Communication protocols
The communication process is illustrated below using SAP as the data source. The process works similarly for SAP systems and JDBC databases, except that a JDBC connection is used instead of an RFC connection when reading from JDBC databases.
Process Extractor communicates with SAP systems using the Remote Function Call (RFC). This is the SAP standard interface for realizing such kind of communication. Process Extractor uses RFC to call the function (contained in the delivered SAP transport request) to extract the data.
You can secure the communication with the SAP systems using the SAP Secure Network Protocol (SNC).
All communication between Process Extractor and ARIS Process Mining is initiated by Process Extractor. For security reason, the communication is done using HTTPS.
The following figure shows a schematic representation of the system communication.
