Netweaver - Aligning People With Technology

What is NetWeaver?

NetWeaver is SAP's innovative application platform, one of the latest advancements in mySAP Technology. Initially developed as an Artificial Intelligence shell which integrates with Web Services, NetWeaver is a flexible and adaptable ERP platform. Its collaboration capabilities extend to other SAP and even non-SAP applications, such as Microsoft's.Net and IBM's Websphere. Due to its flexible and modular structure, businesses and organisations can install as much or as little of NetWeaver as they want, ensuring a seamless integration with their current IT dependency networks.

Aligning people with IT

One of the main goals of NetWeaver is to encourage the collaboration and synchronisation of people and IT within businesses and organisations, a collaboration which is crucial to the success of any ERP implementation. NetWeaver achieves this level of interaction with a number of collaboration-based modules specifically designed for mobile workers, employees and project users:

NetWeaver Portal can be assigned to individual employees to report role-specific information back to an organisation.

NetWeaver Mobile enables mobile workers and home-based employees to respond to organisational changes quickly and efficiently.

NetWeaver Enterprise Search provides users with a simple 'gateway' to crucial organisational information which is easily searchable

Accelerating businesses
Improving a business's performance begins with improving the quality of its decision making processes. Ensuring that relevant information is provided to the right people at the right time, NetWeaver's business management applications support and streamline business processes:

NetWeaver Master Data Management brings together vital decision making information; such as customer data, spend analysis and product content management.

NetWeaver Business Warehouse captures an organisation's key operational data and stores it in a searchable and manageable 'warehouse'

NetWeaver Business Process Management streamlines business process to encourage best practice and to develop the responsiveness of a business to changing external and internal conditions.

NetWeaver Business Rules Management allows businesses to create and maintain organisational 'rules', ensuring companywide collaboration.

A cost-efficient investment
NetWeaver's flexibility and its integration capabilities reduce the total cost of ownership across a business's IT landscape. NetWeaver leverages current IT systems and applications to maximise performance, improving sustainability and cost-efficiency. Value is delivered into a business through an infrastructure which supports and encourages continuous process improvement, reducing risks and increasing profitability in the process.

Weaving a successful future...
NetWeaver is an innovative way for businesses to invest in their future success by maximising existing resources - both human and technological - to improve functionality, business practices and future business performance. A sophisticated platform, NetWeaver supports communication within businesses and organisations, developing extensive knowledge management with organisational reach.

To fully discover the benefits of any ERP software a careful and systematic implementation process is required, and NetWeaver is no different. Regardless of how few modules are actually installed, any company implementing NetWeaver should only do so through a qualified and certified engineer or consultant. Maximising the potential of NetWeaver to create a successful future also involves investing in NetWeaver specific training for end users. Relevant training can be found with reputable SAP training providers and schools and is as crucial an investment as the actual software itself.