In March 2006, SAP Research convened a daylong meeting of several dozen thinkers and entrepreneurs in Darmstadt, Germany to discuss the future of information and communication technologies (ICT). The first annual International Research Forum was an earnest effort to grapple with the challenges and opportunities posed by these technologies. The forum's findings-and the accompanying conversation that was by turns provocative, erudite, and even dizzying-have been captured between these covers. International Research Forum 2006 explores how Web 2.0 and Real World Awareness technologies point to a fundamentally different model of ICT, the security challenges these technologies pose, and whether they can be a lever for growth on a national or even global scale.

International Research Forum 2006

Woods, Dan

Heuser, Lutz

Alsdorf, Claudia

Computers & Technology

Evolved Technologist

Mashup Corporations: The End of Business As Usual tells the tale of Vorpal Inc., a company that pioneers the implementation of service-oriented architecture to transform its business model. CEO Jane Moneymaker believes in marketing manager Hugo Wunderkind's idea of creating a new market using non-traditional methods based on mashups, but struggles to achieve this vision. The story illustrates what it takes to achieve cultural change, overturning established business and IT structures. By embracing a service-oriented approach Moneymaker makes Vorpal faster, flexible and more responsive, bringing an end to business as usual. Mashup Corporations takes a unique approach to communicating its message. From the first page, readers will find themselves in a story populated with people who interact in ways that will ring true to others who have struggled to make technology work in an organization, large or small. The conflicts that naturally arise between CEOs, CIOs, and line of business managers illustrate the important issues at stake within Vorpal and most other companies. As the leaders of Vorpal find their way out of their predicament, rules about how mashups and service orientation can be properly applied emerge. These rules, which may be the most enduring contribution of the book, are illustrated and analyzed using real-life examples. Introduction to the Second Edition Since the publication of the first edition of Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual in October 2006, the adoption of business models related to mashups, Web 2.0, and service oriented architecture (SOA) has continued to accelerate. New applications, new products, new techniques, and, most importantly, new ideas are blooming. The authors are pleased to report that the first edition of the book has met with a warm reception. Forrester, the analyst firm, recommended it as one of the two most entertaining and informative books on the subject. The book has been adopted by several different companies as an educational tool. Capgemini created a live-action play based on characters in the book that was presented at Oracle Open World during a keynote address by Andy Mulholland. (See http://www. oracle.com/openworld/attendees/program-overview/keynotes.html to view the video, which appears about half way down the page. A condensed version is also available on www.capgemini.com.) Sales of the book have been brisk and so have suggestions for improvements. Based on this success, the authors decided it was time for a second edition. What We Added You will find two additional chapters in this second edition: "Chapter 7: Overcoming Barriers" and "Chapter 9: Changing the Game". The idea for chapter 7 came out of discussions between the authors and Avrami Tzur, VP of SOA at Hewlett Packard. Avrami pointed out that even though the story of the book covered the process of adopting mashups and SOA from top to bottom, a different sort of struggle emerged as the early adopters in a company attempted to convince the rest of the company to come along. Based on Avrami's experience, we added a chapter that covers the struggle to overcome barriers to adoption of mashups and SOA. Anyone who knows Andy Mulholland is well aware of his prodigious output in the form of blogs, white papers, and of course, books. Andy's analysis of how to think about mashups, SOA, and Web 2.0 in an integrated, strategic fashion is contained in "Chapter 9: Changing the Game". As the body of experience and knowledge about mashups and SOA grows, we hope that others like Avrami approach us and add their experience. Only by harvesting such knowledge can we move this story forward and make the book even more effective in explaining the potential business value of mashups and SOA. In this way, our effort may become a successful instance of a blook, content that combines aspects of a blog and a book.

Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual

Business & Money

Thomas, C. S.

Mulholland, A.

Kurchina, P.

