What is NetWeaver
NetWeaver
is SAP’s integrated technology platform ,and is not a product in itself.In
fact, new version of basis is called the Netweaver.
The core capabilities of SAP NetWeaver are the integration of people, information, and process
People integration
It simply means that it enables you to bring people together and help them
work more efficiently.
Examples:-
·
Portal: - provides industry leading portal technology that delivers
unified, personalized, and role-based user access
·
Collaboration: - Collaboration promotes cooperation in enterprises using
virtual team rooms (Collaboration Rooms), real-time communication (chat and
application sharing) and the use of third-party groupware and synchronous
collaboration tools (for example, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, and WebEx)
·
Multi-Channel Access :- With Multi-Channel Access, you can connect
to enterprise systems through web-based, voice, mobile, messaging, or
radio-frequency technology.
Information integration
It means you can bring together information from a variety of
locations and have it make sense in the context of what your folks do everyday!
Examples:-
Examples:-
·
Business Intelligence:- It provides you with reliable tools for creating
individual and interactive reports and applications.
·
BI Content & BI Content Extensions :- Enables quicker
implementation using pre-configured role and task oriented information
models in SAP Business Intelligence.
·
Knowledge Management:- Allows common access to unstructured information and
documents in a distributed storage landscape like Search,Classification,Subscription,Versioning,etc..
·
Search and Classification (TREX) :- Provides SAP applications
with numerous services for searching, classifying, and text-mining in large
collections of documents (unstructured data) as well as for searching in and
aggregating business objects (structured data).
Process integration
It means coordinating the flow of work across departments,
divisions, and between companies. Usage type process integration includes
all functions previously covered by SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure that
you use to realize cross-system business processes. This SAP NetWeaver usage
type enables different versions of SAP and non-SAP systems from different
vendors running on different platforms (for example, Java ABAP, and so on) to
communicate with each other. SAP NetWeaver is based on an open architecture,
primarily uses open standards (in particular those from the XML and Java
environments), and provides services that are essential in a heterogeneous and
complex system landscape. These include a run time infrastructure for exchanging
messages, configuration options for managing business processes and the flow of
messages, as well as options for mapping messages before they reach the
receiver.
Application Platform
SAP Web Application Server provides a complete development
infrastructure on which you can develop, distribute, and execute
platform-independent, robust, and scalable Web services and business
applications. SAP Web Application Server supports ABAP, Java, and Web
services.
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