Design a Resilient Bridge Between New Commerce and Legacy SAP
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Design five SAP integrations between a storefront and ECC, then prototype two flows in Camel. Complete the challenge and earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The distributor sells heavy industrial equipment to business buyers across Europe, and its SAP ECC system has been the single source of truth for pricing, stock, and customer credit for nearly two decades. The new storefront cannot replace that system; it must integrate with it without disrupting the order book that already runs EUR 60M a year online.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Design and partially prototype a five-interaction integration between a new commerce storefront and a legacy SAP ECC ERP that mixes synchronous and asynchronous styles and never loses an order during ERP outages.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Match each business interaction to the appropriate SAP interface (BAPI, IDOC, or OData) and communication style based on latency and reliability needs
- Design a store-and-forward outbox pattern that guarantees order durability through downstream system outages
- Implement integration routes in Apache Camel that handle both success and named failure scenarios
- Write operational documentation that lets a non-author engineer triage failures unaided
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Enterprise Integration
Apply enterprise integration to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Sap Integration
Apply sap integration to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Apache Camel
Apply apache camel to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Outbox Pattern
Apply outbox pattern to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Esb Design
Apply esb design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Api Design
Design RESTful and GraphQL APIs that are intuitive, consistent, and well-documented.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Integration / Systems Architect
This challenge mirrors the core architect task of connecting modern applications to entrenched ERP systems, forcing defensible interface choices and outage-proof designs that hiring teams probe for in enterprise integration roles.
This challenge sharpens
- enterprise-integration
- sap-integration
- esb-design
SAP Integration Engineer
Choosing BAPI, IDOC, or OData per interaction and prototyping the flows builds the exact judgment SAP integration teams need when wiring new channels into ECC without destabilizing the existing order book.
This challenge sharpens
- sap-integration
- apache-camel
- outbox-pattern
Backend / Middleware Developer
Building durable Camel routes with an outbox and retry strategy develops the resilient middleware skills that backend teams rely on for any service that must survive downstream failures.
This challenge sharpens
- apache-camel
- outbox-pattern
- api-design