A full day seminar presented by Laurie Nolan, Jose Velasco, and Franklin Herbas, all with SAP. This workshop is being hosted by Dr. Dave Haseman, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Management Information Systems at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and Director of UWM Center for Technology Innovation. A full day seminar presented by Laurie Nolan, Jose Velasco, and Franklin Herbas, all with SAP. This workshop is being hosted by Dr. Dave Haseman, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Management Information Systems at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and Director of UWM Center for Technology Innovation.

Overview

It is widely accepted that a key cost driver for businesses today is the challenge of integration across a heterogeneous IT landscape. The goal of the SAP NetWeaver solution is to help facilitate this integration challenge by delivering a sound integration and application platform based on open standards and an Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) framework. SAP NetWeaver harnesses the flexibility of a services oriented architecture (SOA) coupled with technologies to allow you to integrate your IT environment from a "people" perspective, "information" perspective, and "process" perspective, all built upon a robust development platform that facilitates composite application composition.

Topics

Topics 1. ESA AND SAP NETWEAVER OVERVIEW Speaker: Laurie Nolan Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) SAP NetWeaver Layers of integration to foster interoperability in an ESA environment People Integration Information Integration Process Integration Application Platform (JAVA and ABAP) Demonstrations 2. ORGANIZATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR ADOPTION OF ESA Speaker: Jose Velasco Change Management Staffing, training, and enabling the organization for ESA 3. DEVELOPING AND MODELING BUSINESS PROCESSES AND COMPOSITE APPLICATIONS IN AN ESA Speaker: Jose Velasco (BPM) and Franklin Herbas (remaining topics) Graphical modeling of business processes Standards based development and integration environment Creating Web Services and Composite Applications in .NET and JAVA SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio Web services in .NET and JAVA and Composite Applications SAP Visual Composer SAP Composite Application Framework SAP Web Dynpro 4. DEPLOYING AND MAINTAINING ESA APPLICATIONS Speaker: Jose Velasco System landscape considerations Supportability considerations (SLA) Monitoring, tuning, and maintaining an ESA environment 5. SAP NETWEAVER/ESA USE CASES AND CUSTOMER SUCCESSES Speaker: Laurie Nolan IT Scenarios that demonstrate SAP NetWeaver technology enabling ESA Customer successful use of SAP NetWeaver to solve integration and ESA challenges

About the speaker

Laurie Nolan is a 10 year veteran of SAP with a specialization in Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing and Enterprise Services Architecture. During her tenure at SAP, she has held positions of consultant, project manager, and product manager for the SAP Technology solutions, and is currently VP of US SAP NetWeaver Product Management. She has been a featured speaker at SAP user conferences and technical events throughout her tenure at SAP. Jose Velasco works for SAP Labs and is responsible for the SAP NetWeaver - Exchange Infrastructure RIG (Regional Implementation Group) in the Americas. Mr. Velascos career spans 17 years in various areas of Information Technology, including product development, solution deployment, and business development. Franklin Herbas is currently a product manager of the SAP NetWeaver Application Platform. Mr. Herbas brings 6 years of experience developing Enterprise Applications for industry market leaders and 5 years as product manager for business development and Application

Who should Attend?

This workshop is primarily intended for architecture and development specialists who are facing the challenge of maintaining a heterogeneous IT environment, while still searching for ways in which to be innovative. The participants will see some practical applications of the "promise" of web services and an Enterprise Services architecture and the way that the SAP NetWeaver technology platform can facilitate these development projects. More specifically, for individuals who may only be familiar with SAP as an enterprise software application provider, they will be introduced to the full scope and power of the technology that powers all of the SAP applications and given direction on how they can leverage this robust platform to solve their own integration and development challenges using JAVA or ABAP.

Coordinator

This technology event is being coordinated by Dr. Dave Haseman, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Management Information Systems at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is also the Director of UWM Center for Technology Innovation.