SAP has renamed SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure -- SAP NetWeaver XI -- as SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI). NetWeaver PI serves as the integration engine for SAP's implementation of SOA middleware. With NetWeaver PI, SAP has included pre-built integrations for connecting SAP systems to each other and to non-SAP systems. But many SAP users are still not sure what the difference is between NetWeaver PI and NetWeaver XI. They have questions such as:
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- What is NetWeaver PI's role within the NetWeaver platform?
- Is NetWeaver PI basically SAP's new integration engine?
- What new features are in PI that XI didn't have?
- How does the product compare to competing middleware products such as Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM)?
This learning guide on SAP XI will answer these and many other questions.
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- What is SAP XI? (SearchSAP.com)
- What is NetWeaver? (SearchSAP.com)
- What is BPM? (SearchCRM.com)
- What is middleware? (SearchSOA.com)
- What is integration? (SearchCRM.com)
- What is a repository? (SearchOracle.com)
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- Article: NetWeaver PI 7.1 easier to implement than earlier versions, SAP says (SearchSAP.com)
- Article: With NetWeaver PI's future unclear, don't use it for strategic projects, Gartner says (SearchSAP.com)
- Article: SAP Netweaver PI overview (SearchSAP.com)
- Article: NetWeaver PI 7.1 easier to implement than earlier versions, SAP says (SearchSAP.com)
- Guide: SAP XI All-In-One guide (SearchSAP.com)
- Article: SAP XI explained (SearchSAP.com)
- Featured Topic: What's the buzz around SAP XI? (SearchSAP.com)
- Web resource: SAP XI features & functions (SAP)
- Web resource: SAP BC-XI (SAP Help)
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- Web resource: XI 3.0 documentation (SAP Help)
- Web resource: XI 2 .0 documentation (SAP Help)
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- Podcast: Getting started with SAP NetWeaverPI (SearchSAP.com)
- Tip: Using Folders in PI 7.1 (SearchSAP.com)
- Tip: Introduction to XI (SearchSAP.com)
- Tip: My version 'XI 3.0 for Dummies' (SearchSAP.com)
- Expert Advice: Installing SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1 on servers running ECC 6.0 (SearchSAP.com)
- Expert Advice: Installing SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1 on servers running ECC 6.0 (SearchSAP.com)
- Expert Advice: Interfacing from SAP to SAP XI to external (SearchSAP.com
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- Book: SAP NetWeaver For Dummies By Dan Woods and Jeffrey Word
- Book: SAP System Operations By Michael Missbach
This was first published in September 2004

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