The Serverside Development Infrastructure Client (SDIC) is a service that provides a unified API for server-side development environments (SIDE) (such as Visual Composer) to allow them to interact with the System Landscape Directory (SLD) and the SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI) through the landscape. This allows location and service transparency. Any SIDE which needs to have integrated versioning or build or logistics support from NWDI has to use the SDIC service. The following figure shows how the SDIC in the landscape: