Reply from ScottBJ on Nov 13 at 2:10 PM Good topic Terry,
In addition to what Pierre hit on, I would like to add Enterprise and Service Oriented Architecture to the trend list. Our company performs extremely wide and diverse roles in the community. We control the State's aquaduct and levy system, buy and sell power, deliver water, provide weather data, provide seismic data, controls dams, environment monitoring, etc.
So, we have a large demand for controlled interfaces to external systems both within and outside of our department. Whether it is to controlling entities, Bond management, document management, GIS, Adobe services, fuel management systems, chemical analysis, reporting systems, yada yada yada, EA & SOA are revolutionizing how we exchange data to and from SAP. It's allowing us to better manage our resources and development demands by focusing on web services rather than entire business solutions that could be best served by other products. For example, let ESRI handle all of the mapping functionality, while we simply feed the data layers through services.
My older ABAP developers are slower to embrace the OO concepts but we are also pushing forward in the areas Pierre mentioned and are now seeing greater use of reusable object components and overall improved development times. Training, training, training...
We are also getting a strong push like everyone else to bring functionality to mobile devices. So that's high on our trend list.
Cheers!
Scott Bains-Jordan
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From: Terry Barker
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:47 PM
Subject: Trends in SAP Development
Esteemed Toolbox Colleagues,
I will be giving a guest lecture to an "Advanced ERP" class at our local university in a couple of weeks, and I want to include a segment on "Trends in SAP Development."
Now, it's easy to see the trends that SAP's marketing machine wants us to see, but I want to get a better idea about the "real world" trends that are shaping up at real-world companies.
So, what trends do you see shaping up at your company?
Cheers,
TerryB |
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