SAP NetWeaver is an open integration and application platform that connects people, information, and processes to enable more efficient management across all business areas. It allows you to leverage your existing IT infrastructure and supports change management processes. With SAP NetWeaver, you can quickly and flexibly design, compose, and implement new strategies and business processes. It enables the recomposition of existing systems to support innovative processes while maintaining a cost-effective structure.
SAP NetWeaver serves as the technological foundation for all SAP solutions.
Business Benefits:
- Flexible Business Strategies: SAP NetWeaver provides the flexibility, visibility, and control needed to effectively execute, monitor, and refine corporate strategies.
- Innovative Business Processes: It helps integrate existing applications into a unified infrastructure to support innovative business processes.
- Superior Business Value: SAP NetWeaver delivers a business-focused infrastructure that supports continuous process improvement. It minimizes the risk and cost of introducing new processes, as existing systems remain unchanged.
- Improved Business Performance: By aggregating and analyzing information across the organization, SAP NetWeaver enables optimal management decision-making.
- Unmatched User Experience: Solutions built with SAP NetWeaver offer an efficient user experience through a role-based portal interface, extending business processes to employees, suppliers, and customers.
IT Benefits:
- Sustainable Cost Structure: SAP NetWeaver reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) across the IT landscape. It allows you to leverage existing IT investments, including both SAP and non-SAP systems. The platform’s flexibility lowers the cost of change, while its integration capabilities reduce the need for consulting services.
- Improved Development: With SAP NetWeaver, you can build new business processes on top of existing systems using an enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) based on Web services, Java, and other industry standards.
- Reduced TCO Across the IT Landscape: SAP NetWeaver’s integrated technology components come preconfigured with business content, reducing complexity and supporting IT standardization and consolidation. The components also integrate easily with SAP applications, reducing the need for custom integration.
- Development of Best Practices: SAP NetWeaver facilitates communication, knowledge management, and collaboration across existing systems. It enables you to leverage existing skills to improve current practices or develop new functionalities.