The new edition of our bestseller SAP NetWeaver Roadmap, up-to-date for release SAP NetWeaver 7.1, is here! This book is part of our SAP NetWeaver Essentials series and explains the concepts behind SAP NetWeaver for consultants and IT managers. Using four extensively documented customer examples from the automotive, banking, oil and gas, and manufacturing industries, the book provides you with important insights into how to optimize and redesign business processes with SAP NetWeaver.
Further, coverage of technology aspects has been significantly expanded in this new edition: You’ll get an introduction to enterprise SOA and to NetWeaver as an integrated technology platform, and you will learn all there is to know about architecture and the most critical technical aspects of the individual NetWeaver components. An additional chapter addresses lowering IT costs with SAP NetWeaver, and re-structuring your IT budget so you can spend more on innovation.
Topic highlights:
- Requirements for IT strategies: flexibility, innovation, and cost cutting
- Overview of SAP NetWeaver: integration layers, standards, components, architecture, strategy
- Roadmaps to SAP NetWeaver: Industries: automotive, banking, oil and gas, and manufacturing
- Value analysis
- Web Services and Enterprise SOA
- SAP NetWeaver as an integrated platform
- SAP NetWeaver components: Portal, KM, BI, MI, MDM, XI/PI, AS ABAP, and Java
Loren Heilig
Loren Heilig is the founder of IBSolution GmbH and has been its managing director since 2003. IBSolution GmbH is an innovative SAP NetWeaver service provider that has made a name for itself as a specialist in complex SAP NetWeaver projects. With predefined packages, IBSolution also proves that SAP projects don't always have to be expensive.
Before founding IBSolution GmbH, Loren was a project lead at SAP Systems Integration AG and SAP AG. There he was responsible for setting up a BW consultancy team that focused on HR, and he coordinated the BW/HR projects at Saudi Aramco (in Saudi Arabia). In addition to more than twelve years of experience with the BW system (he implemented his first BW project with BW 1.2a), he has also conducted BW system training at SAP Germany and Switzerland for many years. Before beginning his professional career, Loren Heilig received a degree in industrial engineering from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
At IBSolution, he is responsible for the Sales and Marketing area. He also compiles the overall strategy of IBSolution and develops new business fields, such as master data processes and SAP NetWeaver Identity Management.
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