What does SAP Netweaver Application server offers?

SAP Netweaver AS is the logical result of the further development of the SAP Application server Technology. SAP Netweaver AS offers :
• A reliable and extensively tested runtime environment, which has been developed further continuously over more than ten years
• A framework for executing complex business processes that meet the highest security standards
• A reliable and user-friendly development environment
• Support for open standards, including HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, WebDAV, SOAP, SSL, Unicode, HTML,XML and WML
• High scalability
• Support for different operating system and database platforms