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SAP Solution OverviewSAP NetWeaver 

SAP NetWeaver®

HELPING IT ORGANIZATIONS BECOMEMORE STRATEGIC

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The SAP NetWeaver® technology platform helps you run and manage

business processes, optimize performance, and reduce costs. By delivering

consistent, reliable information, the technology platform helps increase

efficiency and productivity. By providing the correct business and informationalcontext – along with powerful analytical functionality – it increases your insight

into data. It can improve your connectivity and communication by extending

 your business processes across applications to business units as well as

partners. As the technical foundation for service-oriented architecture (SOA),

SAP NetWeaver powers adaptable software solutions that enable IT to drive

profits through better transparency – at lower costs.

Leading companies realize that to succeed they must deploy strategies faster thanthe rest of the market and close the gap between core strategic goals and operational

execution. With IT as a strategic partner in the business, your technology can helpkeep you ahead of the competition as your operations gain agility to support continuousbusiness improvement.

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In supporting core business processes, IT contributes to your success in a critical way.Yet strategic IT must go further to advance cost-saving measures and strengthenrelationships, not only across the enterprise, but also throughout your ecosystem.

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IT AS A STRATEGIC BUSINESS PARTNER

ENABLING EFFICIENCY, INSIGHT, AND FLEXIBILITY

 As you well know, the global marketplace is volatile: regulations, economic

conditions, competitive factors, and consumer buying behavior are in constant

flux. Market consolidation and reductions in demand lead companies to

downsize, cut production, consolidate operations, and curb plans forgrowth and expansion. Organizations must move quickly to address challenges

and seize opportunities. But operational efficiency, effectiveness, and

performance may suffer across the enterprise as a result.

Leading companies realize that to succeed they must deploy strategies faster

than the rest of the market and close the gap between core strategic goals

and operational execution. With IT as a strategic partner in the business, yourtechnology can help keep you ahead of the competition as your operations

gain agility to support continuous business improvement.

Technology is integral to core business processes – without IT, business

doesn’t get done. In supporting core business processes, IT contributes

to your success in a critical way. Yet strategic IT must go further to

advance cost-saving measures and strengthen relationships, not onlyacross the enterprise, but also throughout your ecosystem.

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 Toward a Business-DrivenEnterprise Architecture

IT needs to help the business createnew processes, products, and servicesto drive revenues and profits while

continuing to support core operationsefficiently and effectively. To meetthese diverse challenges, savvy ITorganizations are adopting a flexibleservice-oriented architecture (SOA) andunified technology platform. Based onopen standards, SOA facilitates andenables connectivity and communication with partners beyond organizationalboundaries. And SOA does so withgreater ease and at lower cost thantraditional information architectures

can offer.

SOA is an open IT architecture in which functionality can be groupedaround business processes andpackaged as interoperable services.

These interoperable services act asinterchangeable process buildingblocks to deliver specific services toapplications. This allows you to extendbusiness processes, for example, fromordering to inventory to accounting –

 without having to change underlyingapplications.

Support for Best-in-ClassBusiness Processes

 All SAP® Business Suite applicationsare based on the SAP NetWeaver®technology platform, which integratesthem naturally and with relative ease.SAP NetWeaver integrates your non-SAP applications across the enterprise

as well. This helps your business usersget needed information faster becausethe applications can interact with eachother even if they were not originallydesigned to do so. Your businesscontent becomes accessible to applica-

tions, business processes, and analyt-ics functionality. SAP NetWeaver isalso the ideal technology platform tointegrate SAP and non-SAP software.It reduces total cost of ownershipacross the entire IT landscape and

supports the evolution of applicationsto SOA, the extensible architecturethat SAP NetWeaver is designed toleverage.

With SAP NetWeaver, you can transition your existing IT infrastructure into a moreflexible environment. You gain the tech-nical foundation and tools to compose,extend, and rearrange your businessprocesses. And, as you would expect, you are able to efficiently orchestrate

and manage those processes. In addi-tion, SAP NetWeaver provides supportfor best-in-class business processesand allows you to deploy solutions ata pace that suits your organization’sgrowth plans and strategic goals.

