Thursday, 19 October 2006
SAP Easing Enterprise SOA Adoption Through Open Standards
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SAP AG has highlighted the key business and industry standards initiatives it has already delivered and continues to support. SAP’s strategy is focused on driving open standards that simplify organisations’ evolution to enterprise SOA and address both technology and business requirements... |
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SAP AG has highlighted the key business and industry standards initiatives it has already delivered and continues to support. SAP’s strategy is focused on driving open standards that simplify organisations’ evolution to enterprise SOA and address both technology and business requirements.
According to SAP, it has been a driving force in technology standards creation and adoption since the launch of the SAP NetWeaver platform in 2003.
SAP leads and co-authors specification development efforts around key technologies and participates in many technical committees and working groups. The following is a selection of activities as per the report released by the company:
- SAP is an Advisory Board member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- SAP is a board member of Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
- SAP is chairman and board member of the Web Services
- SAP is a member of the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors
- SAP is an active contributor to the Java Community Process (JCP)
- SAP is a leading member of the Open SOA Collaboration
- SAP is a key driver of the BPEL4People specification
- SAP is a key contributor to EPCglobal specifications
"The contributions SAP makes to open standards through its support of OASIS are considerable," noted Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. "As a Foundational Sponsor, SAP provides resources that enable us to fulfill our mission. SAP representatives serve on the OASIS Board of Directors and more than 27 OASIS technical committees developing standards for Web services and eBusiness."
"As a strategic member, SAP’s support of the Eclipse Foundation has been instrumental to its success," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "We are excited to see SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio release on the Eclipse 3.2 and Web Tools Project platform. We look forward to SAP’s growing involvement and support of the Eclipse community."
As part of this strategy, SAP is leveraging community input to drive the key standards for enterprise SOA—from service creation and enablement through the SAP Developer Network (SDN) site and the Enterprise Services Community program for developers and enterprise architects, to service composition from the Business Process Expert Community for the composers and process experts.
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Related Reading: SAP NetWeaver Achieves Java EE 5 Compatibility
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