SAP NetWeaver

Overview
What is NetWeaver?
• SAP NetWeaver is the next-generation services-based platform that will
serve as the foundation for all future SAP applications.
• NetWeaver comprises several technologies and components: a portal
framework, business intelligence and reporting, Business Process
Management (BPM), integration, Master Data Management (MDM), a
common run-time application server, and the SAP application
development and management platform.
• SAP promotes NetWeaver as offering people, process, and data
integration with SAP applications and information.
• SAP NetWeaver is the basis for SAP to offer composite applications to
its customers. Commonly referred to as xApps, these composite
applications will be built and managed with SAP NetWeaver tools.
• SAP AG will use existing functionality prevalent in the SAP applications
to build out new functionality, or extensions, to the SAP family of
products.
What NetWeaver Isn’t
• First of all, NetWeaver is not a product that companies can buy or even
upgrade to on its own. Also, it’s not an option.
• NetWeaver is not a general-purpose infrastructure replacement for IBM,
Microsoft, or BEA.
• It is not a general development platform.
• It will not displace technology that companies already use to develop
custom applications unrelated to SAP or to perform integration between
non-SAP applications – although SAP XI can be used to integrate
virtually any enterprise application.
• SAP will not rewrite its proprietary development language, ABAP, in
J2EE. While developers will still have to know ABAP, NetWeaver will act
to wrap the code to interoperate with J2EE and .NET environments.
 SAP NETWEAVER EVOLUTION BECOMES THE
BUSINESS PROCESS PLATFORM
Gen 4

Productivity
Business
Process
Gen 3 Platform
 core business
objects
Composition  ready-to-run
Gen 2 Platform
business
processes
 accessible
through
Enterprise
Integration Services

Gen 1 Platform

Transact.
Platform

Business Innovation
SAP NetWeaver
 SLICING THE FRIDGE
IT Practices

SAP NetWeaver™
PEOPLE INTEGRATION

Enterprise Services Architecture

Multi channel access
Composite Application Framework

Business information management

End to end process integration

Portal Collaboration

User productivity enablement

Business Event Management

INFORMATION INTEGRATION

Application governance
Life Cycle Mgmt

Unified lifecycle Mgmt

Custom Development
Bus. Intelligence
Knowledge Mgmt

Data unification
Master Data Mgmt

PROCESS INTEGRATION

Consolidation
Integration Business
Broker Process Mgmt

APPLICATION PLATFORM
J2EE ABAP
Hardware, OS and DB Abstraction
 What Customers Do with SAP NetWeaver
IT Practices IT Scenarios
Enterprise
User Productivity Running an Enabling User Business Task Mobilizing Business
Knowledge
Enablement Enterprise Portal Collaboration Management Processes
Management

Master-Data Master-Data Central Master-Data Enterprise Data

Data Unification
Harmonization Consolidation Management Warehousing

Business
Enterprise Reporting, Query, and Business Planning and Analytical
Information Enterprise Data Warehousing
Analysis Services
Management

Business Event
Business Event Resolution Business Task Management
Management
Enabling Enabling Business-
End-to-End Process Business Process Enabling Platform Business Task
Application-to-App. to-Business
Integration Management Interoperability Management
Processes Processes

Custom Developing, Configuring, and

Enabling Platform Interoperability
Development Adapting Applications

Unified Life-Cycle
Software Life-Cycle Management SAP NetWeaver Operations
Management

Application
Governance & Authentication and Single Sign-On Integrated User and Access Management
Security
Enabling Platform SAP NetWeaver Master-Data Enterprise Knowledge
Consolidation
Interoperability Operations Consolidation Management

Enterprise Service
Architecture – Design Enabling Enterprise Services
& Deployment
 SAP NETWEAVER / Features
SAP NetWeaver is the open integration and application platform that
integrates people, information, and processes. It powers not only SAP
Business Suite and SAP xApps but also partner solutions and customer
custom-built applications. SAP NetWeaver aligns IT with the business
and lowers the total cost of ownership of your IT infrastructure.

