MicrosoftSAP Partnership and Technical Roadmap for Interoperability

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Microsoft-SAP Partnership andTechnical Roadmap
for Interoperability
Tilo Boettcher Program Manager CTSC, Microsoft
Corp.tiloboet_at_microsoft.com
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SAP and Microsoft Two Strong Partners
Frontend Interoperability
Applications Services
Applistructure Interoperabilität
Summary and further Links
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CTSC Disclaimer

• During this presentation you will learn
• The status of the partnership between SAP and
  Microsoft
• The joint roadmap for technologies and products
• How SAP-Microsoft interoperability can make your
  IT infrastructure more efficient
• Where to find resources about SAP-Microsoft
  interoperability
• For a better understanding of this presentation
  please note
• The CTSC focuses on technical guidance and
  information around integration of SAP and
  Microsoft product stacks
• The CTSC maintains a neutral position between SAP
  and Microsoft.
• This presentation is a jointly agreed
  presentation of the CTSC
• This presentation may only be used without
  alterations and deletions

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The Value of Interoperability
Interoperability Agility at low TCO

• Integrated solutions will become a central demand
• Leverage Applistructure Platforms for Flexibility
  and Agility
• Strategic Vendors SAP and Microsoft offer choice
  through interoperability

Microsoft .NET
SAP NetWeaver

• Business Process Platform
• Enterprise services
• Composite applications
• Full .NET Interoperability

• Collaboration, workflow and analytics
• Web services Integration
• High impact user experience

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History of the Relationship

• mySAP.com Solutions on Pocket PC

• Mendocino ships

• SAPGUI auf Windows

Client Interop.

• mySAP CRM Mobile Client on Tablet PC

• SAP Desktop Office Int.

• Integration with Microsoft Project

• Integration with Exchange Server

Full Interoperability

• DCOM Connector

• Joint Commitment to Advanced Web Services

Applications Services

• Portal Development Kit .NET

• SAP .NET Connector

• RFC SDK

• SAP R/3 on SQL Server

• SAP 64-Bit Windows (for Itanium)

Appli-structure

• SAP is Windows 2000 launch partner

• SAP R/3 on Windows NT

Mendocino partnership

• Microsoft becomes SAP Customer

• mySAP SCM forXbox manufacturing

Partner- ship
SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft .NET interop
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Joint Roadmap for Planning Safety
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Interoperability Involved Components
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SAP und Microsoft Two Strong Partners
Frontend Interoperability
Applications Services
Applistructure Interoperabilität
Summary and further Links
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Front-End Interoperability

• Front ends will support all kind of users in
  their daily business through a variety of
  channels, form factors and technologies.
• Channels Microsoft Office, NetWeaver Portal, Web
  Apps, Mobile devices and apps, Smart Client, Rich
  client in different Industry solutions.
• Form factors Smart phone, Mobile devices, Ultra
  mobile PC, Tablet, Laptop, Workstation,
  ruggedized devices, Industry specific.
• Technologies .NET framework components and
  languages, Java, WebDynpro, Web Services.

• Benefits and value
• Reuse of existing software and components
• Flexibility of choice
• Familiarity with existing user interfaces

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Roadmap Front-End Interoperability

• Office
• Project Mendocino delivers ready-to-use
  scenarios
• Information Bridge Framework (V2.0) to leverage
  web services
• Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 to extend
  Office
• Portal Interoperability (front-end layer)
• Portal Development Kit for .NET for iView
  deployment
• iViews (NetWeaver Portal) and WebParts
  (SharePoint) can be developed and deployed from
  the .NET PDK 2.0
• Mobile
• SAP Apps (8 Apps, JVM based) on Windows mobile

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Duet formerly known as Mendocino

• Version 1.0 pre-packaged Scenarios
• Time management
• Budget monitoring
• Leave management
• Organization management
• Version 1.x
• open up for development and custom scenarios
• supports pluggable services

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Portal Co-Existence

• NetWeaver Portal and SharePoint Portal Frameworks
• NetWeaver Portal and SharePoint Products and
  Technologies are pursuing different goals and are
  based on different frameworks
• centralized, transaction oriented with pre built
  business packages vs.
• decentralized, collaborative document oriented
• Horses for courses..
• Interoperability standards for Portals WSRP
• WSRP 1.0 has limitations and partial support
• WSRP 2.0 is not released and implemented
• Search
• TREX with extensions through Repository Managers
• Sharepoint Search extensible through Web Services
  and Search Interfaces

