SOA and ECC6

[Former Member]

Is anyone familiar with how SAP is handling the new SOA offerings in ECC6? Specifically, I heard that they are delivering all of the industry solutions with ECC6 and its up to the customer to activate the ones they want. How is this achieved?

Also if anyone has a list of the web services that sap is offering right now could you please forward.

Thanks

Jeremy

[former_member181887]

Hi Jeremy,

I think you are asking an number of questions here and I'll try address most of them:

1. Industry Solution and mySAP ERP 2005: With the latest release of mySAP ERP, most of the Industry solutions are delivered with the core and not as add-ons. Within the SAP ECC, you can activate which Industry solution you wish to use (you can only activate one IS but multiple business sets). This uses the new switch framework feature delivered by SAP NetWeaver 2004s. Check the mySAP ERP 2005 master guide for more info (http://service.sap.com/instguides)

2. Web Services: SAP pans is to deliver Enterprise Services with mySAP ERP 2005. Enterprise services are based on Web service from a technology perspective but are more concerned with delivering actual business content at the right granularity. Web Services as a technology has been delivered since SAP NetWeaver 6.20 (previously called SAP Web AS). Customers can create web services from SAP or customer ABAP or Java code as they wish.

3. Enterprise Services and Industry Solutions: SAP will deliver its first set of Enterprise Services in Q2 2006 for mySAP ERP 2005. You can get a preview of these and code with them on a SDN delivered hosted system. This is a great opportunity to try them now (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/developerareas/esa/esapreview). For a list of future Enterprise Services for Industry solutions, you can also check the SAP Solution maps which also highlight the future delivery of Enterprise Services (http://www.sap.com/solutions/businessmaps/index.epx).

I hope this helps,

Mike.