Just in case you didn’t want to take my word for it, I thought you might be interested in knowing that SAP agrees with me on the whole mashup thing.
How do I know this?
Well, I could just say “because they made Visual Composer“, but that might not be convincing enough.
Instead I’ll point at the SOA features they’re been adding to their ERP offering over the past 4 years. If you combine that with the Visual Composer tool and then look at Duet as rough example of how to use SAP services then I think you’ll agree with me — SAP really does like the idea of letting users create their own solutions.
Some people think that SAP has dropped the ball by chasing after SOA. I disagree. I personally think it makes them stronger in the ERP market. It just plain makes sense to expose your ERP logic as SOA services. SAP understands this and they have for quite some time.
Microsoft probably gets it too, however I haven’t heard them banging the SOA drum with their Dynamics offering.
But I digress. And before this starts to sound too much like an SAP commercial, let me reiterate my point — SAP agrees with me on the whole enterprise mashup thing.
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You’re right, SAP does like the idea of letting users create their own solutions. I have been working on a project for the past year where we are building a wiki that exposes enterprise services across the SAP Business Suite. We’d really like to see customers share their mashups that they build from the services in the wiki. We are also hoping the wiki content sparks ideas and creativity to build new solutions. Here’s the link: https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/x/LQ0
Comment by Tesha — April 19, 2007 @ 10:14 pm
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