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For a number of years now, SAP has been building integration functionality into its suite of offerings through its SAP NetWeaver product line. The SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI) product was the main focus for this activity. In 2005, however, SAP updated its offerings and brought all this functionality into NetWeaver, delivering one codebase that is capable of sustaining a range of functional capabilities, or usage types in SAP terms. A key usage type supported by NetWeaver is Process Integration.
SAP’s integration approach is designed with a number of key objectives in mind:
- Deliver the full range of integration options within a single platform
- Embrace and adopt industry standards wherever possible
- Place a particular focus on providing added value for SAP application users
So how has SAP done? How does it stack up against other SOA and BPM offerings in the marketplace? This paper provides an in-depth review of the SAP functionality, followed by an evaluation of this functionality against market needs. The information provided should prove valuable to any company thinking of using SAP Netweaver as a platform for both SOA and process integration.
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