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Composition

Integration

Enterprise Services

SOAInteroperability

Portal Desktop Mobile Forms Wiki/Blog Pervasive Voice SearchConsumption

Business ProcessManagement

Service andEvent Composition

Service andEvent Enablement

Connectivityand Integration

Service Bus SOAManagement

Business RulesManagement

User InterfaceComposition

InformationComposition

EnterpriseServices

Repository 

SOADesign

Governance

SAP® Business Suite

BusinessPartner 

Customer andPartner ApplicationsSAP NetWeaver®

MDM BI . . .

and LegacySoftware

Non-SAP

ProcessComponent

. . .

Figure 1: Gaining Flexibility with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

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 As a foundation for SOA, the SAPNetWeaver technology platform allows you to deploy SOA-enabled solutions

that empower you to run, manage,improve, and adapt business processes.In addition, you gain insight on howto optimize performance and where toreduce costs.

SAP NetWeaver unifies your technologyon a single platform to reduce IT com-plexity and costs across a heteroge-neous environment of enterpriseapplications, point solutions, legacy

software, and data silos. As a result, you can consolidate applications, data,and user interfaces (see Figure 2).

This frees your IT resources to focuson developing and implementingstrategic, innovative software that adds value to your business network.

Because SAP NetWeaver is based onopen standards, you gain a technologicalfoundation for improved communication.Better communication supports efficientcollaboration with business units acrossthe enterprise. Yet SAP NetWeaver

extends IT beyond the organization,letting you strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers, and partners

to build solutions and innovatestrategies with members throughout your ecosystem.

THE SAP NetWeaver TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM

IMPROVING COMMUNICATION AND STRENGTHENINGRELATIONSHIPS

Leverage SAP NetWeaver to:

• Empower people to connect with the business from any place with any device

• Compose new business processes quickly for changing business needs

• Manage master data and identities across all systems for accurate data everywhere• Deliver relevant information to improve decision making and business insight

• Integrate systems and partners into core processes, support end-to-end automation

• Run and optimize IT operations using a consolidated technology platform

SOA is an open IT architecture in which functionality can be grouped around businessprocesses and packaged as interoperable services that act as interchangeable processbuilding blocks to deliver specific services to applications. This allows you to extendbusiness processes, for example, from ordering to inventory to accounting – withouthaving to change underlying applications. SAP NetWeaver is the technical foundationfor SOA.

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INTEGRATED ENTERPRISE DATA AND

 APPLICATIONS

ENHANCING PROCESSES ANDENABLING INSIGHT

Developing the deepest possibleunderstanding of your business – yourorganization, the market, the challenges,and the competition – is critical to your success. With SAP NetWeaver, you can gain this understanding,

 which puts you in a position to drivegoals and enterprise performance.SAP NetWeaver can also work withSAP BusinessObjects™ solutions tointegrate analytics functionality withthe business information you need toanalyze. Working together the solutionshelp you tighten up decision-makingprocesses.

Deep understanding comes from a multi-faceted overview, which SAP NetWeaver

provides by allowing you to integrateinformation and applications from almostany SAP or non-SAP source. Thisincludes applications developed forJava Platform, Enterprise Edition(Java EE); Microsoft .NET; and of coursethe ABAP™ programming language. Asa result, you can protect and leverageexisting investments while simplifying your IT environment and reducingoperational costs.

Unify Solutions for a Connected

Enterprise

SAP NetWeaver and SAPBusinessObjects solutionshelp you connect information withprocesses throughout the enterprise.You can consolidate and manage your business data, creating a “single version of the truth” to eliminateerrors and redundancies that under-mine data quality. This helps you

purge your decision-making processesof the faulty assumptions and unprofit-able misunderstandings that inaccuratedata can foster. The solutions canboost efficiency through their supportof SOA-enabled processes and access

to SAP Business Suite software.Integrated data and functionalitycontributes to improved operationalefficiency. You gain valuable businessinsight for optimized decision making,especially for process optimization andinnovation. Your business processesbecome more flexible and agile.

