NetWeaver
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SAP NetWeaver is an application builder platform from SAP for integrating business processes across various systems, databases and sources. It is the technological foundation for all SAP products since the SAP Business Suite. SAP NetWeaver is marketed as a service-oriented application and integration platform (i.e. SAP NetWeaver is the interface between SAP applications and is also their runtime environment). It furthermore interoperates with and can be extended using various technologies, some of which are Microsoft .NET, Sun Java EE, and IBM WebSphere. SAP is fostering relationships with system integrators and technology providers, many of the latter becoming "Powered by SAP Netweaver". The strong momentum illustrates the power SAP holds over the market for packaged software solutions.
SAP Netweaver can be seen as part of SAP's plan to transition to a new architecture. From a technical point of view, one can say that SAP NetWeaver is an evolution of mySAP technology, also known as simply SAP.
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[edit] Composition
NetWeaver is a stack of SAP products that are provided under a single license. NetWeaver includes all SAP's major business applications except for SAP's mySAP ERP flagship product[citation needed]. NetWeaver's release is considered as a strategic move by SAP for driving enterprises to run their business on a single SAP platform[citation needed].
NetWeaver includes a group of relatively independent business applications running on a single technical platform, SAP Web Application Server (Web AS).
The list of products are:
- SAP Web Application Server
- SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI)
- SAP Enterprise Portal
- SAP Master Data Management (MDM)
- SAP Mobile Infrastructure (MI)
- SAP Business Intelligence (BI) aka SAP Business Information Warehouse
- SAP Knowledge Warehouse (KW)
- Collaboration
- TREX Engine
- SAP Composite Application Framework - an environment for designing and using composite applications
[edit] What's new
- SOAP and Web Services
- Interoperability with Java EE (WebSphere)
- Interoperability with .NET (Microsoft)
- Integration of Business Intelligence
- xApps
- Duet
Specifically, ERP is being extended by Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) and, as BPMS takes hold as the pre-dominant technical platform for new applications, expect to see radical changes to ERP architecture in the years ahead.
SAP's Netweaver platform is still backwards-compatible with ABAP, SAP's custom development language.
[edit] References
- Steffen Karch, Loren Heilig: SAP NetWeaver Roadmap. Galileo Press, 2005, ISBN 1-59229-041-8
