This book, intended for business leaders, IT managers and consultants, guides you step-by-step along the path to enterprise service-oriented architecture. Using a detailed analysis of more than 500 SAP Consulting projects in different industries as a basis, the authors deliver concrete recommendations on how best to roll out enterprise SOA in your own organization. You’ll learn how SAP supports enterprises along their individual adoption paths, and benefit from the many lessons learned that are described in the book. In addition, you’ll discover how to apply specific implementation options, arguments and best practices in your enterprise and how to sidestep potential implementation risks.
Topic Highlights:
Principles and Benefits, Challenges for IT, Agility Gains
Enterprise SOA Adoption Program: Prerequisites, Basic Conditions, Potentials Analysis, Evaluation of Alternatives
Industry Reports: Automotive, High Tech, Chemical, Retail, Banking and Finance, Public Sector
Best Practices: Technological Mass Adoption, SAP NetWeaver Adoption, Composite Application Adoption, Enterprise SOA Adoption
Your complete guide to individual service-oriented architectures
Industry-specific solutions for implementing enterprise SOA
Volumes of lessons learned and best practices for re-designing your system architecture
Stefan Hack
Stefan Hack is consulting director at SAP Consulting Deutschland (Germany) for consulting services related to the design and realization of serviceoriented architectures. He also leads the enterprise SOA program of SAP Consulting for the EMEA region.
He has worked at SAP since 1998 and has served as a vice president of SAP AG with responsibility for the development of management methods and tools for modeling, documenting, and implementing businesses processes. He had previously served as a senior associate at McKinsey & Company in Düsseldorf, Germany, where his projects focused on IT strategy and the setup of innovative business areas. He began his career as a certified SAP Logistics Consultant (SAP R/3 functionalities for materials management, production planning, and sales and distribution) at KPMG Peat Marwick in Boston, Massachusetts.
Stefan Hack studied industrial engineering and management at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and was awarded a fellowship from the state of Baden-Württemberg to study at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he earned an M.B.A. degree.
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