This paper will discuss the Adobe Flex features and architecture, providing an overview of how Flex employs service oriented principles that allow SAP users to assemble innovative and engaging solutions.

Adobe Flex combines the responsiveness and advanced interface capabilities of desktop applications with the power of the web to deploy broadly accessible solutions at low cost. The SAP Enterprise Service Oriented Architectureâ s clean separation of presentation from business logic and objects eases the integration of Adobe Flex-based solutions.

Using Adobe Flex, organizations can better leverage their existing SAP installations with rich and engaging customer experiences that support tasks such as decision making with dynamic charts and visualizations, customer support and collaboration with animations and video, and a comprehensive palette of selectors, sliders, drag-and-drop functionality and other features expected from a desktop-like environment.

Adobe Flex also supports users with limited or occasional network access, such as field engineers or customers completing multi-stage transactions over discontinuous sessions. Through bindings to back-end SAP data sources, users benefit from real-time updates to the application user interface based on changes on the back-end. Further, multiple users can collaborate in real-time via robust messaging services.

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