SathishBalu

 Profile Answers by SathishBalu 

• Mar 6th, 2008

 

ALE is SAP proprietary technology that enables data communications between two or more SAP R/3 systems and/or R/3 and external systems. When a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution such as R/3 is implemented, companies have to interface the ERP system with legacy systems or other ERP systems.

ALE provides intelligent mechanisms where by clients can achieve integration as well as distribution of applications and data.

ALE technology facilitates rapid application prototyping and application interface development, thus reducing implementation time.

The ALE components are inherently integrated with SAP applications and are robust, leading to a highly reliable system.

ALE comes with application distribution/integration scenarios as well as a set of tools, programs, data definitions, and methodologies that you can easily configure to get an interface up and running.

BAPIs provide a stable, standardized method for third-party applications and components to integrate into the Business Framework. These interfaces are being specified as part of SAP's initiative with customers, partners and leading standards organizations. Also, SAP has implemented the emerging Object Application Group (OAG) specifications with BAPIs.

Advantages using BAPI.

One of the big plusses for BAPIs is that the interface and function are not supposed to change.  This is a big plus when you do upgrades or hot packs because the transaction can change (format, required inputs etc) which means you then need to update the call transaction.

Some of the BAPIs are better documented and easier to use than others.

You usually need to perform the BAPI that actually does the COMMIT after you call your BAPI.

The Program coding for calling a BAPI is usually cleaner than setting up the screen flow etc for the Call Transaction.

You don't need to worry about special data circumstances interrupting the normal data flow of the screens and causing errors because of that.

BAPIs probably have better performance since they don't do the screen flow processing.

In general if the BAPI exists for the transaction you want to perform and you can figure out how to use it the BAPI is probably the best way to go.

 

sankaran.ramaiah

 Profile Answers by sankaran.ramaiah Questions by sankaran.ramaiah

• Dec 10th, 2009

 

ALE: ALE stand for Application Linking & Enabling using ALE we can sent the business data to the differnt client system.

for exp.
     one client in chennai another one in Bangalore. Bangalore client does not having any business data at that time using ale we can distribute the data to different client system.


BAPI: BAPI stands for Business Application Proramming Interface  . Using Bapi we can upload the legacy data into sap system.
for exp: one client working in some different platform ( like java) But there requirement is watevere they entering data in Java Thats want upload  to the sap system during the working hours So using bapi we can upload it.


Regards,
Sankaran Ramaiah