The Five Key Elements of Enterprise Services Architecture

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The Five Key Elements of Enterprise Services
Architecture

• Eric Wei
• SAP Platinum Consultant
• Coworker - NJ Computer Professionals Society

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Time for Change IT is Entering its Third Market
Area

• Enterprise services architecture is more than
  Web services
• An enterprise services platform for business
  process innovation emerges
• A huge ecosystem develops around it

Enterprise Services Architecture
Three-Tier Client/Server
Main-frame
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Enterprise Services ArchitectureBusiness Value
Drives Service Enablement

Business Value Generation
Level of Service Enablement
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75
40
40
20
2004
2005
2006
Process Efficiency (B2B)
User Productivity
Deployment Flexibility
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ARCHITECTUREFOR CHANGEThe 5 Key Elements of
Enterprise Services Architecture
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Five Key Elements of Enterprise Services
Architecture
PEOPLE PRODUCTIVITY
ANALYTICS/REPORTING
SERVICE COMPOSITION
SAP NetWeaver
SERVICE ENABLEMENT
PartnerServices
SAPs Enterprise Services
Business Objects, Components, and Engines
Bus. Partner
Legacy
LIFE-CYCLE MGMT
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First Key Element of Enterprise Services
ArchitectureService Enablement

SAP NetWeaver
SERVICE ENABLEMENT
PartnerServices
SAPs Enterprise Services
Business Objects, Components, and Engines
Bus. Partner
Legacy
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Situation TodayMultiple Application Databases
Proprietary APIs
Build composite applica-tions
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Database integration proprietary techniques for
cross-DB integration
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Build connectors to systems
Build connectors from systems
Changeprocesses
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What Is NeededA Services-Enabled Business
Process Platform
User Interfaces

• Openness
• Transparent unlimited access
• Unified cross-system Integration Model
• Extensibility of services
• Standardization of services

Composite Applications
SAP NetWeaver
Common Enterprise ServicesArchitecture Services
Repository with Business Content
Common Enterprise ServicesArchitecture Service
Patterns for All Platform Objects
Business Objects, Components, and Engines
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Second Key Element of Enterprise Services
ArchitecturePeople Productivity
PEOPLE PRODUCTIVITY
SAP NetWeaver
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Situation TodayPeople Work as Human Integrators
Production Planner
Purchaser
Accountant
People as Human Integrators
Hard-WiredEnterpriseApplications
ERP(Supplier)
CRM(Supplier)
SRM(internal)
ERP(internal)
CRM(internal)
SRM(Buyer)
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An Example of a Portal Workcenter
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Third Key Element of Enterprise Services
ArchitectureAnalytics/Reporting

ANALYTICS/REPORTING
SAP NetWeaver
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Situation TodayInside Information Only for
Specialists
Information FlowBroken
Sales Representatives
Marketing Specialist
Transactional Users
DataAnalysts
Hidden Process Integration
ERP(Supplier)
CRM(Supplier)
SRM(internal)
ERP(internal)
CRM(internal)
SRM(Buyer)
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What Is NeededEmbedded Analytics
Seamless integration of transactional and
analytical content Unified modeling environment
for business users and developers High
performance use of BI
People Productivity
Analytics/Reporting
Service Composition
SAP NetWeaver

• Business Intelligence for People Empowerment
• Information first approach
• Push principle
• Speed and flexibility
• On-the-fly analytical insight

Business Objects, Components, and Engines
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Enterprise Services ArchitectureInformation
Integration - Examples
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user PZENCKE
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Fourth Key Element of Enterprise Services
ArchitectureService Composition

SERVICE COMPOSITION
SAP NetWeaver
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Situation TodayCoded One-to-One Process
Integration
Transaction
Transaction
Transaction
Transaction
Transaction
Transactions Within Application Silos
Rigid Processes, One-to-One Integrated by Coding
CRM(Supplier)
ERP(internal)
CRM(internal)
SRM(Buyer)
SRM(internal)
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What Is NeededA Common Application Life-Cycle
Management
User Interfaces

• Lower TCO
• Deployment management
• Cross-solution configuration management
• Operations and support services
• Cross-system application change management

Composite Applications
SAP NetWeaver
Solution landscape management
Common change management always on never seen
Business Objects, Components, and Engines
LIFE-CYCLE MGMT