Archive for January, 2010

SAP SOA and Web Services – what determines an Enterprise Service
By Manish Agarwal (7) on January 26th, 2010

SAP SOA is now a mainstream architectural strategy being followed by SAP customers for providing future proof integration to SAP and non-SAP systems. However, customers are not clear on the SAP SOA guidelines, and how to truly model, design and develop enterprise level services. Continued »

Designing Cloud Based Systems – 2. System Integration and Development Considerations
By Abhijat Vatsyayan (5) on January 22nd, 2010

Enterprise Application Integration

You need to consider how your system integrates with other systems in your organization. Clouds are good but one-off systems that use cloud but do not integrate with existing systems will diminish the payoffs of using a cloud.

You need to consider how your system and its data get integrated with existing data. This may need to be done both ways. Without access to existing data or data created and maintained by your cloud based system, you will again limit the potential of your system under design. Continued »