Network Services

Sun Network Services for SAP

Today, companies need to make decisions and take action quickly in order to stay competitive in the face of dynamic new market forces. To do this, they need to extend their network to include customers, suppliers, and partners. At the same time, there is a general mandate to lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and to leverage existing IT investments. These challenges are driving the need for flexible and extensible business processes that fully integrate people and information, which in turn is the catalyst to the on-going evolution of Web services.

SAP recognizes the need to extend the enterprise, creating composite, Web services-based applications to solve specific needs. SAP addresses this evolution with SAP NetWeaver, an open integration and application platform. SAP NetWeaver allows businesses to build and manage composite, collaborative business services that are available whenever and wherever they are needed by a community of users that extends beyond corporate boundaries to suppliers, customers, and employees. The challenge is to open up the enterprise to new ways of conducting business and more users in a cost-effective manner while simultaneously ensuring that information assets remain secure.

Once one understands the impact of moving more and more of the business onto the Web, building a network identity infrastructure that supports such a framework quickly becomes one of the priorities. Sun's Network Services for SAP can help you navigate these waters through components and professional services that support a comprehensive identity management and security solution for SAP NetWeaver.

Organizations gain the ability to:

• Enforce consistent corporate security policies
• Provide users with faster access to multiple systems using single sign-on
• Automate user administration based on policies for access authorization
• Extend remote access easily, quickly, and securely to customers, suppliers, partners and employees

For more detailed information, please see:

Automated, Continous Compliance - With an integrated solution from Sun and SAP (PDF) Sun Network Services for SAP Solutions - Solutions Sheet (PDF) Sun Network Services for SAP Solutions - Executive Brief (PDF) Sun Network Services for SAP Solutions - White Paper (PDF)