Enabling Platform Interoperability 

In the past decade, companies made large-scale IT investments in the best-of-breed products available on the market. As a result, we are now facing heterogeneous environments because many of these products come from different vendors. Now the extensions of the existing infrastructures are difficult to realize. However, collaboration across company boundaries is becoming increasingly important.

Interoperability

Interoperability is the ability of two or more systems or system components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged. SAP NetWeaver offers you interoperability openness, and extensibility in the areas of people-, information-, process- and application integration. Using this interoperability, you can cross these boundaries and benefit from both environments’ features, but still keep the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) low.  

This IT scenario covers the most important standards and technologies that are relevant in the interoperability context.

Scenario Variants

Here you can see the following scenario variants:

Variants	Description
Enabling Co-Existence of Several Portals	Leveraging two portals to combine content between SAP NetWeaver Portal and a non-SAP portal technology.
Ensuring A2A and B2B Integration	Extending business-to-business (B2B) and application-to-application (A2A) scenarios across messaging technologies and product boundaries. This includes integration with Microsoft BizTalk and IBM WebSphere servers.
Providing Web Services Interoperability	Providing Enterprise and Web services interoperability with third party components to enable service-oriented solutions.
Managing Heterogeneous System Landscapes	Complement SAP NetWeaver capabilities with market-leading system management tools in areas such as storage and archiving, operation of systems, identity and access management, and provisioning of services.