Implementing SAP Integration Suite
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Key Takeaways
⇨ As SAP organisations face the end-of-maintenance for SAP ECC and SAP Process Orchestration, migrating to SAP Integration Suite is crucial for mitigating risks and ensuring a smooth transition to new systems.
⇨ The migration process should be seen as an opportunity to modernise integration architectures, adopting innovative strategies like Event-Driven Architecture and API-led approaches to improve scalability and operational efficiency.
⇨ Collaborating with experienced partners like DXC Technology can facilitate a successful migration, providing essential assessments and guidance to help organisations maximise their integration landscape and achieve long-term value.
As SAP organisations prepare for the end of maintenance for SAP ECC, they should also prepare for the fact that this is not the only change coming their way. SAP Process Orchestration (PO) and Cloud Platform Integration (Neo) are reaching their end-of-life between 2027 and 2028.
With both deadlines approaching, this is an ideal time for SAP organisations to evaluate their SAP Process Orchestration (SAP PO) landscape. Many companies are turning to SAP Integration Suite, to replace SAP PO. It is designed to add value to new SAP S/4HANA deployments by delivering seamless, scalable, and agile integration throughout the company, helping to drive efficiency and enhance value.
Making the Move to SAP Integration Suite
When migrating to SAP Integration Suite, a well-planned assessment helps analyse the landscape and integration flows, provides a migration roadmap, and includes risk assessment, best practices, and testing recommendations, all contributing to a smoother transition.
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Many SAP organisations are turning to trusted partners like DXC Technology to ensure their environments are ready ahead of an upgrade. Working with an experienced integration partner can help ensure infrastructure preparedness and that the project is not merely a “lift and shift” operation.
“Whilst SAP has provided the migration assessment tool to automatically assess the technical feasibility of migrating from PO to Integration Suite, it is important that the findings are analysed further, and each interface is actually explored. Whilst the Migration assessment tool may label an interface as “Ready to Migrate”, a deeper analysis often reveals opportunities for transformation,” said Joy Massimino, Managing Consultant, DXC Practice for SAP.
Making a Business Case
Though SAP Integration Suite offers significant benefits to users, they may have a tough time making the business case to business leaders that this investment drives value. Leaders may be apprehensive about high costs, lengthy timelines, or underwhelming outcomes associated with implementations.
Because of this cost-consciousness, customers are not necessarily looking for an extended project to re-design and re-engineer their interfaces which have been working fine for many years. Encouraging customers to adopt modern integration paradigms like Event-Driven Architecture or API-led approaches is often challenging, as their mindset typically focuses on completing the migration first and deferring any redesign considerations until later.
The migration should be presented as an opportunity for cost optimisation and future scalability, offering operational efficiencies and is better equipped to handle evolving business needs and growth.
What This Means for Mastering SAP insiders
Prepare for the future. With end-of-maintenance of SAP PO fast approaching, adopting SAP Integration Suite is essential to mitigate risks associated with aging integration platforms. SAP Integration Suite is the natural successor to PO given the automated migration path that SAP has provided; facilitating an accelerated, smoother, and lower-risk migration process that allows for the reuse of existing assets and offers potential cost optimisation and future scalability.
Unlocking the Full Potential of SAP S/4HANA with Integration Suite. Migrating to SAP S/4HANA is more than just a technical upgrade. It’s a strategic opportunity to modernise an organisation’s entire integration landscape. By leveraging SAP Integration Suite alongside the transition, organisations can adopt modern integration paradigms such as API-led connectivity and event-driven architectures. This not only ensures scalable, resilient, and future-ready interfaces but also enables more agile and intelligent business processes. Rather than simply replicating legacy integrations, combining SAP S/4HANA with Integration Suite lays the foundation for a flexible, cloud-first ecosystem that drives innovation and long-term value.
Trust experience. Companies that run SAP may not know exactly where to start or what to do when it comes to moving on from SAP PO and CPI (NEO) Neo. This is why DXC Technology offers complimentary assessments – helping businesses to de-risk their SAP roadmaps and accelerate digital transformation.
