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SAP Netweaver Unleashed
The latest guidance on the features and functionality of SAP NetWeaver

by Anne Hardy and David Brutman, SAP
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Software today affects nearly every aspect of our lives, a fact that is shining the spotlight on developers and putting them in an influential position. To further support these developers, SAP has initiated new programs to inspire developers, enable new technology adoption, and facilitate an easy, targeted, and open development experience. In this article, you'll learn more about the first of these programs: the SAP Developer Center.
by Michael Stamback and Eduardo Chiocconi, SAP
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New market opportunities, increased competition, and the need to comply with internal and external regulations are forcing businesses to constantly evolve. This article takes a look at SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration — which blends SAP NetWeaver BPM, SAP NetWeaver BRM, and SAP NetWeaver PI — a solution designed to help companies keep up with these rapid changes and provide a foundation to generate better business and IT alignment.
by Adi Kavaler, SAP
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Imagine a world where SAP customers, partners, and the broader developer community can deliver innovative applications that connect to SAP software through interactive web experiences and social environments, as well as through mobile and tablet devices. The new SAP NetWeaver Gateway technology makes that world a reality. This article provides an overview of the architecture, explores what it means for developers, and explains how early adopters are benefiting from it.
by Aiaz Kazi, SAP
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In the last decade, SAP NetWeaver technology has continuously evolved as customer requirements have changed. This article offers a quick overview of the SAP NetWeaver platform’s main technical capabilities, and then hails the three “new horizons”: mobility, cloud, and in-memory computing. Uncover the possibilities that these horizons create, the new types of applications that can be built because of them, and how they will improve today’s enterprises.
by Aiaz Kazi, SAP
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What's going on with SAP NetWeaver? SAP customers haven't heard too much about it lately, with so many other exciting things happening at SAP. But in reality, a lot is going on with this core technology platform. In this article, SAP's Aiaz Kazi answers customers' top questions about SAP NetWeaver and discusses its current state and future direction.
by Lothar Henkes, SAP AG
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In the last few years, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse showed constant growth as an integrated, scalable enterprise data warehouse. As SAP unveils the latest release, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.3, SAPinsider reviews its key features and benefits—from easier data modeling to enhanced data provisioning to improved data loading performance.
by Matthias Kretschmer and Markus Ganser, SAP AG
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By cleansing and housing master data in a central repository before dispersing it to local systems, you can avoid erroneous data at its point of creation. This article walks through a sample master data creation process to illustrate how using both SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management and SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management can ensure consistent, high-quality data throughout your landscape.
by Heiko Schneider, SAP AG
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Did you know that the latest version of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services can be leveraged to cleanse master data located in SAP NetWeaver BW and enhance data quality? This article walks you through a detailed, step-by-step example using customer data.
by Elise Sivilay, SAP AG, and Susanne Rothaug, SAP AG
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by Markus Ganser, SAP AG
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Without high-quality master data, companies are often unable to answer questions as straightforward as “Who are our suppliers?” -- questions that are critical to improving operational efficiency and reducing costs. Find out how SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management can help you ensure that the answers to those questions are at users’ fingertips, cut your company’s costs by eliminating duplicate data entries, and even build the foundation needed to move toward a service-oriented architecture.
by Karsten Hohage, SAP AG
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Business users often have to wade through heaps of data and information just to answer routine questions (What’s the sales history of customer X?). With SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search, users can now retrieve data that’s deeply embedded in SAP Business Suite systems — and access it within one intuitive UI — to quickly answer their most pressing day-to-day questions.
by Dr. Astrid Tschense-Oesterle, SAP
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To heighten efficiency and free IT resources to work on more strategic taseks, a job scheduler should go beyond routine processes to support dynamic processes.
by Volker Stiehl, SAP AG
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Learn how to consume services with SAP NetWeaver CE, bringing you that much closer to making enterprise SOA a reality for your organization.
by Sindhu Gangadharan, SAP AG and Dr. Susanne Rothaug, SAP AG
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To reap SOA benefits like flexibility and reuse, it’s time to get out of SOA “theory” and put services to work. Walk through five best-practice steps to develop a service in ABAP (illustrated by a real-world example) with SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1.
by Dr. Susanne Rothaug and Karin Sudrow, SAP AG
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Given the complexities of an SOA landscape, change management requires particular attention: You need to ensure that changed objects are transported consistently throughout the environment. This article uses an example to outline some of the key challenges of lifecycle management in an SOA environment and to describe how SAP NetWeaver tooling — the enhanced change and transport system (CTS+) — helps you address them.
by Dr. Susanne Rothaug, SAP AG
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Discover how the new SAP ES Explorer helps developers in both SAP and .NET landscapes share and consume enterprise services between the two environments.
by Rajagopalan Narayanan, SAP Labs India
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Typically, business rules are implemented manually, hardwired into a software system, or coded into a program. These methods can be cumbersome and inefficient for developers, as business rules change frequently — so you need a way to effectively manage rules without having to modify your system with each iteration.
by Donka Dimitrova and Ralf Schaub, SAP AG
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SAP NetWeaver BPM supports a model-driven approach to documenting and managing business processes throughout their life cycles. This article shows you how to design and deploy a business process using SAP NetWeaver BPM.
by Martin Huvar, SAP AG, and Sven Leukert, SAP AG
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