Do you want SAP aligned....

 

• Harmonized Integration into SOA; for example, through the use of interface patterns to structure content or the use of Global Data Types to achieve data type alignment.
• Opportunities for consulting services; for example, the gained knowledge can potentially be used as unique differentiator for future customers.
• Marketing elements with ‘PdES', for example, dedicated information of your solution on SDN along with a new ICC certification?

Like so many other software solution partners or system integrators already in 2008 and now?

Then this blog series has provided you all you need to get started along with in-depth insights into what it takes to build SAP methodology compliant services. Services based on SAP's modeling and definition methodology to ensure service harmonization with mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive ‘content or functionality' leveraging the SOA paradigm.

 

What have we done?

We initially laid out the storyboard of the architecture series which can be linked 1:1 with the process of service provisioning and explained in details about the benefits this PdES approach bears (Blog 1).

 

 

Then we provided details into the main activities being involved in defining the service and scenario scope of your particular situation and what you should keep in mind as best practices from what we have learned in the last years (Blog 2).

 

 

Then followed individually introductions the different steps of Modeling (Blog 3),

 

 

Definition (Blog 4),

 

 

Implementation using Java (Blog 6),

 

 

Implementation using .Net (Blog 7) and

 

 

Implementation using ABAP (Blog 8).

 

 

What have we done - THE SPECIALS?

 The Fifth Blog of our series has been a very special one: The introduction of a wizard based approach that automates roughly 80% of the modeling and 20% of all the definition work required for building SAP methodology compliant synchronous A2X services.

Something that our partners have long been asking for. Something that can boost the service delivery from one week(s) to one day. Something that is available today and for free.

 

Finally with our Ninth blog, we introduced and differentiated the approach of ‘Custom Enterprise Services' with the 'Partner-delivered Enterprise Services' approach.

 

 

In both the approach the services are built according to SAP's modeling and definition guidelines, whereas the SAP Custom Development takes an SAP internal approach for building the services and the PdES takes an external partner driven development approach. SAP Custom Development follows the SAP internal governance process and quality gates (Lean process as compared to standard is adopted).

 

In a nutshell: PdES Architecture Series

This architecture series provided you first hand insights into the entire process of delivering methodology-compliant services following SAP's best practices. Watching the screencams enabled you to model, to define and to implement your very own services in a variety of programming languages. We introduced a free automated wizard with integrated governance to help you swiftly create your methodology compliant services and elaborated on the concept of partner owned services versus SAPs custom made services.

You thus have a clear understanding of the mechanism and the effort being involved in creating your own methodology compliant services. It is in the beginning - without doubt - a tough path but you will find a lot of synergies along the lines and the more services you build the easier it will get to create them... ultimately then making it easier for the end user to find and use them. Why? Simply because they adhere to a concise, consistently applied methodology that has proven itself in around 3000 existing services.

 

Where can we go from here?

So if you now want to start to officially deliver your own Enterprise Services, you should just follow your path...

• as partner you should send your dedicated experts to the SOA 300 training offered by SAP Education and ideally already get in touch with ICC to ultimately receive your NW-ESR-CNT certification.  

• as customer you should have a closer look at SAP's custom enterprise services initiative and/ or check out the design and modeling methodology training for customers offered as the SOA 300 training via SAP education.

 

 

Ride in the tube of SOA and learn how to deliver your services based on SAP's modeling and definition methodology. Stay tuned for more information on our central Partner-delivered Enterprise Service webpage or on the Integration and Certification homepage.

 

In the following the links to all blogs and screencams from the PdES Architecture Series:
1.      Introducing the Story Board - Screencam
2.      Outlining the ‘Way to Deliver' SAP methodology-compliant Services
3.      Modeling Services - Screencam
4.      Defining Services  - Screencam
5.      Leveraging a wizard to automate Service Creation - Screencam + Wizard
6.      Implementing Services in Java - Screencam
7.      Implementing Services in .NET - Screencam
8.      Implementing Services in ABAP - Screencam
9.      Custom Development delivered custom enterprise services - Screencam
10.    Summarizing the PdES Architecture Series - Certification (This Blog)