Monday, June 25
What is SAP Netweaver ?
SAP Netweaver is a Technology platform which enables integration of people, information and business processes. SAP Netweaver enables seamless integration with leading market technologies like Microsoft’s .NET, IBM’s websphere and Sun’s J2EE. By enabling such integration with technologies, it reduced total cost of ownership. SAP Netweaver provides preconfigured business content and applications. As a result of this, very less or almost no further customization is needed. This again adds to lowering of the TCO.
The key capabilities of SAP Netweaver platform are:
Portal Infrastructure Collaboration Multi Channel access Knowledge management
Business Intelligence Master data management Integration broker Business process management
Application platform Lifecycle management Composite application framework
Portal Infrastructure provides a unified and single point of information about the customers, suppliers, partners, employees etc. It is a role based system where applications from various domains of the business can run.
Collaboration increases the quality of communication that take place between to business executives, teams or forum. It provides real time collaboration by news, chats, calendar etc. Applications and documents can be shared using collaboration.
Multi channel access enables you to access your SAP systems using mobiles or hand handles devices. So with the help of multi channel access, you can do business anywhere, anytime.
Knowledge management is about providing access to unstructured content within the organization. The unstructured content like text files, image files, audios, videos can be stored using KM. KM provides the functionality to search such unstructured content in an efficient way. Using a open framework, third party repositories also can be accessed.
Business intelligence helps integrate and analyze business data. Data is converted into useful information using BI’s reporting tools. Applications developed using BI can help make decisions at almost all levels of the organizations.
Master data management increases integrity of information across heterogeneous IT environment. It can consolidate, harmonize and centrally manage master data of the company like Product masters, Customer masters, company assets etc.
Integration broker helps two applications from different to communicate with each other using the XML or SOAP.
Business process management or BPM allows various applications to be combined in such a manner that they work in tandem to provide end to end value chain. BPM is a modeling tool which can be used by non-technical lot of the company to formulate a Model.
Application platform is the application development platform which supports both java and ABAP. It provides full support to platform independent applications and services.
Lifecycle management provides the tools for managing the lifecycle of software development. Various phases like design, blueprint, development, testing, changes, transport etc can be managed.
Composite application framework enables development of SAP Composite applications. It contains tools, methodologies, patterns and rules which allow business users to create applications using applications.
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