Delivering SAP Business Objects Content From SAP NW EP

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Delivering SAP BusinessObjects

content from SAP NetWeaver Portal

David Francois Gonzalez & Anthony Low

January 2010



1. Introduction1.What is Portal Integration?

2.Benefits and Key Capabilities of Portal Integration

2. Main concept of the solution

Agenda

© SAP BusinessObjects 2010 / Page 2

3. Runtime components4. Usage scenarios

5. Demo

6. Links, Disclaimer, Q&A



What is Portal Integration?

Challenges

Customers have a need to integrate Business Intelligence content from SAP

BusinessObjects into the SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal

Solution : SAP BusinessObjects Portal Integration

Portal integration is a ready-to-deploy solution. Customers are able to mix BI

content and other applications seamlessly.


Based on the standard Knowledge Management, iViews and Portal capabilitiesof SAP NetWeaver

Allows business users to view and interact with Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence

documents, Voyager documents and Xcelsius dashboards directly from the

portal.

Support

For details about supported platforms and languages please see the SAP

BusinessObjects Product Availability Report (P.A.R)



Benefits and Key Capabilities of Portal

Integration

•One and only One portal (1) :

Provides access to all systems

though your standard EnterprisePortal.

•Single-Sign-On :

Propagates your identity using SAP

lo on tickets.

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•Navigation (2) and content (3)

Provides exploration of the SAP

BusinessObjects repository and

access to SAP BusinessObjects

tools and supports the viewing of all

common SAP BusinessObjectsdocument types.

•Easy to setup :

Deploying standard PAR files.

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1. Introduction2. Main concept of the solution

1. Prerequisites

2. Architecture

Agenda


3. Knowledge Management & iViews4. SAP BusinessObjects Portal Integration Installation

3. Runtime components

4. Usage scenarios

5. Demo6. Links, Disclaimer, Q&A



Prerequisites

Install SAP NetWeaver portal + SAP NetWeaver BW

Configure a trusted systems (*)

Install SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise with the Integration for SAP Solutions (*)

Configure SAP Authentication and enable SSO(*)

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2

3a

3b


(*) = For more info please refer to the article on SCN Wiki =http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Integration+of+BOE+XI3.1+into+the+SAP+Enterprise+Portal+7.x

Import SAP roles (*)

Note: It is recommended to have all servers in the same domain (otherwise you

will need to modify some parameters) and always use the fully qualified domain

names for your URLs . (*)

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5



SAP BW

“BW1.domain.com“

BW Roles

BW users

SAP NW EP“EP1.domain.com

EP Roles EP users

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2Trust “SSO”

For each of

the imported

SAP BW

Roles the 4

Logon to Enterprise

Portal

http://EP1.domain.com:50100/irj/portal5

Conceptual Overview: Architecture

SAP BusinessObjects

“SBO.domain.com“ 3a

- Install SAP BusinessObjects

- Configure SAP authentication

SBO

security

SBO user Group

SBO = BW

users users

SBO systemgenerates

an SBO user

group6

Install Portal Integration

ConfigureiViews &

KM7

SAP NW EP= SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal

SAP BW = SAP Business Warehouse

3b- Enabled SSO


SBO = SAP BusinessObjects EnterpriseSAP BusinessObjects Integration for SAP Solution previous « SAP Integration KIT »



Conceptual Overview : KM & iViews

Business users access SAP BusinessObjects content directly from the SAP

NetWeaver Portal pages

Enterprise Portal 7.x

NW Portal

with KM SAP BusinessObjectsRepository

SAP BusinessObjects

Enterprise XI 3.1

Client Action Framework

Al l C R

Al l W e b

Al l V o y a

Al l X c el s

F ol d er /

I n b ox

...


KM provides exploration of the SAP BusinessObjects repository objects and

supports common workflows including viewing and scheduling (KM need to be

installed in the Enterprise Portal)

iViews supports the viewing of all common SAP BusinessObjects document types.

But each specific iView will represent 1 and only 1 SAP BusinessObjects object.

iViews C R

W e b I

V o y a g er

X c el si u s

...

