Product Overview

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for SAP provides the interoperability between TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ and the SAP system. The plug-in was 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
    • Dynamic Connection

      Use the Dynamic Connection activity to establish a dynamic connection for invoking RFC/BAPIs.

    • IDoc Acknowledgment

      Use the IDoc Acknowledgment activity to update the IDoc status in the SAP system.

    • IDoc Confirmation

      Use the IDoc Confirmation activity to confirm the status of the IDocs posted to the SAP system.

    • IDoc Listener

      Use the IDoc Listener activity to 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:

  • Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI)

    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 interfaces over Remote Function Calls (RFCs).

  • RFC

    With the RFC interface, non-SAP and SAP applications can execute SAP Advanced Business Application Programming (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.

  • Application Link Enabling/Intermediate Documents (ALE/IDoc)

    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.