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Keywords: grid, business software, SAP ERP R/3.

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Enterprise information management systems, such as ERP, CRM, SCM etc., play a vital role in large-scale companies, allowing optimisation of production. Frequently, the management of these systems may be difficult and expensive. This mainly occurs with enterprise resource planning (ERP); it is large, expensive, difficult to integrate, hard to understand, and terribly complex to manage. Generally it requires complex computing and storage resources and a great expertise for its deployment and management.

One of the solutions that may be adopted to limit the costs and requirements of ERP system is its integration into a grid platform. The grid technology provides a well-known method to solve the problem of information integration and sharing, allowing an efficient management of ERP inside an enterprise; furthermore, integration of ERP into a grid allows its outsourcing to a grid-cloud-based services provider.

The paper deals with the problem of integration of an ERP system into a grid environment, focusing on the deployment of SAP ERP services on grid. SAP AG is a German company providing enterprise software applications and supporting businesses of all sizes [1]; its best known product is SAP (systems, applications and products in data processing) enterprise resource planning software, known as SAP ERP R/3.

Other papers in the literature have dealt with this problem (see for example [2]), but none of the proposed solutions have been applied to a real ERP commercial product, such as SAP ERP.

The grid architecture chosen to realise the deployment of SAP services is that realised by the consortium COMETA [3].

One of the greatest problems that has been solved for the deployment of SAP services into the grid, was due to the strong interaction between the user and the environment of SAP ERP R/3. The realisation, inside the grid, of very interactive data exchange between the user and the SAP R/3 environment, required the definition of ad-hoc solutions because the grid infrastructure is mainly based on a batch system.

Other ad-hoc services have been defined to identify the most suitable SAP resources (among those available) for each user SAP process, and to give back the user the results of the whole SAP process (statistic values included), once it has been completed. Finally, services to inspect and analyse the runtime activities of SAP ERP R/3 processes on the grid, have been implemented.

References

1: http://www.sap.com
2: Z.W. Gao, R.Z. Duan, "Deployment and Application of ERP Service on Grid", Proceedings of 2007 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security Workshops, 838-841, 2007.
3: http://www.consorzio-cometa.it

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Front Page Browse CCP CSETS CTR IJRT Other Authors Search Purchase Guide FAQ Contact us	Civil-Comp Proceedings ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 95 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL, DISTRIBUTED, GRID AND CLOUD COMPUTING FOR ENGINEERING Edited by: Paper 85 Deploying SAP Services on a Grid D. Benenati¹, S. Cavalieri² and E. Mastriani³ ¹Fincons Group, Beasy Bureau, Catania, Italy ²Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Catania, Italy ³Consorzio COMETA, Catania, Italy doi:10.4203/ccp.95.85 purchase the full-text of this paper Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper D. Benenati, S. Cavalieri, E. Mastriani, "Deploying SAP Services on a Grid", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 85, 2011. doi:10.4203/ccp.95.85 Keywords: grid, business software, SAP ERP R/3. Summary Enterprise information management systems, such as ERP, CRM, SCM etc., play a vital role in large-scale companies, allowing optimisation of production. Frequently, the management of these systems may be difficult and expensive. This mainly occurs with enterprise resource planning (ERP); it is large, expensive, difficult to integrate, hard to understand, and terribly complex to manage. Generally it requires complex computing and storage resources and a great expertise for its deployment and management. One of the solutions that may be adopted to limit the costs and requirements of ERP system is its integration into a grid platform. The grid technology provides a well-known method to solve the problem of information integration and sharing, allowing an efficient management of ERP inside an enterprise; furthermore, integration of ERP into a grid allows its outsourcing to a grid-cloud-based services provider. The paper deals with the problem of integration of an ERP system into a grid environment, focusing on the deployment of SAP ERP services on grid. SAP AG is a German company providing enterprise software applications and supporting businesses of all sizes [1]; its best known product is SAP (systems, applications and products in data processing) enterprise resource planning software, known as SAP ERP R/3. Other papers in the literature have dealt with this problem (see for example [2]), but none of the proposed solutions have been applied to a real ERP commercial product, such as SAP ERP. The grid architecture chosen to realise the deployment of SAP services is that realised by the consortium COMETA [3]. One of the greatest problems that has been solved for the deployment of SAP services into the grid, was due to the strong interaction between the user and the environment of SAP ERP R/3. The realisation, inside the grid, of very interactive data exchange between the user and the SAP R/3 environment, required the definition of ad-hoc solutions because the grid infrastructure is mainly based on a batch system. Other ad-hoc services have been defined to identify the most suitable SAP resources (among those available) for each user SAP process, and to give back the user the results of the whole SAP process (statistic values included), once it has been completed. Finally, services to inspect and analyse the runtime activities of SAP ERP R/3 processes on the grid, have been implemented. References 1 http://www.sap.com 2 Z.W. Gao, R.Z. Duan, "Deployment and Application of ERP Service on Grid", Proceedings of 2007 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security Workshops, 838-841, 2007. 3 http://www.consorzio-cometa.it purchase the full-text of this paper (price £20) go to the previous paper go to the next paper return to the table of contents return to the book description purchase this book (price £85 +P&P)
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