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✕ SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in prolog → Root cause: UTF-8 BOM in payload ✓ Fix: strip BOM, route by type Status: COMPLETED

Fixing “Content is not allowed in prolog” in SAP Cloud Integration

Why XML steps fail on payloads that look valid, and a reusable Groovy pattern that cleans the payload and routes it by type.

Cloud Integration

Null-safe headers and properties in CPI Groovy scripts

Stop NullPointerExceptions in production by reading headers and exchange properties defensively, with clear errors when data is truly missing.

Groovy

PI/PO to Integration Suite: how to triage hundreds of interfaces

A practical method for sorting every PI/PO interface into retire, migrate or redesign, so your migration plan is realistic from day one.

Migration

Guaranteed delivery in SAP Cloud Integration: JMS retries without endless loops

How to use JMS queues, exponential backoff and a retry limit so failed messages are retried safely and never block your queue forever.

Cloud Integration

A security policy baseline for exposing SAP OData APIs

The minimum set of API Management policies every SAP API should have before a partner or app calls it, with example configurations.

API Management

Onboarding a new EDI trading partner: a checklist that saves weeks

The questions to ask, the artifacts to prepare and the tests to run when connecting a new trading partner with Trading Partner Management.

B2B / EDI

S/4HANA business events: designing consumers that handle duplicates

Event brokers deliver at least once, so consumers must be ready for repeats. A simple pattern to process each event exactly once in practice.

Event Mesh

Clean core in practice: where should this extension live?

A simple decision guide for choosing between key user extensibility, developer extensibility in the ERP, and side-by-side extensions on SAP BTP.

SAP BTP

Using generative AI to explain failed integration messages, safely

An architecture for AI-assisted error analysis in Cloud Integration, with the guardrails that keep sensitive data out of prompts.

AI

SuccessFactors Employee Central to third-party payroll: getting delta replication right

Effective dating, future-dated changes and terminations break simple payroll interfaces. How to design a delta replication payroll teams can trust.

SuccessFactors

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