SAP NetWeaver Empowers IT to Drive Innovation into Business Processes Across the Enterprise

Designed to help customers transition to a services-oriented architecture, drive business change and innovation while reducing IT costs and complexities, SAP NetWeaver is the foundation for SAP solutions and at the heart of the companys biggest technology advancement since the introduction of solutions built on SAPs renowned three-tier, client-server architecture. Since its launch in January 2003, SAP NetWeaver has been endorsed by the far-reaching SAP ecosystem through widespread customer installations, partner adoption and the support of analysts and a growing developer community. SAP NetWeaver is delivered as one product, helping organizations integrate people, information and business processes across the enterprise to enable flexible business strategies and drive innovation at a sustainable cost structure. SAP NetWeaver combines platform components such as SAP Enterprise Portal (SAP EP), SAP Business Intelligence and SAP Master Data Management that focus on people and information with process components such as SAP Exchange Infrastructure that facilitate data exchange between heterogeneous IT systems. SAP NetWeaver supports open industry standards as well as interoperability, giving customers a wide array of options when integrating SAP and non-SAP systems. At the same time, SAP NetWeaver provides the technical foundation for SAP applications. Customer Installations Continue Rapid Growth Since its inception, SAP NetWeaver has been a focal point of the companys market strategy and development resources. With more than 14,000 component installations at customer sites worldwide, SAP is delivering on its strategy of driving wider adoption of the total platform to best help customers turn IT assets into strategic value drivers. SAP NetWeaver has achieved strong traction in several key industries, including the chemical, consumer packaged goods, high tech and aerospace industries.