Concepts

Use

• Web services are the technical foundation for service enabling of applications.

  More information: Web Services

• To handle enterprise-level, business-scale processes, Web services need to be as reliable, maintainable, and secure as business software. Then Web services become Enterprise Services.

  More information: Concepts of Enterprise Services

• SAP NetWeaver provides the following all tools for provisioning, discovering, and consuming services.

  More information: Service Provisioning, Discovery and Consumption

• The Enterprise Services Repository stores the definitions and metadata of enterprise services and provides an integrated modeling environment for defining enterprise services, data types, and other design objects for SOA-based business processes in a standards-compliant manner.

  More information: Design Time in Enterprise Repository

• The Services Registry supports the publication, classification, discovery, and testing of enterprise services across the IT landscape.

  More information: Services Registry