With its Netweaver application platform, SAP has focussed on a solid application development platform. It pushes SAP in two ways. It provides a solid base for their next generation applications. In addition, in itself, it provides a solid base for customers to write their enterprise extensions.
Typically, a company would have SAP and a number of other technologies. eg. Microsoft/Java for some web pages, Tibco/Microsoft/IBM for middleware, other vendors for a portal. Netweaver aims to grab this area of the market, and more vendors for data warehousing....
Netweaver is a marketing brand under which SAP is unifying its products. It is the equivalent of .NET for Microsoft. It provides an integration base for SAP's next generation technologies. By providing a platform in which you can develop web services, web pages, and .... - it is a great step ahead.
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