SAP Subscription billing is a cloud-based billing and subscription management solution that offers capabilities to carry out the billing process in an end-to-end quote-to-cash cycle. The multi-tenant public cloud solution is always up for innovation and extensibility along with predefined integrations.
Why is integration important?
SAP Subscription billing is just one component of an end-to-end business lifecycle. It focuses on product modeling, contract management, rating, and billing. The integration of the front-end or back-end solution (SAP S/4 HANA Cloud) becomes an imperative part of carrying out the entire Order-to-Cash cycle or bringing in event-based business processes.
How does SAP facilitate integration for Subscription Billing?
SAP Business Technology Platform is the key enabler of integration of SAP Subscription Billing. It makes the integration process quick and easy to carry out.
SAP API Business Hub
SAP API Business Hub is the central point for an enterprise-grade integration platform. It comes with pre-packaged integration content that allows quick plug-and-play flows within applications. The end-to-end API management platform enables secure access to the systems connected to perform data analytics and process in-memory database.
You can develop applications and extend the feasibility of the integrated solutions to accelerate operations for developers. In addition, you can also enable the event-driver architecture with an enterprise messaging infrastructure.
Out-of-the-box integration
- APIs and pre-packaged integration content.
- Standardized technologies.
- Shared master data services and a streamlined business configuration.
Open Integration
- Ability to integrate with non-SAP or third-party ecosystem.
- Simplified extensibility of the pre-packaged integrations.
It allows simple integration with front-end solutions with various built-in scenarios. The standard integration content and capabilities for SAP Subscription Billing includes-
- SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Solution Order Management
- SAP S/4 HANA Cloud for Sales Billing
- SAP S/4 HANA Cloud for Contract Accounting and Invoicing
- SAP Master Data Integration for Business Partners
- SAP S/4 HANA on-premises SD
- SAP Business ByDesign
- SAP CPQ
- SAP Commerce Cloud
- SAP Digital Payments
- SAP Entitlements Management
APIs and Business Events
- Access a wide range of publicly available restful APIs via the SAP Business Hub to carry out testing and documentation.
- Bring in event-based integration via SAP Business Events.
The Integration Framework of Subscription Management
- Quick and Easy navigation from registration to trial with a seamless customer experience and event-based integration for trial subscriptions.
- Personalized Customer Journey with transparent user experience through the personalized campaign and end-to-end integrated processing.
- 24/7 Self-service usability through flexible chatbot usage to bring in intuitive customer experience and service-oriented integration.
SAP Subscription Billing streamlines the end-to-end quote-to-cash lifecycle through its pre-packaging and event-based integrations. Experience the out-and-out of the billing lifecycle through the deployment of SAP Subscription billing in your business ecosystem.