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Confluent Parallel Consumer Adapter for SAP Integration Suite

Confluent Parallel Consumer Adapter for SAP Integration Suite

Apache Kafka is a popular open source project for processing event-driven data streams based on a transaction log.

KaTe Confluent parallel consumer adapter extends the existing bullet proof Kafka Adapter for high throughput optimized scenarios on SAP integration suite or Edge integration cell (EIC).

The adapter inherits all functions of the KaTe Kafka adapter and complements it with parallel processing capabilities for high throughput.

Basic functions

The adapter allows you to publish Iflow messages as Kafka records and subscribe Kafka records as Iflow messages.

Kafka key, headers and data sections are translated into iflow message parts and vice versa. Topic & Partitions and technical reliability settings (Ack Mode/Consumer commits) are customizable per use case.

Message processing is observable and debuggable on channel & message log level without third party tooling fully integrated into SAP Cloud integration functionality.

Work secure with company & compliance standards

Our product supports all  commonly used security standards PLAIN, PLAIN_SASL, SASL_SSL, SASL-Plain/SASL-SCRAM, OAuth2 as well as client certificate authentication for broker and schema registry connections.

Support for high performance, resilience & flow control

The adapter allows parallelization on key level instead of only partition level which enables 10-500x higher throughput on single or even more on batched records without loosing functional order of related records.

Stay in charge what you want to process of a topic and how you will put load on your connected backends.

The product supports different methods to allow, filter and control message throughput on topics through:

  • Filtering: Kafka records can be filtered based on record headers, keys and data content before triggering an integration
  • Batching: A set of n Kafka records can be batched as single iflow message to optimize throughput
  • Parallelization can be adjusted with different modes (no order, order on key level) as well as how many threads process the records in parallel.

Full control of operations in one tool

  • Process records from start or end of stream or from any arbitrary position of the stream.
  • Process and re-process records
  • Deduplicate of necessary by offset or functional headers
  • Group names are feely definable and not set by us as vendor

Automated or manual error resolution

One common „challenge“ with ordered streaming systems like Kafka is, if errors occur, this could bring a total halt to processing if order is important. Our product allows you a manual as well as automated way to handle by e.g. forwarding it to an error destination or  document & ignore certain cases.

Serialization errors, data transformations errors or any down stream processing error (processing through an iflow).

Avro, Protocol Buffers, Json & schema registries

Our product supports typical binary data formats like Avro and Protobuf with Kafka typical optimizations like a schema registry.

The adapter can translate Avro and Protocol Buffers to XML and vice versa. Necessary translations of Avro/Protobuf schemas are generated with an included schema generation tool.

Transformation from binary (Avro/Protocol Buffers) and Json to XML and vice versa is supported

SAP roadmap compatible

Our Kafka Adapter is available for SAP Process Orchestration & Integration Suite or EIC (Edge integration cell).

This allows you to just import any developed interface and it will work without migration efforts, adjustments, refactoring or anything which is often the case with other adapters or vendors (including SAP).

Choose your own timing and roadmap for a possible migration plan. Your investment in integrations on SAP PO is easily transferable on Integration suite without unknown risks / commercial questions.

Difference to standard adapter for Cloud integration

  • 10-500x higher throughput as Standard adapter as parallelization and batching can be used on functional levels instead of only glued to partitions.
  • Standard adapter can’t use arbitrary positions or group names in stream for processing / reprocessing which is a very important feature to actually operate with Kafka.
  • Our product supports all data formats (Avro, Protocol buffers and schema registries, automated schema generation)
  • Our adapter allows batching into one iflow execution for hight throughput unlike the standard
  • The KaTe Parallel Consumer adapter allows manual as well as automated error resolution which is not the case in the standard version.
  • Filtering & Deduplication allows control to select exactly what you need on hight troughput topics unlike the standard
  • With the standard adapter there are no simple mechanisms to quickly understand consumer lag or record search in your message processing log. It must be done with third party tools (that might be hard to access for a SAP integration team) or manual developments.

Summary

FeatureSAP Standard Kafka AdapterConfluent Parallel Consumer Adapter
Parallelism modelLimited by number of Kafka partitionsConfigurable worker pool enabling high parallelism within a single consumer
Ordering guaranteesOrdering guaranteed only per partitionOrdering guaranteed per message key (optional), with parallel execution across keys
Throughput scalingRequires increasing partition count to scaleScales without increasing partitions, enabling 10–500× higher throughput
Iflow executionBlocking calls can stall message processing partly or fullyNon-blocking and asynchronous processing without blocking message processing
Automated Error handlingNot supported, some errors even not visible (deserialization)Errorhandling for deserialization / data transformation or iflow execution can be automatically handled for different error cateogries by logging the error and ignore it or foraward it to error / deadletter topics
Offset /Group Name controlNot supportedAny choice of start offset possible, Reprocessing of arbitrary offsets possible. Group Names manually configurable
Message acknowledgmentOffset commits at partition levelFine-grained, message-level acknowledgment and processing control
Advanced MonitoringNot supportedRich monitoring experience (consumer lag, 1:1 detection of which Kafka record produced which Iflow message) out of the box

Filtering

Not supported, only manual in the iflowFiltering per header or body, to decerease unnecessary load possible
Avro/Protobuf and JSON with schema registryNot supportedSupported, incl data transformation and schema generation to XML

Further Information:

SAP Appcenter listing:

KaTe Kafka Adapter for SAP PO im SAP Appcenter

Our Blog on SAP Community

Hook your SAP landscape to Azure Event Hubs with KaTe Kafka Adapter & SAP PO

Pay what you use

All of our adapters are subscription licensed, which simplifies use at the project level or in limited use cases.

30 days trial

All our adapters are available for a 30-day trial period.

Verified SAP Partner

All our adapters are developed in close cooperation with SAP and our verified SAP experts.

FAQ

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The Confluent Parallel Consumer Adapter for SAP Integration Suite is a powerful extension of the KaTe Kafka adapter to connect SAP systems with Apache Kafka with extreme high throughput requirements. Kafka and SAP can be connected– both on-premises and in the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). It enables seamless processing of event-driven data streams and bi-directional message exchange between SAP Cloud Integration Iflows and Kafka Topics at unprecedented scale. As the successor of the Kafka Adapter for SAP Process Orchestration, it provides 1:1 compatability migrating existing SAP-Kafka integration from PO.

The adapter allows you to publish SAP Cloud Integration Iflow messages as Kafka records and subscribe to Kafka records as Iflow messages. Kafka keys, headers, and data are translated into Iflow messages and vice versa.

Different than typical Kafka consumers in order processing capabilities of the adapter are not limited to partitions but can be scaled up to record key level or even no ordering can be used which enables extreme high througput.


Aside it fully supports popular data formats like Avro, Protocol Buffers, and JSON, including Schema Registry integration and automatic schema generation for seamless conversion to and from XML. Topics, partitions, and reliability settings (e.g., acknowledgement mode, consumer commits) are highly configurable. Additionally, message processing is fully integrated into SAP Cloud Integration, making it fully traceable and debuggable without third-party tools.

