Meet the Experts
Hybrid and multi-cloud landscapes make integration a strategic fabric rather than a simple connectivity layer.
Resilient integration requires built-in patterns for retries, store-and-forward, observability, and secure hybrid connectivity.
Capabilities like Edge Integration Cell and API governance help balance data sovereignty, compliance, and innovation across distributed environments.
Arti Gopalan outlines how hybrid and multi-cloud realities—spanning SAP cloud applications, custom BTP apps, multiple hyperscalers, and on-premise legacy systems—are reshaping integration strategies. She explains how process integration has evolved from a back-office utility into a strategic fabric that delivers standardized, reusable, API- and event-driven connectivity across hundreds or even thousands of applications. Arti discusses key challenges such as network variability, resilience, end-to-end visibility, and the growing importance of data residency, sovereignty, and regulated processing locations. She highlights capabilities in SAP Integration Suite including Edge Integration Cell, advanced event mesh, API management, Cloud Connector, and built-in resilience patterns like retries, store-and-forward, and dead-letter queues that keep processes running despite disruptions. The episode also looks ahead to innovations in AI-assisted design and operations, agent governance, and sovereign deployment options that position Integration Suite as a trusted boundary for secure, compliant, and portable hybrid integration.