Enabling Business-to-Business Processes: Security Aspects

About This Document

This document summarizes the security aspects relevant to business-to-business (B2B) processes. Since all these aspects are described in more detail in the SAP NetWeaver Process Integration Security Guide, links to this guide are included when appropriate.

Target Groups

●      Technical consultants

●      System administrators

Overview

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (PI) can be used for two main purposes:

●      Intra-enterprise application integration (EAI) where company-internal heterogeneous applications communicate using PI. This is also known as A2A (application-to-application) communication.

●      Inter-enterprise integration where companies exchange XML messages. This is also known as B2B (business-to-business) communication.

The scenario Enabling Business-to-Business Processes covers the B2B communication and distinguishes two variants of B2B processes:

●      Business Partner Integration Using Industry Standards

●      Smaller Business Partner and Subsidiary Integration

For generic B2B processes, refer to the security guide for SAP NetWeaver PI.