 Align Strategy and Execution

SAP NetWeaver and SAP

BusinessObjects solutions help you build a technology platformto align corporate strategy andoperational execution. SAP NetWeaverhelps ensure efficient and stable opera-tions of core business processes – andof the applications and software thatsupport those processes. In particular, you can use SAP NetWeaver to enlargeoperations of SOA-enabled SAP solu-tions, including SAP Business Suite,together with industry-rich extensions andthe SAP Business ByDesign™ solution.

Because SAP Business Suite followsan SOA-by-evolution approach, you canrun best-in-class business processeson a stable foundation while introducingincremental innovation through enter-prise services. These services, whichare delivered through enhancementpackages, let you add or encapsulatefunctionality as you need it and when you choose to.

Enable Growth and Expansion

To accommodate new growth andinitiatives, improve existing processes,or implement new processes, you cantake advantage of enterprise services

bundles – delivered via enhancementpackages for SAP Business Suite.SAP NetWeaver has the flexibility tomeet the specific needs of your organi-zation by letting you activate only thefunctionality you want. You fit the solu-tion to your growth and plans for thefuture – and implement at your own pace.

Further enabling your plans for expan-sion, SAP NetWeaver can powerthousands of certified partner solutions

to address core and industry-specificbusiness needs. For example, the openSAP NetWeaver technology platformallows you to work with partner solutionsfrom companies such as the Hewlett-Packard Company and RedwoodSoftware Inc. With expert services andsupport for industry-leading best prac-tices, SAP enables you to establish atechnology platform to execute yourstrategies and tactics with flexibility andefficiency.

You can use the SAP Solution Managerapplication management solution withSAP NetWeaver to help ensure the highavailability, reliability, and scalability ofmission-critical business processesand keep them secure throughout thelife cycle.

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Information management functionalityin SAP NetWeaver and SAPBusinessObjects solutions gives you asingle view of information for accurate

 visibility into crucial processes anddata. This lets you manage yourbusiness data and provide integratedaccess to quality information forbusiness units and partners insideand outside the organization.

SAP NetWeaver and SAPBusinessObjects solutions helpimprove your performance andeffectiveness by maintaining highquality and accuracy of your businessdata – the data used by people

throughout your organization tomake critical decisions every day.

Managing Master Data

With the SAP NetWeaver Master DataManagement (SAP NetWeaver MDM)component, you can consolidate,cleanse, harmonize, manage, anddistribute master data. You can useSAP NetWeaver MDM to integratecustomer data from disparate sources

and facilitate global synchronization

of product data. You can supportmergers and acquisitions, where thequick integration of new product lines,customers, and suppliers into existing

processes is critical to success.

In conjunction with SAP BusinessObjectssolutions, SAP NetWeaver MDM allows you to consolidate, harmonize, andcentrally manage master data across aheterogeneous IT environment. Togetherthe software provides a single view ofmaster data to support such valuableprocesses as consolidated spendanalysis. The solutions help you adhereto corporate and legal governanceand compliance policies. And you can

reduce the time and cost of masterdata maintenance processes becausemore accurate and higher quality datais available.

Sharpening Business Intelligence

Business intelligence functionalityin SAP NetWeaver and SAPBusinessObjects solutions improves your organization’s ability to respond tobusiness change. Accelerated access

to business information and sophisti-

cated tools speeds strategic decisionmaking. You can act faster than thecompetition and achieve decisiveadvantages for your company.

The SAP NetWeaver BusinessWarehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW)component lets you manage data froma variety of sources in a unified data warehouse. Extraction, transformation,and loading functionality helps youmanage data from multiple sources.Enterprise information integrationfunctionality expedites data integration.The solution supports greater trans-parency into a wide range of costcategories and factors, providing

important cues on market conditions,challenges – and opportunities.

Delivering Master Data

With SAP NetWeaver MDM and theSAP BusinessObjects Data Servicessoftware, you can integrate, transform,improve, and deliver SAP and non-SAPdata within and outside the corporatefirewall, facilitating communication andcollaboration with business partners

throughout the global ecosystem.

