With SAP NetWeaver, your IT organization can deploy an enterprise service-oriented architecture to help consolidate and standardize your company's basic processes and leverage existing investments to compose new, distinctive business processes -- flexibly and at low cost.

You can design, implement, build, and run applications based on Web services. You can also ensure a consistent business object taxonomy, as well as the reuse of business objects. SAP NetWeaver enables the use of enterprise services through a single infrastructure for uniform service definition, implementation, and usage. In particular, SAP NetWeaver supports:

• Point-to-point services-based integration
• Brokered services-based integration

The key IT activities involved with enterprise service-oriented architecture design and deployment are enabled by all the integrated functionality of SAP NetWeaver and its development tools.