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SAP Guidelines for Best-Build Applications That Integrate with SAP Business Suite provides recommendations to partners to help ensure that their solutions adhere to architectural approaches, standards, and industry best practices similar to the ontes used by SAP.

This document provides detailed guidance for independent software vendors (ISVs) and others developing applications that integrate with SAP Business Suite.

Chapter 1 provides an overview of the motivation for and scope of this initiative.

Chapter 2 summarizes the specific guidelines in seven areas: application lifecycle management, process orchestration and service-oriented architecture, user interface and user experience, enterprise information management, data tools, application development, and governance and security.

Chapter 3 covers the important area of application life-cycle management.

Chapter 4 covers process orchestration and service-oriented architecture.

Chapter 5 discusses the guidelines related to the user interface and user experience.

Chapter 6 covers enterprise information management. Only the preliminary introduction of this chapter is included in this edition; the completed chapter is planned for online release in the second quarter of 2010. (See http://bestbuiltapps.sap.com for the latest information.)

Additional chapters will be added to future editions of this document, expanding each of the remaining areas covered in Chapter 2, including data tools, application development, and governance and security.