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• Product description

• Key trends and customer needs

• Road map overview and major product updates

Product Overview


Customer

SAP NetWeaver is the technology platform and foundation for the SAP Business Suite and the SAP NetWeaver hubs

such as SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Business Warehouse and SAP Process Orchestration

Reliable and scalable

application server infrastructure

Technology foundation for all

SAP NetWeaver hubs

and the SAP Business Suite

Proven and reliable development

and execution platform

for ABAP and Java

Comprehensive

Lifecycle Management

Enabler for non-disruptive innovation

Near and true zero downtime management

Vast ecosystem

Partner solution extensions

Broad developer community

SAP NetWeaver Product description

SAP

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Application Servers

ABAP and Java

SAP

Enterprise

Portal

SAP

Business

Warehouse

SAP Business

Suite

SAP HANA Any DB


Customer

All desktop based SAP development tools are based on the well established

Eclipse tooling platform.

Full set of SAP development tools already available on Eclipse:

Plugins for SAP UI5 and SAP Gateway

Plugins for SAP HANA Studio and SAP HANA Cloud Platform

ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse

Advanced source code editing, search & navigation

ABAP for SAP HANA development

Tools for Floorplan Manager and Web Dynpro ABAP

Test, Quality Assurance, Troubleshooting

Central Eclipse Update Site available

Easy installation and upgrade

Selective usage

SAP NetWeaver Development Platform

ABAP

SAP HANA

SAP Gateway

Partner

Add On

SAPUI5

Cloud

Java

SAP HANA

Cloud Central Eclipse Update

site

https://tools.hana.ondemand.com

Increased developer

productivity Power of SAP HANA

to ABAP developers

Easy integration of

custom or 3rd party tools

https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/


Customer

SAP NetWeaver 7.5 powered by SAP HANA Product positioning

Go-to release for SAP NetWeaver and for ABAP

development on SAP HANA

Available since October 20th 2015

Next Enhancement Package after SAP NetWeaver 7.4

Supports SAP HANA and other classic databases

Continuous innovation without disruption

Extension to Cloud, Mobile and Big Data

Seamless E2E development experience based

on Eclipse

Foundation for

SAP Business Suite 7 i2016 (EHP8)

SAP BW 7.5 powered by SAP HANA

SAP S/4HANA

Enabler for real-time business

SAP Business Warehouse

SAP Business Suite

SAP S/4HANA

Custom and Partner

applications


Customer

SAP NetWeaver SAP Fiori user experience

https://experience.sap.com/fiori-guidelines/

User Interface

Business Logic

SAP Fiori

Principles

SAP Fiori

Design

SAP UI

Technologies

/

OpenUI5




http://sap.github.io/openui5/


Customer

Integration of the SAP Fiori launchpad

– Launch SAP GUI transactions using

embedded SAP GUI for Windows

– SAP Fiori launchpad as start page

– Additional system connection type

– Business role configuration

purely SAP Fiori launchpad-based

SAP Blue Crystal as default theme

SAP Business Client 6.0 SAP Fiori experience on Windows desktop

SAP Business Client offers an integration of the SAP Fiori launchpad to allow a unified SAP Fiori user experience.

SAP Business Client 6.0 is the new name for the latest version of SAP NetWeaver Business Client


Customer

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Today Future Direction Planned Innovations

SAP NetWeaver Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities

Development Platform

• Broad tool coverage in Eclipse (incl. dictionary)

• Optimized access to SAP HANA (CDS, AMDP)

• Common ABAP programming model for

transactional and analytical applications

• Industry 4.0 scenarios support

• Java 8 & Eclipse 4.4 support for SAP NetWeaver

Developer Studio

User Interface

• Direct oData exposure and consumption

in SAP Web IDE

• Code free adaptations of SAPUI5 applications

• Personas-like features for WDA/FPM

Extensibility

• In-app extensibility for SAP S/4HANA

• Side by side extensions based on SAP HANA

Cloud Platform


• Unicode only. No more dual stack deployments.

