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In addition to my SDN article: Composite Applications: Hype or Real , this time a real life story of our work at Luminus . The challenge Create flexible and easy to adjust applications that re-use SAP CRM, SAP ISU and custom Java functionality. As very often in our IT world, these applications had to be delivered quickly in order to be used by the customers and partners of Luminus. What we did We implemented the SAP Enterprise Portal for the external website http://www.luminus.be/ . Customers can access this site to get up to date information on Luminus products and services. Web content management is handled with a third-party solution: easyWCM from BTEXX . In the registered part of the portal (customers only section) several applications are provided: MyConsumption: To enter meter readings and monitor your consumption BudgetMonitor: To monitor and adjust your budget billing amount CalculationTools: To calculate your optimal product on base of your consumption Partners (In- and O...

During our E-SOA carrousel I did a demo on how to mash up your application . Of course, for those who already know me, it will be no surprise that I did this with the Visual Composer. The demo looks like the one I described in this post on building an application in 10 minutes , but with the help of Ronald Kleijn I changed it a little. In stead of showing the temperature, the actual location of a customer is shown on a Mappoint map . On my SDN blog I described all the steps to get to this mash up application. Of course you can also find the screen prints over there. Unfortunately, due to performance issues, I missed to share my key take-a-ways for the E-SOA demo. But I am most willing to share them with you in this post ;-) In order to enter the real E-SOA world: Be a Business Process Expert Be a SAP NetWeaver Developer Start with new ideas, stop traditional thinking Think outside the SAP box And please remember: Limits are formed mostly by your thoughts

What is a Mashup application ? Interesting question, well let's compare to the music world: a famous Dutch DJ, Ben Liebrand , made an interesting mashup mix: So you take the lyrics of one track and the music from another track. The best result is of course when you are very suprising in the combination. In fact Ben made a composite from Michaels lyrics and Europe's music. So what is a mashup application? You take a service from one system (let's say SAP) and another one from another system. You combine them both into a composite application . Or, when you look at my previous post , you take 2 BAPI's from our demo SAP system and combine them with a webservice that gives you the weather forecast for a specific city. You can also read Ron Tolido's article on Mashup Corporations , and his explanation on Mashup applications .

De eerste versie van de SAP TechEd 2006 is voorbij. Op SDN is er al heel wat info over te vinden, bijvoorbeeld een film van de Demo Jam Sessions. Iets waar je absoluut bij moet zijn wanneer je op de TechEd bent, zoals ik al eerder schreef. Demo's die binnen 6 minuten gepresenteerd worden en waarbij absoluut geen PowerPoints gebruikt mogen worden. Om de film te kijken ga je naar SDN TV en kies je voor "SAP TechEd '06 Las Vegas - Demo Jam Session". Shai Agassi opende de Demo Jam Session, en kwam verrassend op terwijl de 1983-er hit "Too Shy" van Kajagoogoo klonk. Rond 22 minuten wordt nog even verteld over mash-up applications, iets waar onze CTO Ron Tolido het ook vaak over heeft. Op 47 minuten een mashup van SAP Retail, CRM en Google Earth. Lijkt me duidelijk: een must-see. Op 25 minuten begint trouwens de eerste sessie, er wordt een webshop gedebugd in ABAP code. Sta daar maar eens even bij stil, drie woorden in één zin: webshop, debug, ABAP . Wie had d...