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Enterprise services allow you to leverage SAP solutions to include a wide range of composite applications provided by customers and partners to build new, flexible, and innovative solutions. In a nutshell, enterprise services are highly-integrated Web services combined with business logic and semantics that can be accessed and used repeatedly to support a particular business process. SAP publishes all enterprise services that support SAP Business Suite functionality at the Enterprise Services Workplace (ES Workplace).

With the enterprise services delivered by SAP, you can:

  • Build new applications and composite applications on top of existing SAP processes and scenarios

  • Enrich existing processes to safeguard greater process efficiency

  • Provide connectivity to third-party applications enabling new process definitions

  • Reduce costs of customizing and enriching SAP solutions

  • Improve readability and reuse application interfaces to lower TCO

  • Increase process openness, flexibility, and efficiency

  • Accelerate process adaptability

ES Workplace, hosted on SAP Developer Network (SDN), is the central place to view 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 its discovery of services to the actual testing and building of composite applications. The ES Workplace provides the necessary information area for consumption of enterprise services.

More information: http://help.sap.com/content/documentation/esoa -> How to use ES Workplace

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  1. You can browse and discover the services in ES Workplace. After discovering the services, you need to download them from SDN.

    More information: Discovering Services in the ES Workplace

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    If you do not find the services required, you can develop your own enterprise services.

    More information: Modeling Custom Services

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  2. Import the service content into the ES Repository.

    More information: Importing ESR Content

  3. In the ES Repository, you can view the corresponding documentation in the ES Workplace to find out about a particular operation.

    More information: Assigning Object Documentation.

  4. After you import the content, you can view the models in the ESR as business object maps. From the business object map, you can navigate to any specific functionality that you want to browse in detail. More information: Viewing the Models Starting from the Business Object Map

  5. You can enhance the standard services delivered by SAP.

    More information: Enhancing Enterprise Services

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A complementary source of information about Enterprise Services (ESR content) content delivered by SAP is the content catalog. The content catalog lists all process integration scenarios predefined by SAP or by partners of SAP. You can find the content catalog in SDN at https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/soa-modeling. Choose one of the links Content provided by SAP or Content Provided by Third-Party Vendors.

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