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| About the Authors | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Understanding SAP's ESA Strategy | |
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| ESA Is Coming | |
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| A New Blueprint for SAP Solutions | |
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| Why ESA Is Critical to SAP | |
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| ESA Is a "Bet the Company" Strategy | |
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| ESA Was Triggered by Major Technology Changes | |
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| ESA Is Focused on Delivering Business Solutions | |
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| Some Misconceptions About ESA | |
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| Myth: ESA Is More Marketing Than Real Change | |
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| Myth: NetWeaver Is Just Repackaging of Old Ideas and Products | |
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| Myth: ESA Is Just an SAP "Thing" | |
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| Myth: ESA Is Just SAP's Nickname for SOA | |
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| Myth: The SAP NetWeaver Platform Is Not as Good as Other Application and Integration Products You Have Seen | |
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| Myth: You Have to Wait Until ESA Is "Finished" | |
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| Myth: You Have to Upgrade Your ERP or Business Suite Applications to Begin with ESA | |
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| Some Key Consideration Regarding ESA Adoption | |
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| Characteristics of Your Organization | |
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| Roles Within Your Organization | |
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| Goals for Making ESA Applicable to Your Enterprise | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| ESA in Context: The Emergence and Benefits of SAP's "Applistructure" | |
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| Motivations for the New SAP Architecture | |
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| Overcoming the Problems with Packaged Applications | |
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| Overcoming the Problems with "Best of Breed" Architectures | |
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| Overcoming the Problems with Managing the Business of IT | |
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| Industry Consolidation and the Evolution to "Applistructures" | |
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| Emergence of Application Platforms | |
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| Maturity of Packaged Business Applications | |
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| Enter SOA as a Disruptive Technology | |
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| Business Applications and Platforms Coexist | |
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| "Applistructures": Business Applications and Platforms Unite | |
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| The Capabilities of the SAP ESA "Applistructure" | |
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| The "Applistructure" Impact on SAP's Business Applications | |
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| The "Applistructure" Impact on SAP's Technology Platform | |
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| Emerging SOA Capabilities Supporting SAP's "Applistructure" | |
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| The Value of SAP's ESA "Applistructure" | |
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| Business Alignment Through Process Visibility and Flexibility | |
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| Better Usability and User Productivity | |
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| Better Process Execution Through Embedded Analytics | |
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| Improved Lifecycle Management and Governance | |
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| Expanded Functionality from Ecosystem Partners | |
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| Lower Solution Implementation, Integration, and Maintenance Costs | |
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| An "Applistructure" Illustration | |
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| Where Do You Go from Here? | |
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| A Fork in the Road | |
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| Picking Your Path | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Enabling ESA: The Evolution of NetWeaver and mySAP ERP | |
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| The Evolution of the NetWeaver Platform: From Components to IT Practices | |
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| SAP Integration Technologies Before NetWeaver | |
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| The Launch of SAP NetWeaver | |
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| The Rise and Fall of the Component View of NetWeaver | |
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| The New NetWeaver Platform: IT Practices-Driven | |
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| How NetWeaver Evolves into a Business Process Platform | |
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| The Emerging Technical Capabilities of a Platform for ESA | |
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| The SAP NetWeaver Platform Road Map | |
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| The MySAP ERP Applications Road Map | |
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| Evolution of the ERP Technology Foundations | |
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| The mySAP ERP 2005 Architecture | |
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| Composite Applications | |
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| The Road Ahead for the SAP Architecture | |
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| Full-Service Enabling of the mySAP Business Suite | |
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| Ongoing Refactoring of the Applications | |
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| New Editions of Business Applications | |
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| Unified Modeling and Development Environments | |
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| Summary | |
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| The SAP ESA Ecosystem: Enabling Collaborative Innovation | |
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| Why an Ecosystem Is Critical to ESA | |
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| Integrating End-to-End Business Solutions | |
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| Delivering a Complete Technical Foundation for ESA | |
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| Focused on Customers | |
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| Ecosystem-Enabled Business Innovation | |
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| SAP Industry Business Units and Industry Value Networks | |
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| Tackling the Solutions White Space | |
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| The Enterprise Services Community | |
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| The Need for Coordinating Service Definitions | |
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| How the Enterprise Services Community Operates | |
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| The Technology Platform Ecosystem | |
