Developing and Configuring B2B Scenarios
Context
When company-internal scenarios are developed and configured, typically all the details of a system landscape are known to the expert performing the configuration tasks. This assumption was made in particular for the task descriptions under Developing and Configuring Integration Scenarios .
This is typically the case in small or midsize companies with a manageable size and structure of the system landscape.
However, in larger enterprises or in scenarios spanning different enterprises, this assumption can no longer be made. This section provides information about how business-to-business (B2B) scenarios can be managed with SAP NetWeaver PI. In a B2B scenario, business partners (this can be whole enterprises which are in a business relationship with each other) communicate and exchange data with each other based on an IT infrastructure without knowing all details of the whole system landscape. In light of this fact, the concept behind the Integration Directory can be adapted to be used in a more flexible and generic way in order to cater for just such cases.
More information: B2B Configuration