Newsbyte: SAP Named a Leader for Comprehensive Integration Solutions by Independent Research Firm

WALLDORF, Germany, Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced it has been named a leader in comprehensive integration solutions in a new report by independent research firm Forrester Research Inc. In the November 2010 report, "The Forrester Wave™: Comprehensive Integration Solutions, Q4 2010," SAP was positioned as a leader among 15 vendors.

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Forrester Research evaluated the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform 7.1 using 137 different criteria that were categorized into the following groups: current offering, strategy and market presence. Across these categories, SAP scored several fives, the highest score possible, in areas such as process monitoring, security, service-oriented architecture (SOA), strategic alliances, messaging, lifecycle management, advanced business-to-business support and delivery footprint.

Following are a few key comments from the report and scorecard about why SAP is a market leader in comprehensive integration solutions:

• "SAP makes ongoing advances in its integration capability… where the current release of [SAP] NetWeaver PI is meeting many of the integration needs of many of its customers."
• "SAP received very strong scores for architecture details, security capabilities, and support for service-oriented architecture (SOA)."
• "SAP provides a robust tool set to enable these commonly supported endpoint capabilities. Built-in load balancing is natively supported as part of app server capability. SOA service management is done via SAP Solution Manager that provides integration to all local monitoring plus application monitoring in one view."
• "SAP NetWeaver BPM provides sophisticated process reporting capabilities on process execution data to monitor the overall execution."

SAP NetWeaver is the technology foundation for all solution innovations at SAP, and continues to be a key strategic investment for the company and its customers. Customer adoption for SAP NetWeaver® Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) offering is growing exponentially among partners and customers, due to the platform's strengths in integration and management.

For more information on SAP NetWeaver solutions, visit www.sap.com/sapnetweaver. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

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