SAP XI - Webpshere - complementing each other?

Hello everyone,
we are in a planning process to roll out SAP throughout several locations in Europe. The project will involve upgrading the central location's 4.6C R/3 system to SAP Netweaver. The EDI business scenario in place is built upon SAL ALE/EDI technology and IBM Websphere as an EDI Subystem. Would you please be so kind to enlighten me by answering these 2 questions:
1) Is XI essential/optional to an Netweaver environment? Quoting a whitepaper, it provides a technical infrastructure for XML-based message exchange in order to connect SAP components with each other, as well as with non-SAP components. what does this mean in a concrete business scenario? What does SAP components relate to specifically? R/3 components (MM, SD, FI) or Netweaver components?
2) What are the pros/cons of integrating XI with Websphere juxtaposed to replacing Websphere with XI entirely? Is XI fully EDI compliant, or if 3rd party tools are to be used to make XI EDI compliant, how do these compare to Websphere in terms of costs and complexity?
Kind regards,
Sven Buttler

1) By SAP Component, they mean pretty much anything with the name SAP attached to it. Either components like BW or Modules like FI (really this is integrating with the underlying Net weaver platform anyway). There are different methods for integrating with SAP systems depending on which versions are been run but they are all supported out of the box. Non SAP systems may require an adapter.
Basically XI is designed to centralize all the integration between SAP Systems, SAP and non SAP Systems (e.g Websphere in your case) and non sap to non sap systems (if necessary). Older methods of integrating will still be supported although XI would be the recommend method.
2) XI requires an additional adapter (at an additional cost) in order to integrate EDI. There are also specific Websphere adapters from IBM for integrating it with XI. I cant really comment too much on the pro's and con's of either approach, sorry. Maybe try asking on the Exchange Infrastructure forum.

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Getting data out of R/3 requires two distinct setup tasks, and they don't have much to do with each other.
The first basic task is to get the little ABAP extraction programs loaded and run in R/3. You can pre-load them and then call them, or generate, upload, and execute them all on-the-fly, at BODS runtime. During development, use "Generate and Execute" for your ABAP.
Once that's done, you have four different choices to get the data back: "Direct download", "Shared directory", FTP, and "Customer Transfer". Normally, you'll use either FTP or "Shared directory". Refer to the documentation (the BODS SAP Supplement) for a description of all this.
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Edited by: Joost on Jun 2, 2008 12:10 PM

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AppleCare US and AppleCare Europe need to resolve their internal family issues without further impacting their customers.
Apple is to process a refund to my credit card for the cost of a full retail priced iPhone 5 64GB black.
DESIRED OUTCOMES
I have an iPhone 5 (A1429 CDMA model) that works in the US on VZW as it did before I received the replacement phone in the UK.
Apple covers the cost of the solution because I did not create the problem.
Apple resolves their internal issue without costing me more time, energy, or money.
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<Edited by Host>

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