Data Interfaces

Why Desktop Integration?
l Development of user-specific frontend applications.
l Development of solutions for communication with other
machines and integration with R/3 using Visual Basic or C.
l Analysis and processing of data with Excel within an R/3
transaction.
l Use of MS Word or Word Perfect as R/3 word processing
program.
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The integration of existing desktop programs is a decisive factor in the context of open interfaces to the
R/3 System.
Since the intention is to employ current programming languages to enable users to access data in R/3,
SAP supplies the RFC SDK (Software Development Kit) for frontend platforms.
If you want to access desktop documents or objects in desktop applications from R/3, Windows
frontends now allow you to make use of special desktop functionality such as OLE (Object Linking and
Embedding) for MS Windows environments which is within the scope of ABAP/4 in R/3.