Chapter 25. SAP SOA
In This Chapter
SOA's German connection
Putting SOA and the enterprise together
SAP, SOA, and Whirlpool
In the real world of enterprise IT, you might find products from every major SOA vendor all within the same organization. We encourage you to embrace diversity. Understand the strengths of various offerings so that you can make informed decisions. That's what the big kids do.
You and Me and SAP
SOA's not just for Americans any more. German software leader SAP has joined the throng of software vendors plying SOA software. In fact, many of the largest companies throughout the world use one or more offerings from the SAP software product line to store and manage information from key functional areas, including operations, finances, sales, and human resources.
SAP (short for Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) was originally founded in Germany in 1972 by five former IBM employees who visualized an opportunity to provide businesses with a packaged solution of financial business processes. The former IBMers decided on this business plan after observing the repetition and similarities that occurred in software programs created for their consulting clients. The adoption of the software that came out of their vision (Enterprise Resource Planning software, also known as ERP software) was fairly rapid among large enterprises, and SAP grew very quickly. In the 1980s, SAP expanded their software offerings to include the MySAP Business Suite of solutions for ...
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