SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) enables you to manage end-to-end process integration using a standards-based, service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure. SAP NetWeaver PI provides the technical foundation for SOA and delivers:

• Enterprise Services Repository (ES Repository) – ES Repository is the central location in which enterprise services are modeled and where enterprise services metadata is stored. It consists of two key components:
  • Repository – Stores the definitions of enterprise services and business processes, as well as the metadata of all services objects, and provides a central modeling and design environment
  • Registry – Supports publishing, classifying, and discovery of enterprise services. This UDDI-compliant registry also enables the management and governance of service-enabled applications.
• Enterprise services bus – The enterprise services bus enables direct communication between a provider application that implements an enterprise service and a consumer application that uses the enterprise service.
• Pre-delivered integration scenario – SAP provides thousands of productized enterprise services, with prebuilt integration scenarios across 24 industries.

With support for open standards, SAP NetWeaver Process Integration supports process-centric collaboration among SAP and non-SAP applications, both within and beyond enterprise boundaries. With SAP NetWeaver Process Integration, you can:

• Accelerate process innovation using enterprise services and process components – SAP NetWeaver PI delivers enterprise services and prepackaged integration content, such as interface schemas, mappings, business process components, and business scenario components for the rapid assembly of new business processes using model-based tools.
• Connect applications and data sources to integrate processes – SAP NetWeaver PI supports integration through standards-based XML and WS-based messaging.
• Reduce integration costs using industry-standard protocols and partner adapters – SAP NetWeaver PI supports industry-standard protocols to improve communication with business partners. It also provides an open adapter framework that allows you to use partner adapters to extend connectivity across the entire business network.
• Manage business processes through their life cycle – SAP NetWeaver PI delivers model-based tools, which you can use to design, orchestrate, execute, monitor, and analyze business processes.
• Support business-to-business integration – SAP NetWeaver PI enables you to maintain partner information and communicate with B2B partners through an agreed protocol using industry-standard protocols, such as RosettaNet.
• Automate and monitor business processes – SAP NetWeaver PI enables you to automate repetitive tasks using the business execution programming language (BPEL) whenever predefined data flows are required. With business activity monitoring (BAM), you can monitor processes, manage exceptions, and improve process efficiency.