SAP Exchange Infrastructure

Just as SAP Enterprise Portal provides single point of access to back-end applications and content, SAP Exchange Infrastructure provides single point of access between applications—possibly many applications. This simplifies integration, thereby improving the velocity with which new applications can be deployed and existing applications can be folded into your business processes.

Role Within NetWeaver

The role of SAP XI is straightforward—to connect or integrate two or more applications so that extended business processes can be deployed. To do this, SAP XI relies on the passing back and forth of XML messages (in the absence of native SAP-supported protocols). Thus, connectivity to SAP and non-SAP systems can be ...

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