Business Service 

Use

A business service represents an abstract unit for addressing the senders and receivers of messages. You can use a business service to group interfaces.

It is useful to use business services when configuring cross-company process. Usually, the interface descriptions of the business partners involved are made publicly available. However, the system landscape of those involved is normally unknown, or only partly known, and cannot therefore be entered in the SLD (as a business system).

Prerequisites

When you create a business service you can

·        Define a communication party if you want to assign the service to a party

·        Leave the party field empty if you want to define the service as a Service Without Party.

Features

In the Display/Edit Business Service editor you can display or edit the following information:

Sender/Receiver Tab Page

Here you can make specifications that specially refer to the service as a sender or receiver.

Frames on the Sender/Receiver Tab Page

Frame	Features
Outbound/Inbound Interfaces	Enables you to assign interfaces for message exchange. To do so, in the Outbound Interfaces or Inbound Interfaces frame, add a new row (Insert Row Below Selection ). Use the input help () to assign the interfaces. To delete an assignment, select the relevant line and choose Delete Selected Lines ().
Communication channels	You can create communication channels and assign them to the service. To open a communication channel, select the relevant row and choose Open Object (). To create a new communication channel for this service, choose Create New Object (). To delete a communication channel, select the relevant line and choose Delete Object ().

Tab page Other Attributes

This tab page shows whether the service is a Third-Party Service.

A Third-Party Service is a service provided by an external business partner. The Third-Party Service attribute is set by default for a business service. 

The Third-Party Service attribute is assigned to a business system if the underlying business system is classified as a Third-Party System in the System Landscape Directory (Third-Party Business System). See also ( Registering Non-SAP Systems). If this is not the case, the business system is assigned the SAP Service attribute.

Integration processes are always classified as SAP services.