Companies are increasingly moving towards cloud deployment to support agility and optimize business operations. Although cloud deployments can be highly beneficial, many organizations are still maintaining data in on-premise data stores to ensure compliance with regulations, protect customer privacy, and keep sensitive data and workloads within the company. A hybrid integration solution offers the adaptability to keep critical data on-premise while also leveraging the benefits of public cloud capabilities. By connecting on-premise systems with cloud resources, businesses can help drive transformation efforts while ensuring security and compliance.
SAP Edge Integration Cell for Hybrid Integration
SAP Integration Suite is an integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) that integrates on-premise and cloud-based processes, applications, and data. SAP Integration Suite offers many advancements over and above SAP Process Integration (PI), including enhanced capabilities for cloud integration and API management, providing a much more flexible integration solution. Edge Integration Cell is a hybrid integration runtime offered as part of SAP Integration Suite, which enables companies to create APIs and integration scenarios directly in the SAP cloud and manage them on-premise. This means that organizations can design and monitor integrations in the cloud and run their integration scenarios within the company’s secure systems, on-premise.
With the end of mainstream maintenance of SAP Process Integration (PI) and SAP Process Orchestration (PO) approaching in 2027, Edge Integration Cell provides a modernization path for customers using these solutions using a hybrid integration approach. This flexibility provides a simplified transition from SAP PI/PO and facilitates the transition to SAP Integration Suite while continuing to support on-premise operations. To realize all the benefits of Edge Integration Cell, SAP customers can leverage an advanced enterprise-grade platform like Red Hat OpenShift. RedHat OpenShift helps ensure a comprehensive and reliable hybrid approach across all environments.
The value of running SAP Edge Integration Cell on Red Hat OpenShift
As part of a long-established partnership, SAP and Red Hat have collaborated through joint engineering and support to provide an enterprise-grade platform to run and support SAP’s Edge Integration Cell upon Red Hat OpenShift both in cloud environments and on-premise. Red Hat OpenShift is trusted by 3,000 customers across industries (including 56% of the top 25 Global Fortune 500 – many of whom are also SAP customers). It combines built-in security features with dedicated support, a trusted software supply chain, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the operating foundation. Red Hat OpenShift provides the ideal hybrid platform to support critical applications like SAP’s Edge Integration Cell.
Together, they provide SAP customers with the essential bridge between sensitive on-premise data and custom applications, while also enabling access to SAP’s valuable cloud-based tools. The platform complements and extends the value of SAP solutions beyond core cloud services, maximizing investments in cloud-native applications all the way to the Intelligent Edge. Organizations that already use Red Hat OpenShift can benefit from being able to use their existing platform to run Edge Integration Cell without adding IT complexity. For those wanting to consume a managed OpenShift instance, we also support Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO).
To learn more about how Red Hat OpenShift can support SAP integration needs, contact Red Hat and discover how to leverage this advanced platform to streamline operations, protect data, and drive innovation.
