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API Management and Event-Driven Systems

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Tell me about how you discuss API management, event-driven architectures, and data consistency across distributed systems in the context of SAP's enterprise software ecosystem.

Address how SAP Integration Suite, SAP API Management, SAP Event Mesh, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP HANA Cloud can be combined in a practical integration pipeline. Explain API security, event contracts, ordering, idempotency, retries, observability, and the trade-offs between strong consistency, eventual consistency, and transactional messaging. Include how you would validate data quality, handle failures, and monitor end-to-end processing.