The Confluent Parallel Consumer Adapter for SAP Integration Suite complies with modern Kafka security standards, including PLAIN, PLAIN_SASL, SASL_SSL, SASL-Plain/SASL-SCRAM, OAuth2 and client certificate authentication. This ensures secure data transmission aligned with corporate security policies.

The adapter is designed for high-performance streaming, offering batch processing, message filtering, and massive parallelization on record key level. Messages can be filtered based on headers, keys, or data content and grouped into optimized batches to improve throughput.

Parallel processing options on key level or even with no order enable extreme hight throughput (10.x-500x) compared to standard Kafka consumers.

For reliable message processing, the adapter provides both automated and manual error handling. Common issues like serialization errors, data transformation errors, or Iflow processing errors can be forwarded to an error target or deduplicated, ensuring uninterrupted data flows.

Unlike the SAP standard Kafka adapter, the KaTe Kafka Adapter offers:

  • Extreme high throughput 10-500x compared to the SAP Standard Kafka adapter by parallelization options.

  • Processing from any stream position with custom group names

  • Full support for Avro, Protocol Buffers, JSON, and Schema Registries with automatic schema generation

  • Batch processing within a single Iflow execution

  • Advanced manual and automated error handling

  • Filtering and deduplication for optimized data quality and throughput.

SAP Technology and Migration Consulting –
Future-Proof Integration with KaTe GmbH


KaTe GmbH is your trusted partner for SAP technology consulting and SAP migration projects.

We specialize in ensuring a smooth and secure transformation of existing SAP PO (Process Orchestration) landscapes to the modern SAP Integration Suite, including the SAP Edge Integration Cell for hybrid integration scenarios. With tailored concepts, proven best practices, and deep expertise, we make sure your SAP integration remains sustainable, high-performing, and future-ready.

Our Core Expertise in SAP Technology Consulting

  • SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite Migration – including analysis, architecture design, and technical implementation

  • SAP Edge Integration Cell Implementation and Optimization – enabling flexible and secure hybrid integrations

  • SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) Consulting – leveraging modern services and tools for innovation and process automation

  • Technology-Driven Strategy Consulting – from cloud integration to API management

Contact us today for a personalized consultation and discover how we can modernize your SAP integration and system landscape

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MQTT Adapter for SAP PO

MQTT Adapter for SAP PO

MQTT Adapter for SAP PO

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the communication and networking of real objects via the Internet. In addition to devices such as computers, smartphones and tablets, more and more objects from the “offline world” are joining them, such as cars, televisions, wristwatches, heaters, weather stations and household appliances.

The KaTe MQTT Adapter for SAP PO connects your SAP system landscape, i.e. SAP Process Integration & SAP Process Orchestration with the Internet of Things.

The KaTe MQTT Adapter is also available for SAP CPI (Cloud Platform Integration) or SAP HCI.

KaTe MQTT Adapter

Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is an open standard for lightweight message transfer between devices, sensors, and applications with high latencies and deployment in low-bandwidth networks.

MQTT

The advantages of the KaTe MQTT Adapters
  • Innovative use of SAP systems

    Get a better ROI from your SAP system landscape with the power of connected devices, machine-to-machine (M2M), and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.

  • Connecting SAP with the world of sensor technology

    Connect your SAP back office like billing, order management or shipping with the world of sensor networks or your production infrastructure.

  • Unlimited communication

    With the power of open source publish/subscribe messaging, notify thousands of devices at the correct time and providing the correct information when data changes in your SAP system.

SAP PI – Process Integration

SAP Process Integration is SAP’s Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solution for A2A and B2B scenarios, offering a wide range of adapters and integration tools (e.g. transformation, orchestration, routing, reliable messaging and monitoring). SAP Process Orchestration 7.31 additionally provides numerous BPM functions and a rules engine.

MQTT – Message Queue Telemetry Transport

Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is an open standard for lightweight message transfer between devices, sensors, and applications with high latencies and deployment in low-bandwidth networks.

The MQTT protocol has been standardized by Oasis as the “Internet of Things” protocol since 2013. In addition to its traditional use in sensor networks, connected manufacturing and home automation, MQTT is also increasingly used in mobile scenarios (e.g. in Facebook Messenger).

Core technical functions of the KaTe MQTT Adapters

  • Fully compatible with the MQTT v3.1 and MQTT 5 Standard.
  • Publish/Subscribe to MQTT topics with wildcards, durable subscriptions and last retained Messages.
  • Use of common messaging patterns like pub/sub and request/reply without complicated module configuration (ex. async/sync bridge).
  • By using the Adapter Framework, full support of SAP PI tools (design, configuration, monitoring).
  • Connects to MQTT brokers
    direct, via Socks Proxy or SAP Cloud Connector On premise

KaTe MQTT Adapter Features

  • The KaTe MQTT Adapter is easy to implement.
  • The KaTe MQTT Adapter implements publish/subscribe patterns and enables true push messaging between participants.
  • Various Quality of Service levels for data transmission in unstable networks, such as mobile networks, are handled by the KaTe adapter.
  • The protocol overhead for this adapter is very small.
  • Ideally, meta information only needs to be transferred once, since the server continues to hold the data after a connection is lost.
  • With the KaTe MQTT adapter, data can be transmitted in any possible format.

The history of MQTT

The MQTT protocol has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. MQTT was programmed in 1999 by Andy Stanford-Clark (IBM) and Arlen Nipper (Cirrus Link) for monitoring oil and gas pipelines. Transmitting data via satellite has always been very costly and therefore a smart solution was sought. The Message Queue Telemetry Transport, or MQTT, protocol which was developed in this manner fulfilled the required characteristics. Following this project, MQTT was used and further developed as a proprietary protocol at IBM in a variety of projects. In 2010, the MQTT specification was released to the public and since then a large infrastructure has developed around it.

Pay what you use

All of our adapters are subscription licensed, which simplifies use at the project level or in limited use cases.

30 days trial

All our adapters are available for a 30-day trial period.

Verified SAP Partner

All our adapters are developed in close cooperation with SAP and our verified SAP experts.

FAQ

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The KaTe MQTT Adapter enables secure and seamless integration of MQTT-based IoT systems with SAP environments, including SAP Integration Suite (CPI) and SAP Process Orchestration (PO). It allows real-time event processing from devices, sensors, and machines into SAP business processes.

The adapter connects directly to MQTT brokers (e.g. Mosquitto, HiveMQ) and automatically transforms MQTT messages into SAP-compatible formats like XML, JSON, or IDoc. Key features include:

  • Full Publish & Subscribe support

  • Filtering by topic, QoS level, and payload content

  • Real-time data processing for high-throughput IoT scenarios

Yes. The KaTe MQTT Adapter is fully compatible with the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). It works in both SAP Cloud Integration (CPI) and on-premise SAP PO environments, making it ideal for hybrid or transitional system landscapes.

The adapter supports all modern MQTT security standards, including:

  • TLS/SSL encryption

  • Client certificate authentication

  • Username/password-based login
    This ensures secure data exchange even in production-grade industrial IoT environments.

