In what other ways is SAP leveraging SOA to make its applications more attractive?
Manes: Not very long ago, you’d expect it to take 18 to 24 months to install SAP and get it up and running. That’s just ludicrous. You should be able to install this thing, get it up and running and have it actually customized to your corporate way of business in a reasonable timeframe. That’s really where SAP is coming from: How can they use SOA to improve the architecture of their application systems so that people using their application systems can actually get this stuff to work more easily and customize it to match the internal business processes? [SAP has] been focusing more on that business process modeling aspect and the ability to customize that business process. And they’re really focused on semantics — the semantics of that business process. They’ve got a really rich repository-based and model-based approach to SOA. What is the difference between business process modeling and business process management? Manes: Modeling is really just a representation of the business proce
