With increasing demand to ensure interconnectivity between varied systems within an enterprise landscape, many systems provide integration solutions to facilitate ingestion and retrieval of data. It is unsustainable for an integration team spanning the enterprise to learn, develop, and maintain various middleware products. Using an integration platform to expose SAP data through OData models to the enterprise application network can mitigate this risk and lower the integration complexity on the SAP system. Understand an application network versus typical point to point integrations:

• Using SAP OData services to expose data in a defined model
• Common challenges with an API integration approach
• Reusing exposed models creatively through an integration platform

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