SAP Integration Suite Services
SAP Integration Suite is SAP's integration platform as a service. It is much more than iFlows — it bundles API management, event-driven messaging, EDI partner management, and tooling that helps you decide how to integrate in the first place.
CssInfotech helps organisations get real value out of the whole licence: setting up an integration strategy and governance model, enabling the capabilities you are already paying for, and moving off SAP PI/PO in a controlled way.
The Capabilities Inside SAP Integration Suite
Most customers use one capability and pay for all of them. This is what is actually in the box, and what each is genuinely good for.
Cloud Integration
The iFlow engine — the capability everyone still calls CPI.
- Process integration between cloud and on-premise systems
- Rich adapter set and prepackaged integration content
- Message mapping, routing, transformation and orchestration
- See our dedicated SAP CPI services page
API Management
Publish, secure, throttle and measure APIs rather than point-to-point links.
- API proxies with policy-based security and rate limiting
- Developer portal for internal and partner consumption
- Traffic analytics, quotas and API versioning
- OAuth, JWT, API key and mutual TLS enforcement
Event Mesh
Publish-subscribe messaging so systems react to events instead of polling.
- Decoupled event-driven architecture across SAP and non-SAP
- S/4HANA business events consumed by BTP extensions
- Queues, topics and durable subscriptions
- Advanced Event Mesh for large-scale event streaming
Integration Advisor
Machine-assisted mapping for standards-based B2B messages.
- Message Implementation Guidelines (MIGs) and Mapping Guidelines (MAGs)
- Libraries for EDIFACT, ANSI X12, IDoc and other standards
- Proposals from crowd-sourced mapping intelligence
- Generated runtime artefacts deployed straight to Cloud Integration
Trading Partner Management
Industrialised B2B and EDI onboarding at partner scale.
- Partner profiles, agreements and identifiers held centrally
- Reusable templates so new partners are configuration, not development
- B2B monitoring with partner-level visibility
- AS2, EDIFACT and X12 exchange handling
Graph & Integration Assessment
A unified data API, and a method for deciding your approach.
- Graph exposes a single connected API across SAP business data
- Integration Assessment applies SAP's ISA-M methodology
- Technology mapping per integration use-case pattern
- Governance artefacts your architects can actually reuse
Do You Need an iFlow, an API, or an Event?
Defaulting to an iFlow for every requirement is how integration estates become unmaintainable. This is the decision framework we apply, based on SAP's own ISA-M methodology.
Use process integration (iFlow) when
This is the workhorse pattern — but it is stateful and needs operating, so it should be a deliberate choice.
- Data must be transformed between different structures
- The exchange is scheduled or file-based
- Orchestration across several systems is needed
- Guaranteed delivery with retry is a requirement
- B2B or EDI standards are involved
Use an API or event instead when
Getting this split right is what keeps an integration estate small enough to reason about.
- A consumer needs real-time request/response access
- Many consumers want the same data (publish once, reuse)
- You need throttling, quotas or external partner access
- A system should react to a change rather than poll for it
- You want loose coupling between producer and consumer
Our SAP Integration Suite Services
We work at the strategy level and the hands-on build level, and most clients need both.
Integration Assessment & Strategy
Before you build anything else, understand what you already have.
- Full inventory of current interfaces across PI/PO, CPI and point-to-point code
- Use-case pattern classification using the ISA-M methodology
- Target architecture and technology mapping per pattern
- Governance model: naming, ownership, reuse and review gates
- Licence utilisation review against what you are actually paying for
Platform Setup & Enablement
A tenant configured for multi-team use, not just a sandbox.
- Subaccount, tenant and environment strategy (dev / test / prod)
- Role collections, authorisations and separation of duties
- Cloud Connector, destinations and certificate management
- Transport landscape via Content Agent Service and CTS+
- Capability enablement: API Management, Event Mesh, TPM
SAP PI / PO Migration Programmes
A controlled exit from an end-of-life integration platform.
- Interface discovery, complexity scoring and wave planning
- Migration tooling assessment plus manual redesign where needed
- Rebuild of mappings, custom adapter modules and Java logic
- Parallel running, reconciliation and staged traffic cutover
- Decommissioning plan for the legacy landscape
Managed Integration Operations
Ongoing ownership so integration stops being a firefight.
