Discovering Services in the ES Workplace

Prerequisites

You have registered for a user in the SAP Developer Network (SDN) and the Service Marketplace.

Context

ES Workplace is the central location for viewing consolidated information of all available enterprise services delivered by SAP. It provides various entry points for different roles ranging from architect to process experts. ES Workplace is the starting point for enterprise SOA adoption, from discovery of services to the actual testing and building of composite applications.

More information: Start of the navigation pathhttp:/help.sap.com/content/documentation/esoa Next navigation step How to use ES WorkplaceEnd of the navigation path

You use the ES Workplace to discover and evaluate the enterprise services to:

  • Gain an insight into the wide range of enterprise services that SAP offers with its SAP Business Suite

  • Check whether a specific business scenario or solution component is enabled by enterprise services from SAP

  • Test the enterprise service interfaces and operations in a hosted environment

There are different ways to discover enterprise services on the ES Workplace. You can view by the enterprise services index which is grouped by process components or ES bundles. Alternately, you can browse by business context within the appropriate Solution Map.

Procedure

  1. To access the ES Workplace, navigate to https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/esworkplaceInformation published on SAP site.
  2. Click Enterprise Services Index .
  3. Browse for the required enterprise services that you want to download and note down the Software Component Version from the Technical Data table.

    For every enterprise service there exist entities such as service interfaces, service operations, business objects, and so on.

  4. Browse for the required entities and note down the software component version.
  5. Use the details of the software component versions to download the enterprise services and their entities from the SAP Software Distribution Center at http://service.sap.com/swdcInformation published on SAP site.