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Cast Iron for SAP

Cast Iron created an appliance-based solution designed specifically to simplify SAP data migration and integration. The Cast Iron Integration Appliance® for SAP can be used as a stand alone product or as a complement to existing SAP integration platforms. The appliance enables you to complete integration projects in just days and frees IT resources to focus on other aspects of the business.

Connect SAP with Your Enterprise & Partners

Rather than implement complex middleware or write custom code, Cast Iron's Integration Appliance for SAP uses a "configuration, not coding" approach to integration projects. Many SAP implementations involve the need to rapidly migrate and integrate data such as product master, customer master, sales and order invoices with other ERP, CRM and custom-built applications. The appliance reduces the cost and complexity of these projects and allows you to implement them in days.

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Why Choose the Cast Iron Integration Appliance for SAP Application Integration?

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance for SAP enables IT departments to be nimble and responsive to the needs of the business. This Integration Appliance has been specifically engineered for SAP and contains everything needed to complete data migration and integration projects in days.

SAP Certified Integration

Fastest Time to Market:

Rapid Integration
  • SAP integration projects delivered in days
  • No software to install. Up and running in minutes!
  • Graphical configuration, not coding
  • Rack-mountable, production-ready
  • On demand library of Template Integration Processes (TIPs) for the most common integration scenarios

Lowest Costs:

Lowest cost
  • Used by system analysts or SAP experts, not expensive middleware experts
  • No software to license or deploy
  • Low monthly subscription pricing
  • Up to 80% lower operating costs vs. software-based alternatives
  • Nothing else to buy

Simplest Monitoring and Management:

Simplest monitoring and management
  • Complete visibility into transaction
  • Proactive alerting of data and connectivity errors
  • Monitor from anywhere, anytime
  • Remote setup, upgrades and monitoring

Most Rapid, Efficient Development:

Most rapid, efficient development
  • Pre-built SAP connector including support for custom IDOCs, RFCs, and BAPIs
  • Pre-built connectors to other ERP, CRM, customer support systems, flat-files, Web Services, all major databases, and messaging systems
  • Simple drag-and-drop configuration
  • Packaged integration processes (PIPs) between SAP and CRM applications like Salesforce.com for common objects including customers, products, contacts, etc.
  • Unmatched flexibility — can be deployed on-premise or hosted in the Cloud

What Problems Does the Cast Iron Integration Appliance Solve?

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance for SAP solves real-world problems such as accessing data in disparate databases, connecting to other applications and exchanging information between business partners. Problems like data extraction, data migration or synchronization between SAP and other systems are easily solved. Companies in many sectors including manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, financial services and distribution rely on Cast Iron's solution for SAP to solve the following problems:

Synchronize data in real time between SAP and other systems:

  • Data migration from other ERP applications
  • Customer master with CRM
  • Product master and catalog information with SFA and e-commerce portals
  • Sales order, shipment and invoice information with customers
  • Billing and invoice details with CRM and other billing systems
  • PO's, ASNs and shipping information with suppliers
  • Customer and support case information with customer support systems
  • Pricing information with other quoting and SFA applications
  • Shipment information and waybill tracking logistics and distribution systems
  • Forecasts with supply chain and demand forecasting systems
  • Periodic data extracts to external reporting systems and data warehouses

Connect SAP with:

  • Other ERP applications; Oracle/JD Edwards/PeopleSoft, BAAN, QAD, Lawson, NetSuite
  • CRM including Oracle/Siebel, salesforce.com, Clarify, Remedy, RightNow
  • All major databases including IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Progress, Informix
  • Flat-file transfers via FTP, HTTP(S), and e-mail
  • XML and Web Services
  • EDI
  • Java Messaging Service (JMS)
  • Custom home-grown applications
  • All major middleware platforms
  • And many more...

How does SAP Integration Work?

The Cast Iron solution provides the following key features to simplify and accelerate data migration and integration with SAP:

Cast Iron Capabilities

Data Quality and Migration:

  • Data Profiling: Assess the quality of your data before commencing data migrations — e.g. identify the unique state and country codes present in your address data
  • Intelligent Data Cleansing:
    • Duplicate Removal (de-duplication): Combine data from various different data sources and remove duplicate values — e.g. remove the same lead scanned multiple times
    • Fuzzy Lookup: Configure sophisticated rules to highlight errors and fix them — e.g. common misspellings, abbreviations, etc.
  • Data Enrichment: Perform lookups with third-party providers to enrich your data — e.g. DUNS number from Dun & Bradstreet services, etc.

Integration and Extraction

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance simplifies SAP application integration in just four easy steps:

1. Connectivity 2. Transformation 3. Workflow 4. Management

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance connects SAP applications to a wide variety of enterprise applications, databases, flat-files, and on-demand applications. Using a "configuration, not coding" approach for connecting applications not only enables rapid implementations, but also eliminates the need to touch the endpoints. The appliance provides a graphical UI to transform data between source and target applications, and provides automatic completeness checks. A workflow process can be defined using drag-and-drop logical functions. And, a single web-based console provides complete visibility to data flowing through the appliance and enables complete management of the integrations.

Components

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance provides three components to configure, deploy and manage your application integration projects.

Cast Iron Studio™

Cast Iron Studio™ Cast Iron Studio (Studio) is at the heart of the easy-to-use design experience offered by Cast Iron's Integration Appliances. Studio provides a graphical environment for you to configure integration data flows called workflows or orchestrations. Studio allows you to create these workflows by dragging and dropping activities into a design window. Once designed, these workflows can be published to the appliance with a single click.

Run-time Appliance

Cast Iron Integration Appiance™ Combining ease-of-use with robust functionality, the purpose-built Run-time Appliance brings high performance and reliability to your integration solution. With easy scalability and complete security, the appliance is self-contained and has everything needed to complete your integrations.

Web Management Console

Cast Iron Web Management Console (WMC) The Web Management Console (WMC) is a simple-to-use environment where you deploy integration projects, and then securely monitor and manage these integrations. The Web Management Console also manages all deployment assets related to the integration for you. These assets could include the WSDL definition for a web service to invoke your integration or database scripts to send database events to the Cast Iron Integration Appliance.

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Cast Iron Appliances

  • iA2000-SP

    The iA2000 is the entry-level integration appliance from Cast Iron. It allows customers to get their first integration project between SAP and one other named application up and running quickly and cost effectively. This is an attractive alternative to custom code and a good fit for simpler first projects.

  • iA2500-SP

    Entry-level enterprise class appliance for integrating SAP and one other named application for multiple projects. Useful for companies that seek a point-to-point integration solution with an easy upgrade path to a standards-based integration platform. This is an attractive alternative to custom code.

  • iA4000-SP

    Enterprise class flagship solution solves integration problems between multiple applications. Useful for companies that seek a standards based platform for their application data migration and integration needs and find software-based solutions too complex.

  • iA4000HA-SP

    High Availability solution for mission-critical applications. Comprised of a pair of iA4000-SP appliances, the HA solution provides failover capability. Useful for companies that need a hot-standby option in addition to high-availability requirements.