How Accurate Was SAP on Netweaver? - Brightwork Research & Analysis

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Executive Summary

For years SAP has said that Netweaver was a game changer.
In this article, we review the accuracy of this claim.

What SAP Said About Netweaver?

SAP proposed that Netweaver would become a major infrastructure “product.” SAP proposed that Netweaver would revolutionize SAP’s infrastructure. You will learn how accurate SAP was in its claims around Netweaver.

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Notice of Lack of Financial Bias: We have no financial ties to SAP or any other entity mentioned in this article.

This is published by a research entity, not some lowbrow entity that is part of the SAP ecosystem.
Second, no one paid for this article to be written, and it is not pretending to inform you while being rigged to sell you software or consulting services. Unlike nearly every other article you will find from Google on this topic, it has had no input from any company's marketing or sales department. As you are reading this article, consider how rare this is. The vast majority of information on the Internet on SAP is provided by SAP, which is filled with false claims and sleazy consulting companies and SAP consultants who will tell any lie for personal benefit. Furthermore, SAP pays off all IT analysts -- who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers.

What Actually Happened with Netweaver?

Netweaver turned out to be part marketing construct and part a set of tools that did little for SAP projects, as is explained in the article Did SAP Netweaver Ever Exist?

We called out Netweaver as not being anything back in 2010. Our article explains why Netweaver is part of some SAP product names; it was never anything more than a marketing construct or a container within which real SAP products existed. As soon as HANA was introduced, Netweaver stopped being marketed by SAP. That is, HANA replaced Netweaver as SAP’s primary marketing tentpole.

Furthermore, even the products that SAP affixed names to, such as SAP PI, SAP MDM, Enterprise Portal & Identity Management, did not improve SAP projects. Some items like SAP BW never made any sense to include in Netweaver.

It is also important to note that SAP was not merely wrong about Netweaver, but the proposal about Netweaver was deceptive.

Conclusion and Calculation

SAP receives a 0% accuracy rating on Netweaver.

Link to the Parent Article

This is one of many research articles on a specific topic that supports a larger research calculation. For the overview of the research calculation for all of the SAP topics that were part of the study, see the following primary research A Study into SAP’s Accuracy.