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Technology titans align around SAP ESA

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Boston: SAP AG has announced that the market leaders in hardware, networking, data storage and management, security, intelligent documents, desktop productivity applications, forms and user experience technologies, testing and system management are aligning around Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA), SAP's blueprint for a business-driven approach to services-oriented architecture (SOA).

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Adobe, Cisco, Computer Associates (CA), EMC Corp., Intel, Macromedia, Mercury, Microsoft, Symantec and VERITAS will license ESA to provide “Enterprise Services-Ready” solutions. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® '05, SAP's international customer conference.

A flexible IT infrastructure that supports ongoing change and business processes innovation is the promise of a services-based approach, and this architectural shift is a key marketplace trend in the computer industry today, a SAP release said.

SAP's vision of a shift to a services-based approach was first introduced in 2003 with the unveiling of ESA. Since then, more than 1,500 reference customers have begun the process of service-enabling their business processes across their entire IT landscapes by implementing and using SAP NetWeaverâ„¢, the industry's first platform to successfully demonstrate the convergence of applications and infrastructure that enable the ESA blueprint.

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Now, industry leaders have announced that they are working with SAP to identify opportunities to leverage the ESA blueprint. By agreeing to license ESA from SAP they receive early access to SAP's growing catalog of technical information on enterprise services, the tools and capabilities to work with the architecture and development information such as data schemas, user interfaces, application models and security features necessary for the automation of business process on top of enterprise services.

These leading organizations are focusing on enterprise services as the common denominator to ease deployment and co-operation of technologies across the IT stack in order to reduce the risk and cost for customers. By extending application functionality deep into the IT stack, SAP is making the entire stack “business process aware.”

The result of this market-shifting collaboration of the IT industry's leading companies will be the availability of products and services that will be branded “Enterprise Services-Ready,” built along the ESA blueprint, that leverage the power of enterprise services at all levels of the IT landscape and thus make the entire technology stack “business process aware.” This awareness helps organizations design, deploy, run and maintain innovative business processes at lower cost and higher flexibility.

“This announcement represents a major shift in market dynamics across the IT industry,” said Joshua Greenbaum, principal, Enterprise Applications Consulting. “The significance of these industry leaders working together cannot be understated. A technology platform around common enterprise services that can solve deployment, integration and operational challenges is of major importance to customers and technology companies alike.”

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