Query on BPM & MDM scenarios

Hi All,
My Requirement ,
The scenario is BPM-Portal(SOAP)- - - ECC(RFC)- - - MDM(7.1)
The webservice(Asyn) is being triggered from the BPM-Portal ,it has to send the values to both systems parallely ,
a)ECC system by using a RFC(syn)
b)MDM server
and the response(status) of the RFC message should be passed to the MDM server .
My queries are,
1)Could anyone suggest me on how to proceed the above stated scenario.
2)If I configure the MDM server using 7.1(PI-MDM Adapter), will my xml file would directly updates the MDM tables .
3)I hope MDM 7.1 works only for Asynchronous flow,is that correct?
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Lavanya

Hi All,
There is a change in my requirement ,
The scenario is BPM-Portal(SOAP)- - - ECC(RFC)- - - MDM(7.1)
The webservice(syn) is being triggered from the BPM-Portal ,it has to send the values to both systems parallely ,
a)ECC system by using a RFC(syn)
b)MDM server
and the response(status) of the RFC message should be passed to the MDM server and to the BPM-Portal .
My Queries:
1.Is that I need to achieve this through BPM or without BPM.
2.I need to provide the wsdl to BPM-Portal team,should I need to generate as an Asyn or syn mode.
Could anyone suggest me on how to proceed the above stated scenario.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Lavanya
Edited by: Lavanya Balanandham on Apr 14, 2011 12:15 AM

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