SAP NetWeaver is an open infrastructure that SAP's Business Suite is built on. It enables integration between SAP and non-SAP components and with the internet, supporting collaborative business. NetWeaver provides a comprehensive integration and application platform, delivering lower total cost of ownership solutions. NetWeaver includes components like the Web Application Server, Enterprise Portals, and Exchange Infrastructure that support integration of people, information, and business processes across systems.

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The SAP Business Suite is built on SAP NetWeaver, which allows integration
between SAP and non-SAP components and supports integration with the
Internet thereby enabling collaborative business or c-business. In this image you
can see that the Business Suite offering combines R/3 as well as ERP
components and makes it one complete solution offering in a collaborative
business environment.
Apart from cross-industry solutions, SAP also offers 22 industry-specific or IS
solutions such as Automotive, Chemicals and more. As you see here, the SAP
Customer Services Network spreads across the entire Business Suite and aims at
ensuring that customers achieve maximum return on their investment with SAP
Business Suite.

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SAP NetWeaver is an open and scalable infrastructure upon which the SAP Business Suite
is built. With its ability to integrate with the Internet, SAP’s NetWeaver enables
collaborative business. As you see on this slide, NetWeaver provides for a comprehensive
integration and application platform thereby delivering solutions with lower TCO (Total
Cost of Ownership) to the customer. We will see more of the NetWeaver features in next
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Let us explore the various components of SAP NetWeaver and how it is placed through
out the life cycle of software management NetWeaver enables SAP Mobile Infrastructure
SAP Enterprise Portals SAP Business Information Warehouse Master Data Management
SAP Exchange Infrastructure and SAP Web Application Server.
It also provides a composite application framework with People integration, Information
integration, Process integration, and Application platform. People Integration uses SAP
Enterprise Portal to ensure that Employees get the information, and access necessary for
efficient work.
Using SAP Business Information Warehouse, Information Integration ensures that
structured and unstructured information is accessible. Next, to ensure that all your
business processes run smoothly through your heterogeneous system landscape, SAP
exchange Infrastructure works with XML Data packages and workflows at the Process
Integration level. Finally, the Application platform supports J2EE and ABAP in a single
environment using SAP Web Application Server. This guarantees independence between
databases and operating systems. Thus SAP NetWeaver plays a vital role in collaborative
e-business.

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SAP NetWeaver is a complete package of components that works in harmony to provide
solutions for customer‘s integration requirements, where a single platform is used to
integrate information and systems.
More and more SAP applications are making use of the SAP NetWeaver Exchange
Infrastructure and introducing NetWeaver XI to customer landscapes. Some of the
applications and components that use SAP NetWeaver XI include Extended Applications
like xRPM Master Data Management Supplier, Relationship Management, ERP Central
Component, Customer Relationship Management, and SAP BusinessOne.

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Enterprise Services Architecture provides a blueprint for service-based,
enterprise-scale business solutions – solutions that are adaptable, flexible,
and open, for lower TCO. Applications can be created on top of existing
enterprise applications, and served by Enterprise Services Architecture to
increase the value of those systems, and extend automation to new
processes.
ESA expands the concept of Web services to architecture for business
applications. While Web services represent only a technical concept, ESA is
the proposal for comprehensive and service-based business applications.
Enterprise Services Architecture: Supports all people that participate in a
business process inside and outside of the corporation, comprises all
information that is relevant for the business process, integrates all systems
that are important for the process. It does this regardless of whether the
systems involved are SAP or non-SAP, internal or external.

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The functional architecture of SAP Web application server contains three separate
levels: Presentation level, Application level and integration level. SAP Web
Application Server has a runtime environment for J2EE-based Java programs, the
SAP J2EE Engine. This is, in addition, to the traditional runtime environment for
ABAP programs, together with the database SAP Web Application Server forms
the Application Platform of SAP NetWeaver.
SAP Web application server offers:
 A multilevel architecture with the SAP Web application server a reliable
tested runtime environment for ABAP and Java programs.
 High scalability
 An independence between Operating System and databases.
 A Convenient development environment.
 Support for various protocols like HTTP and RFC, and
 The Highest security standards for the execution of complex business
process.

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You have seen that the SAP Web Application Server is the application platform
of SAP NetWeaver. The functions of different SAP systems like ECC 6.0 and
CRM can be divided into two categories namely, Basis functions and
Application functions. For example, if you take ECC, the SAP ERP central
component would be the Application function and the Web Application Server
would be the Basis function. In CRM, SAP CRM would be the application
function. Similarly, many SAP software components, such as, SAP BI and SAP
SCM, also use the SAP Web Application Server as its Basis function.

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SAP XI connects to different SAP and Non-SAP systems. In this
example of an integration landscape at a customer site, an SAP R/3
version 3.1, an SAP R/3 version 4.6C, and a third party system are
integrated through SAP XI. The Integration Server also handles the
connection to different Business Partners, as well as, to a Public
Marketplace.
Certain adapters are needed in situations where the Integration
Server has to exchange messages with an R/3 system. If you want
to use SAP XI to realize a cross-system integration process and if
the systems involved are based on SAP Web Application Server
6.20 or higher, you can use the new SAP XI programming model.

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Let us now explore how Master Data Management enables companies to
store, augment and consolidate Master Data, while ensuring consistent
distribution to all applications, and systems within the IT landscapes.
MDM uses the technological foundation of the exchange infrastructure, SAP
XI, to distribute the data.
Master Data Management features: Content Consolidation Master Data
harmonization and Central Master Data Management. SAP MDM supports a
step by step approach to collective Master Data maintenance in a distributed
and heterogeneous environment.

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SAP Enterprise Portal is a flexible, reliable, and secure solution that lets you
take advantage of all your information assets. Based on open standards, it
integrates any enterprise information source. All your SAP and non-SAP
systems, your data warehouse, desktop documents, Web contents, and Web
services are brought together in one single user interface. Portal content is used
to empower users to get relevant information, make effective decisions, take
appropriate action, and collaborate with others.
With SAP Enterprise portal, the portal also provides content designed
specifically to serve users in various industries and business areas. The SAP
Enterprise Portal provides a role-based, secure Web-based interface to all
information, applications and services. Portal roles structure and deliver
targeted content to each end user. A company can structure its business
processes and deliver business content according to the needs of certain user
groups.

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SAP NetWeaver has a number of advantages:
Openness and extendibility: SAP NetWeaver features complete
compatibility and extendibility with IBM WebSphere and Microsoft
.NET (technologies in which companies have made significant
investments.)
SAP Web Application Server achieves the Operating System and
Database independency for both ABAP and JAVA applications.
Immediate Integration: SAP NetWeaver allows complete integration
of people, information, and business processes in companies.
Clear Roadmap: SAP NetWeaver is the technological foundation of
all future SAP Solutions.
Lower total cost of ownership: SAP Web AS protects customer
investments. It leverages existing IT investments by integrating
different systems.

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