SAP NetWeaver 7.3 in Ramp Up

SAP NetWeaver 7.3 in Ramp Up Benny Schaich-Lebek   Business Card Posted on Dec. 01, 2010 07:10 AM in Business Process Management, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP NetWeaver Platform

As announced at TechEd this year, SAP NetWeaver 7.3 was released for restricted shipment on Monday, November 29th. Restricted shipment, better known as "ramp up" or release to customer (RTC) means the availability of the product to certain customers for productive usage.

Unrestricted shipment is expected to be in first quarter of 2011.

Here are some out of lots of new features:

• Greatly enhanced Java support: Java EE5 certified, Java-only ESB and JMS pub/sub capabilities
• Reusable business rule sets with Microsoft Excel integration
• Enhanced standards support (WS Policy 1.2, SOAP 1.2, WS Trust 1.3, Java SE 6, JSR 168/286, WSRP 1.0, SAML 1.0/2.0)
• Tighter integration between SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse and SAP BusinessObjects
• Individual and team productivity enhancements in the SAP NetWeaver Portal
• ...and heaps of new features and enhancements in each part of the SAP NetWeaver stack!

Here is more detail by the usage types of NetWeaver:

Enterprise Portal

With Enterprise Workspaces SAP is enabling a flexible, intuitive environment to compose content, enabling enterprise end users to integrate and run structured and unstructured assets using a self-service approach.

 

Managing and Mashing up Portal Pages with Web Page Composer
Supporting  business key users in  the easy creation and management of  enriched portal pages, blending business applications and user-generated content, generating truly flexible UI.

 

Unified Access to Applications and Processes with Lower TCO
Delivering  the best of class integration layer for SAP, Business Objects and non-SAP applications & reports while maintaining low TCO with capabilities such as advanced caching, integration with SAP central Transport System and significant performance and scalability improvements. Common Java stack and improved server administration and development environment.

 

Portal Landscape Interoperability and Openness
Providing industry standards integration capabilities for SAP and non-SAP content, both into the SAP Portal and for 3rd party Portals, such as JSR and Java 5 support, or open API’s for navigation connectors.

Business Warehouse

Scalability & Performance have been enhanced for faster decision making. Count in remarkably accelerated data loads, a next level of performance for BW Accelerator, and support for Teradata  as additional databases for SAP NetWeaver BW Increased flexibility  by further integration of SAP BusinessObjects BI and EIM tools with tighter integration with SAP BusinessObjects Data Services and SAP BusinessObjects Metadata Management Configuration and operations was simplified with the new integrated Admin Cockpit  into SAP Solution Manager. Also wizard based system configuration was introduced

Process Integration

PI has introduced the availability for a high number of solutions to allow out-of-the box integration: For SAP applications there is prepackaged process integration content semantically interlinked with SAP applications and industry solutions and for partners and ISVs SAP provides certification programs that help to ensure quality.

There is ONE platform (and not several) to support all integration scenarios: A2A, B2B, interoperability with other ESBs, SOA, and so forth.

In addition there is support of replacement of third-party integration solutions to
lower TCO Interoperability with other ESBs to protect investments.

A Broad support of operating environments and databases is made available.

Business Process Management/CE,

With the WD/ABAP Integration you may browse the WD/ABAP UI repository of a backend system and use a WD/ABAP UI in a BPM task.

The API for Managing Processes and Tasks starts process instances, retrieves task lists, and Executes actions on task.

With Business Rule Improvements you now can reuse rules or decision tables across rule sets. Together with this came other usability and developer productivity enhancements.

With zero configuration for local services a big improvement for simplification of SOA Configuration was achieved.

Mobile

In the new version operational costs are reduced through optimized monitoring and administration capabilities. Robustness was enhanced through improved security and simplified upgrades. There is greater flexibility regarding backend interoperability through Web Service interfaces and multiple backend connectivity.

More information is available at the SDN pages for SAP NetWeaver 7.3 or the manuals of NetWeaver 7.3 in the SAP Help Portal.

Benny Schaich-Lebek   is a product specialist at SAP NetWeaver product management

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