(SAP NetWeaver 7.5)


• Enhanced Core Data Services support

• Enhanced program model support based on BOPF

and draft handling

• Increased developer productivity

with ABAP in Eclipse

• Custom code transformation for SAP S/4HANA

• Support Eclipse Mars for SAP NetWeaver

Developer Studio

User Interface

• Support smart templates in SAP Web IDE

Extensibility

• Round offs for in-app extensibility

• Seamless extension and integration based on SAP

HANA Cloud Platform


• Selective, non disruptive feature development in

support package code line (SAP BW, SAP Process

Orchestration)


• Continuously innovate the foundation for

SAP S/4HANA and classical SAP Business Suite

• On premise and in the cloud out of a common

innovation codeline

User Interface

• Improved consumer level user experience

• Embrace new upcoming technical trends in the web

with minimal disruption

• Bring the SAP Fiori experience into major UI clients

Extensibility

• Modification-free extension of cloud-based solutions

and scenarios based on SAP HANA Cloud Platform


• Yearly innovation update cycle (AS ABAP)

for SAP S/4HANA

• Update of NetWeaver standalone caused by new

Java versions etc (bi-yearly)


Customer

ABAP 7.5 Platform

User interface abstraction

Browser based, highly interactive

Responsive design

SAP UI5 as user interface technology

ABAP Programming model

Open SQL

ABAP Language, internal tables

Data abstraction

Core Data Services

ABAP managed database procedures

ABAP

Today


Customer

ABAP Core Data Services (CDS) CDS as building block for timeless software

AB

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XS

Next generation data definition and access

for database centric applications

Fully transparent SQL extensions

Cross-platform unified abstraction layer

Maximum transparency for different programing models

Integrates with platform lifecycle management

Today


Customer

ABAP Core Data Services (CDS) At a glance

Semantically rich data models

Domain specific languages (DDL, QL, DCL)

Declarative, close to conceptual thinking

Fully compatible with AnyDB

Generated and managed SQL views

Native integration in SAP HANA

Built-in functions and expressions

e.g. sum( salesorder.gross_ammount ) substring( bp.company_name, 0, 10 ) as name

Domain-specific annotations

e.g. for UI, Analytics, OData, BW, SADL… @AnalyticsDetails.aggregationBehaviour: SUM

@ObjectModel.modelCategory: #BUSINESS_OBJECT

Associations

Simplified definition of views on top of views

Path expressions to navigate along relations

Extensible

On model level through extensions

On meta-model level through annotations

Today


Customer

SAP NetWeaver 7.5 – ABAP for SAP HANA and

ABAP development tools

ABAP for SAP HANA

Open SQL

– Global temporary tables, support for associations

UNION and UNION ALL

Core Data Services

– Table functions

– AMDP debugging

– Extensibility (usage of associations)

New data type: INT8

ABAP development tools

DDIC structure editor

Custom code migration to SAP S/4HANA

– Tool to create a work list containing incompatible S/4HANA code

– SPAU usability enhancements

– Backend enablement for Smart Templates

Today


Customer

SAP NetWeaver 7.5 – SAP Gateway and Lifecycle Management

SAP Gateway

OData V4

Vocabulary based annotations

Read Access Log

Performance optimizations for SAP Fiori

Developer Productivity enhancements

LM and Operations

Provide stable and rock solid kernel

Life cycle management (one step upgrade/migration,

simple SPAU, true zero downtime)

Cloud operation and extensibility for SAP S/4HANA

Support specialized protocols for Internet of Things

Unicode only

Today


Customer

SAP NetWeaver 7.5 – SAP Business Warehouse

Integration with the SAP HANA Platform

Introduction of SAP HANA smart data integration capabilities for SAP BW

Source connection consolidation via the SAP HANA source system

Simplification

Feature complete Query Designer based on Eclipse

Enhancements for Advanced DataStore Object and CompositeProvider

Extended InfoObject maintenance in Eclipse

BW Workspaces with local hierarchies

New BW Workspace Query Designer

BIG Data

Enhanced support for SAP HANA dynamic tiering

Extended near-line storage capabilities

SAP BW, edition for SAP HANA

Simplified governance and faster time to market

Option to run SAP BW in a simplified mode only using HANA optimized objects

Today


Customer

Add custom fields

Add customer specific logic (BAdI)

UI-Layout-Changes e.g. hide, move, add existing fields

SAP S/4HANA Extensibility Key User Extensibility – Easy Changes & Extensions of a SAP Fiori App

