April 2006
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
15h 32m
English
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The business objects layer
If enterprise services are interfaces to reusable functionality for the automation of processes, process steps, parts of process steps, and utilities, business objects are the reusable units of functionality that exist within service providers to help implement enterprise services.
As mentioned so far, the business objects layer exists in service providers and enterprise applications to represent business entities. The newest generation of business objects was constructed with support of enterprise services in mind. So far, this is not a large group of applications. But as time passes and the mySAP Business Suite is enhanced over the next few years, more services will be automatically created from business objects.
Business objects are important for everyone in the SAP universe for two reasons. First, as services are built on top of the mySAP Business Suite, they will be created through a process of modeling. Process components will define groups of processes that are connected. Inside process components, processes will be modeled by describing through a modeling language how the processes will be automated in terms of enterprise services. The structure of enterprise services will then be described in terms of how business objects implement them. Even when the right business object does not exist to support an enterprise service in the next few versions of the Enterprise Services Repository, notional business objects—that is, business objects that exist ...
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