What is What?

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am new to Netweaver and new to SDN. Its great to have such kind of sites for information..

straight to point..

Please give me the Information for the following (NO LINKS PLEASE, BECUASE I AM A FRESH BEGINER)

1. What is Netwevaer? Why SAP has comeup with Netweaver technologies..

2. is SAP and mySAP.com are same..?

3. SAP Solutions (SRM, SEM , etc) comes under mySAP.com or SAP ERP?

4. Web AS is part of Netwevaer ??

5. What is Stack (ABAP Stack / J2EE Stack)?

Please provide me answers in simple & understandable manner.. if possible with example..

have a greatday...

Venkat Ganesh

[Former Member]

Hi Venkat,

SAP NetWeaver

SAP NetWeaver provides an open integration and application platform and permits the integration of the Enterprise Services Architecture. You can unify business processes across technological boundaries, integrate applications for your employees as needed, and access and edit simple information easily and in a structured manner.

SAP NetWeaver is the basis for all SAP solutions on a given hardware. The business applications and the SAP xApps use the key areas of SAP NetWeaver.

SAP NetWeaver covers the following topics and components:
1.Security
2.People Integration:
- Multi-channel access
- Portal
- Collaboration
3.Information Integration:
- Business Intelligence
- Knowledge Management
- Master Data Management
4.Process Integration:
- Integration Broker
- Business Process Management
5.Application Platform:
- Java
- ABAP
- Business Services
- Connectivity
- DB and OS abstraction
- SAP Knowledge Warehouse
6.Life Cycle Management:
- Customizing
- Software Change Management

MySAP

Businesses large and small have discovered that mySAP Business Suite is the world's most comprehensive family of adaptive business applications, providing best-of-breed functionality built for complete integration, industry-specific functionality, unlimited scalability, and easy collaboration over the Internet.

Individually, mySAP Business Suite applications help you manage your most critical business processes. Collectively, they form a tightly integrated suite that adds value to every facet of your organization -- and your external value chain.

mySAP Business Suite applications are based on the SAP NetWeaver platform, an integration and application platform. This reduces total cost of ownership across the entire IT landscape and supports the evolution of mySAP Business Suite to a services-based architecture.

MySAP, a product of the German software company SAP, is an e-business software integration tool that delivers content to the user based on their role in the enterprise. More than 200 pre-defined role templates are available to provide the user with access to applications and resources that are task-appropriate to his or her communication needs in customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), e-procurement, business intelligence, product lifecycle management, human resources, or financial and marketplace channels. The user is able to work with the SAP applications they require by using a Web browser or Internet appliance to access the applications through their mySAP Web portal, called "Workplace". Access to the mySAP.com Workplace portal can be based on a per-user or per-number-of-transactions fee model.

SAP Solutions (SRM, SEM , etc) comes under mySAP.com or SAP ERP?

Please go through this document to know more about the same...

http://www.t2b.ch/Events/xi_2003/xi_Basel_Mai03.pdf

Web AS

SAP NetWeaver Application Server brings together a proven infrastructure with the interoperability and flexibility of Web services technology. With this component of SAP NetWeaver, you get support for platform-independent Web services, business applications, and standards-based development.

SAP NetWeaver Application Server provides an open and reliable infrastructure for deploying highly scalable Web applications and Web services.

SAP Web Application Server (SAP WAS) is a platform for efficient development and allows you to implement Web applications. SAP Web Application Server is a crucial component of mySAP® Technology platform. It also paves the way for implementing "Web services". WAS supports all releases of mySAP.com components (including ABAP language), any Java 2 Enterprise Edition and .NET platform.

Also go through the following links...

http://www.2020software.com/products/SAP_NetWeaver_SAP_Web_Application_Server.asp

http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/components/applicationserver/index.epx

ABAP STACK and J2EE STACK

Please go through these links to know more about the same...

/people/sap.user72/blog/2004/07/19/navigating-the-maze-of-integration

http://www.sap.info/index.php4?ACTION=noframe&url=http://www.sap.info/public/INT/int/index/Category-...

http://www.saphosting.com/partners/Solution%20Manager%20Diagnostics.pdf

Regards,

Abhy

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