Table of Contents

Introduction.

Part I: Enterprise Software Basics.

Chapter 1: SAP NetWeaver: The New Foundation of IT.

Chapter 2: Primordial Acronym Soup: The Origins of Enterprise.

Chapter 3: Meet SAP NetWeaver.

Chapter 4: The Birth of a Solution.

Chapter 5: A Blueprint for the Future.

Chapter 6: The Evolution of mySAP Business Suite.

Chapter 7: Composite Applications and SAP xApps: Flexible and Reusable Innovation.

Part II: The Cast of Components.

Chapter 8: SAP Enterprise Portal: Something for Everyone.

Chapter 9: SAP Mobile Infrastructure: Information Hits the Road.

Chapter 10: SAP Gives Business Intelligence.

Chapter 11: Mastering SAP Master Data Management.

Chapter 12: Exchanging Data.

Chapter 13: SAP Web Application Server: The Cornerstone of SAP NetWeaver.

Part III: A Nifty Development Toolkit.

Chapter 14: SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.

Chapter 15: Visual Composer: Going Codeless.

Chapter 16: Composite Solutions.

Chapter 17: Tying It All Together: SAP Solution Manager.

Part IV: SAP NetWeaver in Action.

Chapter 18: The World of Internal Portals.

Chapter 19: Deploying Web Services.

Chapter 20: SAP R/3 and Then Some.

Chapter 21: Making Sense of Data: Analytics and Reporting.

Chapter 22: Doing the Application-to-Application Thing.

Chapter 23: Custom Made: Composite Applications.

Part V: Rolling Out SAP NetWeaver.

Chapter 24: Plans and People.

Chapter 25: Information Station.

Chapter 26: Nifty Implementation Processes and Swell Software.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 27: Ten (or so) Ways to Get Started with SAP NetWeaver.

Appendix: About the CD.

Index.

About the Author

Dan Woods has a background in technology and journalism and now runs the Evolved Media Network, a firm focused on technology communications. He was CTO of TheStreet.com, and CapitalThinking, led development at Time Inc. Pathfinder, and created applications for NandO.net, one of the first newspaper Web sites. Dan has an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He covered banking for three years at The Record of Hackensack, was database editor for three years at the Raleigh News & Observer, and has written six books on technology topics, in addition to numerous white papers and magazine articles. He thanks his wife, Daniele Gerard, and his children, Fiona and Eamon, for their indulgence and support during this project.

Jeffrey Word is the Director of Technology Strategy for SAP, based in Palo Alto, California. Jeffrey has worked at SAP since 2000 in a variety of roles in business development, strategic consulting, and market strategy. Jeffrey previously worked for several IT hardware and software companies in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. He earned an MBA in International Business from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management. He also earned a B.A. in European Studies and Spanish from the University of Oklahoma.