Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP) for data processing is an industry leading enterprise software solution that is widely used among product and process oriented enterprises for finance, operations, HR and many other aspects of a business. SAP ERP solutions provide reliable and efficient platforms to build and integrate enterprise or business-wide data and information systems with ease. One of the drawbacks however is vendor lock-in and the relative inflexibility of SAP solutions to align itself with the business model or customization required. Having understood these challenges, SAP software vendors are moving towards exposing their solutions to SOA.
WSO2 ESB leverages the best of both worlds by providing the integration layer so that an existing SAP R/3 based solutions of an enterprise can be integrated with other data/business oriented systems so that you can mix-and-match requirements with minimal effort. As a result, enterprises can keep parts of their systems independent of SAP and extensible for many other systems, solutions and middleware.
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