Quo vadis SOA?
As the echo of #SAPPHIRENOW resonates through the ecosystem people keep talking about the new trinity of on-device, on-demand and in-memory computing. Personally I feel it may be about time to re-cap...
View ArticleSAP releases Simple Sample Applications for Enterprise Services Consumption
Effective immediately, SAP releases twelve Simple Sample Applications for Enterprise Services Consumption (Simple Sample Apps) via the SOA rollout platform Enterprise Services (ES) Workplace. Simple...
View ArticleSAP Classic meets SOA: BAPI documentation now available in ES Workplace
This is good news for all SAP customers that love their “SAP classic” software bought long time ago so much that they still run SAP R/3 or SAP ERP 5.0. However, also customers that have adopted SOA but...
View ArticlePI Adapter for EBICS
Recently I have seen multiple forums regarding the new EBICS banking protocol, and if SAP provides a PI adapter for EBICS. In this blog I have tried to explain briefly about EBICS and the consulting...
View ArticleMDR: Defining web services from ABAP without requiring PI
Traditionally when providing Web Services from ABAP system either a PI system including an ESR or another system providing service definition WSDL files was required. There was no possibility to create...
View ArticleES Workplace - System News
Currently all ES Workplace demo systems are up and running. If you encounter any difficulties or if you have questions regarding the system landscape please contact us at esworkplace@sap.com or post...
View ArticleiCRM - a free mobile app powered by ES Workplace
A *little* while ago, I developed and blogged about a app which used ES Workplace's enterprise services to power a simple CRM client on the iPad - I also mentioned it was going to be a free...
View ArticleConsuming Microsoft SharePoint Web Services in SAP using Basic Authentication
Requirement was to use Microsoft SharePoint as a repository to store the documents and also to access the same. There could be multiple possibilities to achieve this integration, one of the ways is to...
View ArticleREMINDER: ES Workplace
Dear customer, partners and friends of ES Workplace, this is a gentle reminder that our demo systems will no longer be available after March 31. To be more precise the offering will be stopped on April...
View ArticleGDT->ABAP Data Type or ABAP Data Type->GDT Conversion
SAP Enterprise service are based on GDT / CDT and GDT/CDT can be used in modelling of Custom Services , this GDT / CDT has to be mapped to the corresponding backend field(s) always in the same manner....
View ArticleUsing Service Group in calling web services from EJB
Idea behind Service Group: Service group is configured with provider system, this helps to reduce configuration overhead and transport issues. This document explains how it really helps...
View ArticleDJ Adams & Matthew Riches - Enterprise Architecture - UKISUG 2013 video...
Ladies and gentlemen, Here we go again! I’ve been out and about and have on the back of my previous video series from SAPinsider earlier in the year, shot a new series of four interviews from the...
View ArticleWhy your Enterprise Architects need to understand what is inside SAP
If I go back 20 years when SAP had 2 products (R/2 and R/3) with a few industry solutions, it was probably appropriate for Enterprise Architects to consider SAP as a black box that provided some...
View ArticleQualified and unqualified namespaces in SOAP XMLs
In this post I'd like to explain, how namespaces work in SOAP requests and responses. A typical error when calling webservices, is that the external partner (either provider, or consumer of a SAP...
View ArticlePublishing a BODS Batch Job as a Web Services using custom WSDL labels
BODS Version 4.2 SP2 I am new to web services and initially I struggled to find these steps. So trying to help other first timers.Please feel free to correct me if something does not look correct. In...
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