Overview

Leading companies realize that to succeed, they must deploy strategies faster than the competition – and close the gap between strategic goals and operational execution. With platform technology from SAP, you can keep your competitive edge with agile operations that can support continuous business improvement.

SAP delivers flexibility and responsiveness through:

• Service-oriented architecture – An open architecture in which functionality is aligned with business processes and packaged as interoperable services.  Built for flexibility, service-oriented architecture (SOA) helps IT meet diverse business challenges such as creating new services, processes, and products – with greater ease and at lower cost than traditional information architectures.
• Accelerate Your ROI in Service-Oriented Architecture” (393 KB)
• SAP NetWeaver technology platform – The unified technology foundation that runs SAP Business Suite and allows you to administer, integrate, and extend business processes and applications across your customers’ business networks. With SAP NetWeaver components, tools, and applications, you can orchestrate business processes, compose applications, and deploy innovative solutions.

Netweaver Business Process Management (PDF)

The software enables preconfigured process best practices for managing financials, customer relationships, human resources, projects, procurement, and the supply chain. SAP takes care of installation, maintenance, and upgrades – so you can focus on your business, not on IT.

The best of SAP, delivered on-demand:

• Supports 100 – 500 employees
• Software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment
• Go live in 4 – 8 weeks

• Available in United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom, China, and India

Designed for midsize companies or small businesses that want better visibility into their business to anticipate changing market conditions, this comprehensive set of business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions helps accelerate time to value, reduce risk, and optimize resources – supporting your needs today and in the future

SAP Business Objects Edge BI

Backed by our open intelligence platform, SAP Business Objects Edge BI software is available in three versions:

• SAP Business Objects Edge BI, standard package – Provides enterprise and ad hoc reporting and world-class visualization

• SAP Business Objects Edge BI, with data integration – Adds the ability to combine data from multiple sources; populate a data warehouse expediently; and leverage ad hoc, advanced, and drill-down analysis
• SAP Business Objects Edge BI, with data management – Adds data parsing, cleansing, and address synchronization

“What’s New in SAP Business Objects Edge BI” (935 KB)

SAP Business Objects Edge Planning and Consolidation

The SAP Business Objects Edge Planning and Consolidation application simplifies budgeting, planning, and forecasting, enabling all stakeholders to collaborate in allocating resources. The familiar Microsoft Office user interface improves productivity and user adoption, while decreasing training and support costs. In addition, you can close books faster by harmonizing charts of accounts, automating manual processes, and eliminating use of unreliable and time-consuming spreadsheets.

SAP Business Objects Edge Strategy Management

The SAP Business Objects Edge Strategy Management application provides the score-carding capabilities that can help you improve execution against strategic goals by tying metrics to initiatives, plans, and operational activities – so you can explicitly communicate accountability throughout the business. Greater visibility and transparency helps employees see how their day-to-day actions impact business goals.

A comprehensive, integrated industry solution to power your business end-to-end:

• Supports 100 – 2,500 employees
• On-premise deployment with option for hosting
• Go live in 8 – 16 weeks, with fast-start 6 – 8 week go-live option
• More than 700 industry-specific solutions in more than 50 countries

The SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management (SAP NetWeaver BPM) component helps you model, execute, and monitor your business processes based on a common process model. It can help you improve the efficiency of business processes, reduce errors in complex repetitive tasks, and lower exception-handling costs.

With SAP NetWeaver BPM, you can compose process steps, define business rules and exceptions, model process flows using industry-standard business process modeling notation, execute process models efficiently, and support interaction with running processes via personalized user interfaces or interactive forms. You can also monitor business processes to improve process quality and efficiency.

SAP NetWeaver BPM provides the following tools:

• Process composer – Enables process architects and developers to create and debug executable business process models. Each business process model clearly defines the rules and exceptions governing the process steps that are performed by people or systems in response to specific business events.
• Process server – Executes process models without requiring brittle translation steps between the model and code, fully integrated with the runtime technology provided by SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment.
• Process desk – Allows process users to perform their assigned tasks while business processes are running. Users can access context-sensitive task screens through the standard SAP user interface or through universal work lists displayed via SAP NetWeaver Portal.

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With the SAP Business ByDesign solution, you can unify your business with best industry practices. Explore our industry solutions, and you’ll find one designed to meet your industry- or segment-specific needs.