SAP NetWeaver is the technical foundation of mySAP Business Suite solutions, SAP xApps and ensures maximum reliability, security, and scalability, so that mission-critical business processes run smoothly. SAP NetWeaver embraces Internet standards such as HTTP, XML, and Web services, ensuring openness and interoperability with Microsoft .NET, Sun’s Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and IBM WebSphere.

The SAP NetWeaver technology platform is a comprehensive integration and application platform that helps reduce the total cost of ownership (tcp). (We will discuss about total cost of ownership later in the paper).It facilitates the integration and alignment of people, information, and business processes across organizational and technological boundaries. It easily integrates information and applications from virtually any source.

SAP NetWeaver is not simply an infrastructure software competitive play – it is SAP’s new architecture model for delivering business functionality.

Why SAP Netweaver ?

SAP NetWeaver is a comprehensive integration and application platform and with it an IT investments of today will pay off. SAP NetWeaver is the basis for innovative and flexible cross-company processes of tomorrow.

SAP NetWeaver is the basis for SAP xApps and SAP business solutions. SAP NetWeaver enables an Enterprise Services Architecture combining SAP’s experience with corporate applications with the flexibility of web services and open technologies. This is how comprehensive and service-oriented business solutions can be developed.

Solution for Market using SAP Netweaver

Organizations today are in a need of such business processes that are more flexible and extensible than ever before. They also need solutions for the challenges they face and they have the lowest possible cost of ownership. SAP fulfills all these needs with the Enterprise Services Architecture blueprint and the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. Continue Reading …

Change Management in SAP NetWeaver’s Enterprise Portal (EP) and Knowledge Management (KM) has always been some what of a sore point with clients. Clients that implement EP and KM, most likely, are already leveraging other SAP solutions such as CRM, HR, BW, etc. and therefore, utilize the tried, tested and true methods of the SAP Transport Organizer under SE10. Enter NetWeaver, all transports are done manually and there are many different transport tools that one must learn to offer a fully capable Change Management solution. Further, while SAP will recommend strategies, the actual process is usually left to the client to detail. This white paper will attempt to outline every type of transport mechanism involved with EP and KM as well as offer a generic process that would fit any clients’ needs. While this white paper will touch upon simple custom Portal Archive Application transports, it will not cover CM in pure development environments such as the NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI).

Change Management Introduction

Before we consider CM (Change Management) in SAP NetWeaver, let us recognize that CM affects many layers of the SAP NetWeaver stack. Regarding EP and KM, we will touch upon People Integration, Information Integration and Application Platform – 3 of the 4 layers as depicted in the SAP NetWeaver stack diagram below, affectionately referred to as the “NetWeaver Refrigerator”.

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By providing an open integration and application platform and permitting the integration of the Enterprise Services Architecture, SAP NetWeaver helps unify business processes across technological boundaries, integrating applications for employees as needed, and accessing/editing simple information easily in a structured manner.
Components include:

• Security
• People Integration
  • Multi-channel Access
  • Portal
  • Collaboration
• Information Integration
  • Business Intelligence
• BI (Business Intelligence) Content
  • Knowledge Management
  • Master Data Management
• Process Integration
  • Integration Broker
  • Business Process Management
• Application Platform
  • Java
  • ABAP
  • Business Services
  • Connectivity
  • DB and OS Abstraction
  • SAP Knowledge Warehouse
• Life Cycle Management
  • Customizing
  • Software Change Management
  • System Management

The thesis work presented in this report is a joint work of two students of Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

The main area of investigation is SAP NetWeaver and its influence on further development of SAP applications. In order to find out the impact of SAP NetWeaver’s on SAP as a company and as a system, SAP background and history as well as SAP NetWeaver background and components are analyzed. Moreover, as SAP NetWeaver is based on SOA principles, this framework is also presented in detail. Lastly, SAP NetWeaver’s influence on architecture, development, integration and implementation of SAP solutions is studied and a survey is carried out in order to find out the impact of SAP NetWeaver on business actors (SAP customers, developers and consultants). In the conclusions part, all the results are analyzed and summarized.

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Collaboration component saves money and time and improces work quality. It provides an open infrastructure to enable communication, create transparency and collect, merge and present information. By allowing to integrate with existing tools and infrastructures and span a wide range of scenarios and situations.

SAP NetWeaver Collaboration supports the people to:

• Create a seamless work flow
• Organize their work
• Create and maintain a network of information
  • by enabling the people to create, modify and publish content and to extend the information network
• To do all this in a self-service mode without having to learn new concepts

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