Getting Started

Introduction

This documentation is designed to support Enterprise Integration Managers, Integration Architects and Integration Developers in getting started with the WHINT® Integration Cockpit, understanding its key features and setting a clear path toward achieving Integration Excellence.

Whether you're new to the platform or experienced with enterprise integration tools, you'll find clear explanations and practical guidance to help you navigate and use the solution with confidence.

What Is the Integration Cockpit

The Integration Cockpit is a SaaS-based control center built to manage the complexities of modern integration landscapes. It provides a centralized, real-time platform to:

• Automatically discover and inventory integration interfaces

• Document, analyze and monitor all interfaces in a single location

• Gain data-driven insights into performance, usage and bottlenecks

• Make informed, fact-based decisions aligned with your integration strategy

• Reduce risk, eliminate technical debt and improve operational efficiency

Key Benefits

• Real-time transparency across all interfaces to support better decisions in transformation and project contexts

• Higher interface quality and improved control, reducing business process downtimes

• Auto-discovery of interfaces, enabling greater efficiency through a fully automated approach

• Technical consistency enabled by standardized interface documentation

• Operational control through proactive monitoring and reporting
  

Who Should Use the Integration Cockpit

This documentation is designed for key roles involved in managing, building and supporting enterprise integration landscapes. Each role benefits from the Integration Cockpit in a specific way:

Enterprise Integration Managers

Oversee integration landscapes with a focus on governance, compliance, and strategic alignment.

Use the Cockpit to maintain a complete, compliant and well-governed interface inventory, while gaining full transparency across the integration landscape.

Enterprise Integration Architects

Define integration strategies, set standards and design solutions across platforms.

Use the Cockpit to enforce technical consistency, uncover optimization opportunities and ensure alignment with architectural guidelines.

Enterprise Integration Developers

Build, configure and test integration flows.

Use the Cockpit to manage technical details, streamline mapping and testing and ensure enhanced visibility into deployed interfaces.

Support & Operations Teams

Monitor systems, resolve issues efficiently and ensure stable operations.

Use the Cockpit to configure alerts, track failures and perform diagnostics in a structured, proactive environment.

Why It Matters

With the increasing complexity of integration landscapes - characterized by growing interface volumes, legacy middleware and hybrid architectures - a clean and governed integration environment is crucial.

The Integration Cockpit empowers organizations to:

• Accelerate decision-making with reliable, evidence-based insights

• Increase operational reliability while supporting compliance and audit readiness

• Minimize disruptions across business-critical integration processes

• Standardize integration monitoring across middleware and backend systems

• Gain greater visibility and control over integration landscapes

• Reduce outages and mitigate risks through proactive monitoring

Core Capabilities

Using the Integration Cockpit, you can:

• Navigate and configure your integration control center

• Maintain a structured and complete interface inventory

• Monitor KPIs and identify technical optimization opportunities

• Utilize decommissioning insights to modernize and clean up your integration environment

These capabilities are designed to support clarity, control and efficiency across your integration landscape.

Key Features

The Integration Cockpit delivers these key features to support your core capabilities:

Inventory

• Automatic Interface Discovery
  Automatically discover and inventory interfaces from platforms like SAP Integration Suite, SAP Process Orchestration, Azure Integration Services and more.

• Central Interface Inventory
  Standardize and catalog integration interfaces enterprise-wide.

• Normalized Inventory
  Organize, group and tag interfaces for consistency and searchability.

• System and Object Mapping & Harmonization
  Map sender/receiver names to canonical system definitions using regex rules.

• End-to-End Flow Visualization
  Link interface steps into visualized, traceable processes (e.g. API → CPI → IDoc).

• EAM-Integration
  Read applications and data objects from EAM and synchronize interfaces.

Documentation

• Audit-Ready Exports
  Automatically generate documentation for platforms like Confluence and SharePoint to support audit, compliance and knowledge sharing.

• Technical Documentation

Automatically generate static interface documentation (excluding traffic), with key details as endpoints, users, adapter types and configurations - supporting Quality Assurance, security reviews and audit traceability.

Reporting (Governance)

• KPI Monitoring & Reporting
  Tracks traffic, errors, complexity, robustness, adapter usage and decommissioning potential.

• Integration Strategy Fit
  Validates Adapter Usage against configured strategy (good/partial/no fit)

Checks (Governance)

• Landscape Checks
  Compares artefact versions across environments (e.g. Dev → Prod) for SAP Integration Suite Cloud Integration

Supported Data Sources & Integrations

Integration Layer

Backend Applications

EAM & ALM Integration

Documentation Management Systems (DMS)

For a detailed and up-to-date overview of all supported data sources and integration platforms, please visit: Data Sources & Integrations support

Getting Started Steps

To begin using the Integration Cockpit:

1. Set Up Data Sources
   Configure connections to your integration platform components.

2. Inventory Population
   Allow the system to automatically discover and inventory your interfaces.

3. System Mapping
   Standardize sender and receiver names through system mapping.

4. Review Documentation
   Access and manage generated technical documentation.

5. Monitor Reports
   Utilize reporting features to monitor KPIs and interface performance.

Onboarding Guide

Need a step-by-step setup process?

Our Onboarding Guide provides all the essential configuration steps to get your Integration Cockpit up and running smoothly.
It covers everything from initial system connections to data source configuration, inventory setup and dashboard customization ensuring a successful and efficient start.

Visual Walkthrough

For a clear, step-by-step introduction to the Integration Cockpit, watch the video below.
It provides a visual explanation of how the cockpit works - from data collection to reporting.

Need Help?

If you require assistance:

• Click the blue question mark widget in the bottom-right corner to submit a support ticket.

• Reach out to our support team directly at support@whint.de.

We're here to help you achieve integration excellence and get the most out of your integration environment - from hands-on troubleshooting to strategic SAP consulting.

Want to Learn More?

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Last Updated: June 18, 2025