SAP business software runs a broad range of businesses around the world, providing an integrated system for resource management, payroll, financial accounting, and many more common business activities.

But businesses also employ many non-SAP systems from legacy to Software-as-a-Services (SaaS) and increasingly recognize the value of integrating data, business processes, and analysis across these systems. These innovative businesses can gain substantial value from connecting the SAP systems with external systems the increased ability to optimize and automate processes, to provide greater reliability or performance, to choose the right tool for each problem and thus avoid redundancy and complexity, or to provide greater insight into the business operations and behavior of the customer.