Management & Leadership

In May of 2007, SAP Research hosted the second International Research Forum in Eltville, Germany and brought together leading thinkers from academia, business, and government to examine mega trends in Information Technology. In this unique collaborative atmosphere, a world-class collection of entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and researchers brainstormed about service-oriented business transformation. International Research Forum 2007 captures these insights and advances the research agenda that emerged from the Forum. This book explores a sequence of trends that will transform the future of business technology

International Research Forum 2007

Do you speak "business" or "IT"? Perhaps you speak a little of both. In today's connected world, where business and IT are fused, chances are that if you're a business or IT executive, or someone working to transform a business, you speak a little of both. But what if there was a "third" language? A common language that was natural for both "business" and "IT," straightforward enough to use, yet sophisticated enough to work in today's connected world? What if such a language only comprised a handful of words? With such a language, the "loss in translation" between the business and IT would happen less, because both would be using the same language. With such a language, business outcomes and transformations would become much more achievable. This handbook describes what this language is-the language of Information Systems for the 21st century.

Lost in Translation

Green, Nigel

Bate, Carl

"Process First demonstrates two important ideas in one compact, easy-to-understand book. First, the book shows the specific actions business process experts take to build better solutions by staying focused on the process not the technology or any other distractions. Second, the book brings to life the power of community. Each chapter combines the thoughts of experts from the BPX community that were polished and refined so the result is better than any one person could create on their own." -Steve Strout, CEO of Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG)

Process First: The Evolution of the Business Process Expert

Ten Vaanholt, Marco

Sap Business Process Expert Community, Business Process Expert Community

International Research Forum 2009

Paetz, Henrike

If you want to build applications that fully complement SAP Business Suite software and meet customer expectations for integration, support, usability, and reliability, then you need the SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications That Integrate with SAP Business Suite. The guidelines provide recommendations to partners to help ensure that their solutions adhere to architectural approaches, standards, and industry best practices similar to the ones used by SAP, lowering customers' integration, training, administration, and upgrade costs. The guidelines are updated annually, so partners and customers can make effective choices among technology and integration options based on the most current innovations available from SAP. To join the community that provides feedback related to these guidelines and to access the latest online resources including blogs and webinars, please visit bestbuiltapps.sap.com.

SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications that Integrate with SAP Business Suite Fall 2010

The Sap Architectural Community Richard Probst

This book is a primer on the Future Internet. It demonstrates how the Internet is evolving into a societal operating system that will permeate every aspect of the enterprise. The original Internet has been a revolutionary force in business and society, but is nearing its limits in infrastructure and performance. The Future Internet represents the next generation of this critical infrastructure. In the future, enterprises will increasingly operate using "business webs" that link people, applications, and infrastructure. These dynamic digital networks will evolve constantly, manage massive volumes of data in real time, behave like social networks for the enterprise, and be always on and always accessible from mobile devices. But this vision also poses major challenges including security, trust, privacy, scalability, and performance. This book helps business leaders and public officials prepare for the future and its inevitable disruption. These changes will spawn new opportunities and threats. They will give birth to new business models and innovations and drive those who fail to adapt to extinction. Every enterprise must ask itself a key question: Will we be disrupted by a competitor or will we disrupt ourselves? This book prepares businesspeople to confront these questions and seize new opportunities before their competitors do.

Understanding the Future Internet

Couturier, Herve

Neidecker-Lutz, Burkhard

Schmidt, Vasco Alexander

Networking & Cloud Computing

If you want to build applications that fully complement SAP Business Suite software and meet the highest expectations for integration, support, usability, and reliability, then you need the SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications That Integrate with SAP Business Suite. The guidelines provide recommendations to developers of complementary solutions, both at SAP partners and in customer organizations, to help ensure that their solutions adhere to architectural approaches, standards, and industry best practices similar to the ones used by SAP.  The end result? Reduced customer integration, training, administration, and upgrade costs-leading to an amazing product experience. The guidelines are updated regularly so that customers and partners can make effective choices among technology and integration options, based on the most current innovations available from SAP. The guidelines provide clear statements about which technologies SAP recommends and does not recommend for new development. They provide concrete, actionable guidance for developers interested in aligning with SAP's direction.  The guidelines are developed by SAP subject matter experts and carefully reviewed both internally and externally by the SAP Mentors. Through an agile content development process, the guidelines are both long-lived and stable while incrementally incorporating the newest SAP products. Visit http://bestbuiltapps.sap.com to read the latest blogs, contribute to the forum, register for an online education session, engage with the ASUG Influence Council, and become part of the conversation.

SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications That Integrate with SAP Business Suite: 2011fall

The SAP Architectural Community

SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications That Integrate with SAP Business Suite: 2012spring

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