» SAP Enterprise SOA

A winning competitive strategy requires sustainable, profitable growth that’s fuelled by innovation - but this is easier said  than done. Innovation is always slowed down by the need to make improvements to a solution without breaking it in the process. The key changes that are happening in business environments all point to a greater need for effective business collaboration. In addition to the straightforward relationship between the new innovation focus and collaboration requirements,  there is a need for effective collaboration of diverse and varied data between the systems both within and outside of the application or solution. The result is a need of new strategies and technologies for supporting collaborative activity – both inside and outside organizations – to help organizations to move forward.

Portal technology and integrated “collaboration suites” are becoming widely deployed, and in some cases organizations are using up-to-the-minute versions of tools in smart ways to make collaboration easier. However when we look at user interaction environments for knowledge workers – those who will typically take a role in uncovering and managing innovation – the vast majority of technology deployments today typically yield fragmented environments. Adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) makes this collaboration and data interaction seamless.

SOA

SOA is a blueprint for an adaptable, flexible, and open IT architecture for developing services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions. With SAP NetWeaver as a technical foundation, SOA moves IT architectures to higher levels of adaptability and moves companies closer to the vision of real-time enterprises by elevating Web services to an enterprise level.
 
An enterprise service is typically a series of Web services combined with business logic that can be accessed and used repeatedly to support a particular business process. Aggregating Web services into business-level enterprise services provides a more meaningful foundation for the task of automating enterprise-scale business scenarios. SOA is an idea of creating composite applications based on reusable building blocks using open standards like Web Services, WSDL, SOAP, UDDI etc.

SAP uses its business experience and enterprise software to provide exactly this combination and ESOA is the SAP version of SOA. 

Enterprise SOA 

Enterprise SOA is SOA plus something called enterprise services - aggregations of Web services glued together by business logic to help execute a business process. In other words, enterprise services are Web services with an enterprise-level   business meaning.

Enterprise SOA merges SAP’s enterprise application content with the open SAP NetWeaver platform so that partners and customers can simply plug in reusable application snippets and enable flexibility within business processes - even active ones. ImpleVista guides its customers in choosing the right approach to enterprise SOA, and gain maximum benefit from their ERP investment. 

A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative can, if done right, bridge the gulf that exists between today’s systems and today’s business requirements. SOA’s value to collaboration environments is in helping organisations separate the “what” from the “how” in individuals’ interactions with software systems.

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