SAP xRPM/PPM5.0 and Duet Enterprise

Hi Experts,
Is it possible to integrate Duet Enterprise into this landscape whereby SAP xRPM is our backend as we are upgrading to PPM 5.0 soon and Sharepoint 2010. Most of the examples that I've seen are using ECC 6.0 as backend however in this case we are using xRPM, as for the front end we uses SAP NW Portal.
Just trying to find out more on what are the possibilities of introducing Duet Enterprise into our landscape. Hope some of the experts here can provide more input in this.
Regards,
Jordi

Hi Jordi,
In general, you use pretty much any ABAP-based system as your backend system for Duet Enterprise (on Gateway). There are two ways to communicate between the backend system and Gateway:
- RFC: Here you can connect to backends all the way down to 4.6C
- Web Service: Here you need to check from which release on the web service you want to use is available
I am not an xRPM expert. Please feel free to come back with more specific questions for this scenario.
Cheers, Alex

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