SAP NetWeaver is a flexible suite of standards-based components that can be used in isolation or in combination to integrate business processes from SAP and other applications, databases, legacy systems, web-based services and other sources.

Britehouse Specialist SAP Division provides the expertise to help customers use the NetWeaver components to address business challenges and requirements, by integrating existing systems to leverage more value out of them or by developing new applications.

NetWeaver provides a foundation for enterprise service oriented architecture (ESOA), the basis on which all future software will be developed. With ESOA, software is designed in elements of functionality that fit together like building blocks. This enables companies to change their software to support changing business requirements without extensive redevelopment and maintenance.

All the NetWeaver components run on Web Application Server, which also provides a suitable environment for the development of custom-built applications.

NetWeaver components:

• Exchange Infrastructure (XI) provides a middleware platform that can be used to pull data from diverse systems, clean it, reformat it and push it into a central repository or into another system. It can handle very high transaction volumes.
• Master Data Management (MDM) is used to manage and harmonise data, for instance by cleaning and reformatting it and ensuring the data fields are in the right format.
• The Business Intelligence (BI) component is a reporting and decision making tool. It can also be used to pull data directly from diverse systems, aggregate it and present it to relevant users and enable them to generate their own reports.
• Enterprise Portal (EP) provides a single, integrated web-based view of all information, applications and services within the organisation.
• The mobility component, SAP Mobile Infrastructure (MI) allows users to view and interact with data held on back office systems, down to transaction level, from a mobile device.
• Auto-ID is SAP’s RFID (radio frequency identity) solution. It allows data to be scanned at a distance from RFID tags attached to or embedded in items. Depending on the capability of the RFID tags and scanner, Auto-ID can also update the stored data.