SAP Integration Suite, built on what used to be called SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), is SAP's own iPaaS: a tool for designing and running integration flows between SAP and other systems, replacing the older on-premise PI/PO stack for most new projects. It's a legitimate, well-supported path for connecting SAP to the rest of your business, but for a single integration rather than dozens, building directly against SAP's own API often gets you there with less infrastructure to license and maintain.
Integration Suite ships prebuilt content packages for common SAP-to-SAP and SAP-to-third-party scenarios, Ariba, SuccessFactors, and a growing list of non-SAP applications, plus a flow-based designer for building custom integration logic without hand-coding every step. It's the tool SAP itself points larger organizations toward, especially ones migrating off the older PI/PO middleware as SAP winds down support for it.
It genuinely earns its place at that scale: an organization running a dozen integration flows across multiple SAP and non-SAP systems benefits from having one platform managing monitoring, error handling, and versioning across all of them instead of a pile of one-off scripts.
For a business connecting SAP to one other system, Salesforce, an AR automation platform, a single e-commerce channel, licensing and running Integration Suite can be more infrastructure than the job actually needs. A direct, point-to-point integration against SAP's own OData or RFC layer frequently gets built faster and costs less to maintain, since there's no separate middleware platform sitting in between that also needs upkeep.
The real decision point is scale and future need, not just what's technically possible: one connection today that might become five next year changes the math toward Integration Suite; one connection that's likely to stay one connection usually doesn't.
We build the direct sync between SAP and Salesforce so account, order, or opportunity data stays consistent on both sides, without standing up a full middleware platform just to move data between two systems.
When a business needs one solid connection, not a dozen, we build directly against SAP's API instead of recommending a license and a learning curve the job doesn't call for.
A CRM, an AR platform, a storefront, tell us what it is, and we'll scope whether it needs Integration Suite or just a direct build.
Tell us how many systems you're connecting to SAP and what they are, and we'll give you a straight read on whether a middleware platform earns its cost here or a direct integration gets you the same result faster. And if the real bottleneck isn't SAP at all, that's fine too, we build this kind of connection work against whatever system is actually slowing your team down.
Let's talk →It's SAP's own integration platform as a service, for building and running integration flows between SAP and other systems, SAP's own or otherwise, through a flow-based designer and a library of prebuilt content packages.
No, though it's the successor to it. PI/PO (Process Integration/Process Orchestration) was SAP's older, on-premise middleware. Integration Suite is the cloud-based platform SAP is moving customers toward as PI/PO support winds down.
Either through SAP Integration Suite's prebuilt Salesforce content, if you're already running or planning to run it for other integrations, or through a direct build against SAP's API and Salesforce's own API, which is usually the faster, lighter path for a single connection.
No. It makes the most sense once you're managing several integration flows at once and want one platform handling monitoring and error recovery across all of them. A business with a single integration need often gets a faster, cheaper result from a direct build.
That's a different kind of integration than connecting SAP to an outside system: it refers to how SAP's own internal modules, Materials Management, Financial Accounting, Sales and Distribution, are configured to post to each other automatically, a goods receipt updating inventory and triggering an accounting entry, for example. It's configuration work inside SAP itself, not something an external integration platform touches.