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THE SAP MAGAZINE NO. 76 / NOVEMBER 2000

New Model:

Customer

engagement_ p.10

Partner Value Net:

Highly committed

partners_ p. 14

Internet Technology:

Integration

framework_ p. 18

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MassMutual Financial, mySAP Media,icFox.com, Singapore Airlines, CompaqiPAQ devices, Motorola, UDDI-Projekt 6

New SAP Regional HQ in Vienna,ExxonMobil, Praise for SAPs ownpurchasing, New head of SAPSwitzerland 8

Customer Engagement Model 10

Interview: Claudia Jansen-Niedermeieron SAP Partner Value Net 14

SAP VP Franz-Josef Fritz on theInternet-Business Framework 18

SAP Business Connector 22

Reference for XML interfaces 24

Browser-based and message-basedintegration 26

WebFlow drives e-process workflow 28

Data transfer traffic cop 30

XML: The Internet alphabet 32

Internet technology: News in brief 34

Global supply chains at LSI Logic 36

Control Broker from Actional 38

Microsofts BizTalk Server 2000 40

Mercators XML interfaces 42

SAP Application Server for imple-menting scalable Web applications 44

Sony Logistics opts for mySAP.com 46

Portal to storehouse of experience:SAP Solution Manager 48

NEWS

STRATEGY

FORUM

IN PRACTICE

SERVICES

To support additional growth and to

consolidate its leadership, SAP is

building up a strong management

team headed by Kiyotaka Fujii, presi-

dent and CEO of SAP Japan.

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Taking a close look: SAP Re-

verse Business Engineer for

process-oriented analysis of

live customer system data is avaluable new tool for coming

to grips with existing SAP sys-

tems.

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A new e-logistics model is

Sony Logistics Corporations

first step toward becoming a

cyber business. SAPs Internetsolution mySAP.com forms

part of the IT infrastructure.

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SAP Application Server

STRIDINGAHEADThe SAP Application Server enables the object-oriented

development of applications. It is especially useful for

implementing scalable Internet applications.

Internet applications must easily adapt to arapidly changing environment. The new SAP

Application Server allows you to developadaptable Internet applications withoutrelying on external components. You can ac-cess mySAP component data and application

objects as well as external components di-rectly from the Internet applications. TheSAP Application Server offers server-basedscripting in ABAP and JavaScript for devel-oping Web applications. The current Inter-net protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, and SMTP) aredirectly integrated into the application serv-er. The servers architecture enables Inter-net applications to be implemented in a di-rect and object-oriented way. Applicationlogic and presentation logic remain clearlyseparated.

Web applications are developed as Busi-ness Server Pages. Conceptually, they sharethe same page-based approach as classicserver-side scripting technologies like Java-Server Pages (JSP), which is familiar territo-ry for JSP and ASP developers. The develop-

ment environment for Business ServerPages and administration of the Web appli-cation is completely integrated into the SAPdevelopment environment. You can connectto external Web design tools using the cur-rent standards. An integrated Web ControlFramework supports the development ofcomplex Web applications and provides typi-cal interface and interaction components tobe used as server page controls.

The SAP Application Server is based onthe proven SAP application server infra-structure. In addition to a new Web pro-gramming model, Internet application de-

velopers benefit from:

s Platform independences High scalabilitys High performance and cachings High availabilitys Easy administrations Integrated transport and correction

systems Translation functionss Multilingual and localization capabilitys User managements Securitys Multideveloper platform

Dirk Feeken, SAP AG

For more information on the SAP Applica-

tion Server, go tohttp://www.sap.com/technology.


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