TRANSFORM YOUR ORGANIZATION WITH ENTERPRISE SOA.

Enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) is your blueprint for service-based, enterprise-scale business solutions. The benefits are significant: increased adaptability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. The SAP Services portfolio of service offerings for enterprise SOA will give your organization the expert guidance and support necessary to take full advantage of the power of enterprise SOA.

Whether your company is located in a sleepy suburb or has subsidiaries around the world, enterprise SOA can help you achieve services-based business solutions throughout your entire company. No matter the size of the organization, the results with enterprise SOA are always the same -- increased adaptability, flexibility, and cost efficiency.

SAP Services offerings for enterprise SOA will give your organization a level of expert guidance and support that can only come from a company with 30 years of experience in the field. Once you consider the technical intricacies and interdependencies associated with an SOA initiative, only a seasoned support team can help you take full advantage of this powerful enterprise SOA.

The Ideal Tools for a World of Constant Change

Enterprise SOA helps you build an adaptable, flexible, and open IT architecture for developing services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions. Using the SAP NetWeaver platform as a technical foundation, enterprise SOA moves IT architecture to higher levels of adaptability and moves companies closer to the vision of real-time enterprises by elevating Web services companywide.

Limited understanding of the concepts and benefits of enterprise SOA have deterred many customers from pursuing a significant enterprise SOA initiative. We know that the complexity and level of magnitude of a successful enterprise SOA initiative can be overwhelming to many organizations. Therefore, we have designed offerings to assist you in every step of the way.

This is an essential move forward. These comprehensive offerings are nothing less than the framework that enables your organization to evolve to the next generation of technology solutions. Even if you are in the earliest stages of an enterprise SOA initiative, or if you simply want to learn more, our team of experts can help deepen your understanding.

Planning Your Enterprise SOA Evolution

SAP Services has something to offer at every stage of your enterprise SOA evolution. Because we realize that many of our customers are early in the planning stages of an enterprise SOA initiative, we have developed specific service offerings to help you begin the evolutionary process. These include:

• The SAP Self-Evaluation for Enterprise SOA service is designed to allow existing and potential customers understand their level of enterprise SOA maturity and readiness before undertaking any enterprise SOA initiative. Click here for the online questionnaire.
• The SAP Discovery Workshop for Enterprise SOA service is a one-day interactive session conducted by enterprise architects and enterprise SOA experts from SAP. It provides guidance in the areas of general enterprise SOA principles and practices, as well as SAP-specific processes and solutions for enterprise SOA. SAP Discovery System software for enterprise SOA is a hands-on system that allows you to perform experiments and learn. The out-of-the-box demonstrations provide narrated tutorials of various applications available on SAP Discovery System. These exercises help you get a closer look at the system. The workshop will include a live demonstration of enterprise SOA supported by SAP technology. Learn more about the workshop.
• The SAP Readiness Assessment for Enterprise SOA service allows the team of SAP enterprise architects to work in collaboration with your key decision makers in assessing the enterprise readiness and commitment required for the deployment. This collaboration is designed to focus on key areas identified during the self-evaluation. Learn more about the readiness assessment.

Plan Now to Benefit in the Future.

Enterprise SOA is a revolutionary concept that enables your business and technical teams to develop and deploy innovative business solutions with unprecedented speed. To take full advantage of the processes and tools available to you through your SAP investment, your organization needs to understand where enterprise SOA can take you and to plan its approach accordingly.

For more information on how SAP Services can help your organization architect, plan, and implement a powerful enterprise services solution, call us at 866-609-1124, contact your SAP customer engagement manager, or visit us online at www.SAP.com/usa/services/consulting.

Additionally, SAP offers a variety of tools to help you further your enterprise SOA initiative, including:

• The Solution Brief for SAP Services Offerings for Enterprise SOA. Click here to access.
• Background information, available on the SAP Developer Network site. Click here to access.
• The overview Webcast “Leveraging Enterprise SOA to Develop and Deploy Innovative Business Solutions,” which provides a broad understanding of SAP Discovery System. Click here to view the replay.

To find out more about how SAP can help you speed your enterprise SOA implementation, contact your SAP representative, call 866-609-1124, or click here.