SAP News Desk

Click here to download this article in its complete printable .PDF format Join in at SDN.SAP.COM - http://sdn.sap.com Last fall, SAP launched the SAP Developer Network (SDN), a collaborative online community of developers, implementers, and administrators who work with SAP NetWeaver and SAP xApps packaged composite applications. The response to the SDN has been overwhelmingly positive. The SAP Developer Network is extremely important for IT engineers new to SAP, mainly because SAP NetWeaver opens up new opportunities for JAVA and .Net programmers to work inside SAP systems and integrate much more easily between systems. For example, current J2EE experts can come to SDN, download the Eclipse-based JAVA IDE and J2EE application server, get code samples and tutorials and learn how they can use all their existing JAVA skills inside SAP systems today. If they have any ques... (more)

Juniper Networks WX and DX Application Acceleration Platforms Achieve SAP Certified Integration

Juniper Networks, Inc. announced that the company’s application acceleration platforms have achieved SAP Certified Integration. The certified integration affirms that enterprises deploying services and applications using an enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) can achieve improved performance optimization, security and access reliability when integrating the Juniper Networks DX 5.3 load balancing and application acceleration platform in data centers, and improved performance optimization when integrating the Juniper Networks WX 5.5 application accelerat... (more)

Microbia Selects ChemOne to Support Aggressive Start-up Growth of Company

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. ChemOne will provide the foundation for operational efficiency for Microbia's manufacturing and business requirements to prepare them for the launch of their line of naturally derived carotenoids for the food ingredient and nutritional supplement markets. ChemOne is a certified SAP® Business All-in-One solution that is specifically designed for Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the chemical industry. It accelerates an organization's return on investment by providing fully optimized operational systems to support rapid growth with ... (more)

SAP Says It's a Java, ABAP, and .NET World

(March 18, 2002) - German software giant SAP took advantage of the world media interest in the CeBIT technology fair in Hannover, Germany, last week to make an announcement that shows how carefully even giants these days are choosing to tread, so as to avoid taking definitive sides in the brooding J2EE vs .NET platform war as Web services become steadily more and more pervasive. SAP committed at Hannover to writing "connectors" to .NET, a move which sends a clear signal that the company does not wish to be thought of as "Java-only" despite the fact that its own application server... (more)

"HP's Problem Ain't the SAP Install," Says Sun's Schwartz

Related Links: "Is Carly Toast Yet?" - Maureen O'Gara on HP's Fiorina, Three Years On HP Falls, Dell Shines HP's profit shortfall warning last week made mention of the problems the company had experienced combining two SAP systems, one belonging to HP and the other to Compaq, the company it acquired two years ago. Now Sun's president and COO Jonathan Schwartz has taken up the theme, exploiting the fact that the industry may be puzzled what HP's problem is since HP and Compaq both ran back-office software made by the same company. "HP's problem? It ain't the SAP install," blogs Schwa... (more)