SAP Netweaver |
With the SAP NetWeaver platform, you can align IT with business requirements. SAP combines composition technologies and application functionality to reduce IT complexity and increase business flexibility. With SAP NetWeaver, you can compose applications using enterprise services, orchestrate business processes and events, manage enterprise information, and deliver applications and content to users more quickly and cost-effectively. |
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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. |
| Flexible, Step-by-Step Approach |
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. |
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User productivity enablement -- Help users and groups improve their productivity through enhanced collaboration, optimized knowledge management, and personalized access to critical applications and data. |
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Data unification -- Consolidate, rationalize, synchronize, and manage all master data for improved business processes. |
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Business information management -- Increase the visibility, reach, and usefulness of structured and unstructured enterprise data. |
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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. |
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End-to-end process integration -- Make disparate applications and systems work together consistently to perform business processes. |
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Custom development -- Rapidly create new enterprise-scale applications that drive your company's differential advantage. |
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Consolidation -- Deploy a consolidated technology platform with the ability to allocate computing power according to changing business needs. |
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Improve Organizational Productivity |
| Bridge the Paper-to-Digital Divide |
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| Increase User Productivity |
| SAP NetWeaver can help improve user productivity with personalized access to Web-based portals, enhanced collaboration, and knowledge management. |
| SAP NetWeaver: |
| Business Benefits |
SAP NetWeaver is the open integration and application platform that aligns people, information, and processes. Business benefits include: |
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Flexible business strategies – With SAP NetWeaver, you have the flexibility, visibility, and control to effectively execute, monitor, and refine corporate strategies.
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Innovative business processes – The platform powers innovative, industry-specific software and allows you to recompose existing systems to support innovative processes.
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Superior business value – SAP NetWeaver provides a business-focused infrastructure that supports continuous improvement of processes. It minimizes the risk and cost of introducing new processes, because existing systems remain unchanged while you leverage them for end-to-end enterprise processes.
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Improved business performance – SAP NetWeaver helps you aggregate and analyze information across the organization, so you can gain the insight needed to make the right changes.
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Unmatched user experience – Solutions built with SAP NetWeaver provide an efficient user experience through a role-based portal interface. With SAP NetWeaver, you can extend business processes to all employees, suppliers, and customers.
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Unique IT Benefits |
SAP NetWeaver also delivers a broad range of IT benefits, including: |
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Sustainable cost structure – SAP NetWeaver reduces total cost of ownership across the IT landscape. It enables you to leverage your existing IT investments, including SAP and non-SAP systems. Flexibility reduces the cost of change, while integration knowledge reduces the need for consulting services.
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Improved development – With SAP NetWeaver, you can compose new business processes on top of existing systems by using an enterprise service-oriented architecture based on Web services, Java, and other industry standards.
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Reduced TCO across the entire IT landscape – SAP NetWeaver technology components are integrated in a single platform and come preconfigured with business content, which reduces complexity and supports IT standardization and consolidation. The components also integrate readily with SAP applications, which reduces the need for custom integration.
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Easy development of extensible best practices – SAP NetWeaver supports communication, knowledge management, and collaboration across existing systems. You can take advantage of existing skills to improve current practices or develop new functionality.
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