For details about the benefits, features, and functions of SAP NetWeaver, check out the following information:

Overview

• "SAP NetWeaver" (PDF, 246 KB) -- Discover how SAP NetWeaver, a comprehensive integration and application platform, ensures that mission-critical processes run smoothly, reliably, and securely with scalability for future growth.
• "SAP NetWeaver Statement of Direction" (PDF, 647 KB) -- In an improving economy, companies are ready to resume their growth. And to ensure profitable growth, they are turning to innovation as the catalyst fueling this change..

Technology

• "Enterprise Services Architecture - An Introduction" (PDF, 261 KB) -- Creating new value from existing IT assets calls for new answers. SAP’s answer is Enterprise Services Architecture, an open architecture for adaptive business solutions, enabled by the SAP NetWeaver™ platform.

Interoperability

• "SAP NetWeaver Platform Interoperability with IBM WebSphere and Microsoft .NET" (PDF, 109 KB) -- Learn how SAP NetWeaver delivers platform interoperability and Web-based services to unite solutions in a heterogeneous IT landscape.
• "Interoperability with Microsoft .NET: SAP NetWeaver and SAP .NET Connector" (PDF, 198 KB) -- Read how SAP .NET Connector enables SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft .NET applications to work together with fast, secure communication.
• "Interoperability of SAP NetWeaver and IBM WebSphere" (PDF, 253 KB) -- See how SAP and IBM joined forces to leverage IT assets and enable e-business. SAP NetWeaver works with IBM WebSphere to integrate people, information, and processes.

Multichannel Access

• "SAP Mobile Infrastructure: An Open Platform for Enterprise Mobility" (PDF, 107 KB) -- Read how leading companies stay ahead with SAP Mobile Infrastructure, a component of SAP NetWeaver. Installed locally, SAP MI extends enterprise capabilities to users on or off a network.

Portal Infrastructure

• "Portal Infrastructure" (PDF, 301 KB) -- Explore how SAP Enterprise Portal provides role-based access to personalized information, applications, and services for employees, customers, suppliers, business partners, and investors.

Collaboration

• "Collaboration with SAP NetWeaver" (PDF, 156 KB) -- Read how SAP NetWeaver makes real-time collaboration and higher productivity a part of daily work, providing collaboration rooms and other tools to share information and ideas.

 

Business Intelligence

• "Extending Business Intelligence with SAP NetWeaver" (PDF, 291 KB) -- Discover how SAP NetWeaver with SAP Business Intelligence delivers strategic advantages to build efficient business processes and capture new markets.
• "SAP Business Intelligence" (PDF, 362 KB) -- Read how SAP Business Intelligence offers rich data analyses from diverse sources in formats for target constituents to monitor key success factors and react quickly to market changes.

Master Data Management

• "SAP Master Data Management" (PDF, 71 KB) -- Read how SAP Master Data Management uses the power of SAP NetWeaver to enable organizations with diverse systems to consolidate content, harmonize master data, and manage centralized data.

Integration and Business Process Management

• "Business Process Management with SAP NetWeaver" (PDF, 171 KB) -- Learn how enterprises facing shifting business dynamics and constantly changing people, organizations, and IT landscapes can manage business processes efficiently.
• "SAP Exchange Infrastructure" (PDF, 159 KB) -- SAP Exchange Infrastructure, the SAP NetWeaver integration broker, provides key open integration technologies that enable process-centric collaboration among SAP and non-SAP components.
• "WebFlow Engine: Driving Continuous Improvement in Business Processes" (PDF, 104 KB) -- Read how SAP NetWeaver's workflow tool supports application integration, productivity tools, e-mail products, and intranet and Internet processes.

Application Platform

• "SAP Web Application Server: Building Reliable Business Applications" (PDF, 305 KB) -- Learn how SAP Web Application Server provides scalable, reliable, powerful Web access using browsers, mobile devices, and Web-enabled client programs.
• "SAP Web Application Server: Support for Open Standards" (PDF, 148 KB) -- Discover how SAP Web Application Server accepts leading open standards and Web services standards, and supports life-cycle management for business solutions.

Composite Application Framework

• "Designing Cross Solutions" (PDF, 103 KB) - Learn how a composite application framework reduces cost of change, speeds ROI, unifies and shortens applications development, and increases evolution and component reuse.

Solution Life-Cycle Management

• "IT Landscapes: Architecture and Life-Cycle Management of Distributed Environments" (PDF, 297 KB) - Learn how to use SAP tools to plan and design an IT landscape to fit current enterprise requirements for each phase of the life cycle.

Business Content

• "SAP Enterprise Portal -- Portal Content" (PDF, 156 KB) -- Learn how SAP Enterprise Portal provides predefined business content packages and tools and resources to develop, administer, and implement portal content quickly and easily.

Security

• "Secure Business with SAP NetWeaver" (PDF, 155 KB) - Discover SAP NetWeaver layered security and integrated approach to operating safely and confidently in the collaborative business world, protecting both ROI and corporate image.

Globalization

• "Global Solutions Without Boundaries" (PDF, 487 KB) -- Explore how SAP technology helps customers, business partners, and suppliers - across time zones - get the information they need, when they need it, in the right language.