Sap Documentation Enterprise

SAP Documentation Enterprise SOA
Enterprise Services for SAP ERP 6.0 (ESA ECC-SE 602) 33
Enterprise Services for SAP ERP
SAP Enterprise Services
Purpose
Enterprise Services from SAP afford youmany new opportunities to automate your business
processes and react flexibly to changes in your business processes. You can convert new
business processes much more easily. You can also implementthe Enterprise Services in
heterogeneous, distributed system landscapes by implementing standardized Web
technologies.
Integration
A large number of Enterprise Services for typical businessprocesses are already
available in the SAP Business Suite applications. You can implement these services
so that they communicate directly with other applications, client programs, user
interfaces, and soon.
Alternatively, you can use the Enterprises Services from SAP using the SAP
NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (SAP NetWeaver XI). In this case, Enterprise
Services communication occurs usingthe Integration Broker of the SAP NetWeaver
Exchange Infrastructure, which contains additional functions for the processing and
creation of messages. In the Enterprise Services Repository in SAPNetWeaver XI you
can find descriptions of the interfaces of all the services that SAP has developed for
communication with SAP applications. You can also define your own Enterprise
Services using theSAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure.
Features
Enterprise Services are standardized interfaces for specific functions within an
application, for example, for functions that read the businesspartner's address or that
update reports. They simultaneously display descriptions of process steps and
technical modules. In this way, and due to their very specific syntax and strictly defined
namingconvention, the Enterprise Services represent a shared language for
communication between different business areas (for example, marketing and IT).
You can use the Enterprise Services from SAP to...