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SAP Datasphere and Apache Kafka as Data Fabric for ERP Integration

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SAP Datasphere and Apache Kafka as Data Fabric for S/4HANA ERP Integration

ByKai Waehner
3. January 2024
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SAP is the leading ERP solution across industries around the world. Data integration with other data platforms, applications, databases, and APIs is one of the hardest challenges in the IT and software landscape. This blog post explores how SAP Datasphere in conjunction with the data streaming platform Apache Kafka enables a reliable, scalable and open data fabric for connecting SAP business objects of ECC and S/4HANA ERP with other real-time, batch, or request-response interfaces.

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Building a Postmodern ERP with Apache Kafka

ByKai Waehner
20. November 2020
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Postmodern ERP represents the next generation of ERP architectures. It is real-time, scalable, and open by using a combination of open source technologies and proprietary standard software. This blog post explores why and how companies, both software vendors and end-users, leverage event streaming with Apache Kafka to implement a Postmodern ERP.