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Naming Conventions for SAP Cloud Platform Integration

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This article is part of our Integration Cookbook.

SAP Cloud Integration Content only comes in two levels of content: Package & Artifact.

A package only groups artifacts like iFlows but does not appear in the monitoring or provides any further object isolation. The key element is the artifact which should be

  • Short
  • Speaking & self-explaining
  • Following a good area grouping

SAP is not using much at the moment, e.g.

  • Communicate to SII
  • Replicate Business Partner Address to SAP ERP
  • Generic Update Request to SuccessFactors HCM Suite Talent Management

We recommend to use own areas to identify the business domain (Finance, Sales, Logistics, HCM, …) and/or define the integrating parties (A2A / B2B / B2G / IOT / A2X).

Name Pattern  Example
Integration
Package
<Area> <Scenario>
  • WHINT PaymentReporting Ingenico
  • Concur Integration
  • SuccessFactors Employee Central
Integration
Flow
<Area> <Interface>
  • WHINT PR Ingenico CollectionAppendixReport
  • Replicate Business Partner from SAP Business Suite
Value Mapping <Area> <opt:Interface> Value Mapping
  •  WHINT B2G VAT Value Mapping
OData
Service
<Area> <Interface/Object>
System <Name>
  • SAP_ECC
  • SAP_S4HANA
  • SAP_C4C
  • Concur
  • SSFS
  • Sharepoint
  • ECB
  • Ingenico
Communication
Channel
<AdapterType>
_<Direction: SND/RCV>
_<opt:Technical Details>
_<opt:Object>
  • IDOC_RCV_EOIO
  • SOAP_SND_JournalEntry
  • MAIL_RCV_Attachment
Adapter (Camel)  <Name> (also use the vendor domain)
  • RabbitMQ (Vendor: whitepaper-id.com)
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