Composite applications from SAP are packaged applications that sit on existing enterprise solutions and reuse their functionality to form new collaborative business processes. As Web and enterprise services grow, reusable, collaborative composite applications enable you to use many available functions with less software effort. This second installment of a three-article series shows you how to create user interfaces using SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment, the design and runtime environment for composite applications, and its tools. Explore this new approach to user interface design.

Dr. Volker Stiehl
Prof. Dr. Volker Stiehl studied computer science at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. After 12 years as a developer and senior system architect at Siemens, he joined SAP in 2004. As chief product expert, Volker was responsible for the success of the products SAP Process Orchestration, SAP Process Integration, and SAP HANA Cloud Integration (now SAP HANA Cloud Platform, integration service). He left SAP in 2016 and accepted a position as professor at the Ingolstadt Technical University of Applied Sciences where he is currently teaching business information systems. In September 2011, Volker received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Technology Darmstadt. His thesis was on the systematic design and implementation of applications using BPMN. Volker is also the author of Process-Driven Applications with BPMN as well as the co-author of SAP HANA Cloud Integration and a regular speaker at various national and international conferences.
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