Tuesday, April 24, 2007
SAP Declares Enterprise SOA Established @ VIRTUALIZATION
http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/366207.htm: "SAP Fulfills 2007 Promise, Maps Out Next Five Years
Kagermann also declared that SAP has fulfilled its promise to largely deliver the first service-enabled suite of enterprise software to the market. With SAP® ERP as the front-runner, SAP is on track to service-enable all SAP Business Suite applications in 2007. Leveraging the blueprint of enterprise SOA, this flexible business process platform promises to further grow its ecosystem of software partners. By using services from SAP Business Suite applications as well as a new composition environment delivered via SAP NetWeaver, partners can compose new industry-specific solutions. Together, these advances will help organizations transform their business networks into adaptable systems of collaboration.
'Our vision for the next five years is based on the achievements of the last three years,' said Kagermann. 'With enterprise SOA now established in all of our products, we can deliver innovation to customers without disrupting their IT landscape. In the years ahead, we anticipate that the speed of change in business will continue to accelerate and that companies will need a stable, open platform that has the ability to support innovation. Enterprise SOA and the business suite we have built using this architecture is the only platform that can deliver the level of stability and flexibility organizations will need to empower the business network transformation and collaboration necessary to differentiate themselves and outpace competitors and commoditization.' "
Kagermann also declared that SAP has fulfilled its promise to largely deliver the first service-enabled suite of enterprise software to the market. With SAP® ERP as the front-runner, SAP is on track to service-enable all SAP Business Suite applications in 2007. Leveraging the blueprint of enterprise SOA, this flexible business process platform promises to further grow its ecosystem of software partners. By using services from SAP Business Suite applications as well as a new composition environment delivered via SAP NetWeaver, partners can compose new industry-specific solutions. Together, these advances will help organizations transform their business networks into adaptable systems of collaboration.
'Our vision for the next five years is based on the achievements of the last three years,' said Kagermann. 'With enterprise SOA now established in all of our products, we can deliver innovation to customers without disrupting their IT landscape. In the years ahead, we anticipate that the speed of change in business will continue to accelerate and that companies will need a stable, open platform that has the ability to support innovation. Enterprise SOA and the business suite we have built using this architecture is the only platform that can deliver the level of stability and flexibility organizations will need to empower the business network transformation and collaboration necessary to differentiate themselves and outpace competitors and commoditization.' "
