SAP API Business Hub - SAP Community Webinar

SpeakersHarsh JegadeesanChief Product Owner, Digital Transformation Services @harshjegadeesan

Michael HillDirector, Product Marketing, SAP HANA Cloud Platform

SAP Community Call SAP API Business Hub a public catalog of all SAP and partner APIs

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SAP API Business Hub is SAP´s developer portal that provides a central catalog of SAP and selected partner APIs allowing developers to search, discover, test and consume the services they need to build new applications, app extensions or process integrations, using the HANA Cloud Platform.

Understand Motivations

1See how API Business Hub

can help with app development

2Learn about

SAP´s API Program

3Today´s Focus


Application Development: Analog to Digital digital transformation of application development and integration

open integrations vs.

point-to-point/mediated

integrations

Open Integrations

application development is composing APIs

together

Application Composition

developers are composers,

working in agile environments

and composing apps using APIs

Composers

APIs are the building blocks for digital transformation

free your data empower users with self-service

connect and innovate

APIs = omni-channel access and “single source of truth”

APIs = business collaboration, open integration and >$$$

APIs = agility, 2-speed IT and innovation

Businesses and platforms = APIs

communications

payments

logistics

we are talking about Web APIs (over HTTP)

REST ODATA SOAP/WSDL(Hypermedia)Open API

Specification (OAS) fka. SwaggerRAML

SAP has several APIs across core ERP, LOB solutions as well as microservices

z

SuccessFactors Cloud for Customers SAP Hybris SAP Vehicles Network

S4 HANA

Microservices


SAP S4HANA, ERPAPIs to enable 2-speed IT

• S4HANA as the digital core will offer APIs (web APIs, RFC-based APIs) for integration and development of new applications

• Use the HANA Cloud Platform as the bi-modal agility layer for faster integrations and development of extensions and innovations.


SAP SuccessFactorsAPIs as single source of truth and open integrations

Exposing hypermedia APIs based on OData as single source of truth for integration, application development and extensions

• Safely expose business APIs from various SuccessFactors solutions (Employee Central, Workforce Analytics, Learning)

• Unification of API exposure and API consumption across the solutions. Unification of OData exposure and Authentication handling.

• Pro-active API management through throttling, spike arrests and analytical insights about consumption.


Concurbuilding a travel ecosystem and open integration with APIs

• Quickly discover and try APIs for Expense, Itinerary, Travel Profile and others

• Tap into $1.3T business travel market* and deliver solutions to 25M business travelers and 23,000 enterprises worldwide

• Companies like Uber and Airbnb are using Concur’s APIs


SAP AribaOpen APIs for integrations and new applications

• Open APIs will empower partners to build new apps and integrate with other solutions

• Enable cloud-to-cloud integration with other innovative cloud services

SAP´s APIs are heterogenous, how can developers find the right APIs and use them to build apps or to integrate?

SAP API Business Hub

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Demo: SAP API Business Hubsearch, discover, test and consume APIs from SAP and its Partners

Search, Browse and learn about SAP and partner APIs easily

1 Understand how to use the APIs with simplified API sandbox

2 Consume APIs and build apps using WebIDE and open integrations with API Management and HCI

3


SAP´s Cloud API Strategy


Key Takeaways

SAP API Business Hub Central catalog for all SAP and

selected partner APIsEasy to build apps or integrations

SAP API Management is a service to manage customer´s own APIs and engage with developers

Technology

SAP API Business Hub - SAP Community Webinar