What is COE?

[Former Member]

what is COE and SOA?

what is the diff b/w them?

[Former Member]

If you're interested in building a SAP CoE at your company, you may find this article useful.

http://runwithsap.com/2013/04/18/considerations-when-building-a-sap-team/

[Former Member]

Hi,

SOA is service oriented architecutre.

SAP Network Blog: An in depth look at enterprise SOA

/people/franklin.herbas/blog/2007/12/10/an-in-depth-look-at-enterprise-soa

COE is center of excellence.

Every company has COE for each of the stream where people work together to build the capability for their organization. People work on difference proof of concepts and which is used to show the capability to the client.

people work on upcoming technology and build their capability and gain the knowledge on the stream.

chirag

[aashish_sinha]

Hi ,

COE is Center of Excellence (COE). CoE is related with Sun’s Service Oriented Architecture

(SOA) Center of Excellence (COE).

SOA evolution with SOA COE solution

Sun’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Center of Excellence (COE) solution helps

companies build, support, and govern an enterprise SOA foundation.

SOA requires a long-term commitment to enterprise excellence. It is a journey that starts with

constructing an SOA foundation to promote asset reuse within your organization. SOA return on

investment increasingly grows with standardization of an enterprise services governance model

as well as procedures across business units, eventually leading to a service-oriented enterprise.

The ultimate goal of Sun’s SOA COE solution is to promote IT and business strategies, exposing

business and data services within and across the enterprise using a shared SOA integration

infrastructure and common best practices. SOA COE teams are focused architects and

mentors who:

• Build strategic foundations for shared integration infrastructures

• Build enterprise SOA reference architectures based on business domain and enterprise

needs

• Discover, enable, and standardize the capabilities of the 4Ps (people, process, platform,

and practices) to support and drive pragmatic SOA adoption within the enterprise

• Facilitate evolution of organizational behavior and working enterprise governance models

to transform your company into a serviceoriented enterprise Sun SOA COE solution offers a three-phase,

comprehensive approach to institute governance over the delivery of identified SOA

characteristics within your enterprise, addressing current and future business integration needs.

Refer : http://www.sun.com/products/soa/soa_coe.pdf

Hope this will help you.

Regards

Aashish Sinha

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