hubs several aspects regarding the different integration layers have to be considered. The white paper covers all relevant aspects required to establish integration at transport, messaging, process management and monitoring layer. At the transport and messaging layer, practical walkthroughs demonstrate the steps necessary to connect SAP XI and BizTalk using the existing mechanisms and adapters. In order to provide a blue print for real-life scenarios the tradeoff between Web Services and conventional RFC/IDoc is discussed.

06/2005

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