SAP looking for converts for NetWeaver

SAP is going full steam ahead to bring out the next version of NetWeaver and its concomitant ESA. At its annual meeting last year, SAP placed significant focus on the development of ESA. With the help of ESA, SAP aims to integrate its NetWeaver platform and enterprise business processes such as order-to-cash flow and CRM procedures like augmenting a CRM database with new customer information.

SAP plans to commence deploying another 6000 NetWeaver platforms in 2006. SAP released 300 modeled enterprise services last year and is looking to release 500 more this year. 250 customers have been acquired by the company for its ESA adoption program, which is aimed at easing the transition to ESA.

More than 30, 000 companies run in excess of 100, 000 separate SAP installations. A majority of these run on the legacy R/3 client-server architecture and only around 5, 000 use NetWeaver. computerworld.com.au says:

As the industry’s largest ERP vendor and the software provider for some of the world’s most complex corporate ERP systems, SAP has business-process expertise that is unrivalled, Burton Group analyst, Anne Thomas Manes, said.

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