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| The Role of a Technology Platform Ecosystem | |
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| Leading Platform Ecosystem Partners | |
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| An Ecosystem Infrastructure Example: The Adaptive Computing Controller | |
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| New Ecosystem Application and Certification Options for Partners | |
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| Applications Deployed on the SAP NetWeaver Platform | |
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| Partner Applications Integrated with SAP NetWeaver Portal | |
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| Applications Pre-Integrated with mySAP Business Suite Applications | |
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| SAP and the Standards Bodies Ecosystem | |
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| Technology and Business Standards Organizations | |
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| Practitioner Community Ecosystem | |
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| The SAP Developer Network | |
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| SAP User Group Communities | |
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| Ecosystem Considerations for Customers and Partners | |
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| Implications for Customers | |
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| Implications for Partners | |
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| Examples of ESA Ecosystem Product Collaboration | |
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| Duet for Microsoft Office and SAP | |
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| Vendavo Price and Margin Management Solutions | |
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| Pavilion Technologies Model Predictive Control Solutions | |
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| Mercury | |
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| Summary | |
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| Evaluating ESA Capabilities and Building Your Adoption Road Map | |
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| Understanding SOA Foundations and SAP's ESA Infrastructure | |
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| An Introduction to SOA, Web Services, and Enterprise Services | |
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| Understanding SOA and the Relationship to Web Services | |
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| How Web Services Work - The Basic Profile | |
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| The Benefits and Limitations of Web Services | |
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| Enterprise Services Versus Web Services | |
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| An Example of Enterprise Services | |
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| Technical Requirements for Services in an ESA World | |
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| Web Services Extensions | |
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| Business Process Orchestration and Execution Standards | |
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| Solution Composition Standards | |
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| Finding and Governing Services with Registries and Repositories | |
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| Service Registries | |
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| Service Repositories | |
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| Service Intermediaries | |
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| Functions of a Service Intermediary | |
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| Architecture and Design of Intermediaries on a Service Network - The ESB Debate | |
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| SAP's Enterprise Services Inventory and Infrastructure | |
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| SAP's Enterprise Services Inventory | |
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| Enterprise Services Repository | |
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| Implementation and Composition Tools | |
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| Enterprise Services Run-Time Infrastructure | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| ESA and End-to-End Business Process Management | |
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| An Introduction to BPM | |
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| The Difference Between BPM, BPMS, and a BPP | |
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| From Functional Silo Applications to Process Management with ESA | |
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| The Benefits of BPM Solutions | |
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| Enabling Capabilities for BPM | |
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| Process Modeling Tools and Repository | |
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| Process Execution Engine | |
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| Workflow | |
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| Business Rules Management | |
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| Integration Capabilities | |
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| Business Activity Monitoring | |
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| Process Analytics and Simulation | |
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| UI Development and Delivery | |
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| How SAP Delivers End-to-End BPM Capabilities | |
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| Design-Time BPM Capabilities | |
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| Run-Time BPM Capabilities | |
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| Business Process Experts Community | |
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| Defining the Business Process Expert | |
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| The Business Process Management Lifecycle | |
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| What the BPX Community Can Offer | |
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| Summary | |
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| ESA Adoption: The Role of Enterprise IT Architecture | |
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| The Purpose of Enterprise Architecture | |
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| Classical Enterprise Architecture | |
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| At What Level Do Enterprise Architecture Activities Take Place? | |
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| Why Enterprise Architecture Initiatives Are Critical for Successful ESA Adoption | |
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| What Changes with ESA - The Big Picture | |
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| Setting Your Perspective on ESA Adoption | |
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| How SAP NetWeaver and ESA Affect the Architecture | |
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| Why Enterprise Architecture Activities Succeed or Fail and What This Means to ESA Adoption | |
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| Determining the Right Level for Enterprise Architecture Decisions | |
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| Getting the Right Input to Support Enterprise Architecture Decisions | |
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| Ensuring the Enterprise Architecture Deliverables Are Useful, Usable, and Actionable | |
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| Having the Right People and Collaboration in Enterprise Architecture Roles | |