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SAP NetWeaver Portal Development Kit for
Microsoft .NET
SAP Menu

• Interoperability
• Develop iViews using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
• Integrate Microsoft and SAP based applications
  into NetWeaver Portal
• Seamless integration with SAP Enterprise Portal
  6.0 and SharePoint
• Leverage resources around Microsoft .NET
  framework and ASP.NET
• Product Roadmap
• First version shown at Saphire 2003 by Shai
  Agassi (SAP) and Eric Rudder (MSFT) now in V 2.0
• Download from SAP Developer Network (sdn.sap.com)

Solution Explorer
Context Sensitive Help
SAP UI Controls
SAP Server Explorer
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Reference Usage of PDK .NET

• Customer Profile
• The Ministry of Finance is the main economic
  ministry of the Government of Israel. It is
  responsible for planning and implementing the
  Government's overall economic policy.
• Business Situation and needs
• The Israeli Ministry of Finance operates in a
  dedicated Microsoft .NET environment and had
  developed an enormous pool of applications,
  skills , and knowledge in .NET. As the government
  decides to exploit SAP Enterprise Portal to all
  Ministries the Ministry of Finance looked for a
  solution to keep the existing knowledge and also
  to use the familiar Visual Studio .NET
  environment.
• Solution description
• The Israeli Ministry of finance decided to use
  the SAP Portal Development Kit for Microsoft .NET
  which enables developers to build SAP Enterprise
  Portal components (so-called iViews) using Visual
  Studio 2003 and Microsoft .NET.
• Benefits provided
• More than 40 portal pages delivered within 2
  months
• New iViews developed within 3 hours
• Live Internet data feeds captured in SAP EP

Our .NET developers were comfortable using the
SAP portal development kit within just two
hours! Shmuel Oppenheimer, Head of .Net
Development, Israeli Ministery of Finance
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SAP und Microsoft Two Strong Partners
Frontend Interoperability
Applications Services
Applistructure Interoperabilität
Summary and further Links
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Vision and Value Applications Services

• Service Oriented Architectures permits the
  composition of business processes by connecting
  applications and components through web services.
  
• Applications and components Building blocks
  containing business and solution logic
• Services Design connections between applications
  and components
• Standards Community based standards simplify
  interoperability and increase flexibility

• Benefits and value
• Composition and adaption of processes based on
  changing business requirements
• Out-of-the-box interoperability reduces
  implementation cost and simplifies management

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Document Management Interoperability

• Products
• NetWeaver Portal, Knowledge Management, Search
• Share Point Products and Technologies, Content
  Management Server, Search
• Document management interoperability using WebDAV
  protocol
• Search, access and edit documents in peer
  repository
• SharePoint WebDAV Connector
• CMS as Content Management System for NetWeaver
  Portal

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Microsoft .NET Data Provider for SAP NetWeaver BI

• The .NET Data Provider for SAP NetWeaver BI is
  officially certified to report on SAP NetWeaver
  Business Intelligence
• Included in the SQL Server 2005 Reporting Service
  SP1
• Based on the .NET Data Provider for SAP NetWeaver
  BI BW acts as a data source for SQL Server
  Reporting Services (SSRS)
• The .NET Data Provider for SAP NetWeaver BI uses
  the SAP BW XML\A interface
• SSRS reports can be based on any query created by
  the SAP BW query designer

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SAP BEx .NET and Excel integration

• Query, Reporting Analysis
• BEx Queries with the new .NET based Query
  Designer in state-of the art .NET Windows UI
• Formatted Reports with the new .NET based Report
  Designer using comprehensive design capabilities
• BEx Web Applications with the new .NET based Web
  Application Designer in WYSIWYG mode
• Excel Integration
• Business User can use BEx Analyzer in order to
  design and interact with MS Excel based BI Apps
  workbooks

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Reference Portal Co-Existence

• Customer Profile
• Siemens Automation and Drives is a global leader
  in Drives and Automation. Siemens AD belongs to
  the Siemens Group and is located in 70 countries
  wordwide.
• Turnover M 8,829 Employees 51,000
• Business Situation
• During the time Siemens AD has collected
  millions of documents on file based systems. The
  immense know-how stored in this documents was
  difficult to use and it was very hard finding
  information stored in the various directory.
• Solution description
• Siemens AD decided to implement a database based
  solution with Share Point Portal Server. For
  displaying the content in the Siemens Enterprise
  Portal Web Service are used.
• Benefits provided
• Share Point Functionality in SAP Enterprise
  Portal
• Unique presentation layout
• Higher productivity because of the team work with
  Share Point technologies
• Empowerment every employee can design own
  pages by using a common Siemens layout

