What You Need to Know About SAP NetWeaver a Comprehensive Introduction
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SAP NetWeaver today and tomorrow
Summary
Introducting SAP NetWeaver
SAP NetWeaver Capabilities
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The Emergence of Applistructure Applications and Technology Converge to Deliver Flexibility Without Disruption
High cost Testing Modifications Custom extensions Custom integration
Increasing risk Non-compliance Business disruption Inability to respond to business needs
10s of applications100s of modifications
1000s of dependencies
Lower cost Out of the box business content Pre Integration Composition leverage existing investments
Lower risk Out of the box compliance Minimize major upgrade cycles Incremental enhancement delivery
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Introducing SAP NetWeaver An Enterprise SOA Platform for Business Process Innovation and Transformation
SAP NetWeaver enables rapid but controlled business process change
Technology platform incorporating business functionality exposed as ready-to-use enterprise services
Pre-integrated applistructure platform, leverages existing investments, minimizes costs
Provides an integrated platform of composition technologies for orchestrating business processes and composing applications on top
Quickly adapt packaged industry xApps to the needs of your business users
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SAP NetWeaver becomes the core of the Business Process Platform
SAP NetWeaver is an Evolutionary Platform: From Infrastructure to Applistructure
FourGenerationsof Platforms
Business Innovation
Productivity
Gen 1
CompositionPlatform
BusinessProcess Platform
IntegrationPlatform
TransactionPlatform
Gen 4
Gen 3
Gen 2
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SAP NetWeaver becomes the business process platform
Business Innovation
Productivity
Gen 1
CompositionPlatform
BusinessProcess Platform
IntegrationPlatform
TransactionPlatform
Gen 4
Gen 3
Gen 2Pre
-SAP
NetWea
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compon
ents
Prior to
2004
SAP NetWeaver is an Evolutionary Platform: From Infrastructure to Applistructure
FourGenerationsof Platforms
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SAP NetWeaver becomes the business process platform
Business Innovation
Productivity
Gen 1
CompositionPlatform
BusinessProcess Platform
IntegrationPlatform
TransactionPlatform
Gen 4
Gen 3
Gen 2
SAP
NetWea
ver
2004
Pre-SA
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NetWea
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compon
ents
Prior to
2004
2004
SAP NetWeaver is an Evolutionary Platform: From Infrastructure to Applistructure
FourGenerationsof Platforms
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SAP NetWeaver becomes the business process platform
Business Innovation
Productivity
Gen 1
CompositionPlatform
BusinessProcess Platform
IntegrationPlatform
TransactionPlatform
Gen 4
Gen 3
Gen 2
SAP
NetWea
ver
2004
Pre-SA
P
NetWea
ver
compon
ents
SAP
NetWea
ver
7.0
Prior to
2004
2004
2005
SAP NetWeaver is an Evolutionary Platform: From Infrastructure to Applistructure
FourGenerationsof Platforms
SAP NetWeaver
xApps (Composites)
SAPHome
Grown/ISV
RFIDEmbedded
DuetRSS
Mobile Forms Widgets
RSS
Portal
DashboardProject Muse
Voice
Sub-sidiary
Bizpartner
Bizpartner
SAPGUI
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SAP NetWeaver becomes the business process platform
FourGenerationsof Platforms
Business Innovation
Productivity
Gen 1
CompositionPlatform
BusinessProcess Platform
IntegrationPlatform
Transact.Platform
Gen 4
Gen 3
Gen 2
SAP
NetWea
ver
2004
Pre-SA
P
NetWea
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compon
ents
SAP
NetWea
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7.0
Prior to
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2004
2005
SAP NetWeaver is an Evolutionary Platform: From Infrastructure to Applistructure SAP
NetWea
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2005 onw
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Enterprise SOA and the Business Process Platform An Enhanced Architecture and new Paradigms for Evolving/Extending Enterprise Applications is Needed
Manually built Low reusability No governance
Leads to chaos
SOA
Delete fromdatabase
Rollbackinventory
CancelShipment
CancelInvoicingAdjustPlanning
NotifySuppliers
SendNotification
Order to Cash
CancelOrder
Productizedservices
Business semantics Unified repository
Ensures integrity
ENTERPRISE SOAOrder to Cash
Coded processintegration
Multiple closed applications
Database, line coding, messaging
Static application UIs
Inflexibility andComplexity
Composition on services
End to end process views and modeling
Model-driven development
Decoupled UIs
Flexibility and lower TCO
Existing Information Technology
Business Process Platform
Enterprise SOA builds on top of standard SOA by enriching it with business content to ensure integrity
A Business Process Platform delivers on the new requirements to develop and run an agile business
CancelOrder
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SAP NetWeaver Enables Enterprise SOA SAP NetWeaver is the Enabling Platform for an Efficient Enterprise SOA
Provisioning Infrastructure Application and Integration Platform Powering SAP Business Applications Delivering Technology Innovations Productized Enterprise Services One unified central repository Built-in Governance
Composition Platform Integrated composition environment Enhanced core processes Flexibility for change Composite Applications on top Leverage innovation at individual pace
A New User Experience Simplified user experience Embedded analytics Multiple UIs
SAP NetWeaver today and tomorrow
Summary
Introducting SAP NetWeaver
SAP NetWeaver Capabilities
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SAP NetWeaver enables IT PracticesSAP NetWeaver platform helps IT deliver strategic value to the business
User productivity enablement
Business Event Management
Data unification
Business Information management
End-to-End Process Integration
Custom Development
Unified lifecycleManagement
Application governance
Consolidation
Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture
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User Productivity Enablement Powered by SAP NetWeaver
IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH HAPPY BUSINESS USERS Role-based and proactive delivery of timely and actionable information Bringing the business process into the user front-end of choice Improved decision making and collaboration across organizational boundaries Leveraging of existing IT information resources and development skills Incremental rollout that avoids disruption and maximizes ROI
User Productivity powered by SAP NetWeaver capabilities Enterprise Portal Collaboration Knowledge Management Event and Task Management Enterprise Search Mobile Voice
User productivity enablement
UI Services and Building Blocks
Roles
Work Centers Printing
Navigation
Context
Extensibility
Visualizations Personaliz. Tagging
Third-party
Subscription
Portal
User Clients and Access Channels
Collaboration
Communities
UI Patterns
Widgets
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Mobile & Voiceavailable everywhere
AnalyticsAction oriented and
personalized information
Bridging the gap between the users, their information and processes needs and their access needs
Adobe FormsEasy form based processing
DuetIntegrated access
from MS-Office
Enterprise SearchFaster responses
and action
Business ClientSimplified user
experience
Portal and Self-ServicesIntuitive productivity
Wikis & BlogsUsers contributing
to the business
Workspaces & NetworkingGroups and individuals build work communities
Widgets
