NEW APP DEV PLATFORMS FOR THE RESOURCEFUL ENTERPRISE

摘要

Newly extended enterprise resource planning systems give developers the flexibility to use ERPs as application development platforms for building service-oriented architectures. When Texas Instruments wanted to reduce the amount of custom coding needed to continually refine its hodge-podge of enterprise apps and middleware, it decided to lay a foundation for a service-oriented architecture. What's surprising is that TI turned to SAP and its middleware Net Weaver as the dev platform. TI is not alone. The big ERP players-SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel and others-have emerged as SOA app dev platforms for many enterprises. Microsoft-with its Axapta ERP system, soon to be re-branded as Dynamics AX-promises to do the same in the Microsoft-Intel arena.