Over three thousand organizations are using the SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) offering as their enterprise-class, service-oriented architecture (SOA) middleware to perform application-to-application (A2A) and business-to-business (B2B) integration, and to accelerate composite application development.

SAP NetWeaver PI includes:

• Enterprise Service Repository (ES Repository) to build, model, and manage Web services
• High-volume enterprise services bus that supports distributed integration
• Principal propagation for trusted communication and to help ensure compliance
• A2A and B2B integration capabilities
• Predefined integration scenarios to jump-start integration projects

The enterprise services bus performance of SAP NetWeaver PI is specifically tuned for a high-volume, reliable exchange of information across distributed business applications. The functionality optimizes process performance based on real-world process scenarios required for enterprise resource planning, supports high-volume transactions, enables distributed integration versus broker-based integration, and provides local processing, including mapping and routing.

Performance features such as message packaging, parallel queue processing, and transaction handling at the transport and process levels further accelerate the performance of distributed end points for high-throughput message processing.

With support for open standards, SAP NetWeaver Process Integration supports process-centric collaboration among SAP and non-SAP applications, both within and beyond enterprise boundaries. With SAP NetWeaver Process Integration, you can:

• Accelerate process innovation using enterprise services and prepackaged integration content, such as interface schemas, mappings, business process components, and business scenario components
• Connect applications and data sources to integrate processes through standards-based XML and WS-based messaging
• Reduce integration costs and improve communication with business partners using industry-standard protocols and an open adapter framework that allows you to use partner adapters to extend connectivity across the entire business network
• Manage business processes through their life cycle with model-based tools that enable you to design, orchestrate, execute, monitor, and analyze business processes
• Support B2B integration through an agreed protocol using industry-standard protocols, such as RosettaNet
• Automate repetitive tasks using the business execution programming language (BPEL) whenever predefined data flows are required, and with business activity monitoring (BAM)

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