SAP Enterprise Portals Bikram Dogra NetWeaver Portal Consultant

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SAP Enterprise PortalsBikram DograNetWeaver
Portal Consultant
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Agenda

• What is SAP?

SAP NetWeaver Platform
What is an Enterprise Portal?
SAP Enterprise Portals
SAP Solution Architecture
Summary
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What is SAP?

• An IT based transaction processing system
• Integrated information management and retrieval
• Covers strategic and operational requirements of
  the business
• Order to Cash - Sales activity from quotation, to
  sales order, to shipment, to customer payment
  (accounts receivable)
• Plan to Produce - The planning and manufacturing
  process to supply materials and labor to make our
  products.
• Req to Pay - The requisitioning, purchase orders,
  and receipt of materials for our business.
• Finance/Controlling - Tracks and reports what we
  had to invest to manufacture and ship these sale
  orders, and how much profit we made.

Finance
HR
Manufacturing
Materials
Sales
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SAP Business Applications
Supplier
ERP
Customer
Accounting
Logistics
SD Sales Distribution
FI Financial Accounting
MM Materials Mgmt.
CO Controlling
PP Production Planning
AM Fixed Assets Mgmt.
R/3
mySAP SRM
mySAP CRM
SM Service Manage- ment
EC Enterprise Controlling
Client / Server ABAP
QM Quality Manage-ment
PS Project System
PM Plant Main-tenance
WF Workflow
HR Human Resources
IS Industry Solution
Cross Application Functions
Human Resources
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Agenda
What is SAP?

• SAP NetWeaver Platform

What is an Enterprise Portal?
SAP Enterprise Portals
SAP Solution Architecture
Summary
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SAP NetWeaver 2004
Open integration and application development
platform for all SAP Products

• 1 PlatformSynchronized release dates
• 1 FoundationSAP Web AS 6.40
• 1 PackageCoherent installation process
• 1 Set of scenariosIntegrated components
• All AppsBusiness Suite, partner solutions and
  xApps developed on NetWeaver

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Application Platform

• SAP Web Application Server
• J2EE 1.3 compliant Java serverand ABAP server
  side by side
• Zero footprint UI (Browser)
• Model driven UI, patterns
• Highly scalable and reliable, advanced caching
• OS and DB abstraction layer

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Process Integration

• SAP Exchange Infrastructure
• For both internal and external process
  integration(with SAP and non-SAP)
• Prepackaged integration knowledge
• Third party system integration based on standards
  and adapters
• Cross-component Business Process Management

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Information Integration

• SAP Business Intelligence
• End-to-end solution forenterprise-wide BI
• Business content for rapiddeployment
• Fully integrated with portal
• Open architecture
• 95 integration of SAP and non-SAP data
• SAP Enterprise Portal Knowledge Management
• Unified access to multiple respositories
• Search classification
• SAP Master Data Management
• Information integrity across the business network
• Reduce duplicates
• Get accurate reporting
• Optimize decision making

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People Integration

• SAP Enterprise Portal
• Any source
• Any audience
• Role-based
• Team collaboration(both real-time
  asynchronous)
• SAP Mobile Infrastructure
• Enables mobile apps to run disconnected or
  connected
• Built for handheld devices(Pocket PC, EPOC,
  Linux)and laptops
• Browser or native front-end
• Multiple-backend connectivity

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Composite Application Framework
SAP NetWeaver

• Composite Application Framework
• Basis for development of composite apps and xApps
• Key Features
• a methodology for building composite applications
  
• a model- and metadata-driven programming model
• aggregated APIs to access objects and services
  across all NetWeaver components
• reusable object models as well as application and
  UI patterns

PEOPLE INTEGRATION
Multichannel access
Portal
Collaboration
INFORMATION INTEGRATION
Bus. Intelligence
Knowledge Mgmt
Master Data Management
Composite Application Framework
Life Cycle Management
PROCESS INTEGRATION
IntegrationBroker
Business ProcessManagement
APPLICATION PLATFORM
J2EE
ABAP
DB and OS Abstraction
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Solution Manager
SAP NetWeaver

• SAP Solution Manager
• Implementation
• Global-RollOut
• Configuration Synchronization
• Testing
• Landscape Reporting
• Support Desk
• Solution Monitoring
• Service Level Reporting

PEOPLE INTEGRATION
Multichannel access
Portal
Collaboration
INFORMATION INTEGRATION
Bus. Intelligence
Knowledge Mgmt
Master Data Management
Composite Application Framework
Life Cycle Management
PROCESS INTEGRATION
IntegrationBroker
Business ProcessManagement
APPLICATION PLATFORM
J2EE
ABAP
DB and OS Abstraction
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Agenda
What is SAP?
SAP NetWeaver Platform

• What is an Enterprise Portal?

SAP Enterprise Portals
SAP Solution Architecture
Summary
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What is an Enterprise Portal?

• An Enterprise Portal provides
• A single point of access via a web browser to
  application, contents and services
• A personalized, role based user interface,
  customizable to individual needs
• Simple maintenance based on open and flexible
  system with no additional client software
• Secure access from anywhere
• Unification technology and predefined unifiers
  for database and legacy systems, which supports
  users in identifying business issues and
  navigating across systems to immediately resolve
  these issues

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Need for Enterprise Portal

• The Information Technology landscape in large
  organization is complex, and getting more so.
• Such landscape are marked by following
  characteristics
• Heterogeneous Systems
• Dozens to hundreds of separate systems from
  different vendors require expensive point to
  point integration
• Proprietary Technologies and communication
  protocols
• Different business partners have no shared
  knowledge of business processes or access to
  partners business information. This endangers
  future success
• Complex business environments
• These environments contribute to a business
  nightmare with multiple dependencies and an
  average industry cost per year, per interface of
  10,000

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Portal The brief history of time
2002 Integration Portal WebServices
1998 Enterprise Yahoo HTML Aggregation
2001 Application Portal Connectivity Framework
Portal Engine
Enterprise Portal Engine
User
2003 Enterprise Portal Scalability
Performance
2000 Exec Dashboard BI Reporting / Scorecard
1999 Document Portal Knowledge Management
BPM
2004 Ubiquitous Platform Process Modeling
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Need for Enterprise Portal
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From Desktop to WebTop
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Agenda
What is SAP?
SAP NetWeaver Platform
What is an Enterprise Portal?

