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Radosław Ruciński
SAP Integration Architect / co-owner
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Act now to ensure business continuity, reduce operational risks, and build a flexible foundation for your future integration needs.
Migration from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite involves transitioning from an on-premise legacy integration platform to a modern cloud-based solution. This shift is essential as SAP PO approaches the end of its support lifecycle in 2027.
With its intuitive, web-based interface and prebuilt connectors for SAP and non-SAP systems, SAP Integration Suite simplifies complex integration challenges, enabling faster deployments and smoother data flows across your organization.
Connect on-premise and cloud systems through a unified platform that scales with your business and supports hybrid integration scenarios.
SAP Integration Suite is designed to handle growing data volumes and complex integration flows.
Enable event-driven integration patterns that deliver immediate updates across applications, ensuring business decisions are based on current data.
Build on a platform designed to evolve with emerging technologies, providing the flexibility to incorporate innovations like AI and machine learning.
Design, publish, and monitor APIs with built-in security features to create standardized communication channels across your entire ecosystem.
Eliminate custom code and workarounds by using pre-built connectors and integration flows, significantly lowering maintenance costs and complexity.
Download our detailed migration guide to learn how you can plan a successful transition with minimal business disruption.
We begin by evaluating your current integration landscape, including existing flows, custom adapters, and dependencies. This assessment provides a roadmap outlining which scenarios can be migrated, optimized, or redesigned.
SAP provides tools to automate key parts of the migration:
Migration Tool: Converts integration flows, mappings, and configurations from SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite.
Scenario Redesign: Certain integrations may be restructured to leverage modern features like API management or event-driven architecture.
Automated tools validate the new integration flows to ensure accuracy and performance:
Regression Testing: Confirms that migrated flows behave consistently.
Performance Testing: Ensures integration flows meet real-world performance expectations.
Validated integration flows are deployed in phases to minimize disruptions. Real-time monitoring tools in SAP Integration Suite provide insights to ensure a stable and reliable cutover.
Businesses with both on-premise and cloud applications can establish data flows across systems, enabling hybrid connectivity for ERP, CRM, and other core platforms.
Event-driven architecture enables real-time integration, ideal for scenarios like inventory updates, order management, and IoT data processing, where instant communication is crucial.
Organizations can expose internal resources securely through APIs, improving integration with external partners and clients. This is useful for B2B integrations, supplier portals, and external data-sharing services.
Businesses handling sensitive data, such as in healthcare or finance, benefit from modern security features like encrypted messaging, access control, and centralized policy enforcement.
The client’s SAP PO platform couldn’t scale or support growth, hindering integrations with modern systems and rapid innovation.
The client’s SAP PO platform couldn’t scale or support growth, hindering integrations with modern systems and rapid innovation.
Unsure where to start with your migration? Let our experts evaluate your current integration landscape and provide a tailored migration plan – at no cost.
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Radosław Ruciński
SAP Integration Architect / co-owner
tel: +48 450 064 128
e-mail: radoslaw.rucinski@sygeon.com
SAP Integration Suite offers hybrid and cloud integration, real-time event-driven architecture, API management, enhanced security, and lower maintenance overhead. It provides the flexibility needed to meet modern business integration demands.
SAP has announced that mainstream maintenance for SAP Process Orchestration will end in 2027. After this date, organizations will need to purchase extended maintenance or migrate to supported platforms like SAP Integration Suite.
The duration varies based on landscape complexity, number of interfaces, and chosen migration strategy. Most organizations complete initial migrations in 3-6 months, with phased approaches extending longer but providing lower risk.
Many integration scenarios can be migrated using SAP’s migration tools, which convert them to the new platform format. Complex scenarios with custom Java code or specialized adapters may require redesigning to leverage cloud-native patterns.
We use a phased approach with parallel operation of both platforms during transition. Critical interfaces are migrated first in controlled windows, with extensive testing and rollback options if needed.
