General
1) What is SAP Gateway?
SAP Gateway lets you empower users with secure, personalized solutions that leverage and extend your existing SAP infrastructure, all with security, robustness, agility, and efficiency. SAP Gateway lets you meet the changing needs of your business at the speed of business by enabling People agility, System agility and Process agility.
Getting Started with SAP Gateway
2) What does SAP Gateway deliver?
With SAP Gateway, you can:
- Increase workforce productivity
- Help ensure enterprise readiness
- Reduce IT complexity and total cost of ownership
- Create custom apps quickly and easily
- Consume SAP Data on any Platform, any User Experience
Getting Started with SAP Gateway
3) What is the value customers should expect from SAP Gateway?
SAP Gateway liberates your SAP data to quickly and easily create apps that help your workforce be more productive, your partners are more connected with your business and your business be more connected with your customers.
Getting Started with SAP Gateway
4) What are the technical benefits of using SAP Gateway?
SAP Gateway utilizes your existing SAP infrastructure investment providing different deployment options. It offers strong, built-in security, automated governance, comprehensive monitoring and secured connectivity.
It provides easier, faster data consumption from SAP Business suite, SAP HANA and other SAP business applications on any device, anywhere, at any time.
SAP Gateway provides standard tools for service provisioning which allow generation of services which can be consumed easily on any device and on difference experience. Consumption of service from SAP Gateway need no or minimum SAP experience.
5) What is SAP Gateway roadmap?
The solution is a natural fit for businesses looking to enable or extend efforts in the following areas:
- Provisioning and API management, so developers can simplify consumption of SAP data by easily creating apps that are secure, scalable, and compliant
- An innovative engagement framework for a better user experience with modern UIs, the ability to consume SAP data anywhere, easier access to backend technologies, and enterprise readiness
- Cloud and Big Data opportunities with SAP HANA and easier integration for developers using standards like ABAP language and ODATA protocol
SAP Gateway lets you fully embrace these with rapid development that focuses on value, simplicity, and a reliance on standards so you can leverage existing skills.
6) How is SAP Gateway placed in SAP portfolio?
SAP Gateway is a set of components which utilizes the existing SAP NetWeaver infrastructure. SAP Gateway can connect to SAP Business Suite, SAP HANA and SAP Business Information Warehouse backend. It is a platform that exposes all the back end data as OData to be consumed by outside world of SAP.
Getting Started with SAP Gateway
7) What is the adoption rate of SAP Gateway?
As of 2013, there are 8000 adoption instances of SAP Gateway.
8) Any there any business use cases?
Yes, American airlines and University of Mississippi are two customer success stories who have greatly benefited from SAP Gateway to improve their processes.
9) What social medial channels does SAP Gateway offer?
- LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/groups/SAP-Gateway-4554629
- YouTube: SAP Gateway - YouTube
- Facebook: SAP Database & Technology | Facebook
10) Where can I learn more on SAP Gateway?
We have great resources to get you started with SAP Gateway for e.g. SCN, Social media channels, SAP Gateway curriculum.
11) Where can I find training to get started with SAP Gateway?
The following blog guides you through the GW100 course available on SAP training web site
SAP NetWeaver Gateway Course Available - GW100 - Building OData Services
There is also a self-Pace learning available for SAP Gateway. SAP NetWeaver Gateway Self-Paced Learning - Technologies - SCN Wiki
12) What are the new features in SP8?
Some of the features are mass activation of services, parallelization of batch queries integration with unit test framework, etc.
SAP NetWeaver Gateway SP8 is out
13) What is the typical enterprise landscape? Is a reverse proxy used in the DMZ?
In majority of cases, typically reverse proxies are used. There is specific technical documentation on Service Marketplace for customers and partners, and on SCN.
14) How is SAP Gateway different from Web Services?
Generally Web Services are SOAP based, where SAP Gateway is REST-based. SAP Gateway focuses on consumption scenarios and SOAP is more process-to-process, and machine to machine usage.
OData
1) What is OData? How is it used by SAP Gateway?
OData is a Web protocol for accessing structured data following the REST architecture principles. It builds on the AtomPub and JSON standards to allow easy consumption of data by a wide range of devices and client technologies. OData is called the “ODBC for Web” and provides Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete (CRUD) via HTTP protocol. SAP Gateway enables SAP functionality through OData protocol making it simple to access by developers without SAP development knowledge. http://www.odata.org/
2) What is REST?
