SAP Workflow - Integrating with external systems

[Warwick Hill]

Stephan,
 
Can you tell me a little bit more about how to access these APIs and what
the development class is ?
 
Also if you've used the API's would you say that it's best to use them
directly or use a product like
Visual Edges Madrid which as you say probably wraps around the APIs ?
 
thanks
 
Warwick.
 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stephan Becker [SMTP:stephan.becker at walldorftech.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 March 2000 15:24
> To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: SAP Workflow - Integrating with external systems
>
> also, the SAP Business Workflow engine is equipped with a set of APIs with
> which you can integrate almost any external system. Visual Edge probably
> wraps around those APIs. There is a development class in SAP that pools
> all
> or most of the Workflow APIs.
> Stephan Becker
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of
> Adrian Samuels
> Sent: 28 February 2000 18:25
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: SAP Workflow - Integrating with external systems
>
>
> Warwick,
>
> The Visual Edge Madrid for R/3 product is aimed at enabling external
> objects to
> participate in SAP Business Workflows. These objects then appear as SAP
> Business Objects.
> In this scenario Business Workflow remains the only workflow engine.
>
> See http://www.visualedge.com/papers/madridwhitepaper.pdf for an overview.
>
> Good luck, Adrian.
>
>
>
>
> Warwick Hill <Warwick.Hill at WaterCorporation.com.au> on 28/02/2000 09:20:08
>
> Please respond to SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
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> Subject:  SAP Workflow - Integrating with external systems
>
>
>
>
>
> I had a query from a client the other day asking if SAP Workflow can
> manage
> tasks in external systems as well as in SAP.
>
> The scenario is that a company would have SAP and other systems supporting
> it's various applications. If the company wants to use a "workflow"
> solution,
> I would assume they can either implement the various workflow packages on
> the different systems or have one workflow package which can
> access/control
> each of the systems.
>
> >From work that has been done so far I understand that it's possible to
> have
> SAP issue commands to other systems but that the other system will not
> allow
>
> SAP to make direct changes. The other system will receive the command from
> SAP and then manage the change itself.
>
> Has anyone had experience in this and is there a best standard approach if
> we want to use SAP Workflow as the main controller of the tasks ?
>
> many thanks for any advice,
>
>
> Warwick Hill
> Senior SAP Consultant
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