Netweaver Central is an online community where SAP developers, consultants, integrators and administrators can converge and discuss topics related to the SAP Netweaver platform and technologies
Netweaver Central has been designed to grow and adapt to the needs of the online Netweaver community. It will host technology discussions, expert advise and exclusive downloads to help in the development and implementation of projects based on the Netweaver platform.
The SAP UI 
Development Kit for HTML5 is a JavaScript OpenAjax compliant library for building rich internet applications. It fully supports SAP’s product standards as well as RIA-like client-side features. Apart of this, it is extensible regarding custom controls, application services, theming, or custom branding. UI5 is lightweight and easy to consume, so that you can combine it easily with 3rd-party JS libraries to design an HTML page and integrate it into various application frameworks or server platforms.
The development documentation is now available for download.
Interesting analysis of the belief in the SAP market that if you want to go mobile with an SAP-based solution, you have to use the SAP Sybase products.
The reality is that there are many other options, including writing applications in HTML5 or using the Netweaver Portal on Device.
Terry Stepien, president of SAP Sybase’s iAnywhere unit, said enterprises will “mostly using HTML 5″ in two years to deliver business software to various devices.
Read more here.
It is impossible to implement all of the necessary functions associated with a complex business problem in the same component or even technology. A modern enterprise infrastructure system must be in the position to integrate functions in one effective process. Until now, the combination of different applications have been developed using point-to-point solutions which grow complex and impossible to maintain over time.
Web Services simplify the heterogeneous nature of most mature enterprise system landscapes. They enable you to combine functions in a single process, even if they are implemented in widely differing software components. Web services are standalone, executable entities that can be published, searched for, and called, across a network.
Part 3 of an interview with Kaj van de Loo, SVP at SAP and responsible for SAP Technology Strategy.
He provides some insight as to SAP’s current technology platform. He also shares some highlights as to the direction of SAP’s technology platform.
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