So many of our customers have large-scale ERP packages like SAP or Oracle that form the IT foundation of the enterprise. While at the outset this sounds like a simple architecture, given that you are working with a single vendor over a longer timeframe, in fact these systems are themselves rife with complexity and heterogeneity. And so many applications now connect into the ERP via various forms of adapters and message buses, that you end up with the classic alphabet soup of technologies at play.
"iTKO/SAP Whitepaper: Validation & Virtualization of SAP Enterprise SOA Applications with iTKO LISA"
This new paper iTKO co-authored with SAP, after working with them in their labs, helps customers see just how valuable a service validation and virtualization offering can be in these environments. By SAP’s own calculations, customers spend millions of dollars every year standing up and maintaining development and test labs for SAP, even when running on virtual hardware. And when they need to perform complex integration and load tests with other systems, millions can become $10s of millions to support these environments.
Our strategy of virtualizing the services layers of these complex applications in a VSE (Virtual Service Environment) like LISA offers is a great way to eliminate those costly constraints, and make it practically zero cost to stand up. This approach is great for our software partners like SAP, and especially for the end customer. After all, we all want to focus IT budgets and especially our integration and innovation efforts toward technologies that contribute revenue to the bottom line, and not manual support and configuration costs that aren't repeatable.
Yes, even big ERP is getting nimble for SOA. We expect even more collaboration with SAP and other software partners to better improve quality and agility for customers with Virtualized Services. You can also find the paper posted by co-author Joerg Nalik Ph.D. on SAP's Developer Network and COIL blog here: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/14083.


