The Advanced Guide to Implementing ALE

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An ALE Definition

"ALE (Application Link Enabling) supports the construction and operation of distributed applications. ALE handles the exchange of business data messages across loosely coupled SAP applications, ensuring that data is consistent. Applications are integrated by using synchronous and asynchronous communication, rather than by means of a central database."

... best of all, it works, AND it's STABLE ...

ALE References

2 Very useful ALE \ EDI books related to SAP are:

Arvind Nagpal's ALE, EDI, & IDOC Technologies for SAP. (*****)

Rajeev Kasturi's SAP R/3 ALE & EDI Technologies.

ALE Implementation Whitepaper (K. Wilson - Apr,1999)

Leave a note in my Guestbook if you like what you see in the implementation whitepaper. A 160 page detailed book on the topic is also in the pipeline, that'll guide you through an implementation as well as show you exactly what to do on the system and where in order to configure or develop a scenario...
I will be launching a similar site detailing the EDI process soon! Watch this space.

Purpose of this Guide

This guide presents prospective SAP R/3 ALE customers with information pertaining to the issues around implementing ALE. It highlights what ALE is used for as well as how a project would go about implementing ALE.

It also makes mention of some of the detailed issues around the actual implementation of ALE. Most of this guide refers to implementing ALE in general, irrespective of SAP version, yet when specific scenarios are mentioned, they refer to V3.1H. We also refer mostly to SAP to SAP ALE linkage as apposed to SAP to external systems usage. If you require some details on this latter issue, drop us a note.

Sections of this guide

Why ALE? - Describes some reasons for looking at ALE, as a solution to a business problem, as well as what it can be used for.

How it works? - A brief description on how the ALE technology works within SAP.

Project detail - Describes the various steps / phases that an SAP ALE project will need to go through when implementing ALE.

ALE General - ALE help files, presentations and ALE contacts.

SAP - What is SAP, the history, R/3, project management.
 

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