Monday, April 30, 2007
SOA Is The Future For SAP, Says Company CEO > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions
SOA Is The Future For SAP, Says Company CEO > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions: "While companies focused on business process reengineering in the past decade, they're now starting to move toward what Kagermann calls business network transformation. That includes using SOA and SAP's NetWeaver middleware to allow companies to more easily collaborate and ease the pain of mergers and acquisitions. 'It's about agility and transformation and connecting and reconnecting business partners on the fly,' Kagermann said. 'It's about building the right infrastructure to mesh different systems in one performing network. It's about speed.'
Yet most of SAP's 39,000 clients aren't yet using these technologies. About 8,500 customers use SAP NetWeaver for integration, and about 2,574 use MySAP ERP 2005, the company's latest enterprise software suite that's based on SOA. Yet Kagermann cited a survey by SAP's main users' group, ASUG, that shows 75% of group members want to upgrade to MySAP ERP 2005 by mid-2008, and 53% want to use NetWeaver as a strategic platform. Kagermann's take was that the adoption rate was fast. 'We have established enterprise SOA, and we will see a major uptick,' he said. "
Yet most of SAP's 39,000 clients aren't yet using these technologies. About 8,500 customers use SAP NetWeaver for integration, and about 2,574 use MySAP ERP 2005, the company's latest enterprise software suite that's based on SOA. Yet Kagermann cited a survey by SAP's main users' group, ASUG, that shows 75% of group members want to upgrade to MySAP ERP 2005 by mid-2008, and 53% want to use NetWeaver as a strategic platform. Kagermann's take was that the adoption rate was fast. 'We have established enterprise SOA, and we will see a major uptick,' he said. "
