1.1.
2 SAP Composition Environment
SAP Composition Environment is a platform
that enables the building and
running of applications based on service-
oriented architecture (SOA). SAP
Composition Environment comes equipped with
tools that facilitate the
development and composition of services and
user interfaces (UIs) via a
model-driven approach. With SAP Composition
Environment, you can
orchestrate new and existing services with the
use of tools such as SAP
BPM, SAP BRM, and SAP Composite
Application Framework (CAF), among
others. All of these tools facilitate the
development of robust composite
applications that leverage existing services.
SAP Composition Environment is part of the
SAP NetWeaver suite and was
first realized in 2007 with version 7.1 (see
Figure 1.2). This release included
tools such as Composite Application
Framework, Guided Procedures, Visual
Composer, Voice, Portal Content Modeling,
Portal, and the universal work
list (UWL). In this version, SAP BPM and SAP
BRM did not yet exist.
Figure 1.2 SAP Composition Environment Evolution and History
SAP Composition Environment 7.11 was
released in 2008 and included the
early versions of both SAP BPM and SAP BRM.
After that, all included components were
improved and enhanced in later
releases, which included SAP Composition
Environment 7.2, SAP
Composition Environment 7.3, and SAP
Composition Environment 7.31.
From the release of SAP NetWeaver 7.31 in
2012, it became possible to
install SAP Composition Environment as a
standalone application or as part
of the SAP PO package. At the time of writing
(2017), SAP Composition
Environment version 7.4 is the current release.
1.1.3 SAP Process Orchestration
SAP Process Orchestration (SAP PO) was
introduced in 2012. SAP PO is a
comprehensive installation package that
includes an ESB, business rules
engine (BRE), and a BPE (BPE) in one piece of
software, which runs on a
Java-only stack.
It provides a combo and consolidation package
that includes SAP PI and
SAP Composition Environment and therefore
encapsulates their combined
set of features. With SAP PO, organizations
can easily deliver reliable
messages across the different internal and
external systems using a wellestablished
set of integration standards and protocols.
Furthermore, SAP PO provides a complete
suite of business process
management (BPM) and business rules
management (BRM) development
and administration tools to help organizations
design, model, execute,
monitor, manage, and analyze business
processes and rules using one
platform. This consolidation improves
performance, increases efficiency,
and reduces total cost of ownership (TCO),
among other things.
It’s also important to note that because SAP
PO is a Java-only installation,
ABAP functionalities do not exist and have
been replaced by equivalent
Java alternatives.
As Figure 1.3 shows, SAP PO was introduced
from SAP NetWeaver 7.3
EHP 1 (7.31), and, in 2013, SAP PO 7.4 was
released and has evolved
since then to the recent SAP PO 7.5.