SAP NetWeaver Background, Direction, and User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic - February 2, 2006

NetWeaver Background

Back in 2003, SAP positioned NetWeaver as a tool to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO), but it has now morphed into a tool to enable competitive advantage through business process innovation. To put it another way, the first components of NetWeaver in 2003 were mainly tools to bridge the gap between SAP and non-SAP applications. Nowadays, the idea is to have SAP applications that are broken down into ever smaller chunks and tied together with Web services, so that customers can cherry pick applications and even add them in chunks, even if they are provided by companies other than SAP...