Performing an upgrade at Game Mania of SAP Business Connector to the latest release — 4.8 — which may sound as a ‘surprise’ or ‘old school’. SAP did release however a new version a couple of years ago despite the fact that it declared SAP BC ‘virtual dead’ when it announced ‘SAP Exchange Infrastructure’ (SAP XI) — the predecessor of the current SAP Process Infrastructure (SAP PI) platform.
SAP BC can still be used by SAP customers to integrate their SAP backend systems with internal and external platforms — included in their SAP license as long as there is a SAP system involved in the connection. SAP BC can be considered as the ‘small brother’ of a SAP PI system — it does not offer all the standard available adapters of SAP PI but it handles the job well for basic integration scenarios involving HTTP(S), FTP, SMTP & JDBC. It is a 100% JAVA platform and as such can be ’extended’ with 3rd party JAVA solutions, it does offer ’load balancing’, ‘reverse proxy’, etc.
