Why Build on SAP NetWeaver?

[Former Member]

Hi everyone, and welcome to the new forum.

For some time in Asia we have encouraged customers and SAP implementation partners to use parts of SAP NetWeaver for true custom development projects - that is, building and running Java applications, or porting existing Java applications onto SAP NetWeaver to consolidate and simplify technology landscapes and skills requirements.

We now have many organisations around the region who have successfully deployed new Java applications, and ported existing ones to run alongside SAP ERP on the same technology foundation. They have discovered many benefits in reducing costs and improving development productivity, leveraging even more from their strategic investment in SAP's SOA strategy and solutions.

However, we found that the majority of discussions on SDN relating to development focus on composition of Enterprise Services or ABAP programming, with little discussion on the true standalone Java development topic and how it relates to the broader SAP SOA strategy of delivering Enterprise Services and composing new applications.

We created this forum to bring a distinct focus to the topic, and encourage you to discuss and debate the aspects of it so that a greater understanding can be reached of when best to use SAP NetWeaver in such a scenario, whether or not combined with an implementation of SAP ERP.

We are no longer in a "Build or Buy" world - SAP's SOA allows organisations to "Buy and Build" and get the benefits of global best practice combined with their own unique requirements on a single business process platform.

Whether you Buy, Build or both, we look forward to your contributions!

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

This topic is very much interesting for Japanese market. In Japan, there are so many scratched applications build on individual platforms, and customers need to integrate with a lot of costs. Even though integrated those applications, an integration level of various layers are not enough in UI, business process, data consistancy and governance perspectives.

Now SAP can deliver next gerenation application platform, BPP, enable combination of packaged process and scratched process build on the same Netweaver. Let's make it happen, and make sure this new paradium could deliver business value for SAP users.

[Former Member]

Build to Break Barriers

Would like to take the opportunity and present a great customer success story where SAP BPP was chosen as a platform of choice by the customer and a custom application was built on the NetWeaver platform to replace the earlier application.

Client: A fortune 50 major Pharmaceutical & Lifesciences company in US

Challenges:

1. M & A: The customer had done some mergers and acquisitions over the years and had acquired a lot of applications which were non-sap application. The number of such applications in the client landscape was greater than 1000.

2. Cost: The cost of maintaining and finding the skillset for the 1000 non sap applications was huge and troublesome

3. Consolidation: There was a lack of strategy towards how can we address the legacy, third party, best of breed existing non sap applications ( 1000)

Wipro's Approach:

1. SOA Workshop: Wipro conducted the SOA campaign to provide the understanding and knowledge about how we can take a SOA based approach to the current problem

2. SOA Assesment- A deep dive assesment of the problem was done and this kick started the SOA consulting part of the assignment

3. RexApps (TM)- Wipro came up with a RexApps based approach for the client. This approach provided Monetization of the clients investments before they actually made one! It gave the customer the option to look at moving their application to the the SAP BPP platform. It also became the Application Retirement Strategy for the customer based on the TCO and TMB (Total Monetized Benfits)

4._Proof of Concept_: After the customer was convinced about the benefit in building a custom applicaton on NW compared to the current use of the Java based application, wipro went ahead and did the POC for one of the applications

5. Development of new xApp based application started after the scusses ful POC to the customer (for more details on this write to me)

6. Testing and Go Live: The new composite application was tested and made live for use

This success story is one of the many that have helped customers adopt SAP BPP for custom development

Cheers,

Kunal

[Former Member]

I would not have agreed more with all of you here regarding the paradigm shift that needs to take place where SAP NetWeaver becomes the single platform for custom application development in Asia Pacific , particulary in Japan.

This need is in particular felt by service providers like Wipro Technologies as well and we would like to be part of this SAP Ecosystem focussed around building custom applications on SAP BPP platform.

Wipro Technologies has already established a success in building custom applications espcially to replace legacy applications and meet whitespace requirements. These custom built applications are on the SAP BPP platform completely and use enterprise Services thereby becoming composite applications.

Let us collaborate and make SAP BPP rock !