Organizations that want to respond quickly to changing business requirements require an IT landscape that provides greater flexibility. SAP delivers this flexibility through:

• Service-oriented architecture – Service-oriented architecture (SOA) revolutionizes the design of business applications, enabling the rapid composition of business solutions. With SOA, you can encapsulate business logic and expose it as enterprise services – smaller functionality components that can be re-assembled quickly to compose new business solutions that meet changing business requirements.
• SAP NetWeaver platform – SAP NetWeaver enables rapid but controlled business process change. The platform incorporates business functionality – exposed as ready-to-use enterprise services and process components – through its enterprise services repository. It also provides an integrated platform of composition technologies for orchestrating business processes, composing applications, and deploying innovative solutions.
• Business process platform – A business process platform is a unified, flexible IT environment that supports the development and deployment of best practices-based, end-to-end processes spanning functional areas, enabling companies to eliminate work redundancies and reduce complexity. SAP NetWeaver and service-oriented architecture (SOA) provide the technology foundation companies can use to evolve existing IT infrastructures into business process platforms.
• BusinessObjects Enterprise XI – BusinessObjects Enterprise XI from Business Objects, an SAP company, combine end-user insight with flexible systems management for a single standard for performance management.

SOA, SAP NetWeaver, and SAP's Ecosystem: Delivering on the IT Promise

Fueled by ecosystem activities, SAP, our partners, and customers are developing enterprise services for over 25 industry segments, including banking, chemicals, consumer products, high tech, public sector, and retail. These enterprise services are available for use through the SAP NetWeaver platform, enabling you to successfully address two fundamental IT challenges:

• Accelerate business innovation and respond to changing business needs with a flexible, enterprise services-based platform
• Dramatically reduce the costs of building new business processes through the reuse of existing functionality