SAP Consulting Accelerates Customers’ Enterprise SOA Road Maps

SAP Consulting Accelerates Customers’ Enterprise SOA Road Maps

Delivering on its commitment to help customers experience the business value of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA), SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the worldwide availability of new consulting services to aid customers’ transition to enterprise SOA. The new consulting services provide unique guidance applying methodology to link business with IT in a strategic approach, and are combined with a consistent, sequenced and incremental set of services and associated accelerators that are leveraged by customers, partners and SAP as provided by the enterprise SOA adoption program. The announcement was made at SAP® TechEd ’06, being held in Amsterdam, Oct. 18 – 20.

With the new consulting services, SAP delivers on customer needs for a comprehensive methodology that links customers’ business and IT requirements to support their enterprise SOA strategy. The result is that strategies can be developed to reflect the timeline that best suits customers’ business needs with the appropriate combination of mySAP™ ERP 2005 upgrades and services.

“SAP Consulting has conducted the SAP Business Strategy for Enterprise SOA service as part of a feasibility study to assess different options of a process and IT landscape harmonization,” said Antonio d’Alessandro, IT Director APTAR Group. “The results of the service have shown the road ahead delivering important insights for us on how enterprise SOA will contribute to our business success.”

“We are providing customers with the clear services that will enable their successful transition to enterprise SOA, delivering affordable value that will ensure they retain the agility necessary to meet their business demands,” said Bernd-Michael Rumpf, head of Global Field Services at SAP AG and CEO of SAP Systems Integration AG. “By addressing a clear and proven methodology towards this transition, SAP Consulting is delivering the quality reassurance businesses are seeking as they embrace enterprise SOA strategies and deployment.”

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