Abstract:
Conventional wisdom says that SAP’s NetWeaver, the middleware technology on which SAP has bet its next generation of enterprise applications as well as the company itself, is a fresh-from-the-lab unproven middleware concept. SAP’s competitors wish it were so. The good news for conservative long-time R/3 users and potential first-time SAP users alike is that NetWeaver is at its core 10-year-old proven portal, desktop integration, and data warehousing technology, with mobile and technology almost as old, simply running with more modern underlying infrastructure.
This January 2007 analysis looks at all these features and traces their roots as well as analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the current capabilities. The document explains the concept of “BPM," the way in which SAP users will increasingly use NetWeaver as the middleware helps SAP become the leading product of its type in the market simply because of the past success of SAP ERP capabilities.
Copyright, 2007 Dennis Byron