WmSAP

webMethods Adapter for SAP allows you to extend your SAP business processes and
integrate non-SAP products using open and non-proprietary technology. Adapter
for SAP enables both asynchronous and bi-directional, real-time communication
to and from the SAP system. You can:

• Execute the SAP platform-agnostic Business Application Programming
  Interface (BAPI) methods. BAPIs are stable, clearly specified, and
  well-documented interfaces to SAP solutions, providing standardized access
  to SAP solutions at a semantic level.
  You can effortlessly generate XML-based services that executes the BAPI,
  which can be invoked by internal applications within an organization as well
  as external business partners over the internet.
  BAPI interfaces provide unified access to the application-level functionality,
  independent of the whether processing is synchronous or asynchronous. In the
  case of asynchronous processing, the BAPI interface can transparently use
  Application Link Enabling(ALE) services inside the SAP system for client
  integration of business processes.

• Execute SAP Remote Function Calls (RFCs) from Adapter for SAP. You can
  access all SAP functionality available via RFC from Adapter for
  SAP. External applications can communicate with the SAP system without
  understanding SAP datatypes, ABAP structures, or the RFC protocol.

• Send Intermediate Documents (IDocs) to the Adapter for SAP. You can send IDocs
  to the Adapter for SAP for further synchronous processing or publish them to
  subscribers asynchronously.

• Invoke services from SAP systems. This allows the SAP users to access
  information available via Adapter for SAP. Adapter for SAP enables
  integration between trading partners, thereby extending the reach of SAP
  infrastructure to customers, partners, and suppliers.

• Route SAP business documents based on criteria you specify. Adapter for SAP
  provides rich routing capabilities for BAPIs, RFCs, and IDocs. Various
  transport types are available out-of-the-box such as routing of a
  business document to another SAP system or to a remote URL in an XML format.

Adapter for SAP allows increasing customer loyalty and efficiency across
the supply chain by integrating business infrastructure with partners.
Typical deployment scenarios include:
- Real-time integration between supplier inventories and your SAP system
- Real-time integration between product, price, and availability information
from any number of suppliers and your purchasing application
- Real-time integration between fulfillment and order tracking applications
and your shippers' internal systems

Functional Highlights
- Synchronous and asynchronous communication with SAP systems through RFC,
tRFC, qRFC, and bgRFC
- Bi-directional and multithreaded communication to and from SAP systems
- Load balancing of incoming SAP documents
- Support of publishing to the local webMethods Integration Server, Broker, JMS
for asynchronous adapter notifications
- Support for "publish and wait" and "direct service invocation" execution modes
for synchronous adapter notifications
- Higher level services to process SAP IDocs and BAPIs
- Easy XML and Internet enabling of existing SAP releases
- Support of BizTalk XML envelopes for BAPI and RFC calls
- Support of unified error handling of BAPIs and RFCs on XML level.