SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications
That Integrate with SAP Business Suite
If you want to build applications that fully complement SAP® Business Suite software and meet customer expectations for integration, support, usability, and reliability, then you need the SAP guidelines for best-built applications that integrate with SAP Business Suite.
The guidelines provide recommendations to partners to help ensure that their solutions adhere to architectural approaches, standards, and industry best practices similar to the ones used by SAP, lowering customers' integration, training, administration, and upgrade costs. The guidelines are updated annually, so partners and customers can make effective choices among technology and integration options based on the most current innovations available from SAP.
Download SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications (PDF 1.8 MB) now.
SAP Helps Partners Build Complementary Applications for Customers
SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications are recommendations for partners, and particularly for ISVs, who build complementary solutions that extend the capabilities of SAP Business Suite. Richard Probst, SAP's Vice President for Ecosystem Technology and Architecture, introduces the new guidelines book and explains how they answer they answer the question of "what to do, not how to do it."
01 Oct 2009SAP NEWSBYTE
Check out the official Newsbyte on SAP.com announcing the new guidelines for best-built applications.
05 Oct 2009Overview Presentation: Introducing SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications (PDF 1.8 MB)
Before diving into the guidelines, this presentation can help you better understand what they're for, how they work, and how they can be adopted by partners.
01 Oct 2009
Featured Blog
One Short Sentence with Huge Implications
Kicking off a series of blogs on SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications, SAP NetWeaver Product Manager Volker Stiehl discusses what "loosely coupled, asynchronous, stateless communication using web services" means to your business.
See related blog, Insights into Best-Built Applications by Joerg Nalik.
Guidelines for Best-Built Applications
- Downloadable Version (PDF 1.8 MB)
- Collaborative Version (on wiki)
Go-to-Market Resources for Partners
- SAP Partner Portal (SMP login required)
- Integration and Certification (ICC)
- SAP EcoHub
Development and Support Resources for Partners
Application Lifecycle Management
- SAP Business Suite 7: Value Scenarios
- Standards
- Application Lifecycle Management (SMP login required)
- Request and Register Namespaces (SMP login required)
- Software Logistics
- Integration and Certification Center
- Product and Production Management System (on SAP Help Portal)
- Logging
- Server Performance
- Hardware Sizing (SMP login required)
- IT Service and Application Management Support Standards (SMP login required)
- Solution Manager (SMP login required)
- Securing Remote Support Access (SMP login required)
- Early Watch Alert (SMP login required)
- SAP and Open Source
User Interface and User Experience
Business Process and Service-Oriented Architecture
- Business Process Modeling
- Business Process Modeling Notation
- Service Oriented Architecture Handbook (PDF 2 MB)
- SAP Enterprise Service Development Curriculum (on SAP.com)
- Partner-Delivered Enterprise Services
- Enterprise Services Explorer
- .NET and SAP
- Integration with WebSphere
Application Development
- SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure
- Java Application Migration onto the NetWeaver Java Platform
- Global Data Type Catalog (blog)
- Business Rules Management
- SAP Business Objects Community
- ABAP
Data and Information Management
Governance and Security
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