Application

Database Table

OData Service

SAP Fiori UI

Today

Key user extensibility

• Field extensibility

• Business logic extensions (restricted ABAP)

• Transport of extensions via classic transports


Customer

SAP NetWeaver 7.5 – Java scope

Java 8 strategy

Keep pace with technical evolution through Java 8 based technology and new Eclipse tooling

Strengthen long-term support of SAP Java applications

Java application server and all NetWeaver usage types run on Java 8

Selective innovations will be delivered without disruption in Java 7.5 SP codeline

Applications beyond SAP NetWeaver follow on individual schedule & priority

Business Process Management

Enhanced integration with SAP Operational Process Intelligence on SAP HANA

Process Integration

Dual stack split

Enablement of content fluency between HCI and Process Orchestration

Enterprise Portal

Integration of SAP Fiori applications and SAP Fiori launchpad

Simplification approach

Forums and Wikis Add-On (7.4) deprecated, customers should use SAP Jam instead

SAP JVM 8

AS Java (JEE 5)

Web Dynpro

Enterprise Portal

Process Orchestration

SAP Web Dispatcher (optional)

Web User Interface

Today


Customer


Eclipse and web based tools

High developer productivity

User Interface

Innovative user experience

with SAP UI5

Extensibility

Extension of on premise solutions

with SAP HANA Cloud Platform

SAP NetWeaver Extend your applications with SAP UI5

Projects with SAP Web IDE

Accelerate prototyping

with models and

templates

Today


Customer

Building new applications

General IoT services and industry use-case support

Partner services

Extending SAP solutions

Support additional SAP SuccessFactors modules, extensions for

SAP Ariba

Try, explore, run SAP Fiori applications in the cloud

Extensions to SAP S/4 HANA

Running applications

Enhanced monitoring

Improvements for business continuity and scalability

Platform APIs

Developer Experience

Deepen commitment to open source communities

Support additional runtimes and infrastructure services

Developer Portal / API Marketplace

Extensibility with SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP)

XSJS

Runtimes /

Programming Models

PaaS (SAP HANA Cloud Platform)

NEW APPS EXTENSION INTEGRATION

Technical Services

Database Services

UX Identity Mgmt. SSO

Portal Analytics

API Mgmt.

Mobile Collaboration

Persistency

Planning Spatial

Predictive Streaming

Text HA / DR Smart Data

Other DBs,

Hadoop

Integration

Multi_DB

Tiering

Graph

Cloud Connector Integration IoT Document Mgmt.

Business Services

Commerce Customer Data Mgmt.

Product Price Category Cart

Product Content Mgmt.

Category Order

Open Stack

SAP | Partners

Powered by SAP HANA

Today

Java

HTML 5

Node.JS


Customer











Developer Studio

User Interface


in SAP Web IDE



Extensibility



Cloud Platform



(SAP NetWeaver 7.5)




and draft handling





Developer Studio

User Interface


Extensibility



HANA Cloud Platform




Orchestration)





innovation codeline

User Interface





Extensibility





for SAP S/4HANA




Customer

SAP S/4HANA Architecture and Programming Model

Transition to the SAP Fiori programming model

User experience on all devices drives the model

Combine transactions, search and analytics

Common cloud qualities (e.g. extensibility)

Optimized for SAP HANA

Simplify the transition from GUI to SAP Fiori apps

Planned

Innovations



Customer

SAP Fiori Effective ABAP Programming Model for Apps

One data model for all consumers (CDS)

Directly publish CDS views to the UI (OData Service)

ALV like SAP HANA optimized services for analytic apps (SADL)

Transaction, error and event handling services (BOPF, Draft)

CDS Core Data Services

OData Open Data Protocol

SADL Service Adaptation Definition Language

BOPF Business Object Process Framework

Fiori Shell Fiori App,

UI5 ALV

NW / ABAP SAP

Gateway

Application

Frameworks (SADL,BOPF)

SAP HANA

SQL Engine

CDS

View

SQL

View

OData R

GW API R

*SQL R R deploy

Manual Impl. (ABAP/SQL Script)

Planned

Innovations



Customer

SAP S/4HANA Migration ABAP Custom Code Migration - Adapt S/4HANA Changes - Tool Support