TRUSTED INFORMATION FOR SOUND

BUSINESS DECISIONS

CONTROLLING AND LEVERAGING CONSOLIDATEDENTERPRISE DATA

SAP NetWeaver integrates your non-SAP applicationsacross the enterprise. This helps your business usersget needed information faster because the applications

can interact with each other even if they were notoriginally designed to do so. Your business contentbecomes accessible to applications, businessprocesses, and analytics functionality.

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The integrated software delivers amarket-leading master data managementsolution with functionality that supportsdata integration and data quality. SAPBusinessObjects Data Services allows you to move and improve your enterprise

data in preparation for your master datamanagement projects and initiatives. Advanced features extract, transform,cleanse, and load all your enterprise data.

SAP NetWeaver MDM deliverspredefined and customizable datamodels that can reflect the needsof specific customers, vendors, andsuppliers. SAP NetWeaver MDM cansupport different employees, products,materials, and other items as well.You can import entire master data

schemas as well as master data valuesand taxonomy information. During datacleansing, the solution provides suchuseful operations as:• Deduplication and normalization• ID mapping• Matching and merging• Staging• Change tracking• Interactive data quality analysis• Ad hoc consolidation services

Consolidating master data dramaticallyimproves searches. In seconds youcan search an entire repository – evenrepositories containing millions ofrecords. With SAP NetWeaver BW, you can consolidate master data and

leverage it with transactional information.This functionality can provide criticalbusiness insights, such as informationabout your top customers, mostexpensive suppliers, and best-sellingproducts.

Managing Data for the Full LifeCycle

The SAP NetWeaver InformationLifecycle Management componentlets you manage your data to improve

process efficiency and enterprise per-formance while eliminating waste anderrors caused by data redundancy. Withthis software, you can set data retentionand data archiving operations accordingto your business policies and complianceprograms. You can archive data fromentire systems in an accessible format,allowing you to retire redundant systems.

Together SAP NetWeaver and SAPBusinessObjects solutions give youeffective information control. Withaccelerated access to business infor-mation and with tools that speed strate-gic decision making, you can gain a

decisive edge over the competition.Based on the foundation of trusted datathe solutions help you build, you gain valuable insight to improve your organi-zation’s ability to perform and respondto business changes and opportunities.

 u   mes  r om a multifacet   e   c   et  v e  r o  b y  integrating infor mation and applications from almost an y  S AP or  non-S AP 

sour ce. This includes applications de v eloped for Java Platform, Enter pr ise Edition 

.   cour se the ABAP programming language. Thiselps  y ou le v erage e xisting in vestments  while simplify ing  y our  IT en v ir onment.

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Leverage Sophisticated Analyticsand Queries

SAP NetWeaver and SAPBusinessObjects solutions deliverintuitive query, reporting, and analysis

functionality to users across the enter-prise. Users gain direct access torelevant business information, making itunnecessary for them to rely on educat-ed users for guidance. This translatesinto improved performance, efficiency,and effectiveness for your business.

The SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Searchapplication removes the hurdles raisedby disparate silos of data, letting youaccess structured information from

SAP and non-SAP data sources. SAPNetWeaver Enterprise Search delivershighly relevant search results and sug-gests actions based on the user’s role.Because the business information isdelivered in the full context of the rele- vant business process, users can takeappropriate action.

With the SAP NetWeaver BusinessWarehouse Accelerator software, which is delivered as an appliance onIntel processors, you can significantly

improve the performance of queriesand searches, even as data volumes,number of users, and complexity ofanalytics increase.

SAP NetWeaver Information LifecycleManagement enables you to alignIT data management practices withcorporate strategy. For example, you can set data retention and dataarchiving policies for managing infor-

mation based on business policies.

Increase Productivity ThroughEnhanced User Access

To facilitate connectivity and access tobusiness applications and information,SAP NetWeaver supports a varietyof user interfaces and collaboration tools.The technology platform supports Webportals, desktop applications, electronicforms, business clients, custom-

developed interfaces, and mobiledevices. By accommodating a widerange of interfaces and communicationtools, SAP NetWeaver helps extendconnections – from business units ina distributed enterprise to customers,suppliers, and partners throughout theecosystem.

