Enterprise GCs and industrial owners running SAP have spent years configuring it — release strategies, validation rules, authorization profiles, custom workflow per division. SAP is not going to bend to a Procore connector.Anything writing into SAP has to respect the workflow, pass the validation, and use the right authorization. Generic connectors either fail those checks or get granted excessive authorization that the security team can’t justify in the next audit.
The custom integration sits inside SAP Integration Suite as an iFlow with the right authorization profile and the right BAPI / OData calls for each object. The Procore-side service runs in your cloud and talks to the iFlow over an authenticated channel. The SAP basis team owns the iFlow side; we own the Procore side and the transformation. The split mirrors how every other enterprise integration into SAP is run, which is why the security team approves it without rewriting it.
This is the integration we get asked about by enterprise GCs running multi-region SAP, asset owners with a Central Finance instance, and industrial coatings operators whose plant maintenance and project execution data both live in SAP.