ESA in action: Agile Solutions Ltda
SAP customers are eagerly anticipating Project Mendocino. One such customer is Agile Solutions Ltda, which is adding this application to its in-process ESA adoption plan. Agile is a pioneering systems integrator (SI) and custom solutions developer in Latin America, the first in the region to create composite xApps with SAP NetWeaver for its customers. Founded in Brazil in 1999, today Agile Solutions has annual revenues of $35 million and 600 employees located in Chile, the U.S., India, and Australia. Its customers include the commodities giant BHP Billiton, Codelco, Samarco Mineradora, Empresas CMPC, Masisa, and Concha y Toro. Despite its deceptively small size, Agile Solutions is one of the world's leading creators of composite applications, and it is currently developing some of the first composite applications based on Project Mendocino.
Agile Solutions's development philosophy in the dawning age of ESA is to focus almost exclusively on the business objectives of its customers, the functionality needed to meet those objectives, and then building the composite application containing that functionality, drawing upon whatever systems and resources are at hand to complete the task.
This has meant that Agile Solutions has tended to downplay discussions of architecture with customers and describe the benefits of composites and ESA in purely business-focused terms. The first customer of its xApps was Agile itself, which implemented the SAP xApp Resource ...
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