Platform Simplifies the Way People Use IT
SAP NetWeaver is the open integration and application platform that integrates people, information, and processes into one hub, across technologies and organizations, to reduce TCO. Customers wishing to create an enterprise SOA can deploy further elements of SAP NetWeaver, such as SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Accelerator and SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management, to optimize and enhance their core processes. We added new functions to the SAP NetWeaver technology platform in 2007. It now gives IT staff an even more powerful strategic technology platform to standardize, consolidate, and optimize their IT landscape and to develop and integrate innovative business process solutions. In developing the new functions for SAP NetWeaver, we concentrated on helping simplify the way workers use IT, accelerating design and integration of applications for business processes, and managing and accessing relevant data right across the enterprise. It is now even easier for customers to create a powerful business process platform based on enterprise SOA.
- SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment: We released the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment, offering, a lean, integrated, standards-based development, modeling, and runtime environment. Software developers and technical consultants can use it to extend application logic and, depending on users’ needs, compose new views and applications based on SAP software. It has been available to our customers and partners since May 2007.
- SAP NetWeaver Process Integration: In December 2007, we shipped the final major building block for creating an enterprise SOA. Companies use new functions in the SAP NetWeaver Process Integration offering, which we developed from the SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure component, to make their business processes more flexible and to manage enterprise services. At its heart is the Enterprise Services Repository, which is used to define all enterprise services and manage them through their life cycle. The new version also supports standards better, and improves the handling of data-intensive scenarios.
- SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management (BRM): We acquired Yasu, a leading vendor of business rules management systems, and embedded its solutions in our SAP NetWeaver technology platform, helping our customers apply their business rules consistently to all of their business processes in heterogeneous IT landscapes, and update them as necessary. The control capabilities can also help companies better and more reliably maintain legal compliance.
- SAP NetWeaver Identity Management: We acquired MaXware in May 2007. We integrated its identity management solution in the SAP NetWeaver technology platform and enhanced it to help companies save time and money by optimizing the administration of user accounts and passwords.
- SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search: In August 2007, we released the SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search application. It provides secure, seamless access to information and processes in SAP and non-SAP systems to help information workers navigate to key business data. They can use it in familiar environments: in portals, as a desktop widget, on handheld devices, and in e-mail. SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search delivers highly relevant results and suggested actions that reflect the user’s role in the enterprise, and recognizes the business context of the search query.
- SAP NetWeaver Mobile: The first customers started using our new SAP NetWeaver Mobile offering in May 2007. This is the successor to the SAP Mobile Infrastructure component. It provides new, scalable middleware to simplify the management of mobile devices, and improved security functions. New development tools help build mobile applications with very little programming work. SAP NetWeaver Mobile also provides a runtime infrastructure for mobile solutions with which mobile workers can access the information they need from SAP and non-SAP applications, online and offline, wherever they are.
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