OpenDocumentKnowledge

Management

I

g er

i u

s



Installing the SAP BusinessObjects Portal

Integration

Installation with Knowledge Management

Deploy the BusinessObjectsKM.par (PAR = Portal Archive) into your portal

landscape

com.businessobjects.BusinessObjectsKM.par

Installation of SAP BusinessOb ects Enter rise iView Tem late


Deploy the SAP BusinessObjects XI PAR (Portal Archive) into your portallandscape

com.businessobjects.pct.masteriview.par

For more info please refer to the article on SCN Wiki =

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Integration+of+BOE+XI3.1+into+the+SAP+Enterprise+

Portal+7.x





1. KM

Agenda


2. iView Template3. URL iView

4. Xi3.1 SP2 versus KM & iViews

4. Usage scenarios

5. Demo6. Links, Disclaimer, Q&A



Runtime Components: KM Navigation (1/2)

Single-sign-on support

From one entry point, you can access all your SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise

content:

Full support for corporate folders, categories navigation and personal document

spaces (Inbox and Personal Folders).

View of SAP BusinessObjects EnterpriseView of SAP BusinessObjects


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Navigation iView

Prerequisite: Knowledge Management need to be installed in your portal landscape.



Runtime Components: KM - Client Action - (2/2)

All common SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise client

actions:

Viewing

Scheduling (Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports)

Modify (Web Intelligence, Voyager)

Viewing instances (History) (Web Intelligence, Crystal

Reports)

O tionall , ou can use KM re ositor services for addin

1

View of client actions from KM


to Portal Favorites, Send link by email, and many more Copy, Move, Delete (Netweaver Portal feature)

2

View of SAP BusinessObjects client

actions from InfoView



Runtime Components: iView Template

Single-sign-on support

Configure one iView for each SAP BusinessObjects report & dashboard.

No multiple document browsing and no KM actions

1Properties of a report viewed from

3Crystal Report viewed from


2iView Template configuration

viewed from SAP NW EP



Runtime Components: URL iView

URL iView is part of the SAP NetWeaver Portal installation .

You can use openDocument URLs in the URL iView

SSO will work

Standard support as per openDocument syntax

1 URL iView configuration

viewed from SAP NW EP 2

URL iView configuration

viewed from SAP NW EP


SAP BusinessObjects reportviewed from SAP NW EP

InfoView viewed from SAP NW

EP

Not supported (known issues with

some web browser)



XI 3.1 InfoView versus KM & iView Template (1/2)




XI 3.1 InfoView versus KM & iView Template (2/2)






Agenda


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5. Demo




Scenarios in Xi3.1 – iView versus KM

EP User accessing pre-specified reports &

dashboards. Only “viewing & analysis” in

these docs.

EP User accessing arbitrary

reports & dashboards. “Viewing,

scheduling, creating, save as”;

Use: individual

iView(s)

Use : KM.

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folder/category navigation; also

commenting, rating within KM

Users accessing various

reports & dashboards.

“Viewing & analysis” only.

2

3

iViews or KM

Some customers have deployed 1000’s of individual

iViews. So each iView requires EP admin/pre-config work.



Scenarios Xi3.1 – Mixed

EP Users perform “View & analysis” on

displayed object – “iView” access OK

EP Users perform “View, schedule,

create, save as; folder navigation; KM

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–

BusinessObjects repository via “KM”

User performs SAP BusinessObjects

administration – access “SAP

BusinessObjects portal apps” (CMC,InfoView)





Agenda


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5. Demo





DEMO





Agenda


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5. Demo




Availability/ Related Articles/ Documentation

SAP Public Web: Documentation and configuration http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Integration+of+BOE+XI3.1+into+the+SAP+Enterprise+Portal+7.x

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/a00ee3b2-5283-2b10-f1bf-8c6413e0898f

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/businessobjects-for-sap

http://help.sap.com

BusinessObjects Product Availability Report (PAR) – http://service.sap.com/support -> Help & Support -> SAP

BusinessObjects Support -> Supported platform documents


SAP Public Web: BusinessObjects Integration Kit for SAP – Installation files

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/business-objects-for-sap?rid=/webcontent/uuid/806c9894-42a5-2b10-648a-d900489b76da





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