A Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI) is a characterized object-arranged programming (OOP) interface that gives exact business application framework information and cycles while working with outside SAP application programming correspondence. BAPI's center innovation works with an expansive advancement range.

BAPIs are SAP business object type APIs, which are put away in the Business Object Repository (BOR). BAPIs are executed as capacity modules that are put away in the Function Builder. SAP R/3 is a restrictive business application that gets to the outer R/3 rationale.

BAPI's center innovation works with a wide advancement range, including the accompanying:

Nonconcurrent R/3 framework part disengagement using Application Link Enabling (ALE) inside circulated business systems

New R/3 parts, as Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO)

R/3 framework Internet associations through Internet Application Components (IAC)

Front-end PC projects to R/3 frameworks, like Visual Basic

Work process application augmentations

Non-SAP programming