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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is emerging as a standard for developing interfaces
in an organization. In SOA, interfaces are developed as enterprise services so that they can
be consumed by a number of other applications across the enterprise. SOA is an architectur-
al standard that requires the functionality of the interfaces be published as a service in a
platform-independent fashion.
SAP provides a methodology referred to as Enterprise SOA to implement SOA projects
that includes additional capabilities that help clients build business solutions that have a lot
of reuse capabilities within an enterprise. Enterprise SOA includes the following stages in a
service interface development lifecycle:
• Business requirements gathering
• Service modeling
• Service definition
• Service implementation
• Service publishing
• Service consumption
SAP PI provides SOA tools for facilitating organizations to build and consume enterprise
services. Different components of the SAP PI 7.1 systems are shown in
Figure 4-8
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SAP PI 7.1 system and integration components
