In 2027, SAP will discontinue support for SAP PI/PO – Process Integration (PI) and Process Orchestration (PO). This change will require companies to prepare for new solutions such as the SAP Integration Suite.
Yes, 2027 may seem far away, but system adaptation and user training are necessary to prevent disruptions and unnecessary strain on organizations.
What Is the SAP Integration Suite?
The SAP Integration Suite is an Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) that connects SAP and third-party applications. It also allows integration between on-premise and cloud solutions, a transition that many companies are still navigating.
The SAP Integration Suite provides a robust platform with advanced functionalities for composition, real-time event management, and API management. It features a centralized hub with access to over 3,600 SAP and partner APIs. Enterprise-level capabilities include 99.95% uptime, multi-time-zone availability, fault prevention, and elastic scaling to ensure high performance and throughput.
Why Migrate from SAP PI/PO to SAP Integration Suite?
Beyond the end of support for SAP PI/PO in 2027 and the shift toward cloud-based solutions, there are several other advantages to migrating. Check out the list below:
- Faster development process compared to on-premise systems
- Reduced installation and maintenance costs for on-premise integration systems
- No need for hardware or infrastructure providers for installation and maintenance of development, quality, and production systems
- Enables the use of the tools available in SAP Integration Suite
- High traceability through trace/debug capabilities for issue resolution
- Flexibility in data handling and validation with Groovy and JavaScript scripts
- High compatibility with various adapters available for integration flows
- Easily adopted by the integration team for development and maintenance
- Supports business growth and adoption of SAP and non-SAP cloud innovations
- Pre-built integration templates from SAP available for customer use
- Real-time error and exception handling
- High availability of the SAP Cloud Integration platform
Benefits of the SAP Integration Suite
The SAP Integration Suite is more innovative, offers greater agility and scalability, includes pre-defined solutions, and enhances speed and connectivity across processes and systems.
Here are the key benefits of the SAP Integration Suite:
- Strong security focus with data isolation, content encryption, and authentication-based signature
- High-performance message queue processing
- Reusability and flexibility of implemented flows and pre-built SAP models
- Enhanced speed and traceability in communication between SAP and non-SAP applications
- Significantly improved response time for incident resolution in integrations
SAP is increasingly investing in cloud technology, and the discontinuation of PI/PO is one of many steps in this direction, similar to the discontinuation of GRC (the module for NFe issuance).
Partner with companies like Meta to facilitate the migration process, ensuring your team is well-prepared and the transition to SAP Integration Suite is seamless.
