The Alfresco Content Connector for SAP applications is an add-on module that offers seamless integration between Alfresco Content Services and SAP (R/3, S/4HANA). It connects the structured data in SAP with the unstructured data (or “living content”) in Alfresco.

The following image shows a simple representation of how Content Services (plus other Alfresco products) and the SAP Connector interact with SAP systems.

Here is a summary of the key capabilities:

• Improved Productivity: One single source of truth for content via different user interfaces improves productivity.
• Collaboration Ready: Make content available in the business process for different teams inside or outside the company.
• Metadata Synchronization: Leverage structured data also outside SAP with automated metadata synchronization.
• Certified by SAP: All SAP HTTP-Content Server related standard scenarios are covered. For example:
  • SAP Archivelink
    • Incoming documents (e.g. incoming invoices)
      • Early Archiving with SAP Workflow
      • Early Archiving with Barcode
      • Late Archiving
    • Outgoing documents (e.g. order confirmations)
    • Print List Archiving (e.g. quarter end reports)
    • SAP Workflow
• SAP Document Management Service (DMS)
• SAP Attachments
• SAP Data Archiving (ADK)

Important: The SAP Connector module can be applied to Alfresco Content Services. See Prerequisites and Supported platforms for more.

Note: This documentation only covers how to use Content Services with the SAP Connector.