A brief overview of benefits of introducing an Agile layer into a SAP environment, including high level integration patterns that are possible with SAP NetWeaver Gateway

1. WHITE PAPER
SAP AND APAAS:
A WINNING COMBINATION?
JAN 2014

2. BUSINESS
TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATION
BUSINESS PROBLEM
- Traditionally SAP ERP extensions in
functionality and reach - have required
significant investments and introduced
architectural complexity.
- ABAPdevelopment (espWeb Dynpro) and
Process Orchestration(PO/PI) are
expensive resources.
- Having an ERP system is “table stakes” in
todays competitive economy - building
differentiating applicationsand unique business
processes is a mechanism for companies to
achieve competitive advantage.
- Exposing core SAP system to “Internet” raises
significant risk *
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* See latest article from SAP Breach (Jan 2014)

3. BUSINESS
TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATION
WHY PAAS
- Faster development - Pre build middleware’s, utilities, Tools, Frameworks,
accelerators and Standardize Application Development.
- Functional Extensibility - Ability to extend and add business functions with
minimal disruption in existing operations
- Easy maintainability - Standardisationof software & tools for the enterprise.
- One-Click Deploy - Get applications to market faster.
- Load Balancing & Elastic Scalability - Workloads assured with high
availability & auto scalability during unpredictable or seasonal load.
- Self-Service - Developers can self-serve and get apps to the cloud in
minutes instead of weeks, while staying within IT guidelines, and all without
relying on scarce IT resources to perform manual configuration.
SAP = WATERFALL
BLUEPRINT FUNC.
SPEC
TECH.
CODE SPEC TEST RELEASE
Detailed
requirements
upfront
Business
users design
solution
“blind”
Developers
spend
significant
effort before
first version is
available
Rigourous
testing
against 1st cut
requirements
TRADITIONAL SAP SOFTWARE = WATERFALL APPROACH
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4. BUSINESS
TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATION
PAAS = AGILE
Sprint
Planning
Daily
Cycle
Backlog
Retrospective Sprint
Review
Product
SCRUM PROCESS Increment
Scrum
Master
Users Stakeholders
PREPARATION RELEASE
Team
Members
Product
Owner
SCRUM ROLES
BRING AGILE SOFTWARE PROCESSES TO SAP APP DELIVERY
COMBINING SAP AND PAAS
Gartner™ identified the concept of “Pace Layering” - IT spends most of its time
maintaining systems of record (SAP), modifications are time consuming.
01 SYSTEMS OF ENGAGEMENT
Consumer and stakeholder facing systems,
accessed via multiple channels and device types
02 SYSTEM OF INNOVATION
Integration and fluid layer allowing composition
of core building blocks for discovery
03 SYSTEM OF RECORD
Core ERP System where core transactional
information
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5. BUSINESS
TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATION
10,000 FT ARCHITECTURE
PaaS Netweaver
SYSTEM OF ENGAGEMENT
Gateway
ERP BW HR
SYSTEM OF RECORD
1,000 FT ARCHITECTURE
Monitoring
Runtime
Modeler
Requirements Mgnt
REST Services
Metering / SSO
Service Designer
Data providers:
RFC, BAPI,
Transactions
Business Logic
PaaS NetWeaver Gateway* SAP Business Suite
APP PLATFORM INTEGRATION LAYER BUSINESS FUNCTION
* Note SAP NW Gateway can be installed into Business Suite or own server
100 FT ARCHITECTURE
Mobile / UI Layer
Entity Model
Gateway Service
Data Model
SAP Screen
Function Module
Business Object
REST / HTTP
PaaS NetWeaver Gateway* SAP Business Suite
APP PLATFORM INTEGRATION LAYER BUSINESS FUNCTION
* Only showing data integration between systems, for specific scenario
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6. BUSINESS
TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATION
MORE INFORMATION?
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