SAP GIS Solutions -

GIS - SAP Integration

• Esri's GIS and SAP's ERP software are an integral part of a powerful IT strategy.
• The power of SAP ERP including adapting to market changes, sensing and responding to customer requirements and extending processes beyond the organization, are further enhanced with the integration of Esri's GIS software.
• A large amount of business data has a geographic component that can be utilized to visualize and analyze the information on a map.
• GIS allows users to view, understand, question, interpret and visualize the data in ways not possible through a spreadsheet or table

Integration Benefits

• Improve resource utilization, analysis, safety and asset integrity through an ability to represent work orders and notifications at their exact location on a GIS map.
• Improve operational efficiency (e.g. safety, dispatching) by representing work activities that impact an area as polygons on the map and identification of shortest routes.
• Improve workforce productivity by providing broader browser-based access to SAP and GIS based assets, maintenance, and customer information.
• Reduce service costs by expanding an on-line self-service portal with essential business processes (e.g. report faulty equipments).
• Elevate customer service and decision-making with expanded access to ERP data from the GIS map

Integration Methods

Both GIS and ERP industry leaders have identified a number of integration options and methods. The options and methods are derived based on the system functions and SAP objects. Partnership between ESRI and SAP the industry leaders of GIS and ERP systems respectively, has resulted in identification of five main technical interfaces available for integration.

The integration technical interfaces include: SAP RFC connectors, third-party connectors, SAP generic GIS connector, third -party Enterprise Application Integrators (EAI), SAP EAI and vendors partner solutions

• With BW and R/3, geographic data can be created for different purposes and by different methods depending on the application.
• Geocoding is one of the method used to create business spatial data. Spatial query, network analysis or custom spatial process also can be new method to create spatial data or spatial related attributes.
• SAP concepts and terminology
• Integrating SAP with ArcGIS using a variety of technologies
• Working with ABAP developers for developing custom BAPIs Working with SAP consultants for business process mapping
• Opening SAP screens directly from GIS
• Interrogating SAP through defined interfaces

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