SAP Gateway

In the previous sections, we covered several efficient and reliable ways of connecting to and from external systems. However, all of these methods share one major flaw – they each require you to expose your system containing business-critical data to third-party systems. Assuming that any system, which is administered by some other entity, will behave according to your established rules of privacy and security is neither recommended nor safe. In order to address this issue and separate the most vital part of the landscape from a potentially dangerous environment, SAP introduced a middleware solution called SAP NetWeaver Gateway (which is available in SAP NetWeaver 7.0 or later releases).

Deployment variants

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