REST is an architectural framework and methodology which is based on addressability, statelessness, connectedness and uniform interface. OData is an implementation of REST
NetWeaver Gateway- Introduction to REST
3) How can SAP Gateway help translate SOAP service into OData?
SAP Gateway provides a way to translate existing SOAP service into OData for usage in user centric scenarios.
SAP NetWeaver Gateway - SOAP and OData Services
4) When will OData version 4 be supported by SAP Gateway?
OData version 4 is planned to be supported SAP Gateway.
5) How is OData integrated to SAP Lumira?
As part of SAP Lumira SP11, there is integration with Gateway to the back end systems. Gateway is the key connector.
6) Are there any tutorials on customer REST channels and offline capabilities of OData?
SAP Community Network (SCN) is the best source to review blogs and how-to guides. Additionally, there are videos on YouTube.
7) Is OData from SAP HANA different from OData from SAP Gateway? Are there other products from SAP with OData?
Yes, HANA has its own OData capabilities. There are some other products, like SuccessFactors have their own REST-based, OData. Ariba’s roadmap includes having OData capabilities as well. The OData in HANA or other solutions is the same as OData from GW. The only difference is the tools and service provisioning. This should be checked with each of the respective product teams.
8) Where can I find example models of OData? Are there videos to demonstrate how OData models, implementation services and UI code are created?
YouTube channels have introduction videos and additional videos to talk about Provisioning and Consumption.
SAP NetWeaver Gateway Tutorial: Create iPhone app using SAP Gateway Consumption Tool - YouTube
Developer
1) As a developer, where can I find tutorials/documents that can help me in building various apps using SAP Gateway?
This SAP Gateway curriculum gives you a complete list of tutorials and documents to help you get started with SAP Gateway
SAP NetWeaver Gateway Self-Paced Learning - Technologies - SCN Wiki
2) Where can I get SAP Gateway hands-on system?
The following document will guide you through the hand-on system for SAP Gateway
3) What kind of application can we develop on SAP Gateway?
Any platform which can consume HTTP protocol can create an application on SAP Gateway. There are plug-in from SAP Gateway available as part of Gateway productivity accelerator toolkits for Android, HTML5, iOS, PHP let you develop applications in these environments.
SAP NetWeaver Gateway Developer Tools
You can also find more plug-in for OData on http://www.odata.org/libraries/
4) What are the deployment options?
The deployment options have been explained in the following blog
SAP Gateway deployment options in a nutshell
5) What are the different development approaches?
The development approaches can be either using service generators or hard coded in the back end system. This SAP Help Documentation explains these two approaches:
Development Approaches - SAP NetWeaver Gateway - SAP Library
6) How is security handled by SAP Gateway?
This SAP Insider article describes the options available for authentication and single sign on
7) What are best practices from performance point of view for SAP Gateway?
This document provides a list of do’s and don’ts for developers with focus on performance aspects
8) How to connect SAP Business Suite to SAP HANA Cloud Platform using SAP Gateway as a service trial edition?
The following demo scenario shows how to bring data from SAP Business Suite into HANA Cloud via SAP Gateway as a service and everything is based on the free trial version for you to try it out. Please note: GWaaS is currently only part of the HANA Cloud
Partner
1) Can I get an overview of SAP Gateway Ecosystem and available partners?
Since its general availability in October 2011, SAP Gateway has enjoyed significant adoption in the market by both customers and partners. As of April 2013, about 90 partner solutions have been certified and published on SAP Partner Information Center, SAP EcoHub and SAP Store. SAP Gateway’s partner portfolio includes ISVs, SIs and VARs of various sizes.
2) Where can I find list of solutions built by partners?
List of all the partner built solutions can be found on the below link
Adoption of SAP NetWeaver Gateway in the Partner Ecosystem - Part 1
3) How can I find solution briefs written by partners?
In this blog, you can find solution briefs written by 5 of our partners on their solutions and their recent experiences.
Adoption of SAP NetWeaver Gateway in the Partner Ecosystem - Part 2
Related Products
1)How does SAP Gateway relate to SAP Gateway productivity accelerator for Microsoft and Duet Enterprise?
Duet Enterprise and SAP Gateway for Microsoft are solutions built on SAP Gateway and you can find more details about these solutions here
SAP Microsoft Interoperability
2) What other SAP Products use SAP Gateway?
You can find list of all products which are built on top of SAP Gateway in this blog.
Getting Started with SAP Gateway see the last section