• SAP Enterprise Portal

SAP Solution Architecture
Summary
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SAP NetWeaverEnterprise Portal
SAP NetWeaver

• SAP Enterprise Portal Powered by SAP NetWeaver
• Web-based, role-based, secure access
• Integrating any kind of structured information
• The frontend to the SAP World
• Sophisticated navigation possibilities
• Wide platform support, wide language support
• Built on open standards
• SAP EP encompasses portal, KM and Collaboration

PEOPLE INTEGRATION
Multi channel access
Portal
Collaboration
INFORMATION INTEGRATION
Bus. Intelligence
Knowledge Mgmt
Master Data Mgmt
Composite Application Framework
Life Cycle Mgmt
PROCESS INTEGRATION
Integration Broker
BusinessProcess Mgmt
APPLICATION PLATFORM
J2EE
ABAP
DB and OS Abstraction
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Portal Infrastructure
Portal
Role-based,
Line Manager
Business Developer
Sales Manager
Authentication
secure
SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0
and Web-based
Single Sign On
access to any kind of applications,
information and services
ERP
CRM

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Users Need a Personalized Experience
Portal
Corporate Branding
1st level content personalization My Role
My Sales Figures
MyWeather
3rd level content personalization My iViews
2nd level content personalization My Page
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Generating a Role-Based PortalThe Role Concept
Portal

• RoleA content template consisting of one or more
  worksets that model a typical job
• WorksetA set of coherent activities that belong
  to one or more related work areas
• ServiceA (complex) task or service that is
  performed in the context of a workset

Role
workset 1
workset 2
workset 3
service 1service 2service 3service 4
service 1service 2service 3service 4
WS2.1
WS2.2
service 1service 2
service 1service 2
The Enterprise Portal uses roles to generate a
role-based user interface, simplifying
application and information access.
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Collaboration with SAP EP 6.0

• Collaboration Room - virtual workspaces
  communities
• Self service set-up
• Presence
• Room templates
• Document iView sharing(asynchronous)
• Groupware integration
• Real-time collaboration
• Application Desktop sharing
• Instant Messaging / Chat
• Ad-hoc Workflow
• Universal Worklist (UWL)
• Central access to all work items

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Unstructured Information has its Particular
Challenges
Knowledge Management
Web
Intranet
Shared Drives
Group- ware
Unstructured
E-mail
Doc. Mgt.
Structured
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Structured Information (e.g. ERP, etc.)
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Source IBM
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Homogeneity Would Be Nice But...
Knowledge Management

• ...information is distributed in organizations...

• Semantically
• Categories
• Keywords
• Navigation hierarchies
• ...

• Organizationally
• Subsidiaries
• Departments
• Teams
• ...

• Technically
• Web server
• File server
• SAP systems
• DM systems
• ...

• ...and the consequences are
• People do not find the right information
• Related information cannot be connected
• Collaboration and information exchange between
  people does not work

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KM Collaboration Information Loop
Knowledge Management

• Feedback, Rating
• Discussion
• Chat, Application Sharing
• Collaboration Rooms

Author
Consumer

• Navigation
• Search
• Subscription

• Authoring
• Publishing
• Workflow

SAP Enterprise Portal

• Taxonomies
• Classification
• Access Control

Connectors
Content Manager
Distributed repositories
As part of collaboration capabilities of EP6.0
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Agenda

• What is SAP?

SAP NetWeaver Platform
What is an Enterprise Portal?
SAP Enterprise Portals

• SAP Solution Archictecture

Summary
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SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 - Architecture
Browser,Devices

• Open Portal Platform
• Support of Internet standards like LDAP, Java,
  X.509,.Net, XML, JCA, JAAS.
• Web service support (SOAP, UDDI)
• Portal services like auditing, logging, caching,
  rendering, personalization service.
• Open APIs
• Secure environment
• Open KM Platform
• Applications around unstructured information
• People-centric collaboration
• Enterprise content management
• Patented Unification Technology
• DragRelate operations between heterogeneous apps

SAP Enterprise Portal
Knowledge Management
Unification
LDAP
ICE
RetrievalClassif.
ContentMngmt.
Real-timeCollaboration
Database Unifier
Database Unifier
ApplicationUnifiers
SOAP
WebDAV
Portal Content Catalog
XML
JDBC
SystemLandscape
Roles
Worksets
Pages
iViews
Layout
Technical Portal Services
HTTP/HTTPS
FTP
User Mngmt.Service
Audit, Log,Monitoring
Personaliz.Service
CachingService
NotificationService
RenderingService
Applications / Repositories

• Open Development Platform
• Web-based definition of worksets, roles, layout,
  etc.
• Portal Content Studio for code-free development
  of portal content
• Portal Development Kit for developing portal
  content

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Agenda
What is SAP?
SAP NetWeaver Platform
What is an Enterprise Portal?
SAP an Enterprise Portals
SAP Solution Architecture

• Summary

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