Product Overview

TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Adapter for SAP (TIBCO Business Studio™) provides a design-time environment to configure adapter configurations and TIDManager configurations in TIBCO Business Studio™.

The following figure shows how TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for SAP (TIBCO Business Studio) works with other TIBCO products:

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ is an integration product suite for enterprise, web, and mobile applications. You can create services and integrate applications using a visual, model-driven development environment, and then deploy them at run time.
TIBCO Business Studio is the Eclipse graphical user interface (GUI) used by TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks to design business processes, run processes and generate deployable artifacts in the form of archive files.
TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter® Framework provides a visual, model-driven development environment for configuring supported TIBCO Adapters in TIBCO Business Studio and integrating them with TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ 6 applications and processes. It also provides administration capabilities for deploying TIBCO Adapters to runtime environments.
- Adapter Administration
  Adapter Administration provides a centralized administrative command-line console to manage and monitor the adapter applications deployed in an enterprise.
- Adapter Palette
  Adapter Palette provides a set of activities to communicate with the configured TIBCO Adapters.
TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter® for SAP enables SAP systems to seamlessly integrate with the rest of the enterprise in a TIBCO environment, to reach partners beyond the enterprise, and to connect with other enterprises. It is the runtime component of TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for SAP (TIBCO Business Studio).

After installing TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework, the Adapter palette and Adapter Administration component become available. The Adapter palette contains activities for communicating with configured TIBCO Adapter services. You can add activities and design business processes in TIBCO Business Studio. The configurations of all the features are similar to TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for SAP. When you run adapter configurations, activities are executed as part of the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks process execution, and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for SAP (TIBCO Business Studio) calls for the runtime properties in TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for SAP.

Note: The concept of adapter configuration in TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for SAP (TIBCO Business Studio) has the same meaning as that of adapter instance in TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for SAP.