 "SAP Leads Gartner's Application Infra Magic Quadrant")
SAP AG has announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the ‘Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic SOA Infrastructure Projects’ and the ‘Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration Projects.’ The products examined in the two reports are part of the 7.3 version of the SAP NetWeaver technology platform.
SAP NetWeaver is a comprehensive application infrastructure technology stack, designed to efficiently develop, run and extend SAP, customer and partner applications on premise and in the cloud. The platform supports open standards and open source technologies, as well as seamless integration with core processes and data in SAP business applications. It has been renewed for simplicity and enabled for next generation platform requirements. SAP NetWeaver helps regular business applications to make use of technological advances such as in-memory data management, mobile access and cloud deployment.
According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration Projects, “Leaders in infrastructure that supports systematic application integration provide a comprehensive ESB suite offering and the ability to integrate that offering with other relevant technologies, including community management, data integration, governance and BPMS products. This is combined with a strong commitment to this market that is expressed through focused value propositions and go-to market strategies (for example, by packaging platforms and/or by providing integrated product and services offerings specific for this market), support for the most relevant industry standards (for example, support for SOAP-based and representational state transfer (REST) Web services, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), BPMN and OSGi) and a well-defined road map that addresses most emerging requirements such as cloud/SaaS integration.”
Companies classified as leaders in the ‘Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic SOA Infrastructure Projects’ report combine the ability to provide a comprehensive application infrastructure offering with a strong commitment to this market, which is expressed through focused value propositions and go-to-market strategies (for example, by packaging product suites and/or by providing integrated product and service offerings specific for this market); support for the most relevant industry standards (for example, BPEL, BPMN and OSGi); and a well-defined road map addressing most of the emerging requirements (for example, federated SOA, cloud/SaaS integration, support for mobile application and PaaS support).”
“With SAP NetWeaver PI, we can share information with other companies without anyone making any changes to their deployed software and hardware landscapes. The B2B possibilities are endless.” said S. Prakash, Deputy General Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited. “SAP NetWeaver PI gives us one less thing to worry about. We can process 45 million liters of product transactions with other oil company partners without exchanging any paper document,” he added.
“We are delighted about this placement,” said Maneesh Sharma, Head Database & Technology, SAP India. “We believe it acknowledges the tremendous progress and strong adoption of SAP NetWeaver platform as a whole. It is also another proof-point that service-oriented architecture patterns are becoming mainstream, and in turn are allowing different implementation styles. We will continue to co-innovate with customers and partners to expand the value and footprint of SAP NetWeaver further along with SAP HANA and into the cloud.”