He added that the next version of SAP's portal, code-named Project Muse, will use Ajax-style development to improve the navigation of SAP application's screens. He announced SAP Discovery System, a collection of software components meant as a...
SOA is an evolutionary approach that does not require a rip-and-replace of infrastructure and applications but does generally require buy-in from the business to gain the major benefits, such as functional component reuse, efficient use of assets...
He says: "Composite applications are a step beyond portals which just gather together information. More recently a development of the enterprise portal concept has been found in so-called composite applications.
Although the iPhone is a good showcase for web-enabled mobile "widget" applications, Cripps said, Apple's move to appeal to web developers rather than native application developers is a double-edged sword.
And there was me believing that SOA was all about creating discrete pieces of reusable functions that could be put together as composite applications. Now I know that Microsoft does understand the composite application approach to SOA but it doesn...
Right now it is focusing attention on the benefits of SOA as a way of extending core functionality into what it calls composite applications. SAP has announced it plans to transition all customers to its new Enterprise Support offering from 1...