SAP Standards and Interoperability
Industry standards play a key role in enabling the implementation of SAP's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and are required to drive Business Network Transformation.
SAP NetWeaver offers a compressive standards-based approach to SOA. This allows for the deployment of a business process platform that ensures interoperability between SAP and non-SAP applications and delivers business value to SAP and its customers. The standards required for SOA can be divided into: Business Standards; Technology Standards; Languages for Defining Business Semantics, and Common Standards. Learn more: Getting Started | Delivering Business Value Through Standards (PDF 1.3 MB) | SAP is Open (on SCN TV)
Announcing New Area for SAP and GS1 Standards
GS1 is a global non-profit independent standards body that defines standards for barcodes, RFID tags, master data synchronization, and ecommerce messages. This area serves businesses implementing GS1 standards using SAP solutions.
Technology Standards provide the underpinnings of openness and interoperability, such as standards for web services.
Metadata Infrastructure
CWM, EMF, ISO 11179, MOF/JMI/XMI, ONS, UDDI, WS-MetadataExchange, XML NDR, XML Schema
Messaging
ICE, MTOM, SOAP and SOAP bindings, WS-Addressing, WS-Notification, WS-ReliableMessaging
Component Frameworks
J2EE/J2SE, SCA, SDO, WSRP, XMLA
Foundation
ABAP, HTML, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, SQL, SSL, XML, XSL
Languages for Defining Business Semantics
Languages for Defining Business Semantics are used by all parties involved in the design, provisioning and composition of Enterprise Services to define and describe the information, processes and services used by business. As such they provide the "bridge" that ties technology to business semantics.
Process Definition Languages
BPEL4People, BPMN, UML, VoiceXML, WS-BPEL
Service Definition Languages
EPCIS, UML, WSDL
Message Definition Languages
UML, UN/CEFACT CCTS
Business Semantic Standards
SAP, through its 30-plus years of experience addressing the software needs of vertical markets, has been able to evolve business semantics to provide on-going support and leadership in the development of Business Standards for specific industries.
Cross-Industry
ANSI X12, EIC, EPCglobal, ISO, OAGi - Cross Industry, OMG, UN/CEFACT, XBRL
Industry-Specific
1SYNC (Retail), ACORD (Insurance), AIAG (Automotive), BIAN (Banking), CIDX (Chemical), HL7 (Health Care), PIDX (Oil and Gas), PapiNet (Forest Products), RapidNet (Chemical), RosettaNet (High Tech), SWIFT (Banking), UNIFI (Banking)
There are many standards that are common across the business process platform. These include support for standards that define management, security, policy, and ontology definition languages, as well as those for development.
Profiles
WS-I Basic Profile, WS-I Basic Security Profile, WS-I Sample Application
Management
CIM, CMIS, WS-Management, WS-MetadataExchange
Security
SAML, SPML, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Security, WS-Trust, XACML, XML Encryption, XML Signature
Policy
JSR265, WS-Policy
Ontology Definition Languages
OWL, RDF
Development
Eclipse, UML
