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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