- Proactive monitoring, alerting and error queue management
- Incident triage with defined response and resolution targets
- Change requests, new interfaces and enhancement delivery
- Certificate and security material lifecycle management
- Quarterly service reviews with failure and throughput trends
Our Integration Suite Implementation Approach
We deliver in a sequence that produces something useful early rather than a six-month architecture document.
- DiscoverInventory every existing integration, including the shadow ones — scheduled jobs, database links and custom ABAP reports emailing files.
- Assess & classifyEach use case is mapped to an integration pattern and a recommended technology, using ISA-M as the framework.
- Design the targetTarget architecture, tenant and environment strategy, security model and governance rules agreed with your architects.
- Set up & provePlatform configured and validated with one real end-to-end scenario, so the plumbing is proven before scale-up.
- Deliver in wavesInterfaces built and migrated in prioritised waves, each with its own test and cutover, so risk stays contained.
- Operate & improveMonitoring, alerting and runbooks handed over, with regular reviews to retire redundant interfaces rather than accumulate them.
Benefits of Consolidating on SAP Integration Suite
These are outcomes we can point at from real engagements — not licence-brochure claims.
- Fewer platforms to run — one integration estate instead of PI, scripts and point-to-point code
- Reuse instead of rebuild — a published API serves many consumers
- Faster partner onboarding — Trading Partner Management turns projects into configuration
- Real-time processes — events replace overnight batch windows
- Clear ownership — governance means every interface has a named owner
- Upgrade-safe extensions — integration lives outside the SAP core
- Better visibility — one place to see what failed and why
- Hybrid ready — Edge Integration Cell keeps sensitive processing on-premise
Industries We Serve
Integration complexity tracks partner count and regulatory load. These sectors feel it most.
Why Work With CssInfotech
We are engineers who also think about governance, which is an unusual and useful combination on integration programmes.
Method, not just tooling
We apply SAP's ISA-M methodology so technology choices are defensible to your architecture board, rather than being whatever the developer knew best.
We find the shadow integrations
Every estate has undocumented file drops and scheduled jobs. Our discovery phase is specifically designed to surface them before they break during a migration.
Licence value focus
We routinely find customers paying for API Management and Event Mesh while building everything as iFlows. Enabling what you own is the cheapest improvement available.
Migration realism
We give honest wave plans based on interface complexity, including which PI artefacts will need a genuine redesign rather than a tooling-assisted port.
Build and run
We can hand over cleanly to your team, or keep running the platform ourselves under an agreed service model. Both are normal for us.
Cost-effective delivery
India-based senior integration engineers with European and US overlap hours, at rates that make wave-based migration programmes affordable.
SAP Integration Suite FAQs
What is the difference between SAP Integration Suite and SAP CPI?
SAP CPI is the informal name for the Cloud Integration capability, which is one component of SAP Integration Suite. The Suite is the whole platform: Cloud Integration plus API Management, Event Mesh, Integration Advisor, Trading Partner Management, Graph and Integration Assessment. In short, CPI is part of Integration Suite, not a synonym for it.
Is SAP Integration Suite a replacement for SAP PI/PO?
Yes, it is the strategic successor. SAP PI/PO remains supported for a defined period, but no new innovation is going into it. The realistic approach is a planned, wave-based migration rather than either a rush or indefinite delay — the interfaces you migrate last should be the ones with the most bespoke Java and adapter module logic.
Can we keep some integration on-premise for data residency reasons?
Yes. The Edge Integration Cell lets you run integration flows within your own network under Kubernetes while still designing and managing them in the cloud tenant. This is the usual answer for regulated data that cannot transit a public cloud region.
Do we need API Management if we already have Cloud Integration?
If your integrations are all system-to-system batch or file exchanges, probably not. You need it when multiple consumers want the same data in real time, or when you expose anything to external partners — that is when throttling, quotas, key management and usage analytics stop being optional.
How long does an integration assessment take?
For a mid-sized landscape, typically three to five weeks: one to two weeks of discovery and interviews, then classification, target architecture and a wave plan. You get an interface inventory, pattern mapping, governance recommendations and a costed migration roadmap.
Can you work with our existing integration team?
Yes, and it is usually the better model. We commonly set up the platform, governance and the first wave of interfaces, then transfer knowledge so your team delivers subsequent waves with us reviewing and handling the harder cases.
Related SAP Services
Integration Suite programmes usually touch these services too.
Get a Clear Picture of Your Integration Estate
Most organisations do not have a reliable list of their own interfaces. Our integration assessment gives you that list, a target architecture, and a costed plan to get there.