What is SAP ERP 2005 as compared to R/3 and does Oracle BI and QuickStart run on these new releases?
SAP ERP 2005 is the successor of SAP R/3. The company SAP has a vision to deliver a more flexible and open architecture to support SOA through a new technology platform that SAP calls NetWeaver. SAP ERP 2005 Central Component has been build on the NetWeaver platform. To cut it short: the current Oracle BI releases and QuickStart work on SAP ERP (2004 and 2005)! Something on SOA (because what SOA or “Service Oriented Architecture” stands for may not always be obvious to a BI user)…. Definition: “SOA expresses a perspective of software architecture that defines the use of loosely coupled software services to support the requirements of the business processes and software users. Resources on a network in an SOA environment are made available as independent services that can be accessed without knowledge of their underlying platform implementation”. In normal English the above means that with SOA software becomes more open (see vision of SAP) and easier to connect specific services to. In
