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Overview of Intelligent Asset Management (IAM)

The is the core building block of enablement of SAP Asset Intelligent Network (AIN), Asset Strategy and Performance Management (ASPM), Predictive Maintenance and Service (PdMS), and AsInt RBI and IDMS Apps.

Among many functions it performs, it provides:

  1. Asset Central

  2. Portal Configuration

  3. Announcements

  4. Business Partners invitations

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Asset Central Foundation

Asset Central Foundation is the integration component converging Asset Central Foundation and on-premise Plant Maintenance (ERP) and comprises of the following key building blocks:

  1. Aligned data models & Public APIs from IAM suite

  2. Message infrastructure based on Apache Kafka for business events in Asset Central Foundation

  3. Standard ERP Adapter to subscribe business events in Asset Central Foundation

  4. SAP Mobile Add on for push enablement & Queue processing in ERP

Solution Highlights include:

  • Integration embedded with Near Real time Synchronization

  • Standard integration content with field & value mappings as Business configuration

  • Flexible extension options (Configuration & Code)

  • Manage data synchronization with flexible data filters

  • Process high volumes with Queue processing

  • Inbuilt conflict resolution – Most recent change wins

  • Get visibility into asset event stream from SAP Mobile add - on monitoring console

  • One common solution approach across ECC, S4H OP & cloud releases


System Requirements

The below is a high level diagram of how the IAM suite of applications, Asset Central Foundation, and the synchronization of data to On-Premise Plant Maintenance.

Asset Central Foundation & ERP Integration solution is supported for following releases

  1. ERP releases : SAP enhancement package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0 and above

  2. S/4HANA Releases (On - Premise) : 1709 and above

  3. SAP Cloud Connector to securely connect applications on SAP Cloud Platform with your on - premise systems.

  4. OAuth client credentials mode of authentication is supported between ERP and Asset Central Foundation


Persisting data to Asset Central and further to on-premise SAP Plant Maintenance

The persisting of data from the IAM Cloud Platform through Asset Central Foundation and further to on-premise Plant Maintenance is via the SAP Cloud Platform Sub Account.

  1. Based on the SAP Identity Service, a sub account is provided to direct the user to the appropriate Fiori Launchpad.

  2. Applications are provided to the user based on the sub account.

  3. Data is persisted through to Asset Central Foundation based on the Sub Account.

  4. SAP Asset Central Foundation communicates to the On-Premise Plant Maintenance via the SAP Cloud Platform Connector.