Common scenarios include:

  • Industrial IoT integration with SAP ERP or S/4HANA

  • Machine and sensor data collection and processing

  • Event-driven workflows in maintenance, logistics, or monitoring
    The adapter ensures scalable, high-performance, and fault-tolerant data flows between IoT devices and SAP systems.

SAP Technology and Migration Consulting –
Future-Proof Integration with KaTe GmbH


KaTe GmbH is your trusted partner for SAP technology consulting and SAP migration projects.

We specialize in ensuring a smooth and secure transformation of existing SAP PO (Process Orchestration) landscapes to the modern SAP Integration Suite, including the SAP Edge Integration Cell for hybrid integration scenarios. With tailored concepts, proven best practices, and deep expertise, we make sure your SAP integration remains sustainable, high-performing, and future-ready.

Our Core Expertise in SAP Technology Consulting

  • SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite Migration – including analysis, architecture design, and technical implementation

  • SAP Edge Integration Cell Implementation and Optimization – enabling flexible and secure hybrid integrations

  • SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) Consulting – leveraging modern services and tools for innovation and process automation

  • Technology-Driven Strategy Consulting – from cloud integration to API management

Contact us today for a personalized consultation and discover how we can modernize your SAP integration and system landscape

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RESTful Adapter for SAP Integration Suite

SAP Adapter CPI / Integration Suite

RESTful Adapter for
SAP Integration Suite

Efficient Integration and Development of REST APIs with SAP Integration Suite and the Open API Standard

The KaTe RESTful Adapter significantly reduces development times and operational costs when creating or utilizing REST APIs based on the Open API Standard with SAP Integration Suite.

The RESTful Adapter for SAP Integration Suite is the logical successor of our RESTful adapter for SAP Process Orchestration. Any API built on PO is simply runnable on BTP without big migration efforts.

Development Benefits:
  • Quick and Efficient: The solution significantly reduces development effort for building & translating type safe data structures from JSON to XML and vice versa, routing of calls, enforcement of http status codes down to a few simple click through steps.
  • Re-use developments: Allows re-use of existing ESR data types and interfaces for Open APIs with a few clicks.

  • Works with established Toolset: Use established frameworks that are here to stay in S4 and BTP with minimal effort. ABAP Classes (ABAP Proxies) can simply get generated from Open API definitions, IDOCs/RFCs or other interfaces can be re-used as Open API with a few clicks

  • Easy Migration to BTP: Transitioning of Open APIs built by this approach are 1:1 migratable from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite (±1-2 minutes per API).

  • State-of-the-Art API Standards: Supports OpenAPI 3.x and Swagger 2.0 for comprehensive API descriptions in sender and receiver channels.

  • Operational API Visibility: All API Operations and Status are visible in SAP Integration Suite Monitor through indexing of key/values without overhead.

Security Benefits:
  • Protection Against Unauthorized Access: Blocks non-compliant API calls.
  • Flexible API Authorization: Supports to integrate own Identity management solutions via JWT/OpenID/Oauth2 and established standards like NTLM, custom tokens.
  • Cloud & On Premise: Use OAuth token endpoints through SAP Cloud Connector connections or public. Oauth2 calls are debatable via trace and not a black box.
Business Benefits:
  • Cost Savings: Reduces development costs by shortening development times and utilizing existing skills.
  • Sustainable Investments: Reuse ESR content as Open APIs to preserve existing investments.
  • No Complex Custom Development: Avoids time-consuming custom programming.
  • Free trial: Test before you buy with a free trial for Proof of Concepts.
Use Cases:

API-First Development: Bridging Old and New Worlds

Software development is increasingly shifting to mobile platforms, hyperscalers, or container environments, all of which leverage the Open API Standard for API management, security (JWT, OAuth2), and automation.

The KaTe RESTful Adapter facilitates seamless SAP integration with API-first strategies from non-SAP ecosystems—whether on SAP BTP, hyperscalers like AWS, Azure, or GCP, or in containerized development environments.

Open APIs in regulated industries

Regulated industries such as telecommunications (TMF), banking (Open Banking), or utilities (market data exchange) require standardized Open APIs for data exchange. Our approach significantly reduces the development and operational costs of such APIs while leveraging existing developer skills and requiring minimal investment.

The KaTe RESTful Adapter maximizes the efficiency and security of your API integrations, protects existing investments, and builds seamless bridges between SAP and modern API standards. With this future-proof solution, you are well-equipped to meet the increasing demands of integrating advanced technologies and driving your digital transformation forward—enhancing your SAP landscape to its full potential

Use OData within established architectures

SAP has strongly committed to OData, which can be described via Open API definitions. However, challenges often arise in hybrid environments or API management solutions:

  • SAP Specifics: Clients need to manage XCSRF tokens or deal with SAP-specific attributes in OData definitions.
  • Internal Links: API management solutions may return responses with internal links, creating security risks and hindering OData clients from working directly.

The KaTe RESTful Adapter resolves these issues efficiently: Links are automatically rewritten to frontend URLs, and XCSRF tokens are handled automatically.


Weitere Informationen:

SCN Blog: Open APIs with SAP PO and KaTe RESTful adapter

SCN Blog:  Facilitate JWT with Auth0 and SAP PO OpenAPIs

OpenAPI 3.0 mit SAP PO publizieren

Open API 2.0 (Swagger) mit SAP PO & KaTe RESTful adapter in einer Minute integrieren

RESTful-Adapter for SAP Process Integration (Introduction)

Integrate SaaS Public Apis with KaTe RESTful Adapter

How to Enable RESTful Apis with SAP Process Integration

References:

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Pay what you use

All of our adapters are subscription licensed, which simplifies use at the project level or in limited use cases.

30 days trial

All our adapters are available for a 30-day trial period.

Verified SAP-Partner

All our adapters are developed in close cooperation with SAP and our verified SAP experts.

FAQ

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The KaTe RESTful Adapter is a solution for building and integrating REST APIs within SAP Cloud Integration (CPI). It enables fast, standardized API development based on the OpenAPI (Swagger) specification and handles JSON/XML transformation, HTTP methods, and error handling automatically — reducing complexity and implementation time.

Key advantages include:

  • Automatic schema generation from OpenAPI definitions

  • Easy reuse of existing ESR (Enterprise Service Repository) data types

  • Built-in JSON-to-XML and XML-to-JSON conversion

  • Support for all standard HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)
    This accelerates development, reduces manual effort, and ensures consistency across interfaces.

Yes, the KaTe RESTful Adapter is fully compatible with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and supports hybrid environments, bridging on-premise SAP systems with cloud-based APIs. Existing interfaces from SAP Process Orchestration (PO) can be migrated to CPI 1:1 with no refactoring required.

The adapter supports modern authentication and security standards such as:

  • OAuth2 / OpenID Connect

  • JWT (JSON Web Tokens)

  • X-CSRF token handling

  • Certificate-based authentication
    These ensure secure and compliant REST API operations within any SAP landscape.

All deployed API endpoints and their status are fully visible in SAP CPI’s monitoring tools. Errors and responses can be traced in detail. The adapter also auto-generates interactive API documentation (e.g., Swagger UI), making it easier to test, demonstrate, and debug your REST services.

