SAP offers NetWeaver. (New Products).

SAP AG has announced the launch of the next step of its integration and application platform designed to provide extensibility across heterogeneous IT landscapes. SAP NetWeaver helps enable organizations to integrate people, information and business processes across technologies and organizations. Additionally, SAP has designed SAP NetWeaver to be fully interoperable with Microsoft .NET and IBM WebSphere (J2EE), providing customers with improved flexibility to manage heterogeneous infrastructures, minimize complexity and reduce total cost of ownership. SAP Net Weaver is the business-ready, services-oriented platform for all SAP solutions and the way SAP delivers on the new Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA), an enterprise applications blueprint. SAP NetWeaver now serves as the backbone for the SAP suite of solutions, delivering an open and flexible infrastructure that can help allow companies to realize additional value from existing IT investments. SAP IBM and Microsoft have recently established joint co llaborative technology support centers which will staff and support the companies' focus on customer projects around the usage of SAP NetWeaver and its integration with IBM WebSphere and Microsoft .NET. With NetWeaver, SAP introduces two enhanced capabilities, composite application framework and master data management, both of which are intended to extend the technology stack beyond the initial capabilities of mySAP technology. The new composite application framework built into SAP Net Weaver enables SAP and its partners to create new applications targeting cross-functional business processes through tools, frameworks, rules and methodologies. These include an object access layer that allows customers to abstract from the underlying heterogeneity and to create a unified development and deployment environment. SAP NetWeaver also includes master data management (MDM) services. MDM is a standardized offering designed to solve the widespread challenges of data integration from multiple systems, physical locations and diverse vendors. MDM ensures information integrity across the business network by allowing companies to consolidate, harmonize and centrally master data in heterogeneous IT environments.

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