The chemical industry today operates in a challenging ecosystem characterized by globalization, cyclical demand patterns, fierce competition, and increasingly demanding customers. To compete in such an environment, companies need to rapidly adopt new strategies and respond to market changes in a timely and flexible fashion.
Discover how you can rapidly model and deploy innovative business processes using:
- Business process platform – Incorporates business applications, ready-to-use enterprise services, process components, and a technology platform with integration and composition capabilities.
- Service-oriented architecture – Is a blueprint for a flexible IT solution that leverages open standards and exposes business functionality as enterprise services (technically, Web services) that can be easily re-assembled to compose innovative business solutions.
Real-Life Business Innovation
- Customer success stories – Read real-life examples of how customers in the chemical industry benefit from their business process platform today.
- Collaborative asset management – Visit the enterprises services Wiki to learn how SAP enables innovative maintenance processes through a business process platform.
Building Business Innovation
- Enterprise services for chemicals – Visit the Enterprise Services Workplace (ES Workplace) for SAP for Chemicals and explore the enterprise services available for chemical processes. Hosted by SAP, the ES workplace lets you navigate from core industry processes down to details about related enterprise service definitions.
- SOA in community – Learn about, test drive, define, and develop enterprise services in SAP's community area dedicated to SOA. Whether you are just getting started with enterprise services or ready to start building, the community network provides information and the means to collaborate with others on the topic.