Download Simplification

Database from SMP and

upload to analysis system 1 Run Custom Code Extractor

and transfer metadata to

analysis system 2 Optional: Get usage data to

restrict effort for productively

used custom code 3

Work on customer specific hits 4

Analysis System Task

Simplification DB

Changed/deprecated functionality

Changed/deprecated business processes

Customer ERP DEV or Q System

Custom Code Extractor

Custom code metadata

Used SAP objects

Extended SAP objects

Modified SAP objects

Customer specific metadata

Usage data from productive System

Result of Analysis

Affected custom code

Affected extensions

Affected modifications

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Customer ERP Productive System

Collect Usage Data

Planned

Innovations



Customer











Developer Studio

User Interface


in SAP Web IDE



Extensibility



Cloud Platform



(SAP NetWeaver 7.5)




and draft handling





Developer Studio

User Interface


Extensibility



HANA Cloud Platform




Orchestration)





innovation codeline

User Interface





Extensibility





for SAP S/4HANA




Customer

SAP NetWeaver and SAP HANA Cloud Platform Hybrid scenarios: bridging on premise and on demand


Future

Direction

Compatible with 7.x,

optimized for SAP HANA

Layered cloud services

powered by SAP HANA

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SAP NetWeaver

Application Servers

ABAP and Java

SAP

Enterprise

Portal

SAP

Business

Warehouse

SAP Business

Suite

SAP HANA Database Any DB

Technical Services

Database Services

UX Identity Mgmt. SSO

Portal Analytics

API Mgmt.

Mobile Collaboration

Persistency

Planning Spatial

Predictive Streaming

Text HA / DR Smart Data

Other DBs,

Hadoop

Integration

Multi_DB

Tiering

Graph

Cloud Connector Integration IoT Document Mgmt.

Business Services

Commerce Customer Data Mgmt.

Product Price Category Cart

Product Content Mgmt.

Category Order

Powered by

SAP HANA

Hybrid scenarios that bridge on demand and on premise solutions will evolve further.

SAP HANA Cloud Platform will serve to extend SAP Business Suite solutions with cloud technology.


Customer

SAP S/4HANA Extensibility SAP HANA Cloud Platform – Side-by-Side Extensibility

On-Premise Cloud Hybrid

Future

Direction



Customer

ABAP Platform Reuse of SAP S/4HANA Developments

NW / ABAP Platform

SAP HANA

SAP Business Suite

on Any DB

SAP Business Suite

powered by SAP HANA

NW / ABAP Platform NW / ABAP Platform

Any DB SAP HANA

NW / ABAP Platform 7.5

SAP HANA

One NW Development Code Line

Reuse new ABAP platform

capabilities on-premise

New ABAP platform capabilities

built for SAP S/4HANA, cloud

edition

SAP S/4HANA,

on-premise edition

SAP S/4HANA,

cloud edition

Future

Direction



Customer

Summary

SAP NetWeaver 7.5 is the proven technology platform for the SAP Business

Suite, SAP NetWeaver hubs and SAP S/4HANA

Major takeaways for SAP NetWeaver 7.5

Fully optimized for SAP HANA

Designed as a fully compatible enhancement package

Successor release for SAP NetWeaver 7.4

Eclipse based development tools

Innovative user experience based on SAP UI5

(Near) zero downtime capabilities

Extensible to the cloud with SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Simple ABAP programming model for transactional and analytical applications

Support for Java 8 runtime and Eclipse 4.4 design time



Customer

Key links for more information For customers and partners

Key links

Road maps on SAP Service Marketplace http://service.sap.com/saproadmaps

SAP Community Network http://www.sdn.sap.com/

IT Planning Resources https://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700001160122012E

ABAP in Eclipse http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/eclipse

ABAP Development Tools – Trial Version http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-29607

SCN – SAP NetWeaver Landing Page http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-35002

Where to go to provide product feedback and ideas

SAP Idea Place https://ideas.sap.com

Influence programs http://service.sap.com/influence

SAP User Groups

http://www.sapusergroups.com/

http://service.sap.com/saproadmaps

http://www.sdn.sap.com/

https://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700001160122012E

http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/eclipse

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-29607






https://ideas.sap.com/

http://service.sap.com/influence

http://www.sapusergroups.com/

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Customer

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