Powering Agentic Integration with SAP Integration Suite | feat. Dhawal Joshi & Vishnuprasad Hegde

How can enterprises securely connect AI agents to business systems? Explore the MCP Gateway in SAP Integration Suite and its role in agentic integration. In this episode of Discover SAP Business AI Platform, host Gaurav Dey sits down with Dhawal Joshi, Chief Product Manager for SAP Integration Suite Platform, and Vishnuprasad Hegde, VP, API Management Portfolio, SAP Integration Suite, to explore Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how SAP Integration Suite helps enterprises connect AI agents with business systems. The conversation breaks down the three core MCP constructs, tools, resources, and prompts—and explains how the MCP Gateway can expose APIs, integration flows, and connectors through purpose-built MCP servers. You’ll also hear why MCP and APIs are complementary rather than competing technologies: APIs continue to provide the foundation for enterprise integration, while MCP standardizes how AI agents discover and interact with business capabilities. The discussion also explores what enterprise-ready MCP requires, including authentication and authorization, traffic management, rate limiting, threat protection, mediation, observability, and governed access. Dhawal and Vishnu explain when SAP recommends using the MCP Gateway, including scenarios where agents are built on SAP or third-party platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure. Finally, they look ahead to planned capabilities including additional data sources and connectors, MCP Server Federation, and dynamic client registration. In this episode, you’ll learn: ✅ What Model Context Protocol (MCP) is and how tools, resources, and prompts work ✅ How SAP Integration Suite turns APIs and integration flows into MCP tools ✅ Why MCP complements APIs rather than replacing them ✅ How MCP Gateway supports security, governance, traffic management, and observability ✅ How MCP Gateway can connect agents built on SAP and third-party platforms ✅ What’s planned next for MCP Gateway in SAP Integration Suite Guests: Dhawal Joshi – Chief Product Manager, SAP Integration Suite Platform Vishnuprasad Hegde – VP, API Management Portfolio, SAP Integration Suite Host: Gaurav Dey – Platform & AI, SAP Chapters 00:00 - Welcome to Discover SAP Business AI Platform 02:07 - What’s new in SAP Business AI Platform 04:15 - Meet Dhawal Joshi and Vishnuprasad Hegde 05:30 - Icebreaker: the AI word game 07:19 - What is MCP? Tools, resources, and prompts 10:11 - MCP Gateway in SAP Integration Suite 11:03 - Turning APIs and integration flows into MCP tools 12:49 - MCP and APIs: why enterprises need both 14:28 - Security and governance for MCP servers 16:43 - Traffic management, rate limiting, and observability 19:02 - When to use SAP Integration Suite MCP Gateway 20:31 - Accessing MCP Gateway 21:04 - MCP Gateway roadmap and planned capabilities 22:43 - Key takeaways from the experts 24:15 - What’s on the horizon for SAP Business AI Platform 26:32 - SAP Connect and SAP TechEd 27:19 - Closing remarks • Explore MCP Gateway in SAP Integration Suite. 👉 https://sap.to/6057BGSDx1 • Explore what’s new in SAP Business AI Platform. 👉 https://sap.to/6059BGSDxH • Explore the AI Catalog on SAP Discovery Center. 👉 https://sap.to/6050BGSDxy • Explore the SAP Integration Suite roadmap. 👉 https://sap.to/6051BGSDxJ 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://sap.to/6050f6zYq 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://sap.to/6051f6zYS 🎧 Listen on SAP Podcasts: https://sap.to/605278AAO Follow us on social: LinkedIn: https://sap.to/6055BGSDx3 Instagram: https://sap.to/6056BGSDxO Facebook: https://sap.to/6057BGSDxP Threads: https://sap.to/6058BGSDxu About SAP: As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. For more information, visit: https://sap.to/6059BGSDxR #SAPIntegrationSuite #MCP #AI