SAP’s technical foundations of its solution – NetWeaver is reaching next evolution cycle. Components like application server, mobile solutions, exchange infrastructure, collaboration, enterprise portal, business intelligence, knowledge management, business process management and master data management are creating a platform on which top SAP software sits. Since NW 04 (2004) was basically integration platform: unified Web Application Server (WAS), web services, enterprise services, XI, BI and MDM; NW 05 (2004s) is about composite platform: SAP composite apps – xApps; NW06 (NW 7.1) is/will be about business process platform: BPM, modeling tools.
Three main parts are added to NW 7.1 surrounded business process platform: Composition Environment (CE), Enterprise Services Repository (ESR) and NetWeaver Process Integration (PI).
Composite applications (composites) are functioning service-enabled interfaces to existing backend systems. NW 7.1 is coming with tools to develop, run, and manage composite applications using SAP's enterprise SOA. This is based on enhanced technologies like:
- SAP NetWeaver Application Server for Java
- Web Dynpro
- SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio for service creation and provisioning
- Service Registry and repository for service management
- Guided Procedures for process modeling
- SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer for UI modeling
- SAP Composite Application Framework for Java business object modeling and service abstraction
NetWeaver Process Integration (NWPI) is next generation of SAP Exchange infrastructure (XI) kind of integration hub; handling integration between SAP/non-SAP applications.
See online documentation of NW 7.1 for details.
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