SOA KIT, AN ADD-ON TO ASAP

Unleash the power of SOA for your business

SOA enables companies to implement and adapt business processes with unprecedented speed and ease, and to break down processes into smaller process steps for reusable enterprise services that can easily be adapted to changing business needs.
As "one-stop shop" of integrated accelerators complementing the new ASAP 7 methodology framework, the SOA KIT, AN ADD-ON TO ASAP, offers customer a wide range of accelerators complementing ASAP 7, which are aligned along the phases of strategy, plan, build and run of your SOA journey. The SOA kit offers a phase and role based structure needed to efficiently be guided and enabled to leverage SOA within your implementation projects.

The SOA Kit, an add-on to ASAP, provides accelerators along the phases, strategy, plan build and run for the following topics respective their relevance within the particular areas:

  • Experience: Challenged by the increasing speed and scope of business change, you need to evolve your existing IT infrastructure into a more flexible environment that reduces complexity, and supports business agility across your business network. See how others have done it and share your experience within the SOA community in SCN and beyond.
  • SAP Consulting Offerings: SAP Consulting offers Professional Services to support your SOA projects. Benefit from SAP Packaged Composite Implementations and jump start your SOA project.
  • Value & Benefits: Before embarking on SOA projects, you need to know what tangible benefits it will bring to your company and how to support the value achievement, measurement and monitoring.
  • Methodology & Governance & Solution Architecture: To exploit the benefits SOA promises to deliver (reduce operational costs, accelerate profitable growth, support business agility, among others) you need to have good governance practices. Access information about how to plan your IT landscape, implement SOA-related services and composites, and optimally run and manage it all. The Reference Architecture for SOA describes a broad range of SOA related concepts.
  • Enablement: Explore how to best leverage existing courses supporting workshop and materials.
  • Composition & Integration: Explore what tools and approach do you need to model and build and integrate SOA-based applications
  • Operations: Explore what tools and assets are available to keep your business running fast and efficiently.
  • Partner Offerings: Find out how you can benefit from the valuable partner community of SAP in regards to Service oriented Architecture based on the Business Process Platform.

Within the SOA kit the focus will remain on the following roles:

The detailed description of the ASAP roles are highlighted with the related hyperlink.

1. CEO / COO / Program Manager or Project Manager (Customer)
2. IT-Strategist / Sponsor (CIO/CFO)
3. LoB Resonable / Business Consultant or Application Consultant
4. Solution Architect / Enterprise Architect
5. Developer / Integration Development Consultant
6. IT (Head of IT) Operational / SAP Technical Operation and IT infrastructure
7. Cluster Head (Cross Lob responsible) / Business Process Owner

Also contained within the SOA Kit, an add-on to ASAP, the Customer Journey for SOA offers you an interactive experience based on a customer implementation project including the right accelerators, tools and SAP Consulting Services. Using the analogy of a speedboat named "SOA Made Easy", the virtual company "Buy2Sell Enterprises" follows a guided journey along the Methodology and its phases: Strategy, Plan, Build and Run. Through the cartoon-style of the Customer Journey for SOA you will get an idea of what is required to accomplish a successful SOA project.

 
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