Relay handles SAP interface development and SAP API integration when the real work sits in custom data models, business logic, transformations, surrounding applications and production requirements.
Custom integration work often starts where SAP must interact with service platforms, legacy systems, custom software, GIS, databases or file-based exchange patterns.
Objects, identifiers and process states rarely align cleanly across the applications involved. That is where mapping, validation and orchestration matter.
Relay complements existing middleware, APIs and interface patterns instead of forcing a new platform decision just to solve one difficult process.
Relay helps when the flow crosses several systems and the difficult part lies in mapping, enrichment, sequencing, validation and operational ownership.
The objective is an operable business flow across the landscape, not custom code for its own sake.
Relay is not a reason to rebuild a standard interface. Custom integration becomes useful when the process depends on non-standard SAP structures, several systems, different data models, additional validation or business rules that a packaged connector does not cover.
The focus is the complete operational flow, not custom code for its own sake. Good custom integration work is targeted, structured and aligned to the business process that actually needs to run.
Relay can complement existing middleware and interface patterns rather than forcing a new integration platform. The implementation approach is chosen around the customer landscape, SAP release, operational constraints and the flow that needs to work.
That can mean SAP-native interfaces, APIs, databases, file-based exchange, existing middleware or a combination of them - plus the testing, monitoring and documentation required to operate the result.
Not necessarily. It means the end-to-end flow needs engineering beyond what a packaged connector provides. Often that includes selective custom logic, but always with the aim of keeping the solution as pragmatic and maintainable as possible.
Yes. Relay is designed to fit the existing landscape. We can work through current middleware, APIs, files, databases or direct SAP interface patterns where appropriate.
Typical examples include service platforms, CRM tools, legacy operational systems, bespoke applications, GIS, databases, files and specialised applications around the SAP core.
By limiting custom work to the parts that truly need it, documenting the flow, implementing monitoring and error handling, and designing the interfaces around clear ownership and operating processes.
Bring us the systems, data and constraints. We will identify what can stay standard and where custom engineering is actually needed.
Discuss your integration →Choose a time that works for you. If you have an architecture sketch, bring it along — the first conversation is about understanding the actual flow.