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.

SAP NetWeaver supports:

• Enabling business-to-business processes – You can seamlessly connect your company's business processes with those of your partners using message-based and standards-based methods for process integration. You can also offer various communication channels as well as process coordination and surveillance. SAP NetWeaver supports business partner integration using industry standards, including small-business partner and subsidiary integration.
• Enabling application-to-application processes – You can seamlessly connect SAP and non-SAP applications within the enterprise, orchestrating the process flow between them. SAP NetWeaver supports application-to-application integration using message-based and standards-based methods for process integration.
• SAP Enterprise Modeling applications by IDS Scheer – These enterprise-modeling offerings deliver Web-based components that support the process life cycle for business process design, analysis, optimization, and implementation.
• Enabling platform interoperability – You can use SAP NetWeaver to integrate systems, applications, processes, and information. The platform enables you to manage heterogeneous system landscapes, including solutions from third-party vendors.
• Business task management – You can get the right tasks to the right people, so they can complete their tasks on time with the best results. With SAP NetWeaver, you automate online processes, support offline processes, and coordinate access to tasks across the enterprise.

The key IT activities involved with end-to-end process integration are enabled by SAP NetWeaver components such as SAP NetWeaver Process Integration and SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure, as well as related applications such as SAP Enterprise Modeling applications by IDS Scheer.