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

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