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    The SAP Business Suite is built on SAP NetWeaver, which allows integration betweenSAP and non-SAP components and supports integration with the Internet therebyenabling collaborative business or c-business. In this image you can see that theBusiness Suite offering combines R/3 as well as ERP components and makes it onecomplete solution offering in a collaborative business environment.

    Apart from cross-industry solutions, SAP also offers 22 industry-specific or IS solutionssuch as Automotive, Chemicals and more. As you see here, the SAP Customer Services

    Network spreads across the entire Business Suite and aims at ensuring that customersachieve maximum return on their investment with SAP Business Suite.

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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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    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.

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    You have seen that the SAP Web Application Server is the application platformof SAP NetWeaver. The functions of different SAP systems like ECC 6.0 and

    CRM can be divided into two categories namely, Basis functions and Application functions. For example, if you take ECC, the SAP ERP centralcomponent would be the Application function and the Web Application Serverwould be the Basis function. In CRM, SAP CRM would be the applicationfunction. Similarly, many SAP software components, such as, SAP BI and SAPSCM, also use the SAP Web Application Server as its Basis function.

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    SAP XI connects to different SAP and Non-SAP systems. In this example of anintegration landscape at a customer site, an SAP R/3 version 3.1, an SAP R/3version 4.6C, and a third party system are integrated through SAP XI. TheIntegration Server also handles the connection to different Business Partners,as well as, to a Public Marketplace.

    Certain adapters are needed in situations where the Integration Server has toexchange messages with an R/3 system. If you want to use SAP XI to realize across-system integration process and if the systems involved are based on SAPWeb Application Server 6.20 or higher, you can use the new SAP XIprogramming model.

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    Let us now explore how Master Data Management enables companies to store,augment and consolidate Master Data, while ensuring consistent distribution toall applications, and systems within the IT landscapes.MDM uses the technological foundation of the exchange infrastructure, SAP XI,to distribute the data.Master Data Management features: Content Consolidation Master Dataharmonization and Central Master Data Management. SAP MDM supports astep by step approach to collective Master Data maintenance in a distributedand heterogeneous environment.

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    SAP Enterprise Portal is a flexible, reliable, and secure solution that lets youtake advantage of all your information assets. Based on open standards, it

    integrates any enterprise information source. All your SAP and non-SAPsystems, your data warehouse, desktop documents, Web contents, and Webservices are brought together in one single user interface. Portal content is usedto empower users to get relevant information, make effective decisions, takeappropriate action, and collaborate with others.

    With SAP Enterprise portal, the portal also provides content designedspecifically to serve users in various industries and business areas. The SAPEnterprise Portal provides a role-based, secure Web-based interface to allinformation, applications and services. Portal roles structure and delivertargeted content to each end user. A company can structure its businessprocesses and deliver business content according to the needs of certain usergroups.

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    SAP NetWeaver has a number of advantages:Openness and extendibility: SAP NetWeaver features complete compatibilityand extendibility with IBM WebSphere and Microsoft .NET (technologies inwhich companies have made significant investments.)

    SAP Web Application Server achieves the Operating System and Databaseindependency for both ABAP and JAVA applications.Immediate Integration: SAP NetWeaver allows complete integration of people,information, and business processes in companies.Clear Roadmap: SAP NetWeaver is the technological foundation of all futureSAP Solutions.Lower total cost of ownership: SAP Web AS protects customer investments. Itleverages existing IT investments by integrating different systems.