Neptune DXP - Open Edition

The Launchpad hosts applications and provides these applications with services, such as navigation and personalization.

The Launchpad serves as the single entry point to the Neptune DXP - Open Edition. The Launchpad consists of tiles, which are displayed depending on the role of the user. Each tile represents an application that a user can open. Tiles can also show live data.

Use the App Designer to create HTML5-based applications.

With the API Designer, you create and configure reusable API definitions.

With the Workflow Engine, you design, build, run, and manage workflows, starting from simple approvals to entire end-to-end processes that span across different organizations and applications.

The Workflow Engine facilitates and automates processes that require tasks to be performed by humans. Each step of a transaction can be easily monitored. Processes are completed from the beginning to the end.

With the Script Editor, you create server-side scripts that run in their own separate process on the server. You can use APIs, tables, global scripts, and NPM modules. Scripts are used to extend your instance beyond standard configurations.

With a script, you can automate processes, add functionalities, integrate your instance with outside applications, and more.

Application Building Blocks are modular and reusable development components that vary in size from small code snippets and connectors to larger groups of user interface components and entire application templates.

Neptune provides a growing library of these Application Building Blocks. You can download them for free in the Store.

By default, the Neptune DXP - Open Edition comes with an embedded SQlite database, which can be used for database tables. The Neptune DXP - Open Edition also uses this database for its own configuration tables.

Alternatively, you can use the following databases:

The Neptune DXP - SAP Edition uses ABAP Runtime ICF node as the runtime environment. Each module has its own hosting methods. The Neptune DXP - SAP Edition is embedded within the SAP system and runs within the NetWeaver stack.

The Neptune DXP - Open Edition can be hosted on multiple platforms, for example, Google Cloud Platform, AWS or Azure. The Neptune DXP - Open Edition is as easy to deploy as a docker container with Cloud Foundry.

Even though the Neptune DXP - Open Edition and the Neptune DXP - SAP Edition use different foundations, they share a number of similar components:

The Open Edition comes with the following additional applications:

The Neptune DXP - SAP Edition additionally offers API Factory, which makes it possible to automate the REST API generation of the following SAP artifacts: