SAP touts "collaborative" SOA

SAP says collaborative working through service oriented architecture (SOA) technology represents the future for businesses.

Speaking at the opening day of SAP's Sapphire conference in Berlin, Henning Kagermann - SAP co-CEO - said collaboration is the "most important market transition going on in business".

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And he added SOA has an important part to play in this. "The entry ticket to manage these networks is SOA. It makes you network ready," he said.

Kagermann said: "It's about connecting systems. We have to move out of our comfort zone and manage these networks collaboratively."

Kagermann explained that in the current economic climate, businesses want to "innovate quickly and scale up profitably", meaning collaborative business networks will become more important.

He added: "It's about making fast turns without losing momentum. The fast will win in challenging times. We have to close the gap between strategy and execution. We have to transform the way our people work."