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May 18, 2006 from Computerworld – “Since introducing its NetWeaver technology stack three years ago, SAP AG has been steadily promoting it as a pervasive part of its applications, despite user confusion over exactly what it is or fears that it’s a proprietary technology.
As the core component to SAP’s Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA), NetWeaver comprises a set of service-oriented architecture (SOA) technologies, including a portal, business warehouse and other infrastructure applications. It’s meant to enable customers to create integrated workflows over various applications. Not surprisingly, at this week’s Sapphire 2006 user conference here, SAP made a number of NetWeaver-related announcements.
Among its other initiatives, the company announced a $125 million fund to invest in NetWeaver technologies developed by software companies, as well as a planned rollout of business intelligence (BI) applications and its next-generation product, mySAP ERP 2005, which is heavily reliant on NetWeaver….
Just what NetWeaver is has yet to be fully defined, said Stanley Ezzell, vice president of strategic initiatives at Wellborn Cabinet Inc. The Ashland, Ala.-based based furniture maker has successfully deployed a set of ERP applications through the SAP BusinessOne program, which is tailored to medium-size businesses. Ezzell has done customizations with his R/3 application and doesn’t want to lose them if he consolidates his stack on NetWeaver.
“What NetWeaver really means to the R/3 customer, I don’t know,” he said. Ezzell was also unclear about just what migration path he would have to take to get mySAP ERP 2005 if he wants to migrate.”For me to go and say to my company, ‘We’ve spent millions on this, and guess what, we’ll spend more millions for that,’ I might be calling looking for another job,” he said. For now, he plans to hold off making any moves until he has a higher comfort level with SAP’s plans.
SAP executives have made it clear they won’t force any customers to NetWeaver and have stressed that it’s an open, industry-standard-based architecture. For the article, click here
180 View – So you’re not alone if you’re not really sure what NetWeaver is all about. Most people are not all that interested in the underlying technology. They want to know what it will do for them and at what cost. The announcement of the roll out of business intelligence applications is noteworthy as more and more ERP vendors try to incorporate this technology. The BI vendors will be facing stiff competition, but will have the edge with organizations that have disparate ERP systems.
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