The employee thinks he or she is creating sites
in the SAP Portal, but in reality is making it in
the SharePoint Environment Dr. Körmeier,
BlueBridge
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SAP und Microsoft Two Strong Partners
Frontend Interoperability
Applications Services
Applistructure Interoperabilität
Summary and further Links
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Vision and Value Applistructure Interoperability

• Application Servers and Application Platform are
  being enriched with ESA/SOA infrastructure to
  become Applistructures
• Web Services Infrastructure Supporting
  out-of-the-box interoperability between platforms
• Identity Management Seamless and secure user
  interaction
• Platforms Scalable, reliable and proven
  platforms for agile business

• Benefits and value
• Coherent technology platforms offer more for less
• Leverage existing investments for new tasks
• Choice of best tools for specific tasks

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Development Paths for SAP-centric Applications
Whatever technology you prefer, ...
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Development Paths for Microsoft-centric
Applications
... key to interoperability is a Service Oriented
Architecture.
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Applistructure Interoperability SAP XI and
BizTalk

• Interoperability
• Reliable messaging between SAP XI 3.0 and
  Microsoft BizTalk 2004 is possible using SOAP
  compliant communication
• including QoS Exactly Once
• Both companies drive advanced Web service
  protocols standards enabling reliable and
  transacted interoperability
• BPEL4WS
• WS-I Basic Profile
• WS-RM (Reliable Messaging)
• BizTalk Server Adapter for mySAP Business Suite
  (SAP certified)using SAP connector for Microsoft
  .NET

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End-to-end Identity Management
Frontend, Application Services
SAP NetWeaver
Microsoft .NET
SAP NetWeaver Portal
Sharepoint Portal
Single Sign-On
SPNego
mySAP Business Suite and SAP R/3
Exchange
CRM
ERP
R/3
HR

Applistructure
SAP Net Weaver Application Server
Microsoft Windows Server
CUA
Active Directory
UME
MIIS
User Management
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Microsoft Platforms

• Adaptive Computing support extended to Windows
  Server
• Run applications as services on any shared
  computing resource at any time, reducing cost of
  ownership by up to 40 percent
• Run multiple instances of enterprise software or
  databases on the same server through
  virtualization of applications from hardware
  resources.
• Windows Server New x64-bit Architecture
• Major improvement of price/performance based on
  64-bit addressability and multi-core chip
  enhancements
• x64 will become the mainstream technology
  following x86
• SAP will fully support this new architecture
• SQL Server 2005
• Major enhancement regarding High Availability and
  easier administration with SQL 2005
• Supported by SAP from first day

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Reference BizTalk and XI

• Customer Profile
• Poste Italiane is one of the largest Microsoft
  Customer in Italy. They manage Postal and
  Financial Services (Bancoposta).
• Revenue 8,562,115,000 FT Employees 150.000
  14000 branch offices
• Business Situation and needs
• Target of the project was to provide the Business
  Unit managers with tools that would support them
  in planning and monitoring the processes at the
  distribution centers.
• Solution description
• In this project the central SAP instances have
  been integrated with machines control systems
  located at the Distribution Centers using the
  Microsoft technology the shop floor information
  are sent to the central site using Microsoft
  BizTalk, integrated in SAP Exchange
  Infrastructure and remotely monitored (both
  real-time and batch) in a reporting console based
  on the ICONICS solution.
• Benefits provided
• Easier maintenance and operation
• Increase production efficiency by 4.
• High reusability
• Cost saving
• High interoperabilty

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SAP und Microsoft Two Strong Partners
Frontend Interoperability
Applications Services
Applistructure Interoperabilität
Summary and further Links
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.NET Interoperability in SAP sdn
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SAP Interoperability on microsoft.com
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The Microsoft-SAP CTSC

• The Collaboration Technology Support Center is a
  joint team of experts from SAP and Microsoft that
  provides guidance and help for better integration
  between SAP and Microsoft products.
• The CTSC maintains a neutral Position between
  SAP and Microsoft towards customers and partners.

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Summary
SAP and Microsoft are reliable STRATEGIC
PARTNERS Customers deploy NetWeaver and .NET as
their APPLISTRUCTURES SAP and Microsoft support
SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES SAP and Microsoft
jointly offer tight INTEROPERABILITY More
customers decide on SAP and Microsoft as
STRATEGIC VENDORS
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Further Information