The core products that make up SAP NetWeaver include:
- SAP NetWeaver Application Server
- SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence
- SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (CE)
- SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal (EP)
- SAP NetWeaver Identity Management (IdM)
- SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (MDM)
- SAP NetWeaver Mobile
- SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (PI)
SAP has also teamed with hardware vendors like HP, IBM, Fujitsu-Siemens, and Sun to deliver appliances (i.e., hardware + software) to simplify and enhance the deployment of NetWeaver components. Examples of these appliances include:
- BW Accelerator
Development Tools
- ABAP Workbench (SE80)
- SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio (NWDS) based on Eclipse for most of the Java part of the technology (Web Dynpro for Java, JEE, Java Dictionary, Portal Applications etc.)
- SAP Netweaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI)
- Visual Composer
see also:
- Web Dynpro
- SAP
- SAkP Composite Application Framework - an environment for designing and using composite applications
Features
- SOAP and Web Services
- Interoperability with Java EE
- Interoperability with .NET (Microsoft)
- Integration of Business Intelligence
- xApps
- Duet
Specifically, ERP is being extended by Business Process Management Systems (BPMs) and, as BPMs takes hold as the pre-dominant technical platform for new applications, expect to see radical changes to ERP architecture in the years ahead. Allen Davis, a NetWeaver xMII expert, has successfully used Six Sigma scenarios as information in real time from shop floor control systems and used in plant quality control lab experimental tests. The technology has been applied to a wide range of industries and applications.
SAP's Netweaver platform is still backwards-compatible with ABAP, SAP's custom development language.