SAP Technology and Migration Consulting –
Future-Proof Integration with KaTe GmbH


KaTe GmbH is your trusted partner for SAP technology consulting and SAP migration projects.

We specialize in ensuring a smooth and secure transformation of existing SAP PO (Process Orchestration) landscapes to the modern SAP Integration Suite, including the SAP Edge Integration Cell for hybrid integration scenarios. With tailored concepts, proven best practices, and deep expertise, we make sure your SAP integration remains sustainable, high-performing, and future-ready.

Our Core Expertise in SAP Technology Consulting

  • SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite Migration – including analysis, architecture design, and technical implementation

  • SAP Edge Integration Cell Implementation and Optimization – enabling flexible and secure hybrid integrations

  • SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) Consulting – leveraging modern services and tools for innovation and process automation

  • Technology-Driven Strategy Consulting – from cloud integration to API management

Contact us today for a personalized consultation and discover how we can modernize your SAP integration and system landscape

Contact us - now!

Get in touch with us by calling or emailing us - we'll be happy to help!

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Kafka Adapter for SAP Integration Suite

Kafka Adapter for SAP Integration Suite

Apache Kafka is a popular open source project for processing event-driven data streams based on a transaction log.

Our adapter enables you to connect your SAP system landscape to Kafka on Premise or on SAP BTP in a simple an real world use case proven way. The product is the logical successor of our Kafka adapter for SAP Process Orchestration.

Basic functions

The adapter allows you to publish Iflow messages as Kafka records and subscribe Kafka records as Iflow messages.

Kafka key, headers and data sections are translated into iflow message parts and vice versa. Topic & Partitions and technical reliability settings (Ack Mode/Consumer commits) are customizable per use case.

Message processing is observable and debuggable on channel & message log level without third party tooling fully integrated into SAP Cloud integration functionality.

Work secure with company & compliance standards

Our product supports all  commonly used security standards PLAIN, PLAIN_SASL, SASL_SSL, SASL-Plain/SASL-SCRAM, OAuth2 as well as client certificate authentication for broker and schema registry connections.

Support for hight perfomance, resilience & flow control

Stay in charge what you want to process of a topic and how you will put load on your connected backends.

The product supports different methods to allow, filter and control message throughput on topics through:

  • Filtering: Kafka records can be filtered based on record headers, keys and data content before triggering an integration
  • Batching: A set of n Kafka records can be batched as single iflow message to optimize throughput
  • Polling & Record count/ time unit can be adjusted to control the exact amount of messages per period of time

Full control of operations in one tool

  • Process records from start or end of stream or from any arbitrary position of the stream.
  • Process and re-process records
  • Deduplicate of necessary by offset or functional headers
  • Group names are feely definable and not set by us as vendor

Automated or manual error resolution

One common „challenge“ with ordered streaming systems like Kafka is, if errors occur, this could bring a total halt to processing if order is important. Our product allows you a manual as well as automated way to handle by e.g. forwarding it to an error destination or  document & ignore certain cases.

Serialization errors, data transformations errors or any down stream processing error (processing through an iflow).

Avro, Protocol Buffers, Json & schema registries

Our product supports typical binary data formats like Avro and Protobuf with Kafka typical optimizations like a schema registry.

The adapter can translate Avro and Protocol Buffers to XML and vice versa. Necessary translations of Avro/Protobuf schemas are generated with an included schema generation tool.

Transformation from binary (Avro/Protocol Buffers) and Json to XML and vice versa is supported

SAP roadmap compatible

Our Kafka Adapter is available for SAP Process Orchestration & Integration Suite.

This allows you to just import any developed interface and it will work without migration efforts, adjustments, refactoring or anything which is often the case with other adapters or vendors (including SAP).

Choose your own timing and roadmap for a possible migration plan. Your investment in integrations on SAP PO is easily transferable on Integration suite without unknown risks / commercial questions. 

Difference to standard adapter for Cloud integration

  • Standard adapter can’t use arbitrary positions or group names in stream for processing / reprocessing which is a very important feature to actually operate with Kafka.
  • Our product supports all data formats (Avro, Protocol buffers and schema registries, automated schema generation)
  • Our adapter allows batching into one iflow execution for hight throughput unlike the standard
  • The KaTe Kafka adapter allows manual as well as automated error resolution which is not the case in the standard version.
  • Filtering & Deduplication allows control to select exactly what you need on hight troughput topics unlike the standard
  • With the standard adapter there are no simple mechanisms to quickly understand consumer lag or record search in your message processing log. It must be done with third party tools (that might be hard to access for a SAP integration team) or manual developments.

Further Information:

SAP Appcenter listing:

KaTe Kafka Adapter for SAP PO im SAP Appcenter

Our Blog on SAP Community

Hook your SAP landscape to Azure Event Hubs with KaTe Kafka Adapter & SAP PO/

Pay what you use

All of our adapters are subscription licensed, which simplifies use at the project level or in limited use cases.

30 days trial

All our adapters are available for a 30-day trial period.

Verified SAP Partner

All our adapters are developed in close cooperation with SAP and our verified SAP experts.

FAQ

feel free to
ask away!

The Kafka Adapter for SAP Integration Suite is a powerful solution to connect SAP systems with Apache Kafka – both on-premises and in the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). It enables seamless processing of event-driven data streams and bi-directional message exchange between SAP Cloud Integration Iflows and Kafka Topics. As the successor of the Kafka Adapter for SAP Process Orchestration, it provides modern features for reliable SAP-Kafka integration.

The adapter allows you to publish SAP Cloud Integration Iflow messages as Kafka records and subscribe to Kafka records as Iflow messages. Kafka keys, headers, and data are translated into Iflow messages and vice versa.
It fully supports popular data formats like Avro, Protocol Buffers, and JSON, including Schema Registry integration and automatic schema generation for seamless conversion to and from XML. Topics, partitions, and reliability settings (e.g., acknowledgement mode, consumer commits) are highly configurable. Additionally, message processing is fully integrated into SAP Cloud Integration, making it fully traceable and debuggable without third-party tools.

The Kafka Adapter for SAP Integration Suite complies with modern Kafka security standards, including PLAIN, PLAIN_SASL, SASL_SSL, SASL-Plain/SASL-SCRAM, and client certificate authentication. This ensures secure data transmission aligned with corporate security policies.

The adapter is designed for high-performance streaming, offering batch processing, message filtering, and flow control. Messages can be filtered based on headers, keys, or data content and grouped into optimized batches to improve throughput.
For reliable message processing, the adapter provides both automated and manual error handling. Common issues like serialization errors, data transformation errors, or Iflow processing errors can be forwarded to an error target or deduplicated, ensuring uninterrupted data flows.

Unlike the SAP standard Kafka adapter, the KaTe Kafka Adapter offers:

  • Processing from any stream position with custom group names

  • Full support for Avro, Protocol Buffers, JSON, and Schema Registries with automatic schema generation

  • Batch processing within a single Iflow execution

  • Advanced manual and automated error handling

  • Filtering and deduplication for optimized data quality and throughput.

SAP Technology and Migration Consulting –
Future-Proof Integration with KaTe GmbH


KaTe GmbH is your trusted partner for SAP technology consulting and SAP migration projects.