SAP NetWeaver supports collaboration with facilities such as work spacesand discussion forums that enhanceteamwork. Users benefit from business

applications that have an enhancedlook and feel, and the IT departmentcan customize user interfaces topersonalize the user experience.

This user-centric focus – includingsupport for a range of interfaces, workstyles, and roles – means employeesacross your organization can workmore productively. SAP NetWeaverEnterprise Search helps users get the

information they need faster. Not onlydo sophisticated analytical reportingtools give users the data faster, theyprovide the data in full business context, which helps improve business insightand decision making on all levels.

POWERFUL, USER-FRIENDLY REPORTING

IMPROVING PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY

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Implementing an SOA infrastructure with SAP NetWeaver gives you themeans to reuse existing resources andadapt and create solutions with greaterflexibility.

Integrate and Manage SOAFunctionality

With the SAP NetWeaver technologyplatform, you can use model-based toolsto design, orchestrate, and manageenterprise services and their corre-sponding business process models. An enterprise services bus facili tatescommunication between applications,enabling the solution to provide supportfor flexible business processes.

Enterprise Services Repository (ESRepository) enables enterprise archi-tects and developers to design, pub-lish, and discover enterprise services.Delivered by the SAP NetWeaver Com-position Environment (SAP NetWeaverCE) offering, ES Repository lets youstore and manage enterprise services,process components, executablebusiness processes, and integrationfunctionality. Through SOA technology,these services can be accessed and

used repeatedly to support businessprocesses across the enterprise.This extensibility enables you to scalesolutions to current and future needs ofthe organization, growing IT at a paceto suit your goals. To ease the creationand management of enterprise serviceobjects, ES Repository is tightlyintegrated with tools delivered withSAP NetWeaver.

Connect Applications andBusiness Partners

With the SAP NetWeaver ProcessIntegration (SAP NetWeaver PI) offering, you can connect applications that

support business processes frombeginning to end. To facilitate communi-cation beyond organizational boundaries,SAP NetWeaver PI lets you incorporateprocesses involving business partners,customers, and suppliers. In addition,SAP NetWeaver PI allows you to con-nect SAP and non-SAP applicationsand data sources using standards-based SOA middleware.

SAP NetWeaver PI delivers prepack-

aged integration templates – such asglobal data types, message types,interface descriptions, process compo-nents, and integration scenarios – tohelp you adapt applications to supportchanging business processes. Applica-tions can be adapted to an open frame- work to aid integration using any ofthe many certified partner adapter andcontent packages from SAP and ourpartners. With the software, you canintegrate systems, applications, data,and processes in less time at lower

cost.

Build Composite Applications

With SAP NetWeaver CE, you canrapidly compose SOA-enabled businessapplications, reducing developmenttime and cost with model-driven tools.Model-driven composition is supportedfor all layers of composite applications,

including service and business-objectcomposition, user interface composition,and business process choreography.Composite applications can be de-ployed through the SAP NetWeaver Application Server component. With

SAP NetWeaver CE, you can increaseefficiency by reusing enterprise servicesand user interface assets and improveuser satisfaction with customizedsolutions.

 Adapt Processes to Your Needs

 At times you will need to adapt thesoftware solutions you buy to fit thespecific needs of your organization, your business model, your challenges,

or your goals. The SAP NetWeaverBusiness Process Management(SAP NetWeaver BPM) component,an integral part of SAP NetWeaver CE,provides support to extend coreapplications with agile, differentiatingprocesses.

Based on the open Eclipse develop-ment platform, SAP NetWeaver BPMenables collaboration between businessand IT specialists – rooted in thebusiness process modeling notation

(BPMN) standard – to create and adaptcomposite software jointly to supportbusiness processes.

