Enable Real-Time Communication Across Your Systems

Transform your business with event-driven architecture that delivers instant data exchange while maintaining system performance and reliability.

What is SAP Event Mesh?

Event Mesh technology comes in two main options within the SAP ecosystem:

SAP Event Mesh is a basic event broker service on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) that enables real-time messaging between applications. It provides publish/subscribe capabilities for cloud applications with straightforward implementation and management.

SAP Advanced Event Mesh, powered by enterprise-grade event broker technology (Solace PubSub+), offers enhanced functionality with broader connectivity options, higher throughput, and advanced features like message replay and filtering. It supports complex multi-cloud and hybrid scenarios with mission-critical reliability.

Both solutions enable publish/subscribe messaging, event-driven processing, cloud-to-on-premise communication, and multi-cloud distribution. The choice between them depends on your scale, complexity, and specific integration needs.

Common challenges

Inefficient API Polling

Continuous API polling to check for updates wastes resources when no changes have occurred, increasing costs and reducing system performance.

Batch Processing Delays

Traditional batch processing introduces waiting periods between updates, preventing businesses from accessing critical information immediately.

Data Synchronization Gaps

Without real-time integration, systems operate independently, creating information lags that affect decision-making and operational efficiency.

Performance Issues at Scale

Systems not designed for event-driven communication struggle to maintain performance when handling large-scale, asynchronous data flows. This can lead to downtime, increased latency, and expensive scaling requirements.

Complexity in Managing Integrations

Managing a growing number of point-to-point integrations creates a complex and brittle 'spaghetti architecture', making changes slow, risky, and difficult to maintain as your business evolves.

Key benefits

Real-Time Event Delivery

Replaces batch processing delays with instant event distribution, allowing immediate system responses and up-to-date information access.

Reduced System Load

Eliminates inefficient API polling by delivering updates only when changes occur, optimizing resource usage and lowering infrastructure costs.

Connected Information Flow

Bridges data synchronization gaps by ensuring all systems receive updates simultaneously, creating a unified view across your organization.

Reliable Performance

Maintains consistent operation even during high-volume periods, with a distributed architecture designed to scale without degradation.

Simplified Integration

Reduces complexity by decoupling systems, making it easier to add new services and modify existing ones without disrupting the entire landscape.

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How it works

Event Mesh creates a distributed communication fabric that efficiently connects applications and services:

Key Components:

Event Routing

The mesh intelligently directs events between publishers (data sources) and subscribers (consuming applications) based on interest patterns.

Message Transformation

Events can be automatically converted between different formats, enabling smooth communication between diverse systems.

Guaranteed Delivery

Built-in mechanisms ensure messages reach their destinations even during network disruptions or system failures.

Security Controls

Advanced authentication, authorization, and encryption protect event data throughout its journey.

Use Cases

E-commerce Order Processing

When an order is placed, Event Mesh instantly notifies inventory, shipping, and notification services, creating a synchronized customer experience.

Supply Chain Visibility

Production events trigger immediate updates to logistics systems, providing real-time tracking and enabling proactive issue resolution.

IoT Data Processing

Sensor data flows through the mesh to analytics engines, monitoring systems, and maintenance applications without manual interventions.

Cross-Platform Integration

Connect SAP systems with non-SAP applications, cloud services, and third-party platforms through a unified event distribution network.

Financial Transaction Processing

Payment events trigger immediate account updates, fraud checks, and customer notifications, maintaining data consistency across systems.

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Why us

We are experts in enabling real-time, event-driven architectures that modernize IT landscapes and drive operational efficiency. Our proven experience with both SAP Event Mesh allows us to design, implement, and optimize solutions tailored to your business needs.

Balanced Technical Approach

We don't just implement technology - we analyze which Event Mesh option fits your actual needs. Our recommendations are based on your current landscape and future plans.

Bridging Traditional Integration Know-How with Event Mesh Technology

While Event Mesh technology is evolving, our extensive experience with enterprise integration architectures gives us the foundation to apply best practices to this modern approach. We bring tested integration knowledge to new technologies.

Business-Focused Implementation

Our focus remains on business outcomes rather than technical complexity. We prioritize use cases that deliver measurable improvements to your operations, ensuring technology serves your business goals rather than the other way around.

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Frequently Asked Questions

01 What's the difference between SAP Event Mesh and Advanced Event Mesh?

SAP Event Mesh is a basic service included in the SAP BTP, suitable for simpler cloud-based scenarios and lower message volumes. Advanced Event Mesh offers enterprise features like higher throughput, message replay, filtering rules, and supports complex multi-cloud and hybrid scenarios with mission-critical reliability.

