SAP XI advantages

Hello XI experts,
My company is in the process of evaluating the ETL tools and want to find out the What are the advantages of using SAP XI. Can you people help me convience them to sue SAP XI. I am a BW dev, not much of idea of XI comparisions to other ETL tools.
Background: Have SAP R/3 , Oil & Gas, BW, Peoplesoft, third party databases, some crystal front end reporting.
Your help is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
BWer

Hi,
Here are the advantages from my point of view.There are lots of advantages but to list a few :
Easy Integration with SAP products & components (RFC, IDOC, Proxy).
Data security as expected from any SAP product.
Standards based - XML, XSD, Xpath etc
Ability to communicate with other messaging systems/products.
Business Process Management
Synchronous & Asynchronous communication possible.
Complex processes for communication possible instead of only sending and receiving (business process management) (connect e.g. asynchronous and synchronous steps, define complex communication scenarios)
Mapping etc possible to accomplish in Java. Platform independent Java components.
Java & .Net support.
Big range of adapters for different technologies / tools (SOAP, Mail, JDBC, CDIX...)available in standard or offered by other companies (EDI e.g. by Seeburger).
Process functionalities inside XI to modify content in the communication channel on own defined rules fpr business purposes.
Central monitoring for data communication for all your communication between different systems.
And the marketing issue: SAP and its partners provide high volume of development capabilities to make XI always up-to-date for new requirements
For more information about XI, Please go through this link:
https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/xi
Regards,
abhy

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I have spend lot hours on it but no output. Any help or direction is appreciated. 
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Edited by: Dhairya Tolat on Mar 21, 2011 8:13 PM

Hi deguri,
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 Mitesh Parekh

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Benefits Of XI
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=16263
If you still need more, try searching on SDN with keywords XI and Advantage. You will find lots of stuff (apart from the above links )
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Ankur

Difference between ale and edi

Hi experts,
I know this topic was discussed in the forum lot of times. i want to clarify one thing here.
1) can EDI be used to transfer the between tow SAP systems.
2) can ALE be used to transfer data between SAP and non SAP system.
if the answer to the questions is yes then is there any case where we can not use ALE in place of EDI and vice versa.
Also, in what situation we use the BAPI- ALE interface to distribute the data??
thanks
sankar

EDI, stands for Electronic Data Interchange, is the electronic exchange of structured business data between different applications. The EDI architecture consists of
EDI-enabled applications :They support the automatic processing of business transactions.
The IDoc interface: This was designed as an open interface. The IDoc interface consists of IDoc types and function modules that form the interface to the application.
The EDI subsystem: This converts the IDoc types into EDI message types and vice versa. This component of the EDI architecture is not supplied by SAP.
Advantages of the EDI Process
Reduced data Entry Errors
Reduced Processing cycle time
Availability of data electronic form
Reduced Paper Work
Reduced Cost
Reduced Inventories and Better Planning
Standard Means of Communicating
Better Business Processes
Competitive Advantage
ALE
PURPOSE
     ALE supports the distribution of the business functions and process across loosely coupled R/3 systems. Connections from   R/2 and non SAP systems is also supported.
IMPLEMENTATION CONSIDERATIONS
     Distributing business applications and at the same time ensuring data consistency is practical because:
The increasing globalization of markets has led to the physical division of organizational units.
Business processes are not restricted to one organization only and an increasing number of customers and vendors are involved.
The performance of an R/3 System can be improved by distributing the business applications.
Features
ALE supports:
Distribution of applications between different releases of R/3 Systems
Continued data exchange after a release upgrade without requiring special maintenance
Customer-specific extensions.
Communication interfaces that allow connections to non-SAP systems.
Coupling of R/3 and R/2 Systems.
     ALE has functions for controlling messages flows (Audit) and for eliminating malfunctions.
Differences between the two:
ALE is used to support distributed yet integrated processes across several SAP systems whereas EDI is used for the exchange of business documents between the systems of business partners
ALE is SAPu2019s technology for supporting a distributed environment whereas EDI is a process used for exchange of business documents which now have been given a standard format
     Both ALE and EDI require data exchange. An Idoc is a data container which is used for data exchange by both EDI and ALE processes.

DMS Use & benifits

Dear All,
We would like to Implement SAP DMS Module. Pls guide what is basic usage of DMS in SAP, benifits & advantages. As well which Documents (business process) to Manage with SAP DMS ?
Thanks,
Randhir Padwal

Hi Randhir,
To answer your queries please refer below SCN links
http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/PLM/SAP+Document+Management+System
SAP DMS - How To Guides Supplementary Directory - SCN Wiki
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Deepak Kori

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