We specialize in ensuring a smooth and secure transformation of existing SAP PO (Process Orchestration) landscapes to the modern SAP Integration Suite, including the SAP Edge Integration Cell for hybrid integration scenarios. With tailored concepts, proven best practices, and deep expertise, we make sure your SAP integration remains sustainable, high-performing, and future-ready.

Our Core Expertise in SAP Technology Consulting

  • SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite Migration – including analysis, architecture design, and technical implementation

  • SAP Edge Integration Cell Implementation and Optimization – enabling flexible and secure hybrid integrations

  • SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) Consulting – leveraging modern services and tools for innovation and process automation

  • Technology-Driven Strategy Consulting – from cloud integration to API management

Contact us today for a personalized consultation and discover how we can modernize your SAP integration and system landscape

Contact us - now!

Get in touch with us by calling or emailing us - we'll be happy to help!

Contact
Categories
SAP Products

Kafka Adapter for SAP PO

Kafka Adapter for SAP PO

Apache Kafka is a popular open source project for processing event-driven data streams based on a transaction log.

Our product enables you to connect your SAP system landscape to Kafka on Premise and on SAP BTP in a simple an real world use case proven way.

Basic functions

The adapter allows you to publish PO messages as Kafka records and subscribe Kafka records as PO messages.

Kafka key, headers and data sections are translated into PO message parts and vice versa. Topic & Partitions and technical reliability settings (Ack Mode/Consumer commits) are customizable per use case.

Message processing is observable and debuggable on channel & message log level without third party tooling fully integrated into SAP PO/NetWeaver functionality.

Work secure with company & compliance standards

Our product supports all  commonly used security standards PLAIN, PLAIN_SASL, SASL_SSL, SASL-Plain/SASL-SCRAM, Kerberos as well as client certificate authentication.

Support for hight perfomance, resilience & flow control

Stay in charge what you want to process of a topic and how you will put load on your connected backends.

The product supports different methods to allow, filter and control message throughput on topics through:

  • Filtering: Kafka records can be filtered based on record headers, keys and data content before triggering an integration
  • Batching: A set of n Kafka records can be batched as single PO message to optimize throughput
  • Polling & Record count/ time unit can be adjusted to control the exact amount of messages per period of time

Full control of operations in one tool

  • Process records from start or end of stream or from any arbitrary position of the stream.
  • Process and re-process records
  • Deduplicate of necessary by offset or functional headers
  • Group names are feely definable and not set by us as vendor
  • Consumer lag of each channel is displayed per sender channel w/o third party tooling.

Automated or manual error resolution

One common „challenge“ with ordered streaming systems like Kafka is, if errors occur, this could bring a total halt to processing if order is important. Our product allows you a manual as well as automated way to handle by e.g. forwarding it to an error destination or  document & ignore certain cases.

Serialization errors, data transformations errors or any down stream processing error (processing through PO).

Ordering on key or header level

Our product allows high performance while maintaining record order to backend systems. SAP PO uses EOIO for record ordering,

Kafka topics use orders within a partition. Our adapter allows a further fine grained ordering from within the partition on key/header level of a record. By that it can be ensured that for each customer record an own order sequence exists when processing through sAP PO. If one record has an error only the particular id is affected and processing of all other partition contents continues.

Avro, Protocol Buffers, Json & schema registries

Our product supports typical binary data formats like Avro and Protobuf with Kafka typical optimizations like a schema registry.

The adapter can translate Avro and Protocol Buffers to XML and vice versa. Necessary translations of Avro/Protobuf schemas are generated with an included schema generation tool.

Transformation from binary (Avro/Protocol Buffers) and Json to XML and vice versa is supported

SAP roadmap compatible

Our Kafka Adapter is available for SAP Process Orchestration & Integration Suite.

This allows you to just import any developed interface and it will work without migration efforts, adjustments, refactoring or anything which is often the case with other adapters or vendors (including SAP).

Choose your own timing and roadmap for a possible migration plan. Your investment in integrations on SAP PO is easily transferable on Integration suite without unknown risks / commercial questions. 

Further Information:

SAP Appcenter listing:

Kate Kafka Adapter for SAP PO im SAP Appcenter

Our Blog on SAP Community

Hook your SAP landscape to Azure Event Hubs with KaTe Kafka Adapter & SAP PO/

Pay what you use

All of our adapters are subscription licensed, which simplifies use at the project level or in limited use cases.

30 days trial

All our adapters are available for a 30-day trial period.

Verified SAP Partner

All our adapters are developed in close cooperation with SAP and our verified SAP experts.

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The Kafka Adapter for SAP Process Orchestration (SAP PO) enables seamless integration of your SAP system landscape with Apache Kafka, both on-premise and within the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). It streamlines the exchange of PO messages with Kafka records, including bidirectional conversion of Kafka keys, headers, and data into SAP PO messages.
This allows businesses to integrate event-driven data streams efficiently into their SAP processes, ensuring real-time data processing and modern connectivity.

Yes, our Kafka Adapter for SAP PO is designed with top-level security in mind. It supports all major Kafka security standards, including PLAIN, PLAIN_SASL, SASL_SSL, SASL-Plain/SASL-SCRAM, Kerberos, and Client Certificate Authentication.
This ensures compliance with enterprise security policies and guarantees secure data exchange between systems.

The Kafka Adapter provides advanced features such as batch processing, message filtering by header, key, and payload content, and the ability to adjust polling intervals and message volume per time unit.
These capabilities allow for fine-grained control of message throughput, improving performance and efficiency without overloading your backend systems.

Yes, our adapter fully supports binary data formats such as Avro and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), as well as JSON. It enables seamless conversion of these formats to XML and vice versa.
With an integrated schema registry and schema generation tool, Avro and Protobuf schemas can be easily transformed, making the adapter ideal for complex integration scenarios.

Our Kafka Adapter is fully SAP roadmap-compliant, designed to work with both SAP Process Orchestration (SAP PO) and the SAP Integration Suite.
This means existing interfaces can be migrated without major redevelopment, allowing companies to plan their migration strategy flexibly, with minimal risk and no unexpected costs.

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We specialize in ensuring a smooth and secure transformation of existing SAP PO (Process Orchestration) landscapes to the modern SAP Integration Suite, including the SAP Edge Integration Cell for hybrid integration scenarios. With tailored concepts, proven best practices, and deep expertise, we make sure your SAP integration remains sustainable, high-performing, and future-ready.

Our Core Expertise in SAP Technology Consulting

  • SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite Migration – including analysis, architecture design, and technical implementation

  • SAP Edge Integration Cell Implementation and Optimization – enabling flexible and secure hybrid integrations

  • SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) Consulting – leveraging modern services and tools for innovation and process automation

  • Technology-Driven Strategy Consulting – from cloud integration to API management

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MQTT Adapter for SAP Integration Suite (CPI)

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KaTe MQTT Adapter for SAP Cloud Integration

KaTe MQTT Adapter for SAP Cloud Integration

The MQTT Adapter for SAP Cloud Integration (formerly SAP CPI / SAP Cloud Platform Integration) allows you to use SAP Integration Suite as a consumer or producer of MQTT messages in the cloud. It has the same functionalities as our MQTT Adapter for SAP PI/PO and allows you to use SAP Cloud Integration as part of the IoT or in mobile scenarios with MQTT.

