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SAP NetWeaver is an open and scalable infrastructure upon which the SAPBusiness Suite is built. With its ability to integrate with the Internet, SAPsNetWeaver enables collaborative business. As you see on this slide,NetWeaver provides for a comprehensive integration and application platformthereby delivering solutions with lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) to thecustomer. We will see more of the NetWeaver features in next slide.

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Let us explore the various components of SAP NetWeaver and how it is placedthrough out the life cycle of software management NetWeaver enables SAPMobile Infrastructure SAP Enterprise Portals SAP Business InformationWarehouse Master Data Management SAP Exchange Infrastructure and SAPWeb Application Server.

It also provides a composite application framework with People integration,Information integration, Process integration, and Application platform. PeopleIntegration uses SAP Enterprise Portal to ensure that Employees get theinformation, and access necessary for efficient work.Using SAP Business Information Warehouse, Information Integration ensuresthat structured and unstructured information is accessible. Next, to ensure thatall your business processes run smoothly through your heterogeneous systemlandscape, SAP exchange Infrastructure works with XML Data packages andworkflows at the Process Integration level. Finally, the Application platformsupports J2EE and ABAP in a single environment using SAP Web Application

Server. This guarantees independence between databases and operatingsystems. Thus SAP NetWeaver plays a vital role in collaborative e-business.

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SAP NetWeaver is a complete package of components that works in harmonyto provide solutions for customers integration requirements, where a singleplatform is used to integrate information and systems.More and more SAP applications are making use of the SAP NetWeaverExchange Infrastructure and introducing NetWeaver XI to customer landscapes.Some of the applications and components that use SAP NetWeaver XI includeExtended Applications like xRPM Master Data Management Supplier,Relationship Management, ERP Central Component, Customer RelationshipManagement, and SAP BusinessOne.

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Enterprise Services Architecture provides a blueprint for service-based,enterprise-scale business solutions solutions that are adaptable, flexible, andopen, for lower TCO. Applications can be created on top of existing enterpriseapplications, and served by Enterprise Services Architecture to increase thevalue of those systems, and extend automation to new processes.

ESA expands the concept of Web services to architecture for businessapplications. While Web services represent only a technical concept, ESA is theproposal for comprehensive and service-based business applications.Enterprise Services Architecture: Supports all people that participate in abusiness process inside and outside of the corporation, comprises allinformation that is relevant for the business process, integrates all systems thatare important for the process. It does this regardless of whether the systemsinvolved are SAP or non-SAP, internal or external.

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The functional architecture of SAP Web application server contains threeseparate levels: Presentation level, Application level and integration level. SAP

Web Application Server has a runtime environment for J2EE-based Javaprograms, the SAP J2EE Engine. This is, in addition, to the traditional runtimeenvironment for ABAP programs, together with the database SAP Web

Application Server forms the Application Platform of SAP NetWeaver.

SAP Web application server offers: A multilevel architecture with the SAP Web application server a reliable

tested runtime environment for ABAP and Java programs.High scalability

An independence between Operating System and databases.

A Convenient development environment.Support for various protocols like HTTP and RFC, and

The Highest security standards for the execution of complex businessprocess.