Synopsis
Enterprise SOA is the backbone of future business processes that are being developed today. But how can you achieve visible, meaningful results, quickly? What information can you use today to convince the decision-makers in your organization? Should you start with business functionality, or is it better to first set up the technical prerequisites with SAP NetWeaver? The answers to these questions can be elusive, which is why this book leverages several hundred existing projects as the basis for showing you how other enterprises have handled the rollout of enterprise SOA. The authors use prototypical roadmaps from selected industries together with proven recommendations and exclusive diagrams to help you pinpoint the best possible plan for your Enterprise SOA and avoid dangerous pitfalls in the implementation process. You ll benefit from numerous "lessons learned" at completed projects, enabling you to create your own plans in a structured manner, and ensuring that you get off to a running start with your own Enterprise SOA preparations. Highlights Include: * Enterprise SOA: Principles and benefits, challenges for IT, agility gains * Enterprise SOA Adoption Program: Prerequisites, basic conditions, potential analysis, evaluation of alternatives * Industry Reports: Automotive, high tech, chemical, retail, banking and finance, public sector * Best Practices: Technological mass adoption, SAP NetWeaver adoption, composite application adoption, Enterprise SOA adoption
About the Author
Stefan Hack is consulting director at SAP Consulting Deutschland (Germany) for consulting services related to the design and realization of serviceoriented architectures. He also leads the enterprise SOA program of SAP Consulting for the EMEA region. He has worked at SAP since 1998 and has served as a vice president of SAP AG with responsibility for the development of management methods and tools for modeling, documenting, and implementing businesses processes. He had previously served as a senior associate at McKinsey & Company in D sseldorf, Germany, where his projects focused on IT strategy and the setup of innovative business areas. He began his career as a certified SAP Logistics Consultant (SAP R/3 functionalities for materials management, production planning, and sales and distribution) at KPMG Peat Marwick in Boston, Massachusetts. Stefan Hack studied industrial engineering and management at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and was awarded a fellowship from the state of Baden-W rttemberg to study at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he earned an M.B.A. degree. Dr. Markus A. Lindemann is responsible for the sales-oriented and organizational anchoring of new service offerings related to the business process platform from SAP and for enterprise SOA at SAP Consulting. Since 1995, he has worked on the business benefits of a service-oriented design for technical solutions ranging from system integration to business process innovation. From 2000 to 2004, he held various sales and management positions at webMethods (now Software AG), a U.S. software supplier of SOA and BPM solutions. He joined the consulting sales area in the business technology division of SAP Systems Integration AG in 2005. Since 2007, he has led the Customer Process Innovation area at SAP Consulting. After his business training, Lindemann studied information management at the University of Mannheim. In 1996, he became a member of the Competence Center Electronic Markets and a member of the Institute for Information Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. After a one-year fellowship in 1999 at the business school of the University of Maryland (United States) he earned a doctorate (Dr. oec.) at the Institute for Media and Communications Management at the University of St. Gallen.
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