Getting Involved
Use
SAP Visual Composer provides a development environment for rapidly creating and adapting model-based transactional and analytical applications. It has been designed to enable business process expertrs, business analysts and developers to create enterprise applications using standardized components that meet SAP standards and quality criteria.
Visual Composer has been designed according to the following prime considerations:
· Simplicity
¡ Visual Composer enables fast development of model-based business applications, without requiring manual coding skills.
¡ Visual Composer users create their models using a small set of highly-reusable, easily understood concepts (such as views and data binding).
¡ The Visual Composer graphical interface is very user friendly: it implements drag-and-drop capabilities, direct layout visualization and a range of other tools for facilitating model building and adaptation.
¡ Visual Composer is browser-based, eliminating the need for client-side installation and maintenance.
·
Reusable
components
The building blocks implemented in the models ensure consistency in
functionality and UI design from application to application. Using them
ensures significant savings in time and effort by eliminating the need to
recreate similar functionality from model to model.
·
SAP
NetWeaver 7.0 integration
Visual Composer is tightly integrated into the SAP
NetWeaver 7.0 suite of applications.
·
Connectivity to
SAP and third-party
systems
Visual Composer operates on top of the SAP NetWeaver portal,
utilizing the portal’s connector-framework interfaces to enable access
to a range of data services, including SAP and third-party
enterprise systems. In
addition to accessing SAP ERP systems, users can access SAP
Business Warehouse and any open/JDBC stored procedures.
·
Support
for different runtime environments
Visual Composer is a robust tool whose models can be deployed to run in a
number of different environments, including Web Dynpro and Adobe
Flex.
·
Test-and-Redo
Visual Composer is ideal for trying out a model, quickly deploying it –
and then going back to the “drawing board” (Storyboard) for
correction and tweaking.
In summary, Visual Composer enables business process experts and business analysts to apply their inherent understanding of their organizations’ requirements to create and adapt applications to their specific business needs. These applications can then be subsequently customized and continuously changed in Visual Composer as the organization’s business objectives evolve.
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