SAP NetWeaver Overview
With the SAP NetWeaver platform, you can align IT with business requirements. SAP combines composition technologies and application functionality to reduce IT complexity and increase business flexibility. With SAP NetWeaver, you can compose applications using enterprise services, orchestrate business processes and events, manage enterprise information, and deliver applications and content to users more quickly and cost-effectively.
Supporting present and future SAP and non-SAP solutions
SAP NetWeaver is the best way to integrate your SAP® and non-SAP solutions. Because SAP NetWeaver supports both present and future SAP and non-SAP solutions, the platform is the center of a growing ecosystem of applications and services. Your current applications will become even more valuable over time as you take full advantage of new products and enhancements as they become available.
With SAP NetWeaver you know where you are going and how to get there. SAP NetWeaver is the foundation for Enterprise Services Architecture, the SAP blueprint for services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions that offer the increased levels of adaptability, flexibility, and openness required to reduce TCO. SAP NetWeaver is an evolving and growing platform, powering your business applications now and in the future.
The First Truly Integrated Platform
The 2004 release of SAP NetWeaver is the first platform that integrates mobile, portal, collaboration, knowledge management, business intelligence, master data management, integration broker, business process management, and application server technologies into one product.
For the first time, these components are synchronized into one release, delivered as one package, with one installation process, one price. This provides you with one product that covers all you need for building and integrating applications.
Providing Road Maps for Key IT Practices
SAP NetWeaver also helps align IT with business requirements by addressing a broad range of IT practices – such as the harmonization of master data or advanced analytics and reporting. SAP NetWeaver drives both immediate results and long-term benefits. The long-term approach employs incremental adoption steps, realized through small, project-based entry points into SAP NetWeaver. The road maps to the Enterprise Services Architecture that SAP delivers ensure rapid ROI and reductions in cost of ownership.
By following the IT practices road map provided by SAP, you can extract maximum value from your IT investments. You are able to adopt SAP NetWeaver components using a gradual, strategic process that continues until the entire IT landscape architecture is optimized.
Examples of the IT practices supported by SAP NetWeaver include:
- Analytics and reporting
- Custom application development
- Composite application development
- Internal-portal deployment and management
- Business-to-business process management
- Application-to-application integration
- Web services deployment
- System consolidation
- Master data consolidation
- Securing applications
- Remote mobile access to enterprise applications
With SAP NetWeaver, you can innovate more easily and create new applications and processes to meet changing business conditions. And you can make your existing applications more innovative – more flexible, extensible, and collaborative. |