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| Enforcing Enterprise Architecture Decisions | |
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| Gaining Leadership Support for EA-Related Activities | |
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| Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and Related Tools, Methods, and Processes | |
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| The Value of EA Frameworks | |
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| Popular EA Frameworks and Methods | |
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| Lighter Weight Enterprise Architecture Considerations | |
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| Enterprise Architecture Maturity Measurement | |
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| Enterprise Architecture Tools | |
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| Enterprise Architecture Training and Certification | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Planning Your ESA Adoption Program and Pilot Projects | |
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| The Role of an SOA Adoption Program | |
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| Typical Phases in ESA Adoption | |
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| The Basic SOA Adoption Program Process | |
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| SAP's ESA Adoption Program Service Offering | |
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| Crafting Your Adoption Program | |
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| Establishing a Strategic Business Process Perspective for ESA Adoption | |
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| Shifting Your Focus to Business Processes and IT Investment Alignment | |
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| How ESA Adoption Can Better Align IT Investments with Business Processes | |
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| Selecting Major Themes for ESA Adoption | |
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| Optimizing Key Business Processes | |
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| Consolidating Applications & Infrastructure | |
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| Modernizing IT Capability | |
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| Launching Your ESA Adoption Program | |
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| Picking the Initial Program Management Team | |
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| Setting Goals and Planning Your Program | |
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| Selecting and Running Pilots and Projects | |
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| Managing and Executing Pilots and Projects | |
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| ESA Adoption Program Management Activities | |
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| Performing Post-Project Reviews | |
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| Running the ESA Communications and Training Campaign | |
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| Enabling ESA Governance | |
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| IT Project Lifecycle and Organizational Changes | |
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| Controlling ESA Adoption Risk | |
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| Measuring ESA Adoption Value | |
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| Summarizing the Results of ESA Program Management | |
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| Balancing General SOA Adoption Practices with SAP-Centric ESA-Based Adoption | |
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| Characteristics of an SAP ESA-Centric Approach | |
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| Characteristics of a Vendor-Neutral Approach to SOA | |
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| Characteristics of a Hybrid Approach to Adopting ESA and SOA | |
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| Major Considerations in Balancing SOA- and SAP-Based ESA Adoption | |
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| Some "Rules of Thumb" for Decision-Making | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Analyzing ESA-Based Solutions Architectures | |
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| Introducing the Business Scenarios | |
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| Summary of Process Needs and Opportunities | |
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| ESA Benefits Over Traditional Approaches for These Scenarios | |
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| Enhancing Processes with Manufacturing Analytics | |
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| The Overall Composite Solutions Architecture | |
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| Providing Information Workers and Customers with Front-Ends to SAP | |
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| Defining the Development and Composition Architecture | |
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| ESA-Based Solution Architectures | |
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| Integrating Suppliers for More Efficient and Effective Procurement | |
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| The Self-Service Procurement Challenge and the Role of Supplier Networks | |
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| A Hypothetical ESA-Based Solutions Architecture for Supplier Networks | |
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| The Role of These Solutions in ESA Adoption | |
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| Summary | |
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| Realizing ESA Through SAP NetWeaver | |
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| An Introduction to ESA-Development with SAP NetWeaver | |
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| An Overview of ESA-Based Development | |
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| The SAP NetWeaver Platform Architecture | |
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| Development Tool Architecture | |
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| NetWeaver Developer Studio | |
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| Eclipse Platform | |
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| NetWeaver Developer Studio Plug-ins | |
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| Java Dictionary | |
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| Web Services | |
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| XI | |
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| Integration Repository | |
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| Integration Directory | |
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| XI Run-Time | |
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| SAP NetWeaver Portal | |
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| Portal Content Studio | |
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| Portal Development Kit | |
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| Java PDK | |
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| Composite Application Framework | |
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| Concepts | |
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| Guided Procedures | |
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| Composite Application Services | |
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| User-Interface Patterns and Web Dynpro | |
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| Web Dynpro | |
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| Web Dynpro Plug-in | |
