Hi

[Former Member]

Hello,

what exactly is a netweaver platforrn or product? what is the benefit of netweaver and when exactly is it introduced in the market? Please reply

Shyam

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Hi Shyam,

SAP NetWeaver is SAP's integrated technology platform and is the technical foundation for all SAP applications since the SAP Business Suite. SAP NetWeaver is marketed as a service-oriented application and integration platform. SAP NetWeaver provides the development and runtime environment for SAP applications and can be used for custom development and integration with other applications and systems. SAP NetWeaver is built using open standards and industry de facto standards and can be extended with, and interoperate with technologies such as Microsoft .NET, Sun Java EE, and IBM WebSphere.

Products

The core products that make up SAP NetWeaver include:

SAP Web Application Server

SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI)

SAP Enterprise Portal

SAP Master Data Management (MDM)

SAP NetWeaver Mobile

SAP Business Information Warehouse

SAP Knowledge Warehouse (KW)

<u><b>Advantages Of XI Are</b></u>

1. right now you are using point to pont to connection which is not the best way.

2. XI is a middleware tool (you can send message to many apdaters:

SOAP, mail, file/ftp ) by XML messages .

3. Error handling and Sloving the error easrier.

4.Integrate with SAP and Non SAP applications..........

5.XIhas it's own Monitoring to track the incoming and outgoing messages

6.Synchronous and Asynchronous communication

7.Reusable components

8.Reducing cost of development work in future

9.End to End montoring the messages in SAP XI is great

10.Maintance is easeir .

11.The biggest Advantage of XI is that it supports web services.

12.It has the feature of business process management(BPM) which enables us to impliment tough business logic.

Cheers...

Vasu

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thanks

[vikas_agarwal]

HI Shyam,

SAP NetWeaver is a web-based, open integration and application platform that serves as the foundation for enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) and allows the integration and alignment of people, information, and business processes across business and technology boundaries.

NetWeaver is both an application platform and an integration platform. It integrates your current IT systems to enable portals, collaboration, data management, and development environments.

The Core Products that includes in Netweaver are:

1) SAP Portal

2) SAP knowledge Management

3) SAP Business Intelligence (BI)

4) SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI)

5) SAP Web Application Server

6) SAP Mobile Infrastructure (MI)

7) SAP Master Data Management (MDM)

[Former Member]

Krishnan,

Check this help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWeaver

For advantages of these check this:

http://www.thespot4sap.com/Articles/SAP_Netweaver_Advantages_and_Conclusion.asp

Regards,

---Satish

[prateek]

Netweaver is a product that act as a platform for support of Enterprise business management.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/f5/416c4255b3c553e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

Regards,

Prateek

[sbhutani1]

Hi Shyam,

All you need to do is check SAP.com and serarch for SAP Netweaver Platform. or alternatively you can search this information in google.com

just search this term SAP Netweaver site:sap.com

it will give you a complete information which you need in a second

SB