Product Overview

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for SAP provides the interoperability between TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ and the SAP system. Formerly known as TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Adapter for SAP. With the plug-in, you can manage and transfer IDocs, and manage and perform the RFC/BAPI invocation.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is a leading integration platform that can integrate a wide variety of technologies and systems within enterprise and on cloud. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks includes an Eclipse-based graphical user interface (GUI) provided by TIBCO Business Studio™ for design, testing, and deployment. If you are not familiar with TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, see the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks documentation for more details.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Plug-in for SAP extends TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, and adds an SAP Connection shared resource, an SAP TIDManager shared resource, and an SAP Palette to TIBCO Business Studio:

SAP Connection
Use the SAP Connection Shared Resource to establish bidirectional connections with the SAP system and download schemas at design time.
SAP TIDManager
Use the SAP TIDManager shared resource to manage the check of duplicate IDoc messages published from the SAP system.
SAP Palette
- IDoc Listener
  Use the IDoc Listener activity to listen to the SAP system and receive IDocs published from the SAP system.
- IDoc Parser
  Use the IDoc Parser activity to retrieve IDocs processed by the IDoc Listener activity, and then parse the IDocs as the activity output.
- IDoc Reader
  Use the IDoc Reader activity to post IDocs to the SAP system.
- RFC BAPI Listener
  Use the RFC BAPI Listener activity to listen to the SAP system and receive RFC/BAPI requests from the SAP system.
- Invoke RFC BAPI in SAP
  Use the Invoke RFC BAPI in SAP activity to invoke RFC/BAPIs in the SAP system.
- Reply from RFC BAPI in SAP
  Use the Reply from RFC BAPI in SAP activity to receive the return message from the SAP system when the invocation of the RFC/BAPI is completed.

The plug-in supports the following SAP integration interfaces：

BAPI (Business Application Programming)
BAPIs are the methods exposed by SAP business objects. This interface is best used with the plug-in for performing real time queries and updates to and from the SAP system. BAPIs are the SAP recommended integration interface over RFCs (Remote Function Call).
RFC
With the RFC interface, non-SAP and SAP applications can execute SAP ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) functions that have been RFC-enabled. They are similar to BAPIs in functionality but are not attached to SAP business objects.
ALE/IDoc (Application Link Enabling/Intermediate Documents)
IDocs are document containers for business transactional data, such as sales orders (for example: ORDERS01) and order invoices (for example: INVOIC02). ALE helps achieve cross-business functionality and facilitates the event driven, asynchronous exchange of information directly out of business transactions.