Core technical functions:

  • Publish/Subscribe to MQTT topics with wildcards, durable subscriptions and last retained messages according to the specifications of the MQTT v3.1 and MQTT 5 Oasis standard
  • Supports SSL and common MQTT authentication mechanisms
  • Supports XML, JSON or any other payloads
  • Connects to MQTT brokers direct, via Socks Proxy or SAP Cloud Connector On premise

RESTful Adapter

Our SAP certified RESTful Adapter for SAP Process Integration allows you to easily consume and publish REST services for integration with SAP and non-SAP systems, as well as BPMN processes.

AMQP Integration Adapter

The Advance Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP) is an Oasis standard for open-protocol and vendor-independent message exchange between heterogeneous applications.

MQTT Adapter

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the communication and networking of real-world objects over the Internet. Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is an open standard for the lightweight transmission of messages between devices, sensors and applications with high latencies and use in low-bandwidth networks.

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All of our adapters are subscription licensed, which simplifies use at the project level or in limited use cases.

30 days trial

All our adapters are available for a 30-day trial period.

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The KaTe MQTT Adapter enables your SAP Integration Suite (formerly CPI) to act as both an MQTT consumer and publisher, seamlessly integrating MQTT message streams within your SAP cloud environment.

The adapter allows SAP to consume and send MQTT messages in the cloud, translating MQTT payloads into SAP-compatible formats. It supports a full publish-subscribe model, connecting your IoT data or device messages directly within SAP workflows.

Yes. The adapter supports integration in the SAP Integration Suite (cloud), and it also has versions tailored for SAP Process Orchestration (PO) and SAP PI, enabling seamless connectivity across hybrid landscapes.

By acting as an MQTT client within SAP, the adapter enables direct ingestion of IoT data — such as sensor readings or machine events — into SAP systems. This allows real-time event-driven data flows to enhance operational processes like monitoring, alerts, and automation.

Using the KaTe MQTT Adapter eliminates the need for manual custom coding or middleware glue layers. It provides a certified, pre-built solution that streamlines MQTT-to-SAP integration — ensuring faster deployment, better maintainability, and improved reliability.

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Our Core Expertise in SAP Technology Consulting

  • SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite Migration – including analysis, architecture design, and technical implementation

  • SAP Edge Integration Cell Implementation and Optimization – enabling flexible and secure hybrid integrations

  • SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) Consulting – leveraging modern services and tools for innovation and process automation

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AWS Adapter for SAP PO

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AWS Adapter for SAP PO

The AWS Adapter for SAP PO enables you to connect the most important AWS APIs with your SAP system landscape.

We also offer the same adapter for SAP CI. By that the compatible path forward to SAP BTP is fully supported.

Our current version of the adapter supports:

Additionally, our adapter allows the transformation from XML to JSON and JSON to XML. We are currently working on other AWS features.

Detailed features:

  • Calling AWS Lambda functions (synchronous & asynchronous) from SAP PO
  • Receive SQS messages with cost-efficient long polling.
  • Sending and receiving SQS and SNS messages with payloads larger than 256 kB.
  • Reading and writing of all message “Properties” in SQS and SNS, as well as End2End FiFo (first in first out) ordering
  • Send RAW and receiver optimized SNS messages to a large number of different recipients such as AWS Lambda, HTTP(s), email, SMS recipients and smartphones.
  • Support for XML, JSON or other payloads
  • Saving, reading and deleting data on S3
  • Subscribing to S3 event notifications for detecting new, modified, lost (RRS/Onezone), or deleted S3 objects.
  • Use S3 transfer features for huge up and download of files
  • Support for all storage and encryption variants and lifecycle options in AWS S3
  • Subscribe and publish AWS Eventbridge events from SAP PO with all supported or self-defined event types (on the generic or custom event bus, such as: from third-party SaaS providers).
  • Subscribe and publish AWS Cloudwatch events from SAP PO with all available or custom event types.
  • Subscribe to DynamoDB Stream Events
  • Create / Read / Update /Delete /Scan or Query Dynamo DB tables
  • Publish and Subscribe events to AWS Kinesis Data Streams or AWS Kinesis Data Firehose as XML or JSON
  • Invoke GraphQL Appsync or ApiGateway OpenAPI services with generated simple ESR XML structures

More Information

SCN-Blogs:

SCN Blog – S3 Eventing with SAP PO & KaTe AWS Adapter

SCN Blog – SQS Claim Check with SAP PO & AWS Adapter for messages bigger then 256 K

SCN Blog – Bridge AWS serverless events to SAP landscape with KaTe AWS Adapter for SAP PO 

Pay what you use

All of our adapters are subscription licensed, which simplifies use at the project level or in limited use cases.

30 days trial

All our adapters are available for a 30-day trial period.

Verified SAP Partner

All our adapters are developed in close cooperation with SAP and our verified SAP experts.

SAP Technology and Migration Consulting –
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KaTe GmbH is your trusted partner for SAP technology consulting and SAP migration projects.

We specialize in ensuring a smooth and secure transformation of existing SAP PO (Process Orchestration) landscapes to the modern SAP Integration Suite, including the SAP Edge Integration Cell for hybrid integration scenarios. With tailored concepts, proven best practices, and deep expertise, we make sure your SAP integration remains sustainable, high-performing, and future-ready.

Our Core Expertise in SAP Technology Consulting

  • SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite Migration – including analysis, architecture design, and technical implementation

  • SAP Edge Integration Cell Implementation and Optimization – enabling flexible and secure hybrid integrations

  • SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) Consulting – leveraging modern services and tools for innovation and process automation

  • Technology-Driven Strategy Consulting – from cloud integration to API management

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gRPC Adapter for SAP PO

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gRPC Adapter For SAP PO

gRPC Adapter for SAP PO

gRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call) is a powerful open-source framework that enables efficient communication between different applications or services. Although gRPC itself is not specific to SAP, it can be used within the SAP landscape to enable efficient and scalable communication between SAP systems or between SAP and non-SAP systems.

The gRPC Adapter for SAP PO allows you to call up or publish gRPC services from SAP PO without having to spend a lot of time on your own development.

The adapter uses a generator to conveniently create the counterpart as a PO internal WSDL from a gRPC definition. The PO developer can thus safely and easily consume or publish gRPC services using the usual development methodology.

Our current version of the adapter supports:

  • Calling GraphQL services as a receiver channel
  • Publishing gRPC services as a synchronous (best effort) or asynchronous service (EO/EOIO) as a sender channel
  • Common authentication methods such as mTLS or API key,
  • Generating XML Schemas/Service Interfaces from gRPC Definitions (proto files)

KaTe gRPC Adapter

KaTe gRPC adapter is used to connect critical systems in banking and finance, telecommunications, industry, internet and cloud computing, and many other market segments.

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Benefits of KaTe gRPC Adapters

  • Microservices Architecture

    gRPC is well suited for implementing microservices architectures, which are becoming increasingly popular in modern application development. SAP applications can be divided into smaller, independent services that communicate with each other via gRPC. This enables flexibility, scalability, and loose coupling between different components of the SAP landscape.

