With the SAP NetWeaver platform, your organization can implement crucial IT practices in a flexible, step-by-step approach at low cost. You can address your immediate IT needs first and, since the platform components are tightly integrated, you can expand your practice projects over time within a sustainable cost structure.

SAP NetWeaver enables the following IT practices. For each practice, SAP NetWeaver supports a variety of key IT activities -- all of which are easy to perform using the platform's integrated components.

• User productivity enablement -- Help users and groups improve their productivity through enhanced collaboration, optimized knowledge management, and personalized access to critical applications and data.
• Data unification -- Consolidate, rationalize, synchronize, and manage all master data for improved business processes.
• Business information management -- Increase the visibility, reach, and usefulness of structured and unstructured enterprise data.
• Business event management -- Ensure that business events from multiple systems are distributed to the appropriate decision makers in the context of the relevant business processes.
• End-to-end process integration -- Make disparate applications and systems work together consistently to perform business processes.
• Custom development -- Rapidly create new enterprise-scale applications that drive your company's differential advantage.
• Unified life-cycle management -- Automate application management processes and optimize all facets of an application's life cycle.
• Application governance and security management -- Maintain an appropriate level of security and quality in your intellectual property and information assets.
• Consolidation -- Deploy a consolidated technology platform with the ability to allocate computing power according to changing business needs.
• Enterprise service-oriented architecture design and deployment -- Consolidate and standardize your basic processes and leverage existing investments to compose new, distinctive business processes.