SAP NetWeaver: Components & Tools

SAP NetWeaver includes a comprehensive set of components and tools.

Components

• SAP NetWeaver Application Server -- Supports platform-independent Web services, business applications, and standards-based development, enabling you to leverage existing technology assets for Web-services-oriented solutions

• SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence -- Enables you to integrate data from across the enterprise and transform it into practical, timely business information to drive sound decision-making

• SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure -- Delivers open integration technologies that support process-centric collaboration across the extended value chain

• SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management -- Ensures cross-system data consistency and helps integrate business processes across the extended value chain

• SAP NetWeaver Mobile -- Provides a "future-proof" mobile run-time environment based on open and flexible technology standards and a powerful development environment for building integrated mobile solutions with native or browser-based user interfaces

• SAP NetWeaver Portal -- Unifies critical information and applications to give users role-based views that span the enterprise, enabling you to take full advantage of your information resources

• SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure -- Gives you all the capabilities you need to integrate all automated sensing devices -- including RFID readers and printers, Bluetooth devices, embedded systems, and bar-code devices

Tools

• Adaptive Computing Controller -- Provides a central point of control for assigning computing resources and optimizing their use

• SAP Composite Application Framework -- Provides a robust environment for the design and use of composite applications that comply with Enterprise Services Architecture

• SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio -- Offers a convenient user interface and rich functionality for developing J2EE applications

• SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer -- Simplifies the creation of portal content and analytics applications, enabling business analysts to build or customize applications using a visual user interface rather than manual coding

• SAP Solution Manager -- Facilitates technical support for distributed systems with functionality that covers all key aspects of solution deployment, operation, and continuous improvement

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