  • Integration Cost Savings

    SAP landscapes often include a variety of non-SAP systems, such as external databases, messaging systems, or third-party applications. With gRPC, communication channels can be established between SAP and these external systems, enabling efficient data exchange and integration.

  • Cloud native development

    SAP landscapes are evolving toward cloud-native development principles, where applications are designed to run in containers and leverage cloud platforms. gRPC fits well into this context, as it allows for easy and efficient communication between microservices running in containers or in different cloud environments.

  • Performance and efficiency

    gRPC uses the HTTP/2 protocol and binary serialization, resulting in efficient and powerful communication. This can be beneficial in scenarios where low latency and high throughput are critical, such as real-time analytics, processing large amounts of data, or IoT applications within the SAP landscape.

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All of our adapters are subscription licensed, which simplifies use at the project level or in limited use cases.

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gRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call) is a framework for efficient communication between applications. While not SAP-specific, it can integrate within SAP to facilitate scalable communication. The gRPC Adapter for SAP PO enables seamless integration of gRPC services within SAP PO environments, reducing development overhead.

The adapter allows SAP PO developers to easily invoke gRPC services or expose SAP PO services as gRPC services. It includes features like calling GraphQL services, publishing gRPC services synchronously or asynchronously, and supporting various authentication methods such as mTLS and API keys.

By using a generator, the adapter converts gRPC definitions into PO internal WSDLs. This streamlines the integration process, enabling developers to consume or publish gRPC services using familiar SAP PO development practices.

The adapter supports calling GraphQL services as a receiver channel and publishing gRPC services as synchronous (best effort) or asynchronous (EO/EOIO) sender channels. This flexibility caters to different communication needs within SAP PO.

Yes, the adapter can generate XML Schemas and Service Interfaces directly from gRPC definitions (proto files), enhancing interoperability and easing integration efforts within the SAP PO environment.

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We specialize in ensuring a smooth and secure transformation of existing SAP PO (Process Orchestration) landscapes to the modern SAP Integration Suite, including the SAP Edge Integration Cell for hybrid integration scenarios. With tailored concepts, proven best practices, and deep expertise, we make sure your SAP integration remains sustainable, high-performing, and future-ready.

Our Core Expertise in SAP Technology Consulting

  • SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite Migration – including analysis, architecture design, and technical implementation

  • SAP Edge Integration Cell Implementation and Optimization – enabling flexible and secure hybrid integrations

  • SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) Consulting – leveraging modern services and tools for innovation and process automation

  • Technology-Driven Strategy Consulting – from cloud integration to API management

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RESTful Adapter for SAP PO

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RESTful Adapter for SAP PO

Efficient Integration and Development of REST APIs with SAP Process Orchestration and the Open API Standard

The KaTe RESTful Adapter significantly reduces development times and operational costs when creating or utilizing REST APIs based on the Open API Standard with SAP Process Orchestration.

The RESTful Adapter for SAP Integration Suite is the logical successor of our RESTful adapter for SAP Process Orchestration. Any API built on PO is simply runnable on BTP without big migration efforts.

Start building and integrating APIs with a clear path forward to a possible BTP migration.

Development Benefits:

  • Quick and Efficient: The solution significantly reduces development effort for building & translating type safe data structures from JSON to XML and vice versa, routing of calls, enforcement of http status codes down to a few simple click through steps.
  • Re-use developments: Allows re-use of existing ESR data types and interfaces for Open APIs with a few clicks.
  • Works with established Toolset: Use established frameworks that are here to stay in S4 and BTP with minimal effort. ABAP Classes (ABAP Proxies) can simply get generated from Open API definitions, IDOCs/RFCs or other interfaces can be re-used as Open API with a few clicks
  • Easy Migration to BTP: Transitioning of Open APIs built by this approach are 1:1 migratable from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite (±1-2 minutes per API).
  • State-of-the-Art API Standards: Supports OpenAPI 3.x and Swagger 2.0 for comprehensive API descriptions in sender and receiver channels.

Security Benefits:

  • Protection Against Unauthorized Access: Blocks non-compliant API calls.
  • Flexible API Authorization: Supports to integrate own Identity management solutions via JWT/OpenID/Oauth2 and established standards like NTLM, custom tokens.

Business Benefits:

  • Cost Savings: Reduces development costs by shortening development times and utilizing existing skills.
  • Sustainable Investments: Reuse ESR content as Open APIs to preserve existing investments.
  • No Complex Custom Development: Avoids time-consuming custom programming.
  • Free trial: Test before you buy with a free trial for Proof of Concepts.

Use Cases:

API-First Development: Bridging Old and New Worlds

Software development is increasingly shifting to mobile platforms, hyperscalers, or container environments, all of which leverage the Open API Standard for API management, security (JWT, OAuth2), and automation.

The KaTe RESTful Adapter facilitates seamless SAP integration with API-first strategies from non-SAP ecosystems—whether on SAP BTP, hyperscalers like AWS, Azure, or GCP, or in containerized development environments.

Open APIs in regulated industries

Regulated industries such as telecommunications (TMF), banking (Open Banking), or utilities (market data exchange) require standardized Open APIs for data exchange. Our approach significantly reduces the development and operational costs of such APIs while leveraging existing developer skills and requiring minimal investment.

The KaTe RESTful Adapter maximizes the efficiency and security of your API integrations, protects existing investments, and builds seamless bridges between SAP and modern API standards. With this future-proof solution, you are well-equipped to meet the increasing demands of integrating advanced technologies and driving your digital transformation forward—enhancing your SAP landscape to its full potential

Use OData within established architectures

SAP has strongly committed to OData, which can be described via Open API definitions. However, challenges often arise in hybrid environments or API management solutions:

  • SAP Specifics: Clients need to manage XCSRF tokens or deal with SAP-specific attributes in OData definitions.
  • Internal Links: API management solutions may return responses with internal links, creating security risks and hindering OData clients from working directly.

The KaTe RESTful Adapter resolves these issues efficiently: Links are automatically rewritten to frontend URLs, and XCSRF tokens are handled automatically.

 

Further Information:

SCN Blog: Open APIs with SAP PO and KaTe RESTful adapter

SCN Blog:  Facilitate JWT with Auth0 and SAP PO OpenAPIs

OpenAPI 3.0 mit SAP PO publizieren

Open API 2.0 (Swagger) mit SAP PO & KaTe RESTful adapter in einer Minute integrieren

RESTful-Adapter for SAP Process Integration (Introduction)

Integrate SaaS Public Apis with KaTe RESTful Adapter

How to Enable RESTful Apis with SAP Process Integration

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Here’s how convenient and secure our REST Adapter is.

Build the bridge between the new world of Web APIs and your existing processes. To do this, use the familiar design and configuration environment of SAP Process Integration and avoid cumbersome workarounds. This results in a fast standardized implementation, increased transparency and a lower TCO.

