How can service-oriented architecture (SOA) bring tangible benefits to your business? Find out quickly with SAP's starter kit for SOA.

Based on three comprehensive knowledge building blocks – content, guidance, and experience – the starter kit provides hands-on support to get your first SOA projects underway. The kit provides a "one-stop shop" of integrated information, offering you the value of transparency and step-by-step guidance needed for an efficient and successful start with SOA.

Objective & Scope

The starter kit for SOA provides content on:

• Value and benefits
• Governance
• Architecture
• Composition
• Operations.

In addition, the starter kit contains a methodology for SOA projects and hands-on developer guidance.

Furthermore, learn from SAP Consulting implementations, user experiences, and customer use cases. See how to team-up with other customers and SAP for SOA co-innovation. The starter kit for SOA also provides a considerable number of partner solutions based on SOA and related experiences for a wide range of industries.

Join the customer journey for SOA, also part of the starter kit. Watch the virtual company "Buy2Sell Enterprises" follow the SAP methodology and its phases: strategy, plan, build, and run.