Today's Business

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Keeping Pace with Today's Business

Why do I need Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)?

Innovation Gap

Watch a demo of how SAP's Enterprise SOA can help your business gain competitive advantage by bridging the gap between innovation and standardization.
Bridging the Innovation Gap

E-SOA (Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture)

In order to have a great future, a company needs to be adaptible and innovative. This means it should be flexible enough to serve different kinds of needs of its customers and exceed customer expectations.

In order to grow a company needs to do something new. This means IT processes within the company should not only be flexible and reconfiguratable but should also expose less complexity and provide more certainity in the operations. Enterprise SOA software design principles provides reconfigurable modules and flexible interfaces through which a company can integrate its business processes and business partners thus enabling it to serve in a best possible way according to the need of changing market conditions.

Key Components of SOA

Services
REST

Process Integaration
Microformats

Extensibility
QEDWiki

Model Driven Architecture
Altova
Object Management Group (OMG)

Identity Management
Identity Management (IdM) is an integrated system of business processes, policies and technologies that enable organizations to facilitate and control their users' access to critical online applications and resources — while protecting confidential personal and business information from unauthorized users. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_management)
Identity 2.0 - Presentation

Analytics
Data that helps companies track business trends. Analytics comprises all programming that analyzes data about an enterprise's business activities and customer information and presents it so that better and quicker business decisions can be made. (www.informatica.com/solutions/resource_center/glossary/default.htm)
Google Analytics - Product Tour

User Interface (Rich Internet Applications)
user interface and business logic are decoupled
AJAX: Getting Started

Output Management
Output management is the production, generation, control and distribution of electronic or physically available documents to all necessary receivers in the enterprise or outside of an enterprise
HP Output Management

Overview: Service Oriented Architecture

What Is Service-Oriented Architecture ?

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is changing the basics of how a enterprise software system is designed and build. Enjoy the videos below and learn the basics of service oriented architecture.

To find out more about What SOA Is? click on the link to watch this SAP TV video.

Video on SAP NetWeaver Platform - Body of Information

Advantages of SOA:

• makes your business more adaptable (flexible) by aligning IT with business needs.
• reduces the IT operations costs and increases ROI (Return On Investments).
• leverage your existing investment, with SOA you can expose your existing services to your business partners or compose more complex business processes from them.

Phases of SOA implementation:

• Planning
• Designing
• Implementation
• Deployment
• Adoption
• Managing and Monitoring