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. 

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