How to migrate from Seeburger BIC to SAP PI B2B Add-on. How to make the transition as fast and smooth as possible without involving partners. I have two products that work to improve such a migration Seeburger Migration Tool to migrate your mappings from the old format to the new. https://figaf.com/SMT Figaf SAP PI testing tool IRT  https://figaf.com/IRT https://figaf.com/migrate-from-seeburger-to-sap-pi-b2b-addon-webinar/

1. What to consider in a migration
Webinar slides form April 2018
Migrating from Seeburger to
B2B Add-on
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• SAP Mentor
• SAP Integration for 13+ years
• Worked with Seeburger
Daniel Graversen

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• What to replace Seeburger
• Migration Challenges
• Automate the migration
Agenda

4. Migrating from Seeburger
In SAP PI/PO Context
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• Just the PI addon from Seeburger
• EDI Mapper
• UDF
• Monitoring function
• Modules
• The Seeburger Integration Bus is different and does not appli to this
• If you use a simpel One to One Mappings in the BIC
• Simple changes can be handled
Seeburger BIC

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• Native PI application
• Webdynpro app to manage the content
• Included in the PO license
• Contains
• AS2 /SFTP
• Trading Partner Management
• EDI converter with content catalog
• Plain text converter
• Number Range Objects (NRO)
B2B add-on for SAP PI/PO

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• New function
• Contains
• AS2
• EDI conversion
• Some formats may require extra license to run
• Integration Content Advisor
• Require the Enteprise version
Cloud Integration B2B capabilities

8. Challenges in migration
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9. Business Case?
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• Use the TPM to organise your partners
• Stop the maintaince cost from Seeburger
• Move to Single Stack system
Business Case

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• Parts of the structure was changed. Root was LIST now DESADV96A,
and other parts
Message structure

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• Reuse Seeburger Schema
• XSL(T) The rules is simple so it should be possible to configure
• Message Mapping between formats
• Time to create artifacts
• Performance
• License is the Seeburger Schemas part of the license?
• Update mapping to new XSD
• Move each node to the new structure, auto mapper will work
• Contexts?
• Duplicated target nodes
• Manual Work
• Use a tool to automate process
Mapping conversion

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• Seeburger had functions for
• Counter = replaced by NRO
• Variables = replaced by TPM
• Tracking = Build in tracker not as powerful
• Update functions to use new backend
• Change functions to new functions
User Defined Functions

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• Split inbound EDIdocuments to correct message
• In the EDISeperator can you specify more information in the adapter
• Handles XML
997Splitter / EDISeperator

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• Some customers had the seeburger EDI tracker that allowed to track
messages and correlate them. So Invoices was linked to Orders
• B2B add-on does not have the same capabilities
• Messages are searchable
EDI Monitoring

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EDI monitoring

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• The Seeburger Adapters have been replaced by SAP adapters
• They add some new functionality
• AS2 contains some new features for handling messages
Adapters

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• Make migration as simple as possible
• Skip testing with partners if possible
• Figaf IRT is a perfect tool for testing
• Upload Inbound and Outbound files
• Validates EDIFACT, X12, XML, Text and others
• Run test as often as you like
Testing everything is works

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• Redesign your EDI setup
• Learn about the differences in your mapping
• Create mapping from scratch
Start over

20. Seeburger Migration Tool
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• Automate manual tasks
• Fewer errors on conversion
• Reduce migration project risk
• Full conversion from Seeburger BIC to B2B add-on
• Save money for the company because of faster migration with less
error
• EDIFACT, X12, EANCOM
Seeburger Migration Tool

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• Upload new XSD from B2B Add-on
• Select message mapping
• Select the uploaded schema to new target
• Run the update of the mapping
• Open the mapping to validate and save it
Steps to migrate

23. Testing
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• Download source message and target message
• Upload them to IRT system
• Run the test
• Set ignoring elements like creation date
How to test with IRT

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• Figaf.com/SMT
• You can get 10 trial conversions to see if the system works.
• Simply download the tool.
• Connect it to your PI system
• Select the 10 messages you want to get
• Send the license request to support@Figaf.com
• Upload the license response and try convert your mappings and test
it our.
• Try to combine it with IRT to see how it works with your system
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