All most all MDM integrations are FTP server dependent as the files are shared through it. Typical MDM integration scenario involves creating Remote Systems and ports on FTP server and files are exchanged through Ready folders. Using FTP involves some disadvantages which include frequent locking of sever and service getting down.
So SAP is moving forward in eliminating the FTP dependency in the integration scenarios.
Some of alternatives of FTP will include.
- 1. ABAP APIs
- 2. Java APIs
- 3. MDM connector
In BI3.5 and MDM integration data has to be exchanged through FTP server.
But in the latest integration scenario (BI7 and MDM), we can completely eliminate FTP server as the exchange of data completely takes place through ABAP APIs. For this we need to install MDM_TECH and configure the connection object, establish the trusted connection. And we can push and pull the data from MDM. This is what called as "Tight Integration".