Java – SAP NetWeaver provides complete support for Java technology.

Web services – SAP NetWeaver extends the syntax and standards of
Web services to enable enterprise services.
Open standards – SAP NetWeaver provides an open integration and
application platform that reflects SAP's commitment to industry
standards and interoperability.
Security – SAP offers security mechanisms to meet your needs for data
integrity, protection, and confidentiality.
Globalization – SAP NetWeaver supports business and legal
requirements around the world.
Microsoft .NET interoperability – SAP NetWeaver offers interoperability,
openness, and extensibility for Microsoft .NET.
IBM WebSphere interoperability – SAP NetWeaver offers
interoperability, openness, and extensibility for IBM WebSphere.
Accessibility – SAP works to make SAP NetWeaver and our solutions
accessible to people with disabilities.
SAP NetWeaver
SAP NetWeaver: Components

SAP NetWeaver™
1 • MI 2.1 / 2.5
PEOPLE INTEGRATION
Multi channel access 7

Composite Application Framework

2 •EP 6.0 • Collaboration
Portal Collaboration

INFORMATION INTEGRATION

Life Cycle Mgmt

3 • BI 3.0 / 3.5 •KM 8
Bus. Intelligence
Knowledge Mgmt
Master Data Mgmt
4 • MDM 5.5
PROCESS INTEGRATION
Integration Business •BPM 9
5 •XI 3.0
Broker Process Mgmt

APPLICATION PLATFORM 10
• Web AS 6.20
6 / 6.30 / 6.40 J2EE ABAP •Solution Manager
DB and OS Abstraction
SAP NETWEAVER - Components
SAP NetWeaver includes a comprehensive set of components.

SAP NetWeaver Application Server – Supports platform-independent Web services,

business applications, and standards-based development, enabling you to leverage
existing technology assets for Web-services-oriented solutions
SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse – Enables you to integrate data from across the
enterprise and transform it into practical, timely business information to drive sound
decision-making
SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management – Provides tools to help you model,
execute, and monitor business processes based on a single, consistent process model
SAP NetWeaver Process Integration – Delivers SOA-based technology that supports
process-centric integration across the extended value chain
SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management – Ensures cross-system data consistency
and helps integrate business processes across the extended value chain
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Components
SAP NetWeaver Mobile – Provides a "future-proof" mobile run-time environment based
on open and flexible technology standards and a powerful development environment
for building integrated mobile solutions with native or browser-based user interfaces
SAP NetWeaver Portal – Unifies critical information and applications to give users role-
based views that span the enterprise, enabling you to take full advantage of your
information resources
SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure – Gives you all the capabilities you need to integrate all
automated sensing devices – including RFID readers and printers, Bluetooth devices,
embedded systems, and bar-code devices
SAP NetWeaver Identity Management – Addresses access and provisioning issues
facing a typical enterprise, creates a new opportunity for integrating business
processes, and helps you to integrate systems in a heterogeneous IT environment
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Tools
Adaptive Computing Controller – Provides a central point of control for assigning
computing resources and optimizing their use
SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment – Provides a robust environment for
design, deployment, and running of composite applications that comply with a
service-oriented architecture
SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio – Offers a convenient user interface and rich
functionality for developing J2EE applications
SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer – Simplifies the creation of portal content and
analytics applications, enabling business analysts to build or customize applications
using a visual user interface rather than manual coding
SAP Solution Manager – Facilitates technical support for distributed systems with
functionality that covers all key aspects of solution deployment, operation, and
continuous improvement
 Formatted Reporting
Business Intelligence
SAP NetWeaver 2004s Analytics

Integrated
Planning
Productivity
User

BI Accelerator

$ Platform
Integration Broker (SAP XI/PI )
MDME – Product Concept
MDME Architecture and Components
MDME Architecture and Components
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