IT Governance: SAP ESA Strategy

Implementing effective IT governance is suggested as a pre-requisite to the transition to SAP's enterprise services architecture, SAP ESA.

IT Governance: SAP ESA Strategy: Via Search SAP: Breaking down SAP's ESA strategy ...

... "... according to Naeem Hashmi, chief research officer of Information Frameworks, an IT research and strategic consulting group in Londonderry, N.H. Good IT governance and a hefty amount of planning should prepare most enterprises for the changes ahead, he said. " ...

SAP has developed a consortium-based strategy to its enterprise services architecture ESA:

... "SAP has established Enterprise Services-Ready to identify products that incorporate the Enterprise Services Architecture, leveraging the power of business process services in the enterprise. This standards based certification ensures that SAP and partner ISV solutions that are Enterprise Services-Ready are able to extend ESA functionality across the IT landscape, to help organizations design, deploy, run and maintain innovative business processes at lower cost and higher flexibility. Industry support for Enterprise Services-Ready and ESA as the enabler of flexible, next-generation business continues to grow, already adopted by Adobe, Avaya, Computer Associates, Dell, EMC, HP, Intel, Macromedia, Mercury, Microsoft, Network Appliance, Novell, Research In Motion, RSA Security, Symantec and VERITAS. " ...