Similar to SAP NetWeaver BPM,the SAP NetWeaver Business RulesManagement (SAP NetWeaver BRM)component is an integral part ofSAP NetWeaver CE. SAP NetWeaverBRM gives you the flexibility you need

FLEXIBLE PROCESSES TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS

 ALIGNING OPERATIONS AND ENTERPRISE GOALS

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to embed and enforce business rulesin processes and applications. WithSAP NetWeaver BRM, analysts canmodel, create, and modify businessrules – with no proficiency in writingsoftware required. This opens up pow-

erful functionality to users in all roles. Inproviding an innovative way to governbusiness rules across the organization,SAP NetWeaver BRM helps ensurethat business processes comply withcentrally defined business rules.

Get Started with SAP NetWeaver

You can use the integrated functionalityof SAP NetWeaver in a flexible, step-by-step approach to help you manageimplementation costs and move at the

pace that suits your schedule to meet your goals. To help plan your approach,SAP provides a technology solutionmap that shows business requirementstogether with the functionality inSAP NetWeaver that fulfills each of

those requirements. The solution mapillustrates viable options you canchoose to let you focus on immediateIT needs while making the transition toSOA for greater flexibility and openness.

For more information on how theSAP NetWeaver technology platform –and other SAP offerings – canhelp your business, call your SAPrepresentative today or visit us at www.sap.com/platform/netweaver .

Figure 2: Technology Solution Map

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Information

Management

Life-Cycle

Management

Security and

Identity

Management

Business Process

Management

Composition and

 Application

Development

SOA Middleware

Identity and Access Management Compliance and Software

Life-Cycle Security

Secure Collaboration and

Interoperability

Landscape Design and

 Architecture

 Application Management Software Logistics System Operations

User Interface Technology Portal and Collaboration Search Mobile

Master Data Management Content Management Business Intelligence Data Management and

Integration

Business Process

Modeling

Human Interaction

Management

Business Process

Monitoring

Business Rules

Management

Composition ABAP™ Development Java Development

Repository-Based Modeling and

Design

Service Bus–Based Integration SOA Management

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THE ENABLING POTENTIAL OF SAP NetWeaver

EMPOWERING IT TO STRENGTHEN BUSINESS

The SAP NetWeaver technologyplatform provides a flexible, robusttechnology foundation that supportsrapid business innovation whileensuring the stability and availability

of core business applications. WithSAP NetWeaver, IT can take a morestrategic role, optimize operations,support cutting-edge business pro-cesses, and add value and revenues.

 Activity Benefit

Empower and connect people • Deliver relevant applications to enable and support user roles and business processes

across the enterprise

• Provide a personalized, user-friendly interface and user experience that improves

efficiency 

• Facilitate collaboration and teamwork

Manage and deliver information • Enable better, more informed decision making by consolidating and managing master data

• Accelerate access to master data across the enterprise

• Improve compliance and governance by managing information throughout its life cycle

• Improve business insight by enabling enterprise performance management

Integrate and adapt business processes • Support business processes through adaptation based on service-oriented architecture

(SOA)• Enable end-to-end enterprise processes with fully integrated applications

• Speed the development of software support for adaptable business processes

• Improve efficiency and effectiveness of business processes

Consolidate and govern IT • Align and manage IT projects to meet strategic and operational business goals

• Enable more flexible IT processes through adoption of SOA

• Simplify your IT environment with consolidated, heterogeneous software solutions

• Manage application life cycles to keep all your business-critical solutions up and running

Run and optimize IT • Enable IT to make value-added, strategic contributions to the organization

• Run IT like a business to optimize efficiency and effectiveness

• Increase productivity through direct user access

• Leverage analytics and queries

• Execute projects on time and within budget

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To learn more about howSAP NetWeaver can help your organization reach itsbusiness goals, call yourlocal SAP representativeor visit our Web site at www.sap.com/platform/netweaver .

Because SAP NetWeaver is based on openstandards, you gain a technological foundationfor improved communication. Better communication

supports efficient collaboration with business unitsacross the enterprise. Yet SAP NetWeaver extendsIT beyond the organization, letting you strengthenrelationships with customers, suppliers, and partnersthroughout your ecosystem.

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