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| Visual Composer | |
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| Visual Composer Modeler | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Developing Enterprise Services | |
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| The Enterprise Services Infrastructure | |
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| Enterprise Services as Mediated Web Services | |
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| Creating a Service Using the Inside-Out Approach | |
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| Developing the Web Service | |
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| Developing the Mediated Web Service | |
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| Creating a Service Using the Outside-In Approach | |
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| Developing the Enterprise Service Interface | |
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| Developing the Server Proxy | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Orchestrating Business Processes | |
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| Business Level Modeling | |
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| Prerequisites to Effective Business Process Orchestration | |
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| Governance of IT Assets for Business Process Modeling | |
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| Key Standards for Enabling BPM | |
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| Web Services | |
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| XML | |
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| SOAP | |
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| WSDL | |
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| BPEL | |
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| Process Execution in XI | |
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| Integration Processes | |
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| Step Types | |
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| Graphical Process Editor | |
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| Creating an Integration Process | |
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| Business Process Patterns | |
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| Integration Scenarios | |
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| Creating an Integration Scenario | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| SAP's Composite Application Framework and Guided Procedures | |
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| Business Task Management - Core Capabilities | |
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| A Solutions Perspective | |
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| Example Scenario | |
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| Design | |
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| CAF Core | |
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| Creating the Project | |
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| Creating an Entity Service | |
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| Creating an Application Service | |
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| Creating Guided Procedures | |
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| Setting the Endpoint Alias | |
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| Creating a Callable Object | |
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| Creating an Action | |
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| Creating a Block | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Creating Additional User Interfaces Using Services | |
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| Concepts | |
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| Creating a User Interface with Web Dynpro | |
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| Web Dynpro Component | |
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| Creating the Web Dynpro Component | |
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| Creating a User Interface with Visual Composer | |
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| Business Packages in Portal | |
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| Summary | |
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| Embedded Analytics | |
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| Understanding Embedded Analytics | |
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| Closing the Loop | |
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| Creating Context for a Vacation Request | |
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| Creating Context for a Goods Return Request | |
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| Designing Embedded Analytics | |
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| Data Strategy | |
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| Case Study and Design | |
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| Building Embedded Analytics | |
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| Analytics with Visual Composer | |
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| Implementation | |
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| The Outlook for Embedded Analytics | |
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| Business Event Networks and Event-Driven Architecture | |
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| High-Performance Analytics | |
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| New Front-End Technologies | |
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| Dynamic Service Composition | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| ESA Today and the Road Ahead | |
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| Reviewing the Strategic Direction for ESA | |
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| Technology Direction for ESA | |
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| The Impact on SAP Solutions | |
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| Customer Implications | |
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| Partner Implications | |
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| Scenarios Where Organizations Are Leveraging ESA Today | |
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| Consolidation and Process Optimization Scenario | |
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| Process Composition Scenario | |
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| SOA Adoption Scenario | |
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| Ecosystem ISV Partner Scenario | |
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| Future Industry and Technology Trends That Will Affect SAP's Strategy and Solutions | |
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| Modeling of Business and IT | |
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| Greater Unification Inside the SAP NetWeaver Platform | |
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| Improved Business Service Semantics | |
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| Technology Standards | |
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| Service-Oriented Analysis and Design Methods | |
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| Enhanced Infrastructure Capabilities | |
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| Advances in the Discipline of Enterprise Architecture | |
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| Maturity of the SAP Ecosystem | |
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| Conclusion and Additional Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Abbreviations and Acronyms | |
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| Index | |