SAP Co-Innovation Lab Projects - Partner-delivered Enterprise Services (PdES)

Overview:

The SAP Global Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) Network hosts and facilitates a broad range of events and activities to foster project based co-innovation, enabling and extend the capabilities of our partners and SAP. Joint achievements of projects are showcased as packaged deliverables to gain broader momentum  around their co-innovation and to make the topic more tangible. The COIL projects pages provide further insight.

The following list outlines a high-level perspective for the major projects successfully completed between 2008 and today in the area of Partner-delivered Enterprise Services.

Accenture shows continued commitment to SAP's SOA methodology and the concept of Partner-delivered Enterprise Services:

After already defining and implementing three scenarios in the industries Utilities, Automotive and Oil & Gas earlier this year, the Accenture Innovation Center (AIC) for SAP located in Bangalore now strikes again by implementing a complete Retail scenario: Retail Event and Space Management. Go for a deep dive into the complete set of scenarios and the provided SAP SOA methodology-compliant services now offered by Accenture.

In 2009, Accenture joined SAP's global initiative Partner-delivered Enterprise Services with the goal to make SAP's SOA methodology a key element of their SOA practice. Going far beyond the 2008 activities, the PdES initiative encouraged partners to enable full solutions with SAP SOA methodology-compliant services.

In the frame of SAP's initiative Partner-delivered Enterprise Services, SAP partner Nakisa continued on the journey they embarked on already in 2008. Nakisa created a full set of SAP methodology-compliant services around their well-established solution "SAP Talent Visualization by Nakisa".

With the successful certification of CONET's solution COACH (Groupware Integration), the new Enterprise Services Repository content certification (NW-ESR-CNT) has been released by SAP Integration and Certification Center (ICC). The Co-Innovation Lab team in Walldorf supported CONET with additional guidance on SAP's SOA methodology. CONET in return gave valuable feedback needed for the finalization of certification documents and finally the release of the certification.

 

Delivering Enterprise Services (ES) forms a crucial element to SAP's SOA strategy. By today, SAP has released roughly 3000 productized services over the course of the last two years. More and more partners and customers now actively seek to learn SAP's best practices on how to build their very own Enterprise Services; services with increased usability and reuse inside and beyond one's organization. SAP's underlying modeling and definition methodology is hence experiencing broad momentum.

 

The project of creating an Enterprise Service Methodology Wizard emerged out of the Partner-delivered Enterprise Services (PdES) initiative in 2008 with the intention to create a tool that supports and partially automates the creation of Enterprise Services in alignment with SAP's modeling and definition methodology.

In the following the three most common use-cases:

• Partners can use the wizard as supporting tool for the creation of services that can be certified within the upcoming certification offering from ICC
• Customers can build SAP methodology compliant services for their own organization
• And SAP employees can use it to boost internal service creation
  

Please note: The wizard is still a draft version, but it has already reached a stable state and will be enhanced over time.The prototype is officially released as a free download via SDN.

ESR Content certification: First pilot solution MegaXML/ESP certified

with Task Performance Group [COIL Walldorf, May 2009]

 

After the pilot phase of its Partner-delivered Enterprise Services initiative in 2008, the Global Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) Network project team collaborated with the SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) as well as SAP's own enterprise service development governance team to define a new certification called ESR Content Certification (ESR-CNT). This new certification now passed its first milestone: Partner Task Performance Group passed the certification with its solution MegaXML/ESP.

Have a closer look at the new solution on SAP EcoHub.

Partner-delivered Enterprise Services Initiative 2008

with aMplus, Arteria, Atos Origin, BearingPoint, B-EN-G, BSG, Capgemini, Intelligroup, Nakisa, OSISoft, Paymetric, Satyam, Siemens, Task Performance Group, Visiprise, Wipro

[Global COIL Network, December 2008]

 

In 2008, the Global Ecosystem Partner Group (GEPG) has driven the initiative Partner-delivered Enterprise Services (PdES) to a huge success. The PdES initiative has been targeted at setting up a framework and a standard process for partners, providing them with everything necessary to model, define and ultimately deliver their own enterprise services.

A global team of COIL experts executed enablement trainings and individual partner kick-off workshops in Bangalore, Walldorf, Palo Alto, Seoul, and Tokyo, followed by dedicated partner projects. With sixteen partners the team successfully finished the complete path from scenario identification, service modeling and definition, to at least a prototypical implementation.

The partners were: aMplus, Arteria, Atos Origin, BearingPoint, B-EN-G, BSG, Capgemini, Intelligroup, Nakisa, OSISoft, Paymetric, Satyam, Siemens, TaskPerformanceGroup, Visiprise and Wipro.

Please have a look at the partners' achievements that are published on our SAP Community Network presence on PdES 2008. Further information on the entire project setup and the correlated trainings and initiatives can be found on the dedicated COIL PdES Site.