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mySAP™ Technology Based on Web services and open standards, mySAP™ Technology enables SAP to deliver an open integration infrastructure that unites people, processes, and information. This native Web technology environment allows companies to provide Web services through the SAP Web Application Server, combine Web services into collaborative business processes through the SAP Exchange Infrastructure, and make those Web services available to users through mySAP™ Enterprise Portal. It exploits the knowledge management capabilities of SAP Enterprise Portal and the structured information management capabilities of the SAP Business Information Warehouse to integrate information. As the foundation for SAP® R/3® Enterprise, mySAP.com® solutions, the newly announced SAP xApps, and non-SAP applications, mySAP™ Technology empowers companies to collaborate successfully-anywhere, anytime. mySAP Technology masters heterogeneity by aligning and unifying people, information, and business processes, across technologies. It enables any organization-regardless of size and industry-to run its business more efficiently and productively and to gain significant competitive advantage. Business Benefits of mySAP Technology mySAP Technology provides customers with an open, coherent, scalable, and standards-based infrastructure that can handle the complete range of e-business and enterprise applications. It provides open integration that allows for business innovation and future flexibility while ensuring non-stop business operations at a low cost of ownership. Business innovation enabled through the Internet is about doing business in new ways with collaboration between people, business units, and enterprises. mySAP Technology provides user-centric collaboration, empowering people to work more efficiently and openly. mySAP Technology drives process-centric collaboration, allowing end-to-end business processes that enhance productivity, reduce time to market, and improve customer service. mySAP Technology supports constant change driven by new partnerships, new customers, new business rules, and new economics that mandate flexibility now and in the future to change the end-to-end collaborative business processes. The value of existing solutions can be enhanced and integrated within flexible end-to-end processes. mySAP Technology provides an infrastructure for mission-critical e-business solutions to reliably operate. It provides real-time services twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Individual components can easily be changed and the system can easily be scaled without disrupting business operations. mySAP Technology reduces the complexity inherent in many system landscapes through central management and shared business semantics even in heterogeneous environments, thus protecting the existing investment and helping to lower the cost of ownership. The traditional strengths of scalability, broad functionality, and mission-critical performance provided by SAP are now extended to the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform. SAP combines a comprehensive, open, and integrated Web services infrastructure with the applications and data that companies need to rapidly adapt to change. The collaboration made possible by mySAP Technology is essential for increased corporate agility and flexibility to respond to ever-changing business opportunities and market dynamics. It can help to reduce transportation and logistics costs, dramatically cut cycle times, achieve new levels of service quality and order accuracy, enhance visibility over product movement, and score big gains in asset productivity. Efficiencies and collaboration capabilities brought about by mySAP Technology will result in substantial reducation in cost of ownership for customers. Building Blocks of mySAP Technology: mySAP Enterprise Portal provides an open, user-centric integration infrastructure supporting unified access for users to all types of resources coming from SAP and third-party applications. SAP Enterprise Portal includes knowledge management capabilities for indexing and searching, publishing and subscribing, versioning and archiving, editing taxonomies, and managing document workflow of unsubscribed data. SAP Web Application Server supports native Internet technology, such as HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition, and SAP's proven language ABAP. SAP Web Application Server allows quick development of individual Web applications with server-side scripting technologies, provides a scalable and reliable Web application infrastructure that delivers Web services at high performance, low cost of ownership and ensures an e-business solution is always online, and supports Web access via a Web browser and a range of mobile devices. SAP Exchange Infrastructure provides an open process-centric integration infrastructure for free flow of information and business documents supporting XML-based messaging and integration through an Integration Engine. SAP Exchange Infrastructure manages shared cross-component collaboration and integration knowledge, driving end-to-end collaborative business scenarios that incorporate services from SAP and third-party applications. SAP Business Information Warehouse provides extended data warehousing, reporting, and analytics capabilities. The new open hub features make it a source of aggregated information, originally extracted from a wide variety of systems. The native Web capabilities SAP Business Information Warehouse include query design, report presentation, and Web application design, which provides for the easy assembly of reports into portal-based information solutions. Enriched with business content, the SAP Business Information Warehouse is the infrastructure for analytical applications that work across boundaries. Web Dynpro offers a powerful presentation layer designed to create professional and easy-to-use user interfaces. Web Dynpro provides a design time environment that allows developers to model and create browser-based user interfaces as well as a standards-based run-time environment that is device agnostic and bridges the gap between different platforms. Functional Areas of mySAP Technology
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