Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) deliver on their promise of flexibility, economy, and ease of deployment for enterprise class software. An SOA enables enterprises to match software to business processes – enhancing agility in IT operations, as well as business strategy. The SAP® Discovery system for enterprise SOA offers you a head start on the road to a full SOA implementation by providing a vehicle for easily prototyping and testing enterprise service–based composite applications.

Enterprise SOA will change the way you think about upgrading your IT infrastructure. This is because you can implement SOA incrementally − meaning the end of costly “rip and replace” infrastructure overhauls. Numerous enterprise IT managers, as well as enterprise architects, business process managers, IT development teams, consultants, and system integrators, are putting in place development “sandboxes” in order to gain familiarity with building composite applications. Using the sandbox approach, you can learn how to consume enterprise services and build composite applications – without disrupting your business environment.