Publishing REST Services with the Sender Adapter

Calling REST Services with the Receiver Adapter

Core technical features:

  • Native support for OpenAPI 3.0 and Swagger 2.0 as API “first” approach to publish and consume RESTful APIs
  • Integration of open identity management solutions (KeyCloak, Aut0, Okta, Azure AD) with JWT and Oauth2 for
  • APIs published via SAP PO
  • Full-featured testing capabilities to call / build / test and publish the web APIs with an interactive console “like a web developer” (API console, WADL for published PO service)
  • Supports all HTTP methods (GET/PUT/POST/PATCH/DELETE/TRACE/HEAD)
  • Support all typical API authentication mechanisms (SSL/Oauth2/OAuth1, Digest, Basic, NTLM 1/2)
  • First class support for imported data formats (XML / JSON conversion)
  • Flexible mapping of HTTP return codes in case of errors, exceptions or reactions
  • Support of typical website technologies for transition to interface automation (file upload/form & multipart posting, hyperlinks)
  • Open API 2.0 (Swagger 2.0) support
    Runs with SAP PI 7.1/7.11/7.3, SAP PO 7.31/7.4/7.5 and higher
  • SAP certified
  • Builds on SAP’s Adapter Framework with full monitoring/configuration support

Proven & Versatile Experience

Our RESTful adapter is used in many demanding customer installations and helps to successfully integrate REST APIs and SaaS providers like the Salesforce API (REST API with PATCH method and OAuth2)

  • Mailchimp API (JSON / newsletter with attachments and dynamic content)
  • Sharepoint -REST API with NTLMv2
  • ConcurAPI (extract costs and update data / OAuth2)
  • Basecamp API (access to objects for project management )
  • Twilio Shortmessage API (send out short messages)
  • JIRA JSON API (create / read tickets / tasks, etc.)
  • LinkedIn API (oAuth1) and many others
    POST, PUT and PATCH with attachments (Multi Part Request)

Pay what you use

All of our adapters are subscription licensed, which simplifies use at the project level or in limited use cases.

30 days trial

All our adapters are available for a 30-day trial period.

Verified SAP Partner

All our adapters are developed in close cooperation with SAP and our verified SAP experts.

On site or remote

We perform services both remotely and directly at your location, according to your requirements. Based on daily experience, we are happy to support you in any SAP Basis related issues. Our SAP Basis consultants are highly trained and have many years of experience.
We provide you with fast, competent and flexible support, even in the event of internal capacity constraints such as illness, vacation, increased project workload etc.

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he KaTe RESTful Adapter streamlines the creation and consumption of REST APIs following the OpenAPI (Swagger) standard within SAP Process Orchestration and SAP Integration Suite. It significantly reduces development time and operational cost by automating JSON/XML translations, path routing, parameter handling, and HTTP response mapping. APIs built with SAP PO can be seamlessly migrated to SAP Integration Suite without refactoring

KaTe RESTful Adapter supports OpenAPI 3.x and Swagger 2.0, enabling one-click generation of WSDL/XSD artefacts from OpenAPI definitions. These artefacts can be imported into the Enterprise Service Repository (ESR) for easy reuse of existing SAP interfaces. The adapter handles all JSON/XML conversion, path parameters, and status code handling automatically 

  • Fast, type-safe transformation between JSON and XML/ABAP objects, with minimal manual mapping

  • Reuse of existing ESR interfaces and data types as OpenAPI services with just a few clicks

  • Continuous use of established SAP tools such as ABAP proxy generation and mapping frameworks

  • A smooth migration path to SAP BTP/Integration Suite, with APIs moving 1:1 in about 1–2 minutes per Iflow

The KaTe Adapter empowers an API-first development strategy, bridging SAP and external ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP, containers). It supports modern security like JWT, OAuth2/OpenID Connect, and custom tokens. In SAP hybrid setups, it handles XCSRF tokens and rewrites internal links to frontend URLs to ensure secure and compliant REST API operations

ll published API operations and statuses are visible and traceable in SAP Integration Suite monitoring. The adapter indexes key/value data for runtime visibility without overhead. Developers benefit from automatic API Console or WADL UI for testing and demoing REST endpoints, making operations and debugging easier

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We specialize in ensuring a smooth and secure transformation of existing SAP PO (Process Orchestration) landscapes to the modern SAP Integration Suite, including the SAP Edge Integration Cell for hybrid integration scenarios. With tailored concepts, proven best practices, and deep expertise, we make sure your SAP integration remains sustainable, high-performing, and future-ready.

Our Core Expertise in SAP Technology Consulting

  • SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite Migration – including analysis, architecture design, and technical implementation

  • SAP Edge Integration Cell Implementation and Optimization – enabling flexible and secure hybrid integrations

  • SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) Consulting – leveraging modern services and tools for innovation and process automation

  • Technology-Driven Strategy Consulting – from cloud integration to API management

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Azure Adapter for SAP PO

Azure Adapter for SAP PO

Azure cloud has recently become the new option for many companies for “pay as you go” implementation of new IT services with low operational costs.

IT solutions can be created “on demand” much faster and without large infrastructure investments. Serverless computing opens the doors for new innovations and real-time interaction with customers.

The challenge for many IT departments is now to quickly, securely and easily integrate existing master and transactional data (such as in SAP ERP) into house with the Azure Cloud.

Our adapter enables such connections for existing SAP landscapes with the most commonly used storage and messaging services on the Azure platform with SAP PO.

With our new Azure Adapter you can:

  • Send and receive messages from azure service bus queues and topics.
  • Send and receive messages from a storage queue
  • Store files and receive / delete files from a file storage queue
  • Store blobs and receive / delete blobs from Azure blob storage

Furthermore, our adapter has additional features that are common in the hybrid integration world, such as support for JSON / XML transformation and all necessary security mechanisms. These are easily configurable.

Our adapter runs on any SAP PI system from 7.1 to SAP PO 7.5.

Benefits of the KaTe Azure Adapter for SAP PO

  • Send and receive messages

    Send and receive messages from Azure service bus queues and topics and Azure storage queues.

  • File

    Store files on or read/delete from Azure File Storage and store blobs on or read/delete from Azure Blob Storage.

Pay what you use

All of our adapters are subscription licensed, which simplifies use at the project level or in limited use cases.

30 days trial

All our adapters are available for a 30-day trial period.

Verified SAP Partner

All our adapters are developed in close cooperation with SAP and our verified SAP experts.

SAP Technology and Migration Consulting –
Future-Proof Integration with KaTe GmbH


KaTe GmbH is your trusted partner for SAP technology consulting and SAP migration projects.

We specialize in ensuring a smooth and secure transformation of existing SAP PO (Process Orchestration) landscapes to the modern SAP Integration Suite, including the SAP Edge Integration Cell for hybrid integration scenarios. With tailored concepts, proven best practices, and deep expertise, we make sure your SAP integration remains sustainable, high-performing, and future-ready.

Our Core Expertise in SAP Technology Consulting

  • SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite Migration – including analysis, architecture design, and technical implementation

  • SAP Edge Integration Cell Implementation and Optimization – enabling flexible and secure hybrid integrations

  • SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) Consulting – leveraging modern services and tools for innovation and process automation

  • Technology-Driven Strategy Consulting – from cloud integration to API management

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