SAP

The first “R” stands for “REUSE”. Just as reuse of our resources in nature helps preserve our environment. Composite applications promote reuse of technology assets in business environment.  Normally, organizations have a mix of both SAP specific and Non-SAP cherry picked applications in their IT landscape. These don’t communicate to each other easily and the challenge is  to bring them together and reuse them to support newer business models, divisional and regional requirements.

The Second “R” stands for “Refurbish”. As in a normal life scenario, we try to maximize money’s worth, in business it is sometimes more beneficial for an organization to go for incremental enhancement rather than outright change. Change in business requirements does not necessarily mean that you have to start afresh, with composite application on your side, existing systems can be refurbished or incrementally enhanced with extra features  to support change in business requirements.

And this brings us to the third “R” which stands for “Revitalizing” the IT environment. Revitalizing is all about rejuvenating and bringing fresh perspective to any situation.  And composite applications does  exactly that. Now businesses do not have to play by the rules set by technology. Organizations can orchestrate, monitor and analyze their "own" processes.

And all of the above make equal sense whether you already have upgraded to new mySAP release or you are evaluating to upgrade to new mySAP environment.

Catch me on my future blogs to discuss more on how new releases of SAP NetWeaver, mySAP and eSOA are supporting to achieve 3 R’s of Green SAP.