Just when I thought SAP BI is the way to go, my project suddenly requires SAP PI/XI expert. Not as what I imagined it would be, now I have to embrace the SAP PI/XI first before moving to SAP BI. SAP PI/XI once was a very interesting and very much in demand. Basically, it is a middleware application, the most famous one I guess would be IBM WebSphere offering. Things are not looking that well however for SAP PI/XI because the rest of competitors also are just as reliable or much better in the performance area. Also, middleware does not have to be SAP even though you have SAP system in place. As the name suggests, middleware acts as a facilitator of information passing through from one system to another. Let say you have 2 different systems and you need some information to flow from one system to another, middleware would provide this facilities for your requirements (some mapping from SAP XI/PI with external system example as below). Thus, due to demand in this technology, SAP has came up with their own offering, basically to cater SAP customers that need to interface their SAP application with hosts of other external systems. Well, lets be fair here, SAP is a business software expert. Product like this would be an IBM or Sun domain expert and it’s hard for SAP to catch up with these guys. I’ll be positive though, learning new skill set is always exciting. The training will be conducted by SAP Malaysia soon and hopefully I’ll be able to apply the new knowledge gained for the benefits of the project.
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