Comments on: What SAP customers/users should watch for in 2008

By: Rashad

Rashad — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:29:33 +0000

Experience shows that a fair number of organisations do not have a comprehensive internal EA competence. In order to make good on the sustainability of initiatives in EA, sound advice to organisations embarking on this undertaking is esential i.e. EA is an iterative process. Organisations must understand EA from this stand point. The rest of the benefits should follow as the value to the enterprise unfolds from the ongoing collaboration between IT and the business it services. Having said that there is no time like the present to initiate EA to address the three reasons listed.

By: Ken Gorf

Ken Gorf — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:54:28 +0000

I like Reason #2. But, before an enterprise can consider Reasons #1 and #3, they must optimise their SAP systems. You can’t join in the “EA big picture” with systems containing 50% custom code, of which 50% is unused, or response times in excess of minutes, or only using 35% of the licenced code. And would you deploy such systems for “real SOA”? Do you even know the level of custom code in your system? Or how much unused standard code is paid for [and wasted]? The “big time pay-off” is FIRST an optimised system. Then you can move on to the smart business.