Summary

November 18, 2004 - SAP Netweaver is an enterprise-computing platform linking together people, information and processes across an organization's heterogeneous landscape of enterprise applications, web services and information sources. The release of SAP Netweaver 2004 earlier this year and the massive investment made by SAP into the solution is now beginning to gain some customer adoption but only a fraction of the existing organizations operating SAP have purchased it. IBM and Microsoft, who SAP positions as partners, are still competing to become the defacto standard platform for application development. Ventana Research recommends organizations carefully examine the SAP Netweaver platform and balance the complexities of the platform and interoperability of the components with the upside of having a solution from one provider.