SAP PI and SAP PO are used in everyday use differently from the meaning they actually represent.
The difference is simple. It would not be right to call any of its different meanings wrong.
SAP PI (process integration) is actually part of the SAP PO (process orchestration) family of products; just like BPM, BRM, etc. But for versions 7.1 to 7.31 (and especially dual-stack ABAP+JAVA) over time, PI; for the 7.5 (single stack JAVA) version, it is generally called PO.
PI communicates with both SAP and non-SAP systems using the many adapters on it. It definitely does not need another SAP system for integration and is designed to work seamlessly even in an ecosystem that does not contain any SAP products.
While integrating with other systems, it uses many adapters such as Database(JDBC), SOAP, File, FTP, SFTP, Mail(SMTP), REST, EDI...
SAP NetWeaver Process Integration facilitates the integration of business processes that span different departments, organizations, or companies. SAP PI is based on general standards so as to enable 3rd-party systems to be integrated. At the center of SAP PI is an XML-based communication that uses HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). Irrespective of the scenario used, the application-specific contents are transferred in messages in user-defined XML eXtensible Markup Language) from the sender...
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SAP PI and SAP PO are used in everyday use differently from the meaning they actually represent.
The difference is simple. It would not be right to call any of its different meanings wrong.
SAP PI (process integration) is actually part of the SAP PO (process orchestration) family of products; just like BPM, BRM, etc. But for versions 7.1 to 7.31 (and especially dual-stack ABAP+JAVA) over time, PI; for the 7.5 (single stack JAVA) version, it is generally called PO.
PI communicates with both SAP and non-SAP systems using the many adapters on it. It definitely does not need another SAP system for integration and is designed to work seamlessly even in an ecosystem that does not contain any SAP products.
While integrating with other systems, it uses many adapters such as Database(JDBC), SOAP, File, FTP, SFTP, Mail(SMTP), REST, EDI...