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In most organizations, the SAP infrastructure is maintained through a team of SAP consultants sitting full time in the head office. The SAP team looks after all SAP functional areas, SAP technical development, SAP BASIS maintenance, and interacts with the business to resolve all their SAP issues. Continued »
In our experience working with customers who want to adopt Enterprise SOA in an SAP environment, many customers tend to believe that SAP PI is a prerequisite to enabling and consuming enterprise services. Since SAP’s service management tools of SAP ESR and SAP SR are provided by the SAP PI infrastructure, customers tend to believe that they need to use SAP PI in all service interactions.
In this blog, we would present guidelines and best practices for usage of SAP PI in an Enterprise SOA environment. Continued »
We have all heard the usability spiel: that technology is more or less a commodity, that ease of use – and in fact “delight of use” – should be paramount. We have also heard the horror stories of expensive enterprise and consumer applications that failed miserably because they were just too “kludgy” to use. Yet even today, for every wonderfully user-centric design (think iPhone) there are dozens of desktop or web applications that are boring at best, and simply unusable at worst.
Why is this so? Perhaps the problem is that when you are early in the SDLC, there are so many other challenges and moving parts that you have little time to worry about usability. You worry that bringing the “naïve” users in for design discussions will just derail the project or send it off on a tangent. On the other hand, if you wait till you are through with version 1, you have been compromised as well – it requires great courage to admit at this point that usability is poor and that major elements of the application have to be re-designed.
These are formidable challenges. Yet we at Nagarro recently had a very positive series of usability-related discussions with a major client, which may be useful to recount in this context.
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Independent Software Vendors (ISV) are companies that have niche product offerings for a certain industry area. ISVs typically have acquired their deep understanding of an industry through years of working in their particular focus areas. You would typically find the ISVs to have “champions” and well know industry experts in their area of expertise. Hence, these ISVs are extremely well known in the industry, and they may enjoy comfortable market share in the particular industry vertical in a certain geography. Continued »
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