Mastering integration: Why SAP CPI-DS is your go to solution
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In today’s age of digitisation and automation, companies are actively seeking innovative ways to boost their resilience and gain competitive edge through streamlining and optimising processes. Based on our many years of experience helping clients, PwC knows that central to this drive for efficiency are integration platforms that play an important role in seamlessly migrating data between existing systems and new solutions tailored to address a company’s specific challenges.
PwC understands that selecting the right integration platform is imperative to align with a company's data needs, in order to enhance the effectiveness of the new solution. SAP has a suite of integration platforms that seamlessly connect with its offered solutions aimed at addressing the unique needs of different companies operating in different industries.
Among these platforms, SAP Cloud Platform Integration for Data Services (CPI-DS) stands out as a solution to enable seamless integration between SAP and SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Demand and Response, as well as non-SAP ERP systems. SAP CPI-DS provides best practices to maximise the platform's capabilities, resulting in quicker, more sustainable integrations.
The following are five compelling reasons why PwC considers SAP CPI-DS as the preferred integration tool for SAP IBP:
- Cloud advantage – Cloud solutions are engineered with business continuity in mind, ensuring almost uninterrupted service availability through resilient data centres.
- Data security – Data security is a paramount concern with cloud solutions. CPI-DS acts as a data conduit, eliminating data storage within the platform itself, thus preventing data leakage.
- Secure connections – CPI-DS uses agents to connect to both source and destination systems. The source agent, an on-premises component, grants businesses full control over ERP system access.
- Streamlined development - With drag-and-drop functionality and a library of built-in functions, CPI-DS offers rapid development capabilities, reducing the need for extensive coding to achieve the desired outcomes.
- Troubleshooting made easy – Troubleshooting can be a tedious task for developers, but CPI-DS simplifies the process. The segmentation of components and clear error logs makes problem-solving straightforward.
Leveraging our extensive experience in SAP IBP integration projects, PwC supports the use of SAP CPI-DS in adherence to best practice. Deploying SAP CPI-DS ensures that companies achieve a more sustainable integration with minimal support requirements.
