SAP : Are you concerned about your Netweaver web application performance in your remote offices?

If this is true, then AccAD is your “goto” solution. Positioned as a complimentary offering to SAP Netweaver, SAP’s Accelerated Application delivery (ACCAD), is a standalone application. It can be leveraged as an enabler for SAP's global central system strategy e.g., Central Portal as single central access point for end-users worldwide.

Access via AccAD is significantly fast than direct access over WAN. This is true for limited bandwidth and longer latencies.

Quite commonly due to bandwidth and latency issues users in remote offices encounter performance issues like quite length logging or navigating within portal. Accelerated application delivery is a software client that can overcome such issues and thus deliver applications at near LAN speed to global user groups. Its application aware compression and caching mechanisms can be more efficient than generic acceleration over WAN and application delivery technologies.

AccAD can provide benefits to all web based SAP applications such as - WebDynPro, BSP applications etc.,. AccAD can be more useful in many cases to your organization such as - SAP Portal as an entry point for all your web applications, KM applications, Learning solutions (LSO), WebDynPro solutions HR portal etc., AccAD focuses more on SAP applications than to generic applications, however it can benefit from the already implemented generic accelerated application delivery.

AccAD technology is productive simple and effective with easy configurations with flexible platform options available – Linux and Windows for data center and remote offices and can run in simple hardware. One central location you could administer the delivery polices for all remote locations and data centre.

AccAD includes delivery policy - set of rules that define the availability of an application service in aremote office, including delivery optimization parameters. The delivery policy determines which application service is delivered to which remote office.

Deployment is quite simple, easy and fast and could be completed in hours. By deploying the below two AccAD engines:

SFE - Server Front End The AD engine instance that resides in the data center
CFE - Client Front End The AD engine instance that resides in the remote office

AccAD establishes a tunnel between SFE and CFE via TCP or TLS/SSL if security is required. With a small plug-in deployed in SAP NetWeaver Portal, at the data center you can access tools for configuring and managing the delivery policy. The plug-in also helps to view audit information such as alerts, events, and traffic history.

Improve user experience, let your Netweaver applications be delivered with speed!

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