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Lesson: Assigning Multiple Back-End Systems Support

Routing and Multi-Origin Composition

Multiple backend systems support is useful for routing (getting data from a specific backend
system) and multi-origin composition (getting data from multiple backend systems).
In the following scenarios, routing is required:
● US employees need to retrieve data about US customers only.
● EMEA employees need to retrieve data about EMEA customers only.
● APJ employees need to retrieve data about APJ customers only.

In the following scenarios, multi-origin composition is required:

● A CFO needs to retrieve customer data from all regions.
● A manager needs to retrieve data from multiple backend systems.

In the following scenario, both routing and multi origin composition are required:
● A manager responsible for APJ and EMEA needs to retrieve data from APJ and EMEA
customers, but not from American customers.

System Alias

Figure 162: System Alias

A system alias is a wrapper around the RFC_Destination that points to a backend system of
an SAP Gateway Hub. It contains additional information related to the routing of requests and
the location of the service implementation (MPC and DPC classes). The system alias is
created in the Gateway Hub system.
The maintenance of system alias entries is done in customizing for SAP Gateway in

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