Enterprise Services Architecture Adoption Programme
“The technology transformation
to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) will have the largest effect on
the ERP mid-market since the term ‘ERP’ was coined”
Gartner RAS Core Research Note
G00127115, 30th June 2005
Enterprise Services Architecture And SAP Netweaver Adoption
SAP is leading the way to an Enterprise Services Architecture - The new
architecture that will enable customers and their trading partners to seek
greater efficiency and differentiation as they become empowered to implement
new business strategies with less IT complexity, lower total cost of ownership
and increased agility.
Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) is a Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA) that merges SAP’s enterprise application content with the open
composition platform, SAP NetWeaver®. SAP NetWeaver® provides support
for flexible business processes across the extended enterprise and across
technical and organisational boundaries, enabling the integration of people,
information and processes.
CIBER can help you exploit your current investment in your SAP strategy
by guiding you step-by-step through an ESA adoption roadmap. CIBER’s
Adoption Programme simplifies your move to an Enterprise Services Architecture.
The programme is supported by a portfolio of field-tested tools, templates,
and samples. CIBER’s ESA Adoption Programme breaks down the ESA adoption
process into a series of logical steps: discovery, evaluation, implementation
and operations.

Discovery
Explore the opportunity, value and cost of various implementation
alternatives for Enterprise SOA
Evaluation
Design a specific enterprise SOA plan. Identify the scope of Enterprise
SOA adoption within your organisation, the business processes that it might
enhance and corresponding IT projects that are likely to make the business
more competitive and responsive.
Implementation
Implement the SAP NetWeaver® platform in a manner that meets your
goals in adopting Enterprise SOA.
Operations
Manage your applications using SAP NetWeaver® and maintain a consistent
strategy over time.
With ESA, customers can increase innovation and reduce cost of ownership
by doing the following;
- Extending existing processes across new business boundaries
- Consolidating business and IT to leverage economies of scale and eliminate
redundancy
- Innovating existing business processes by developing composite applications
that leverage existing investments
- Replacing custom programming with a model-driven composition of applications
- Delivering flexible and highly productive user interfaces
- Simplifying the IT landscape and reducing the costs and effort associated
with integrating internal and external applications
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