02 How does Event Mesh work with SAP Integration Suite?

Event Mesh complements SAP Integration Suite by enabling event-driven patterns alongside API-based integration. Integration Suite can consume events from Event Mesh to trigger integration flows, while also publishing events back to the mesh when processes complete. This combination allows you to build hybrid integration architectures that leverage both synchronous and asynchronous patterns for optimal performance.

03Are there native integration mechanisms between Event Mesh and S/4HANA?

Yes, S/4HANA has built-in event enablement through its Business Event Handling framework. This allows S/4HANA to publish events to Event Mesh when business processes occur (like sales order creation or goods receipt). You can configure which business events to expose without custom development. For Advanced Event Mesh, SAP offers additional accelerators to simplify the connection between S/4HANA and enterprise event streams.

04Is Event Mesh an additional paid service?

Pricing depends on your current SAP licensing model. SAP Event Mesh may be included in certain Business Technology Platform (BTP) packages, while Advanced Event Mesh typically has additional costs based on features and scale. Contact us for specific pricing details tailored to your needs.

05How do I get started with Event Mesh?

Starting with Event Mesh requires access to the SAP Business Technology Platform with appropriate subscriptions. Our team can help assess your current architecture, identify use cases with the highest business value, and implement a solution designed for your specific requirements.

06 Is there a limit to the number of messages Event Mesh can handle?

While technical limits exist based on configuration, both SAP Event Mesh and Advanced Event Mesh support high message throughput. Advanced Event Mesh can handle millions of messages daily with proper planning. We can help you size your implementation for optimal performance.

07 Can Event Mesh work with non-SAP systems?

Yes, particularly Advanced Event Mesh supports integration with both SAP and non-SAP systems. It functions effectively in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, allowing you to route events across various platforms and technologies.

08 How does Event Mesh improve performance compared to traditional integration?

By replacing API polling and batch processing with event-driven communication, Event Mesh reduces latency, optimizes resource use, and ensures real-time data flow across systems.

09 What use cases are best suited for Event Mesh?

Event Mesh excels in scenarios requiring real-time data synchronization, such as e-commerce processes, IoT device management, supply chain operations, and customer experience applications where immediate responses enhance business value.

10Can Event Mesh help reduce API and infrastructure costs?

Yes, Event Mesh reduces the need for constant API polling, minimizing redundant requests and lowering infrastructure usage, leading to cost savings and improved performance.

Enabling Digital Agility Through Event Mesh Architecture

Today’s digital enterprises require flexible communication models that can adapt to changing business needs. Event Mesh creates this adaptability by establishing loosely coupled connections between applications and services. Unlike traditional integration approaches that create rigid dependencies, event-driven architectures allow systems to evolve independently while maintaining communication capabilities.

This architectural pattern is particularly valuable for organizations undergoing digital transformation initiatives. When modernizing legacy systems or adopting cloud services, Event Mesh provides a transitional layer that bridges old and new technologies. This allows businesses to implement changes incrementally without disrupting ongoing operations or requiring complete system overhauls.

For technology leaders planning multi-year modernization roadmaps, implementing Event Mesh early establishes a foundation that simplifies later stages of transformation. The decoupled nature of event-driven communication reduces the ripple effects of system changes, allowing teams to focus on delivering business value rather than managing complex dependencies.

Event-Driven Design for Microservice Ecosystems

As organizations move toward microservice architectures, efficient inter-service communication becomes increasingly important. Event Mesh provides the ideal communication backbone for microservice ecosystems, enabling autonomous services to share information without creating direct dependencies.

This approach aligns perfectly with modern development practices like domain-driven design and bounded contexts. Services can publish domain events that represent meaningful business occurrences without needing to know which other services might be interested. This preserves service autonomy while enabling complex business processes that span multiple domains.

The pattern also supports evolutionary architecture principles, allowing teams to add, modify, or replace individual services without coordinating with all potential consumers. This accelerates development cycles and enables true continuous delivery practices across distributed teams working on different parts of the system landscape.

From Event Streams to Business Intelligence

Beyond operational benefits, Event Mesh creates new opportunities for business intelligence and analytics. By capturing events that represent business activities in real-time, organizations can build rich data lakes that provide unprecedented visibility into operations.

Unlike traditional data warehousing approaches that rely on periodic extracts from operational systems, event streams provide immediate, granular visibility into business processes. This enables advanced analytics capabilities like real-time dashboards, anomaly detection, and predictive models that operate on current rather than historical data.

For organizations looking to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning, event streams provide the high-quality, real-time data these technologies require. The combination of Event Mesh with streaming analytics platforms creates powerful capabilities for identifying patterns, detecting anomalies, and generating insights that would be impossible with traditional batch processing approaches.