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Itemfield Conversion Agent and SAP
NetWeaver
SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure
and Itemfield Conversion Agent
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Itemfield Product Overview
Itemfield (IF) offers the ContentMaster Studio (CMS) that allows you to
implement/generate conversion procedures
Supported data formats
Unstructured (ASCII reports, Flat File, HTML, MS Word, MS Excel, PDF, etc.)
Semi structured (AL3, Cobol Copybook, HIPAA, Swift, EDI-X12, EDI-Fact, etc.)
Design Runtime
Time
Advantage:
Same architecture for all SAP NetWeaver components
Same GUI for conversions for all SAP NetWeaver components
Reuse of the same conversion across SAP NetWeaver
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SAP XI Mission
SAP XI
SAP
Systems
Messaging Connectivity
Queuing Kit adapter that runs on
Security Handling
SAP XI adapter
Application framework
Techn.System
File/DB/JMS
Adapter
Adapter
module IF AF
Module
SAP XI specific
IF conversions can be used in any
channel, by any adapter type
Additionally: Same conversion can Itemfield J2EE lib
be reused SAP NetWeaver wide
Installation: Itemfield native lib (DLL/.sl)
Outside J2EE: Install.exe for IF
CMS, IF native lib, IF file repository
Inside J2EE: SDA with SAP
NetWeaver library,
another SDA for IF XI AF Module
OEM
All SAP NetWeaver customers will get:
Access to IF CMS, IF native lib, IF J2EE lib, IF XI AF module for unlimited
testing purposes
Access to all industry standards supplied with IF CMS as templates;
templates may be modified by customers
Limited rights for production use: Up to 20 MB message volume per month
Customers interested in unlimited usage: See reseller agreement below
Resell
Resell of Itemfield conversion solution as conversion agent
Terms are similar to 3rd party adapters for the use with SAP NetWeaver
Volume based pricing
2. Or in general:
Customers create their non-XML to XML conversion
And use SAP adapters for the transport
Itemfield conversions
Bi-directional conversion of unstructured & semi structured formats
Examples: Cobol Copybook, Flat File, HTML, MS Word, MS Excel, PDF
Transport via SAP adapters
ItemfieldAF module can be used by any SAP adapter within SAP XI AF
Examples: File / FTP, JDBC, Mail, SOAP
SAP NetWeaver wide use
Itemfield base functionality extracted to J2EE library
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Demo
Source
Pane with XML
Sample Schema for
Document Definition
of XML
Output
Parser for
Definition of
Transformation
s
Selection
of
Adapter
Type
Adapter
Specific
Settings
Itemfield
Adapter
Module
Transformation
Name
PDF2XML
Use of SAP
Software
Deployment
Manager (SDM)
for deployment.
Software Delivery
Archives (SDA) can
contain software
components of
different types
(e.g. applications,
libraries).
Detailed version
information and
dependencies to
other components
simplify program
management.
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Summary
Public Web
www.sap.com
NetWeaver Developers Guide: www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/developersguide.sdn
SAP Developer Network: www.sdn.sap.com SAP Exchange Infrastructure
SAP Customer Services Network: www.sap.com/services/
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