Mastering Enterprise SOA with SAP NetWeaver® and mySAP™ ERP

Acknowledgments

As with the creation of every book, many people are involved in the project. The authors would like to recognize Bob Elliot, our acquisitions editor, who helped shape the vision with his suggestions for handling things that popped up along the way. Special thanks also to our development editor, Kevin Shafer, who made life a lot easier by managing and coordinating all our efforts, and without whose coaching we never would have made it to the finish.

There are many people at SAP who contributed ideas, insights, and assistance, both formally and informally, including Elvira Wallis, Jose Velasco, Anders Ranum, Jerome Delune, and their Product Definition colleagues as well as the SAP MDE team, and especially Jaideep Adhvaryu for his thoughts on ESA and the SAP ecosystem. Thanks also to Aaron Williams, who provided an in-depth understanding of the ES-Community, and Mario Herger, who helped make sure the ideas and content on analytics and Visual Composer were as current as possible.

We especially appreciate the work of the SAP Product Management team, which gives many great presentations at SAP conferences to keep customers and partners current on the technology changes associated with ESA. The team answered many of our questions, and helped simplify some complex ideas. This team included Michael Eacrett, Matt Kangas, Paul Medaille, Ginger Gatling, and especially Franklin Herbas, who offered many great ESA examples and ideas.

Thanks to the team at Pavilion Technologies, including ...