Manufacturing Industry
SOA figures prominently in SAP transformation.(SAPPHIRE 2005)
Manufacturing Business Technology, July, 2005
SAP used its Sapphire 2005 user conference, held in Boston in May, to deliver a status check to 8,500 attendees regarding execution of the enterprise vendor's version of a plug-and-play service-oriented architecture (SOA). Partners clamoring aboard were in great evidence, including Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, and Hewlett-Packard.
Although details surrounding pricing, support, and delivery haven't been fully addressed, Michele Cantata, a VP with Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner, asserts, "They're reinventing themselves and I couldn't have predicted how swiftly they're moving" in terms of filling tactical gaps in the vendor's Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA), built on the NetWeaver platform. "SAP knows that to win, it has to create a strong ecosystem,...
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