NWBC – OverviewBasic information on SAP NetWeaver BusinessClient

Carsten BönnenJuly 9th, 2007

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Text UI Experience Excellence

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High-Performance,Rich UI

Mainframe Era

Web Applications Era

Composites and ESOA Era

Client-Server Era – R/3 and SAP GUI

1994

2006

2000

MARKET TRENDSThe New Face of the Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture

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USERS, ROLES AND BUSINESS REQUIREMENTSExpert (task) user and information worker personas

Business Requirements

Intuitive, consistent and harmonized user interactions across all the SAP UIsHigh-performance desktop (“smart”) client for frequent, high-volume and expert tasksZero-footprint, browser client for occasional tasks and B2B / B2C scenariosQuick access to data and information that is pushed to users, or pulled via search

Knowledge worker or people manager

Flexible, cognitive work

Multiple information sources, devices

Source of most unstructured information

Sample roles: product manager, salesexecutive, first line manager, CEO

Information WorkerInformation Worker

Individual contributor w/ structured tasks

Routine, transactional work

Use single or few enterprise applications

Create most structured digital data

Sample roles: payroll clerk, customerservice rep, financial analyst

Expert UserExpert User

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AnalyticsAction oriented and

personalized information

Adobe FormsEasy form based processing

DuetIntegrated access

from MS-Office

Enterprise SearchFaster responses

and action

Business ClientSimplified and rich

user experience

Portal andSelf-ServicesIntuitive productivity

Wikis & BlogsUsers contributing

to the business

Workspaces & NetworkingGroups and individualsbuild work communities

Widgets & RSSpush business events

to the end users

RSS

Mobile & Voiceavailable everywhere

SIMPLIFY PROCESS AND INFORMATION ACCESSAccording to the needs of business users in their work environment

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USER EXPERIENCE (UX) PARADIGM AND SAP DESIGN STRATEGYReflecting SAP’s design strategy in SAP products

Design SAP UX Integrate in Partner’s UX Automate UX

NW Business (smart) ClientNW Portal and CollaborationUI Building Blocks

(Web Dynpro and Patterns)Self-Services (ESS & MSS)Analytics

DuetSAP Interactive Forms by AdobeBlogs and Wikis (as OEM)Eclipse for Development Tools(Swing and SWT)Instant Messenger

Voice (Text to Speech)UI Adaptations

and PersonalizationMash-ups, RSS,

Web ServicesRFID

Examples

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Portal InfrastructureRoles

Work Centers Printing

Navigation

Context

Extensibility

Visualizations Personaliz. Tagging

Third-party

Subscription

…

SAP’S MULTI-CHANNEL UI STRATEGYOne Size Does Not Fit All!

SAP NetWeaver Portal

SAP GUI Family

“Yesterday”

SAP GUI for HTMLSAP GUI for Win

SAP GUI for Java

Browser

iViews, Roles, Worksets, Navigation,Page Builder, Personalization

Today: Enterprise SOA in the UI

User Clients and Access Channels

Collaboration

Communities

UI Patterns

Rich Client(NWBC)

Browser(NetWeaver Portal)

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SAP NetWeaver Business Client in SAP ERP

SAP NetWeaver Business Client …… is SAP’s next generation desktop client

using the latest smart client technology.… is using the Portal services

infrastructure for role based access toSAP systems and consistent navigationcapabilities

… can host existing SAP UIs in the“canvas” area (including SAP GUI andWebDynpro) as well as any other webbased content.

… is available with SAP ERP 6.0Enhancement Package 2.

Roles and Work Centers in SAP ERP run in the SAP NetWeaverPortal Client and in the SAP NetWeaver Business Client.

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The SAP NetWeaver Business Client – Main Features

Dynamic Canvas Area for Application

Three Embedded UI Rendering Engines

Role-based navigation

Object Based Navigation and Session Tab Browsing

Branding Options

Client Shell using latest rendering options

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Shell and Canvas Area

CanvasAreaShell

Shell

CanvasArea

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Canvas Area in Detail: Embedded SAP GUI

Enables SAP and SAP Partners to use traditional SAP GUI transactions where necessaryAllows customers to decide for “expert like” transactions if wantedAllow SAP Partners to leverage on efforts spent with GUIXT

Embedded SAP GUI

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Canvas Area in Detail: Embedded MS Internet Explorer

Allows rendering of HTML thus supporting SAP technologies such as Business Server Pages(BSP) or Web Dynpro for ABAP and Java

Embedded MS Internet Explorer

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Canvas Area in Detail: Embedded Smart Client

Not enabled yet, but planned for 2008 SAP Smart Client increases performance for Web Dynprofor ABAP and Java and introduces new features like smooth scroll bars, table caching andmore

Embedded SAP Smart Client

Outlook2008

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Shell Area in Detail

Navigation Bar

Create new business objects

Specify systems for client access

Store favorite applications for fast access

Access to application help

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Shell Area in Detail

Session icon(s) indicating open sessions

Home button to switch back to navigation

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Transaction Launch Pad

Transaction Launch Pad

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