SAP Integration Suite supports hybrid scenarios through Cloud Connector and Edge Integration Cell, allowing you to maintain secure connections to on-premise systems while leveraging cloud capabilities.
While the core integration concepts remain similar, your team will benefit from training on cloud-native development patterns, REST/OData services, and API-first design principles. We provide knowledge transfer and training as part of our migration services.
The migration assessment identifies custom adapters and provides alternatives available in SAP Integration Suite. In some cases, custom development may be needed, but the platform’s extensive connector library covers most standard scenarios.
Yes, SAP offers automated regression testing tools from Partners for period of 12 months without additional costs to verify that the migrated integration flows behave as expected.
Once support ends, SAP PO will no longer receive security updates or technical assistance. While integrations will work and you will be able to develop new ones, this increases operational risks, including potential compliance violations and system vulnerabilities.
While technical necessity often drives migration from SAP Process Orchestration, the true value extends far beyond maintaining support. Modern businesses operate in ecosystems requiring real-time data exchange, API-based partnerships, and flexible cloud integration. SAP Integration Suite addresses these needs through a fundamentally different approach to enterprise integration.
Companies that approach migration strategically gain competitive advantages through faster time-to-market for new initiatives. With development cycles reduced by up to 40% compared to traditional middleware, integration becomes a business enabler rather than a technical bottleneck. This acceleration happens because pre-built connectors and standardized integration patterns eliminate repetitive coding tasks that dominated the SAP PO development cycle.
The transition also creates an opportunity to rationalize your integration landscape. Many organizations discover that their legacy environments contain redundant interfaces, outdated connections, and inefficient patterns developed over years of operation. The migration assessment provides visibility into these issues, allowing you to consolidate integration flows and establish governance practices that prevent future sprawl.
Every organization’s journey to SAP Integration Suite follows a unique path based on their specific landscape complexity, business priorities, and risk tolerance. Three primary migration strategies have emerged as proven approaches:
The phased migration approach involves methodically transitioning integration scenarios in batches, starting with lower-risk, less complex interfaces. This approach allows teams to build experience with the new platform gradually while maintaining business operations. Organizations typically group migrations by business domain, technical similarity, or strategic importance.
Parallel platform operation maintains both environments simultaneously, routing new development to SAP Integration Suite while legacy flows continue on SAP Process Orchestration. This approach minimizes immediate risk but requires managing two platforms during the transition period. It works particularly well when coordinated with other digital transformation initiatives that introduce new integration requirements.
Complete platform replacement suits smaller landscapes or organizations with pressing deadlines, such as data center exits or imminent support expirations. While offering the fastest transition, this approach demands intensive planning, comprehensive testing, and carefully managed cutover processes to mitigate business disruption.
The most successful migrations often combine elements of all three approaches, with strategy evolving based on lessons learned during initial implementation phases. Regardless of approach, establishing clear success criteria and maintaining executive sponsorship throughout the journey significantly improves outcomes.
Forward-thinking organizations recognize that migration represents just the beginning of their integration modernization journey. Leading companies establish Integration Centers of Excellence to maximize their return on investment in SAP Integration Suite.
These centers bring together technical expertise, business domain knowledge, and governance frameworks to transform integration from a technical function into a strategic capability. By standardizing development practices, promoting reusable assets, and documenting integration patterns, the ICoE accelerates future projects while maintaining quality and consistency.
Key responsibilities typically include establishing API design guidelines, creating reusable integration templates, defining security standards, and building monitoring dashboards. The ICoE also facilitates knowledge sharing between teams, capturing lessons learned from complex integrations and ensuring those insights benefit future projects.
For organizations transitioning from SAP Process Orchestration, the ICoE plays a crucial role in upskilling existing integration developers. While core integration concepts remain similar between platforms, cloud-native development requires familiarity with new tools, patterns, and best practices. Through formalized training programs, hands-on workshops, and mentoring relationships, integration teams can rapidly build proficiency with SAP Integration Suite’s capabilities.
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