Enabling Application-to-Application Processes

Purpose

This documentation describes how to centrally design processes to integrate applications within a company as part of the enabling application-to-application processes IT scenario. The applications to be integrated can be SAP or non-SAP applications.

Prerequisites

The following table lists the prerequisites for this documentation:

Prerequisites	Description
Technical usage type for SAP NetWeaver	PI – Process Integration (XI)
Tools	Integration Builder (Integration Repository and Integration Directory)

How to Use This Documentation

If you do not have any experience with enabling application-to-application processes, start with the following sections:

· Getting Involved

· Go and Create

These sections contain information about the basic principles of process integration, as well as examples and an introductory tutorial.

If you already have experience with enabling application-to-application processes, use the remaining sections for reference purposes.