SAP

SAP AG users this week applauded the vendor’s road map for adding service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technologies to its software, though some acknowledged that they aren’t yet ready to use the new capabilities.

At the Sapphire 2007 user conference held here earlier this week, SAP executives outlined the company’s long-term plan to add SOA and Web 2.0 capabilities to its application software and NetWeaver middleware products.

Delivering on its commitment to help customers and partners experience the business value of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA), SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced rapidly growing momentum for the Business Process Expert Community. The community provides a collaborative environment in which business process experts can share information, experiences and best practices to leverage enterprise SOA to increase business agility. Since its formal launch just two months ago at SAP® TechEd '06 in Las Vegas, Nevada, the first open community for business process experts has rapidly grown to 60,000 members, nearly one-third of which are based in India. Today's announcement was made at SAP® TechEd '06, being held in Bangalore, India, Nov. 8 – 10.