[September 14, 2006]  Shai Agassi's Checklist for Enterprise SOA Evolution, SDA Asia Magazine

"Shai Agassi, SAP AG’s president of the Product and Technology Group and executive board member provided a checklist comprised of four calls to action to prepare for the coming enterprise SOA evolution, solidify...

     1)  Solidify Your Foundation
     2)  Modernise Your Core
     3)  Optimise Business Usage
     4)  Drive Strategic Differentiation



Agassi also called on IT professionals to make sure their companies have a road map in place to upgrade to mySAP ERP 2005, the first service-enabled ERP solution from any vendor in the market.

“The most fundamental component of a strong foundation is mySAP ERP 2005, because it builds upon the market-proven processes within its core and also serves as a long-term service-oriented platform for innovation,” continued Agassi. “Today SAP announced that, through 2010, new functional enhancements to this best-in-class ERP solution will be made available as extensions in a series of optional enhancement packages. These include, composites for new processes, an enhanced user experience, enterprise service definitions, enterprise services implementations providing industry-specific capabilities and technical enhancements. Thousands of customers have experienced the functional and technical enhancements in mySAP ERP 2005, and this application will continue to provide a stable yet evolutionary business process platform as companies move into the era of enterprise SOA.”"

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Gary E. Smith
SOA Enterprise Architect