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Figaf Friday: documentation for simplifying onboarding for SAP Integration Suite

Which documents to share so new SAP Integration Suite developers and consultants can get started quickly: processes, system access and iFlow documentation.

May 20, 2022 · 2 min read

What is the best way to make sure new developers or consultants can get started quickly in SAP Integration Suite? This was a discussion I had with a potential customer and I think it was a pretty interesting question.

I have worked a lot as a consultant for different clients. Most of the time I just got access to an integration system (SAP PI) or a SAP Cloud Integration system. And then I got a task to develop the integration to solve a problem.

There are a few ways to cover this and a discussion about if you should wait for the architecture or just develop the integration.

Documenting in SAP Integration Suite

We got to talking because he was looking at the way we could generate documentation for SAP CPI or SAP PI/PO automatically. That would serve the purpose and give some useful information. I do think that a good developer at the same time would be able to find the same information as stated here. The documentation does serve a good governance requirement, you know the part that needs to be updated but never is. If you are an architect what is then the best way to deliver documentation so a new developer can support you in a consistent way.

Here is a list of the different documents that makes sense to share:

Slide on process documents: best practice iFlows, ISA-M access and process descriptions for development, documentation, transport and monitoring
Slide on system access: Dev, QA and Prod systems in the landscape, Figaf access and backend system access
Slide on integration specific documentation: business requirement, owner contact, technical documentation, iFlow link, test case and Groovy unit test

You can see a video of this here:

Watch on YouTube Onboarding SAP Cloud Integration developers documentation

I hope you will check out the Figaf DevOps Suite as a way to simplify onboarding of developers. It makes a lot of processes much simpler because they will have access to everything that is needed in just one application.

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