Combine Overcast and Mulesoft, or SAP PI/CPI, to compose new business applications on the Salesforce platform that front your legacy applications. API-enable your legacy apps and interact with them in mature, real-time enabled Salesforce Lightning UIs using the powerful, metadata-based Overcast Component Framework and the Overcast Component Builder.
Overcast & Mulesoft solve different problems and complement each other
How does Overcast differentiate itself from Mulesoft (or similar products like SAP CPI)? Overcast focuses on frontend integration but requires “good” APIs to work (as are e.g. provided by an SAP ERP backbone). For the fully API-encapsulated SAP ERP, Overcast offers ready-to-use SAP integrations that are provided as a service, i.e. fully supported SAP-connected mini-applications. Mulesoft, on the other hand, focuses on API development & management including API throttling, monetization and security but provides no solution on how to consume that API from within a Salesforce process. You will have to build the actual business process integrations yourself.
The good news: Overcast & Mulesoft can work together! While Overcast can call backend systems directly, it makes sense to connect via Mulesoft if there is no clean Process API provided by the backend. In that case, Mulesoft can API-enable the backend system and Overcast can call that new Mulesoft-based APIs. Use Mulesoft to build your APIs and use Overcast to consume the APIs in Salesforce and do the frontend application integration.
can now use the overcast component builder & integration app as frontend to Mulesoft app
A typical enterprise has hundreds of disparate systems and requires a traditional middlware to exchange data and expose application functionality as APIs. Overcast can do the frontend integration and bring together all these systems into a optimized Salesforce user experiences e.g. for Call Center staff needing to access and update multiple systems. Overcast Components can connect via Mulesoft APIs to any number of systems and provide optimized portal experiences for the end users. Leverage the power of the Salesforce platform gother with the power of connecting hundreds of systems in realtime.
Overcast typically communicates with SAP ERP directly via SAP standard Business APIs (BAPIs & RFCs) – the same way SAP applications interact with each other. That is extremely performant and there is no overhead. The BAPIs apply business logic and do authorization checks.
However, when desired, the Overcast App and the Overcast Components can also optionally integrate with SAP through SAP PI, SAP PO or SAP CPI (“SAP PI”) and leverage existing integrations that you may have already built.
Overcast can call SAP PI web services with ease and also receive change triggers from SAP PI, in order to “push” data from SAP to Salesforce.
For the pre-built, pre-integrated Overcast Components to work via SAP PI, the required SAP BAPIs need to be exposed via SAP PI upon specifications provided.
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