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Strategies and tools for establishing a sound service-oriented architecture governance model
A practical guide to establishing and measuring the performance of enterprise services
A 4-step approach to realizing the benefits of enterprise service-oriented architecture
Planning and managing your service-oriented architecture project: Key phases, activities, requirements, and deliverables
Gain a solid understanding of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how to plan, organize, and execute an SOA project. Watch this session to:
- Cut through the confusion and hype that often surrounds SOA and that could prevent it from becoming a reality in your business.
- Explore the guided activities, deliverables, and key steps that are involved in each phase of an SOA project, including SOA strategy formulation, SOA design and development, diagnostics, governance, and SOA management.
- Obtain examples of how to align your existing SAP footprint to an enterprise SOA strategy that may include a mix of existing SAP applications with the newest SAP enterprise SOA offerings.
- Watch this session for a clear understanding of the methods, tools, and techniques that SAP and its SOA technology partners offer that could be used to support your SOA project.
- Bonus! A list of key deliverables from each phase of an SOA project is available in your appendix files.
A pragmatic approach to building a service-oriented architecture strategy that builds on your existing IT investments
This session provides expert guidance to help you transition to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) while continuing to leverage your existing SAP technology investments. Watch this session to:
- Find out why you don’t have to rip and replace your current IT infrastructure in order to begin realizing the benefits of SOA.
- Acquire a pragmatic approach for building a roadmap to transform your enterprise IT infrastructure to an SOA in a package-enabled manner.
- Gain insight into why it’s essential to understand the similarities and differences between SOA and enterprise SOA
- Become familiar with the various tools and techniques that enable SOA.
- Gain a solid understanding of how to effectively build an enterprise SOA roadmap that aligns with your enterprise strategy.
Strategies and tools for establishing a sound service-oriented architecture governance model
According to Gartner Research, "In 2006, lack of working governance mechanisms in medium to large post-pilot service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects will be the most common reason for project failure." Watch this session to:
- Identify the typical governance issues that could emerge during the adoption and implementation of SOA.
- Learn what constitutes a sound SOA governance model, why it is important, and the benefits it offers the IT organization and the line of business.
- Get insight into the design-time and run-time technologies that enable the automation and enforcement of SOA governance policies.
- See a demo of the SAP Enterprise Services Repository, which provides a business semantics foundation for design-time governance, and the Services Registry’s Classification Service.
- Step through a demo of SAP’s recommended partner solution — AmberPoint for SOA Runtime Governance in multi-platform scenarios — and determine whether it could benefit your SOA governance strategy.
A comprehensive introduction to modeling, provisioning, publishing, and consuming enterprise services
This 3-hour session provides a fundamental understanding of the tools and standards that make it possible for you to model, create, publish, and consume enterprise services in your SAP NetWeaver®-based enterprise service-oriented architecture. Watch this session to:
- Find out why enterprise services rather than Web services are essential to enable and support key business processes.
- Understand why and how the Enterprise Service Repository (ESR) and Services Registry, part of the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (SAP NetWeaver CE), are integral to the modeling, publishing, provisioning, and consumption of enterprise services.
- Walk through the steps required to develop an enterprise service in the ESR, including metadata definition, service interface modeling, proxy generation in the back-end system using Java’s EJB 3.0 and ABAP™, implementation of application logic, and final creation of the service.
- See how to publish an enterprise service to the Services Registry, including tips for how to configure and test services using the SAP NetWeaver Administrator and Web Service Navigator.
- Learn how to create a client application to securely consume enterprise services from the Services Registry.
- Know the importance of SAP Global Data Types (SAP GDTs) in ensuring the interoperability and reusability of enterprise services.
A practical guide to establishing and measuring the performance of enterprise services
Learn how to establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and service levels to quantitatively measure and evaluate the performance of enterprise Web services in your IT landscape. Watch this session to:
- Explore the different layers that a Web service must traverse, such as the HTTP communications layer, Web service enabling layer, runtime interpreter, proxy framework, Web service proxy, and finally, the SAP application where it is processed.
- Gain insight into how performance can be affected at each layer by factors such as the amount of data being passed, how many roundtrips are involved in the processing of the service, and the type of communication channels involved — e.g., LAN or WAN.
- Use this information to define performance requirements from the end user’s perspective, create tangible KPIs for measuring performance, and deal with performance deviations.
- Understand how key differences between enterprise services and client-server applications affect the way in which you establish and measure performance.
A 4-step approach to realizing the benefits of enterprise service-oriented architecture
This session offers a practical perspective on how to realize enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) benefits in 4 simple steps: understand, assess, enable, and consume. Watch this session to:
- Understand the key concepts of enterprise SOA and how the SAP Enterprise Service Repository (ESR) and the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment come into play.
- Assess the current state and desired future state of enterprise SOA in your organization.
- Gain a solid understanding of how to use a capability maturity model that plots where you are, where you want to be, and defines a transition roadmap to help you achieve the desired enterprise SOA.
- Get an overview of how to create and enable an enterprise process integration strategy that defines how you build your enterprise services repository and leverage your existing IT investments.
- Gain insight into how to effectively consume enterprise services to define value-added applications for your business.
Facilitate real-time data acquisition and information access in SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence using enterprise service-oriented architecture
Learn how running SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) 7.0 in an enterprise SOA-enabled environment allows real-time data acquisition, real-time InfoProviders, interoperability with Web services and open standards, and seamless access to information at the right time. Watch this session to:
- Explore the benefits, challenges, and demands that enterprise SOA-enabled data warehousing presents to users, developers, and the systems they rely on and support.
- Step through the challenges of developing a SAP NetWeaver BI solution that uses operational Web services but still provides the performance that users have become accustomed to in multidimensional environments.
- Gain insight into how real-time data acquisition enabled by enterprise SOA could help you address common SAP NetWeaver BI challenges such as data latency.
- Pinpoint architectural and configuration steps that are unique to an enterprise SOA-enabled SAP NetWeaver BI implementation and the resources you need to have in place to tackle these tasks properly.
Case study: How Southern California Edison used service-oriented architecture to integrate legacy Web applications into its SAP NetWeaver Portal
Learn how Southern California Edison runs its Web-based, legacy employee directory and paging application in SAP NetWeaver Portal using Web services and a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Watch this session to:
- Learn how the company repurposed this legacy application into an SOA-enabled solution that is now the quickest and most stable application running in its portal.
- Take an in-depth look at why Southern California Edison used the Portal Development Kit (PDK) instead of Web Dynpro for the first phase of its project and why it will switch to Web Dynpro for the next iteration.
- Explore how Southern California Edison designed the screen layouts and architecture to ensure that users would adopt the new portal-based application.
- Find out how the company approached and overcame challenges with unit, integration, load, and security testing.
- Acquire lessons and best practices from Southern California Edison’s experience, and take home sample PDK code and XML templates that you can put to use in your own project.