SAP Netweaver Technology

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.

Enterprise Services Architecture

Enterprise Services Architecture is a blueprint for complete business integration. The Enterprise Services Architecture blueprint fulfills SAP’s commitment to meet the needs for open, integrated and flexible business solutions. All SAP solutions and some solutions from SAP partners are being designed in accordance with the Enterprise Services Architecture blueprint. The powerful foundation that drives solutions based on Enterprise Services Architecture is the SAP NetWeaver platform.

NetWeaver is SAP’s next-generation software infrastructure toolset they will utilize to build their applications. While it is as significant a transition as the move from the mainframe R/2 solutions to the client/server based R/3, it is evolutionary and will protect much more of a client’s investment in R/3.

Cost of Ownership for SAP Netweaver

A company undoubtedly recognizes the value of an integrated business and wants o benefit from it. Integrated heterogeneous systems remain a key challenge for the IT organization. To reduce complexity and cost, we need a single platform that integrates all people, information and business processes. That platform is SAP NetWeaver.

SAP NetWeaver is a comprehensive integration and application platform that lowers the total cost of ownership. It unifies and aligns people, information, and business processes across technologies and organizations. SAP Netweaver is an integrated platform based on web services and besides delivering the technology we need is preconfigured with business content. And unlike other platforms, SAP Netweaver is an interoperable and extensible with both Microsoft .Net and IBM WebSphere and supports Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). These qualities significantly reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) not only SAP solutions but also for the entire IT landscape.

NetWeaver has been tagged as a product that could help spur industry adoption of Web services. Although Web services are often seen as the development model of the future, the implementation rate has not been high, often because of competition and incompatibility between enabling products. At a January 2003 press conference, Microsoft’s Bill Gates anticipated that NetWeaver would increase the adoption rate of Web services. Finally, SAP NetWeaver is the technology foundation that powers SAP solutions.