Vendors offering SOA deployment services As SOAs (service-oriented architectures) continue to gather steam, vendors are moving to help enterprises embrace the new infrastructure.This month SAP will launch the ESA (Enterprise Services Architecture) Adoption Program, its strategy for bolstering adoption of NetWeaver.Meanwhile, IBM Global Services will drive its consulting services around Component Business Modeling, according to Randy Heffner, an analyst at Forrester Research. Component Business Modeling “places a strong strategic business context around SOA,” Heffner said. SAP’s ESA offers a four-step program that includes best-practices workshops and tools. Ori Inbar, vice president of product marketing at SAP, said SOAs and NetWeaver will help companies gain the benefits of building custom software.Heffner said ESA goes beyond promoting SAP. “Customers need help to gain focus with where and how to apply major architectural shifts, and SOA is no different,” he said.Whirpool CIO Esat Sezer said his company has been piloting the project for almost three years to eliminate legacy applications and to migrate to SAP’s SOA architecture. “Yes, SOA is in the manuals from all the vendors, but nobody has a road map of how to do it,” Sezer said.SAP is offering an intelligent methodology and the capabilities to begin the transition, Sezer said. Software DevelopmentTechnology IndustryDatabases