A software based on service-oriented architectures (SOA) enables enterprises to react quickly to a new business environment. Enterprises can flexibly adapt their software to new business processes and thereby increase the agility of their IT operations and business strategy. "SAP Discovery System for Enterprise SOA" makes it easier for SAP customers to get to grips with this topic: examples and environments explain how to handle a service-oriented architecture within an operational enterprise SOA environment. The production systems are not affected by this. A scenario for procurement, for example, provides users with cross-system and cross-application access to the relevant business context. The scenario is based on standardized enterprise services and maps all stages of the procurement process – from order creation and stock analysis, the creation of a supplier directory, assignment of a procurement order, and confirmation of the purchase order right through to receipt of the goods.
