NWBC can display different types of content inside its canvas area. Thus the canvas is the area that hosts the applications. It provides a unified environment with embedded rendering engines for the different types of applications. The signature design as frame forces these different technologies into a harmonized user experience.

All sorts of different applications run in the canvas, such as classical dynpros, Web Dynpro applications, Business Server Pages (BSP) applications, BI applications, etc. There are several rendering engines, one for each type of application that can run in the canvas: