SAP SOA - Business Benefits

SAP SOA : Service-Oriented Architecture - Business Benefits

Today, your IT department must adapt as fast as business can, if not faster, and even anticipate change. By deploying a standards-based service-oriented architecture (SOA), you can increase flexibility and control your costs. SOA goes beyond the common concept of Web services and provides an enterprise infrastructure and approach that achieves optimal business results within heterogeneous landscapes.

SOA allows you to create new applications on top of existing enterprise solutions, increasing the value of your current systems and automating new processes. With SOA, you can:

Quickly adapt business processes – Service-oriented architecture enables you to separate the interface and process definition from the underlying application. This results in faster implementations and more cost-effective upgrades, deployed as needed and without the business interruptions of "big-bang" approaches.

Attract new customers – With service-oriented architecture, you can take advantage of Web services to deliver core competencies to new customer segments – while reducing IT costs and increasing efficiency.

Out-task – Service-oriented architecture allows you to connect to external partners, enabling you to access expert services, reduce costs and asset liabilities, and focus on your core
competencies – all while retaining visibility and control into critical processes.

Extend and automate your value network – Service-oriented architecture allows you to model and automate the terms of a business relationship, so you can extend business models and value chains with optimum speed and transparency.

Innovate – Most significantly, service-oriented architecture enables SAP partners and customers to deploy innovative solutions that take advantage of existing systems. With SOA, you can run new processes on top of existing applications.

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SAP SOA - The Blueprint for an Open IT Architecture

SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) - THE BLUEPRINT FOR AN OPEN IT ARCHITECTURE

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a blueprint for an adaptable, flexible, and open IT architecture for developing services-based, modular business solutions. SAP makes it easy to adopt SOA – enabling companies in diverse industries to quickly differentiate their businesses and optimize processes in their business networks. SAP enables businesses to adopt SOA at their own pace as part of their SAP solutions.

SAP's open-standards approach to SOA improves IT productivity and business value at the same time. At the heart of our approach to SOA is the concept of enterprise services – highly integrated Web services, combined with business logic and harmonized semantics, that can be accessed and used repeatedly to enable end-to-end business processes.

Using enterprise services, you can leverage SAP solutions in conjunction with partner solutions and homegrown solution landscapes to build new, flexible, and innovative solutions based on a consistent integration concept.

SAP and our partners can help your IT organization adopt SOA in a low-risk manner by delivering SOA-based technology, service-enabled applications, and prepackaged enterprise services grouped as business scenarios. SAP delivers SOA seamlessly via the service-enabled software (SAP Business Suite) and SOA-based, open technology platform (SAP NetWeaver). SAP consultants deliver services that complement SAP applications and accelerate SOA adoption.

We offer comprehensive methodology for design and development as well as operational SOA governance. This helps ensure high service reuse, reliable execution, efficient IT operations – and a reduction in cost. Modeling and implementation guidelines for service developers increase development efficiency. Moreover, SAP's enterprise services follow the enhancement package concept, so you can add new functionality continuously, without extended upgrade cycles.
To get started with SAP SOA download your starter kit today.

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SOA Event : SAP TechEd 2009

SAP TechEd 2009: Maximize Your Impact
November 11, 2009 - November 12, 2009
Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China

Dive deep into the world of SAP TechEd to get hands-on technical training, build real connections with SAP experts and community members, and gain the inspiration and skills needed to maximize your impact on your organization while enhancing your career. Now — more than ever — companies need people and IT solutions that can efficiently leverage and adapt to change. At SAP TechEd, you will learn how to use the power and flexibility of the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, SAP BusinessObjects solutions, and SAP Business Suite applications to reduce the total cost of ownership across your IT landscape.

Topics Covered : Active Global Support, Aerospace & Defense, Alloy, Analyst Relations, Automotive , Banking , Best Practices, Best Run Now, BPO Powered by SAP, Business Maps, Business Solutions, Chemicals , Compliance Calibrator, Consulting, Consumer Products , Custom Development, Defense & Security , Duet, EC&O, Endorsed Business Solutions, SOA, Financial, Financing, Healthcare , High Tech , Higher Ed & Research, Hospitality, IM&C, Industry Value Network, Insurance , Investor Relations, Life Sciences , Manufacturing, Media , Mill Products , Mining , Oil & Gas , Packaged Services, Packaged Solutions, Portfolio, Press, Professional Svcs , Public Sector , SAP Ramp-Up, Retail , SAP Business All-in-One, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Business One, Business Process Expert (BPX), SAP Business Suite, SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions, SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions, SAP BusinessObjects for small/midsize companies, SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions, SAP BusinessObjects IM solutions, SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand offerings, SAP CRM, SAP ERP , SAP ERP Corporate Svcs, SAP ERP Financials, SAP ERP HCM, SAP ERP Operations , SAP Managed Services, SAP NetWeaver, SAP Partners, SAP PLM, SAP R/3, SAP SCM, SAP Services, SAP solutions for small and midsize enterprises, SAP solutions for sustainability, SAP SRM, SAP xApps, SAP xApps for Mobile Business, SDN, Solution Extensions, SOX Compliance, Svc & Asset Mgmt, TCO Framework, Telecommunications , Travel & Logistics Services, User Performance Mgmt , Utilities , Wholesale Distribution

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