With SAP NetWeaver, your IT organization can automate application management processes and optimize all facets of an application's life cycle to ensure both continuous operations and faster reaction to changing business requirements.

SAP NetWeaver enables:

• Software life-cycle management -- You can manage the SAP products and solutions in your system landscape, from implementation through software maintenance. You can also perform a selective upgrade of SAP NetWeaver, in which the scenario you select during the upgrade procedure determines which components are upgraded and the exact procedure for the upgrade.
• SAP NetWeaver operations -- You have all the tools, processes, and services you need to run, monitor, automate, and administer your SAP NetWeaver-based infrastructure in a highly effective manner.

The key IT activities involved with unified life-cycle management are enabled by SAP NetWeaver components, tools, and solution extensions such as SAP Solution Manager, SAP NetWeaver Application Server, the Adaptive Computing Controller tool, SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood, and SAP LoadRunner by Mercury.