SAP NetWeaver supports a variety of user interfaces and collaboration tools. You can accommodate different work styles and roles for best user experience with:

• SAP NetWeaver Portal to provide role-based views that span your enterprise, enabling everyone to take full advantage of information resources
• SAP NetWeaver Gateway to enable developers to create innovative, people-centric applications that link business users to SAP software
• SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search to provide a simple and secure gateway to enterprise information and processes

With SAP NetWeaver you can accelerate access to business information to improve decision making. You can deliver business information to the right people at the right time with:

• SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management to support customer data integration, global spend analysis, global data synchronization, product content management, mergers, and acquisitions
• SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse to enable a scalable enterprise data warehouse
• SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator to accelerate the results of queries or searches while lowering the cost of operations, even as data volumes and number of users increase
• SAP Information Lifecycle Management to manage access, storage, and retention of data from legacy SAP systems, while complying with legal and regulatory mandates

With SAP NetWeaver, you can create and adapt business processes and business rules for higher levels of flexibility while reducing risks and costs. As an integral part of the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment, these business process management offerings enable a coherent development experience:

• Business Process Management to model and execute processes in order to achieve enhanced responsiveness to changing business needs and reduce cost of handling exceptions
• Business Rules Management to create and maintain business rules to ensure that processes conform to business policies

With SAP NetWeaver, you can use a model-driven composition environment to develop or update applications that support flexible business processes. You can also use SAP NetWeaver to monitor and manage business processes to improve process quality and efficiency.

Compose or update applications to support flexible business processes with:

• SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment to design, deploy, and run applications
• SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio to develop J2EE-based, multi-tiered business applications
• SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer to compose model-based business applications without manual coding

With SAP NetWeaver, your IT organization can make disparate applications and systems work together consistently to enable end-to-end business processes – exchanging information and executing transactions smoothly, and operating as if they were a single system.

Integrate and manage business processes that are enabled by SAP and non-SAP applications with:

• Process Integration to connect applications and data sources to integrate processes
• Partner adapters to reduce integration costs to extend connectivity across the business networks
• Industry standard protocols to support business to business integration

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With SAP NetWeaver, you can improve the operational efficiency of best-in-class business processes. In particular, you can use SAP NetWeaver to run applications, such as the SAP Business Suite family of business applications and SAP-certified partner solutions, from a unified platform – ensuring that mission-critical business processes are highly available, reliable, scalable, and secure throughout the life cycle.

Run critical business applications on a stable technical foundation with:

• SAP NetWeaver Application Server to deploy core business applications using the open and reliable infrastructure
• SAP NetWeaver Identity Management to manage user identity and access across the enterprise
• SAP NetWeaver Single Sign-On to enable re-use of a person's initial authentication for subsequent log-ins to all applications
• SAP Solution Manager to ensure that mission-critical business processes are highly available, scalable, and secure throughout their life cycle