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Make better regression test cases with Figaf Seeburger Migration tool

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The Figaf Seeburger Migration Tool (SMT) allows you to migrate your existing Seeburger BIC solution to a native B2B Add-on solution. It helps to update your message mappings to use the new schemas created with the B2B Add-on. It makes your migration process a lot faster and has reduced risk. Some of the benefits of using the tool look as follow:

  • The new solution from SAP has a lot of advantages making it a lot more flexible and supports the newest schemas. It includes all EDIFACT, X12, Tradacom and EANCOM messages that you want to be using, so you don’t need to pay for each message.
  • It is also simpler to transport since they don’t require the use of the BIC to make the one to one mappings
  • It contains all the same adapters with some new features
  • The price of the solution is also included in your standard SAP PI price so you don’t need extra licenses to make sure you can communicate with EDI for your partners. So you can save money on the maintenance of the Seeburger solution.
  • You have the option to use the Trading Partner Management solution making it a lot easier to maintain many partners and the information from them

When facing the migration there are some challenges that you must figure out how to solve.

  • Schemas are different so everything needs to be remapped
  • Test nothing happens with the output messages.
  • Budget and planing

Do you want to try a package with 10 free mapping? Then check out https://figaf.com/tools/seeburger-migration-tool/

Blogs about Seeburger Migration

Do you want more information about SMT? Then please check out the blog posts below:

SAP PI Migration webinar

Migrating Seeburger to SAP B2B Add-on the fast way

Migrate from Seeburger to SAP PI B2B Addon webinar

SAP XI/PI dual stack to SAP PO/PI single stack migration

 

SAP PI Migration webinar

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So, on January 15. 2018 I held a webinar I webinar about SAP PI Migration. In the webinar, I talked about my 7 step plan for migration of SAP PI to a single stack. The 7 steps look as following:

  • Goals
  • Current integrations
  • Pattern mappings
  • Resource consumption
  • Migration phases
  • Development
  • Testing

The plan covers an initial assessment on your landscape and an idea of where you want to move your landscape.

Here you can watch the replay on the webinar:

If you want to know more you can also take a look at the blog post 7 steps PI PO migration, which was published on September 25., 2017.

You can also take a look at the slideshow: SAP PI/PO migrations – How to save time and lower risk on your projects:


Lastly, when you are interested in migration, you might want to take a look at this:

  • Seeburger Migration Tool The Figaf Seeburger Migration Tool (SMT) allows you to migrate your existing Seeburger BIC solution to a native B2B Add-on solution.
    It helps update your message mappings to use the new schemas created with the B2B Add-on. It makes your migration process a lot
    faster and have a reduced risk

SAP PI/PO Used message mapping

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Update (April 9., 2019) I have added some cool new features. Take a look at the blog, I published April 9., 2019: What is the test coverage of your SAP PI message mappings.

One thing that I have been helping with is to help to understand, which mapping is used at the customer location. For instance in a migration project or upgrade project where they need to get away from using the Seeburger Message mapping to the B2B Add-on from SAP.

With the Figaf IRT tool, we already have a link from Message Mapping to ICO, so it would make a lot of sense to use that information to create a report. Then we only needed to understand what was used on your system and join the data.

What does a report look like? Check out the link below.

Operation mapping usage Sample Report

This is released in the beginning of January 2019, and is now a part of the Figaf IRT tool. It will be free to use the feature for now.

If you want to know more, please sign up for the free webinar, I will hold Tuesday 15, January 2019 at 16.00 CEST / 10.00 EST: Create a succesful SAP PI/PO migration in 2019.

Or just get the IRT tool now

https://figaf.com/IRT

New whitepaper: How to create your SAP integration in 2019

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So, November 14. 2018, I wrote a blog post, The future of SAP Integration PI, CPI and how to prepare your self, about a webinar, where I talked about the key takeaways from SAP Teched and how to implement things based on. There is a lot of interest in the topic because it is new ground for a lot of customers and consultants. You will need to think about how you are using SAP XI/PI/PO and how you migrate/upgrade. The big new thing that you have probably not been able to avoid is how to use SAP Cloud Integration (CPI/HCI), and now all the extra services.

Now, I am happy to announce that I created a whitepaper about my thinking about SAP Integration in 2019:


You can download it from the Slideshare page.

And why is this stuff important? It is so, because already today you are working with integration, and you´ll probably have to work with a lot of new integration projects in 2019.

As always in something like this, there are functions that changes and you need to make it work in a different way. It is also difficult to capture all requirements for all scenarios so as always it depends on your strategy what to do.

In other words, if you have to be ready for all the new challenges, you have to understand where you are going, the current state of the SAP PI roadmap and how to make integration in a faster way. Once again, I would like you to pay attention to Figaf´s Integration Regression Tool, which supports the full lifecycle of integration. It is a requirement for how you are going to deal with integration.

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Optimize your SAP PI/CPI development

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Your SAP Integration development is not all about delivering interfaces fast. It is also about making sure that you do the proper Change Management for the interfaces. In all organizations, integration is playing a key role in the future of the organization. If you have SAP PI/PO or Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), then you probably have quite a number of projects to look at. It is difficult to get time to architecture, development, and QA because there are too many projects going on.

My presentation is built on a process like the following steps. And it is the same if you are using agile or waterfall. Sure there may be a difference in the step size, duration, and naming. But they will always be there. It is the following

  • Scoping
  • Development
  • Testing
  • Document
  • Transport
  • Validation
  • Go live
  • Support

 

The Figaf IRT tool allows optimize and automize the different steps in the process, so you don’t have to have all the manual paper tasks to fill in. You will get a much greater visibility in to what is developed of your SAP PI/CPI landscape. And then you are going to get just one landscape for handling all your developments since IRT support both PI/CPI in one common landscape.

In the webinar, I also get to show off the new data anonymization process that allows you to anonymize data, so you can do a good test with your HR data anyway.

You can watch the replay here. We did have some technical issues and the video did not turn out correct. So I had to create a new version of the video. I guess it is better because of the rehearsal.

You can start using Figaf IRT for free. We have a free package that allows you to test forever.

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