SAP NetWeaver Road Map

December 2019

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Table of contents

Topic overview
 Topic description
 Key trends and customer needs
 Road map overview and major product updates

Topic road map

 Recent innovations
 Planned innovations
 Product direction

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SAP NetWeaver
Foundation and integration for SAP Business Suite

SAP NetWeaver contains innovative technologies to help customers

to transition from existing landscapes to SAP S/4HANA and
SAP Cloud Platform.

Efficient development
 Modern ABAP development with Eclipse
 Custom code adaptation for SAP S/4HANA
Ext
Development of SAP Fiori apps optimized for SAP HANA en
Development User Extensibility
 Semantic data model based on core data services (CDS) sibi experience
 Template-based user experience with SAP Fiori elements lity
Extensibility
 In-app extensibility options for SAP S/4HANA
 Side-by-side extensibility with SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment

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SAP NetWeaver
In the enterprise technology product portfolio

Foundation and integration platform for

 SAP Business Suite
 SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Process Orchestration
 SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP and for Java
 SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud (through ABAP platform)

SAP NW AS* for ABAP 7.5 SAP NW AS for ABAP 7.51 SAP NW AS for ABAP 7.52
ABAP platform ABAP platform
/ 7.6x packages for cloud / 7.6x packages for cloud / 7.6x packages for cloud

SAP Business Suite EHP 8 SAP NetWeaver AS for SAP NetWeaver AS for SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP
ABAP 7.51 innovation ABAP 7.52 innovation environment environment
SAP NetWeaver 7.5
package package
SAP S/4HANA Finance
SAP S/4HANA 1610 SAP S/4HANA 1709 SAP S/4HANA 1809 SAP S/4HANA 1909
SAP S/4HANA 1511
SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP S/4HANA Cloud

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

* SAP NetWeaver Application Server

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SAP NetWeaver and ABAP platform
Key trends, customer needs, and value proposition

Key trends and impacts in business Customer needs and the value propositions
and technology of the product
 Cloud operation  Flexible deployment models
 Benefits from speed of in-memory databases and  Extensibility options for both cloud and on-premise
technology SAP solutions
 Responsive user interface based on HTML5  Fully managed platform as a service offering for
standard ABAP developers
 Use of SAP Cloud Platform services  Fast adoption of new technologies (such as
 Transformation of existing code bases for cloud SAP HANA)
deployments  Cloud-optimized development
 Commercialization options for customers and
partners

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SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment
SAP’s platform-as-a-service offering for the ABAP developer community

Key capabilities

 Cloud-optimized ABAP language: Restricted set of

language elements suitable for cloud operation (for example,
file access not allowed)
 Side-by-side extensibility: Extending SAP solution such as
SAP S/4HANA Cloud through HTTP(S)-based protocols
 Whitelisted APIs: Adherence to a well-defined set of APIs
and reusable elements
 Exploiting SAP HANA native capabilities: Leveraging
the power of SAP HANA capabilities on the ABAP layer
 SAP Cloud Platform: Benefits from the cloud platform
services

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 SAP NetWeaver and ABAP platform
Direction update

On premise On premise Cloud

SAP Business Suite1 SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP-based SaaS solutions
SAP NetWeaver hubs Extensions for SAP S/4HANA
SAP NetWeaver add-ons Custom cloud apps
Custom applications

SAP NetWeaver Application ABAP platform 1909 ABAP platform cloud 1911 SAP Cloud Platform
Server for ABAP 7.5x 2 (indirect shipment only) (indirect shipment only) ABAP environment 1911

Whitelisted APIs
Classic ABA layer NEW ABA layer New ABA layer New ABA layer
Any DB and SAP HANA SAP HANA only SAP HANA only SAP HANA only

Improvements One common ABAP platform innovation codeline

1. 7.50 2. 7.50, 7.51, and 7.52
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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ABAP platform as foundation for SAP S/4HANA
Product road map overview – Key innovations

Recent innovations 2020 – Planned innovations1 2021 – Product direction1

Development platform Development platform Development platform

 Availability of the ABAP RESTful programming model for  Enhanced feature scope of the ABAP RESTful programming model  Innovations and enhancements for SAP S/4HANA
efficient development of SAP Fiori UI services and Web APIs  Enhanced ABAP RESTful programming model
– Managed scenario for supporting greenfield application development;
– Brownfield application development based on legacy code with draft support, extended determination / validation support, extended – Support brownfield application development using unmanaged scenario
– Business objects (BO) as first-class citizens in CDS and ABAP, incl. APIs optimistic locking (eTag), and managed early numbering based on with draft support
for BO access UUIDs
– Integration of draft-enabled, CDS-based BOPF business objects
– Provisioning and consumption of OData V2–based Web APIs – Extended feature control and authorization
– Extensibility and verticalization
 Enhanced CDS scope: Hierarchies, abstract and custom CDS – Support for CDS associations and ABAP code exits in BO projections
 Continuous optimizations for SAP HANA
entities – OData V4 support
 Enhanced ABAP development tools for on-premise and cloud
 Support of new SAP HANA data types for SAP HANA breakouts  Continuous optimizations for SAP HANA
 Real-time events with ABAP channels and ABAP daemons  ADT editors for BAdI definitions and implementations Custom code adaptation
 Improved ABAP test cockpit: Automatic e-mail notification after ATC  ATC exemption handling in ADT  Continuous improvements
run and at exemptions, setting last changer as contact person  REST APIs for managing ATC runs for CI/CD
 Git-enabled change and transport management (gCTS) for CI/CD
Custom code adaptation
Custom code adaptation
 SAP Fiori app for custom code analysis: Integration of code
 SAP Fiori app for efficient custom code analysis for SAP S/4HANA, complexity metrics
incl. scoping based on usage data with automatic removal of unused
code using SUM  Migration support from CDS-based BOPF to the ABAP RESTful
programming model
 Semi-automatic code adaptation for SAP S/4HANA using mass-
enabled ADT quick fixes, new quick fixes delivered

In-app extensibility
 Change documents for custom business objects
 Upload custom code lists and their translation
(Release 1909)
1. This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.
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