SAP NetWeaver includes a comprehensive set of components and tools.
Components
* SAP NetWeaver Application Server – Supports platform-independent Web services, business applications, and standards-based development, enabling you to leverage existing technology assets for Web-services-oriented solutions
* SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse – Enables you to integrate data from across the enterprise and transform it into practical, timely business information to drive sound decision making
* SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management – Provides tools to help you model, execute, and monitor business processes based on a single, consistent process model
* SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management – Allows you to create and maintain business rules to ensure that processes conform to business policies.
* SAP NetWeaver Process Integration – Delivers SOA-based technology that supports process-centric integration across the extended value chain
* SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management – Ensures cross-system data consistency and helps integrate business processes across the extended value chain
* SAP NetWeaver Mobile – Provides a "future-proof" mobile runtime environment based on open and flexible technology standards and a powerful development environment for building integrated mobile solutions with native or browser-based user interfaces
* SAP NetWeaver Portal – Unifies critical information and applications to give users role-based views that span the enterprise, enabling you to take full advantage of your information resources
* SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure – Gives you all the capabilities you need to integrate all automated sensing devices – including RFID readers and printers, Bluetooth devices, embedded systems, and bar-code devices
* SAP NetWeaver Identity Management – Addresses access and provisioning issues facing a typical enterprise, creates a new opportunity for integrating business processes, and helps you to integrate systems in a heterogeneous IT environment
* SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management – Allows you to archive data in a readily accessible format according to regulatory retention rules that you define
Tools
* Adaptive Computing Controller – Provides a central point of control for assigning computing resources and optimizing their use
* SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment – Provides a robust environment for design, deployment, and running of composite applications that comply with a service-oriented architecture
* SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio – Offers a convenient user interface and rich functionality for developing J2EE applications
* SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer – Simplifies the creation of portal content and analytics applications, enabling business analysts to build or customize applications using a visual user interface rather than manual coding
* SAP Solution Manager – Facilitates technical support for distributed systems with functionality that covers all key aspects of solution deployment, operation, and continuous improvement
Applications
* SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search – Provides a simple and secure gateway to enterprise objects and transactions
* Duet – Enables seamless access to SAP business processes and data via Microsoft Office
* Alloy – Simplifies interaction with people, processes, and information by providing intuitive access to SAP software and information via the familiar IBM Lotus Notes
* SAP Central Process Scheduling application by Redwood – Helps companies manage, monitor, and execute business-critical processes from a central location by delivering adaptive, real-time, event-driven job scheduling and process-automation capabilities across distributed and heterogeneous platforms. Designed to integrate process automation for non-SAP and SAP applications, such as SAP Solution Manager, SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood provides a central point of control for all processing.
* SAP Enterprise Modeling applications by IDS Scheer – Deliver Web-based components that support the process life cycle for business process design, analysis, optimization, and implementation