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Integrating WebSphere and SAP custom designs

Overview

The Custom designs that follow illustrate various ways to integrate WebSphere Application Server and SAP products.

What's Next

If you've determined that the WebSphere/SAP custom design set can provide an appropriate solution design for your business need, the next step is to review the Runtime patterns illustrating integration of WebSphere and SAP products. The WebSphere/SAP Integration design set includes several Runtime designs, providing solution flexibility to address the specific needs of the business process being automated.

New or updated

  • New Custom designs

    Updated: 12-20-2001
    This set of WebSphere/SAP integration designs is the second in a series of Patterns Custom designs that provide advanced solutions combining Business and Integration patterns, like normal Composite patterns, but have not been implemented to the extent of Composite patterns.

Business case

  • Feasibility:
    This material will help you determine the high-level shape of an Extended Enterprise solution, and can ensure your approach looks similar to other successful implementations. Reuse of prior approaches can be an effective way to begin most major projects. Obviously, modifications will be needed for any unique requirements of a given set of partners. This pattern provides a drill-down from high-level architecture to low-level designs and guidance.

  • Risk:
    Basing new projects on prior designs and ideas helps to lower the risk of failure. Creating or inventing approaches for each project tends to result in a lower success rate. Frequently, projects begun "from scratch" simply do not work and have major exposures in such areas as security, performance, availability, undefined requirements, and cost overrun.

  • Cost-benefit:
    By starting with reasonably complete architecture you can save considerable development time and can obtain assurance that the end solution will have a much higher chance of success. Actual savings will vary, but project teams have realized a 10% to 50% reduction of work effort in their design and architecture phases alone.