SAP Enterprise Portals Bikram Dogra NetWeaver Portal Consultant

SAP Enterprise Portals

Bikram DograNetWeaver Portal Consultant

Agenda

SAP Solution Architecture

SAP NetWeaver Platform

Summary

What is SAP? What is SAP?


What is an Enterprise Portal?

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.

FinanceManufacturing

SalesMaterials

HR

SAP Business Applications

R/3R/3Client / ServerClient / Server

ABAPABAP

FIFIFinancialFinancial

AccountingAccounting

COCOControllingControlling

AMAMFixed AssetsFixed Assets

Mgmt.Mgmt.

PSPSProjectProjectSystemSystem

WFWFWorkflowWorkflow

MMMMMaterialsMaterials

Mgmt.Mgmt.

HRHRHumanHuman

ResourcesResources

SDSDSales &Sales &

DistributionDistribution

PPPPProductionProductionPlanningPlanning

QMQMQualityQuality

Manage-Manage-mentment PMPM

Plant Main-Plant Main-tenancetenance

SMSMServiceServiceManage-Manage-

mentment

ECECEnterpriseEnterpriseControllingControlling

IS IS Industry Industry SolutionSolution

Logistics

Human Resources

Accounting

Cross Application Functions

Customer ERP Supplier

mySAP mySAP CRMCRM

mySAP mySAP SRMSRM

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Summary



SAP NetWeaver Platform SAP NetWeaver Platform

What is SAP?

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

SAP NetWeaver 2004

Open integration and application development platform for all SAP Products

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PEOPLE INTEGRATION

Multi channel access

Portal Collaboration

INFORMATION INTEGRATION

Bus. Intelligence

Master Data Mgmt

Knowledge Mgmt

PROCESS INTEGRATION

Integration Broker

BusinessProcess Mgmt

APPLICATION PLATFORM

J2EE

DB and OS Abstraction

ABAP

Life C

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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

SAP NetWeaver™


Master Data Management

Bus. Intelligence Knowledge Mgmt

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Multichannel access



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PROCESS INTEGRATION

IntegrationBroker

Business ProcessManagement

Application Platform

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

SAP NetWeaver™




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Information Integration

SAP Business Intelligence End-to-end solution for

enterprise-wide BI Business content for rapid

deployment 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

SAP NetWeaver™




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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™




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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

Solution Manager

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SAP Solution Manager Implementation Global-RollOut Configuration

Synchronization Testing Landscape Reporting Support Desk Solution Monitoring Service Level Reporting

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Summary


What is an Enterprise Portal? What is an Enterprise Portal?

What is SAP?


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

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 protocolsDifferent business partners have no shared knowledge of business processes or access to partner’s business information. This endangers future success

Complex business environmentsThese environments contribute to a business nightmare with multiple dependencies and an average industry cost per year, per interface of $10,000

Portal – The brief history of time

Transactional Systems & Legacy DB

Transactional Systems & Legacy DB

Web contentWeb content

Data Warehouse & AnalyticsData Warehouse & Analytics

Unstructured Documents

Unstructured Documents

User User

Portal

Engine

Portal

Engine

Web ServicesWeb Services 1998 – “Enterprise Yahoo”

HTML Aggregation

1999 – Document Portal

Knowledge Management

2000 – Exec Dashboard

BI Reporting / Scorecard

2001 – Application Portal

Connectivity Framework

2002 – Integration Portal

WebServices

2003 – Enterprise Portal

Scalability & Performance

2004 – Ubiquitous Platform

Process Modeling

Enterprise Portal

Engine

Enterprise Portal

Engine

BPM

Need for Enterprise Portal

From Desktop to WebTop

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Summary


SAP Enterprise Portal SAP Enterprise Portal

What is SAP?

SAP NetWeaver™

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Bus. Intelligence

Master Data Mgmt

PROCESS INTEGRATION

Integration Broker

BusinessProcess Mgmt


J2EE


ABAP

Life

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SAP NetWeaver™Enterprise Portal

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

Knowledge Mgmt

Portal Infrastructure

Role-based, …

…and Web-based…

…access to any kind of applications, information and

services

ERP CRM …

…secure…

SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0

Authentication

Sales Manager

Line Manager

Business Developer

Docs*

*covered by KM

Single Sign On

Portal

Users Need a Personalized Experience

My Sales Figures

MyWeather

2nd level content personalization: My Page

2nd level content personalization: My Page

3rd level content personalization: My iViews

3rd level content personalization: My iViews

Corporate Branding

Corporate Branding1st level content

personalization: My Role1st level content

personalization: My Role

Portal

Role

workset 1workset 1 workset 2workset 2 workset 3workset 3

WS2.1WS2.1 WS2.2WS2.2

service 1service 2service 3service 4

service 1service 2service 3service 4

service 1service 2

service 1service 2

Generating a Role-Based Portal:The Role Concept

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

The Enterprise Portal uses roles to generate a role-based user interface, simplifying application and information access.

The Enterprise Portal uses roles to generate a role-based user interface, simplifying application and information access.

Portal

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

Collaboration with SAP EP 6.0

85%

15%

Unstructured Information has it’s Particular Challenges

E-mail

WebIntranet

Group-

ware

Shared

Drives

Doc.

Mgt.

Structured Information

(e.g. ERP, etc.)

Unstructured

Structured

Source: IBM


Homogeneity Would Be Nice But...

...information is distributed in organizations...

Organizationally

Subsidiaries

Departments

Teams

...

Technically

Web server

File server

SAP systems

DM systems

...

Semantically

Categories

Keywords

Navigation hierarchies ...

...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

…


KM & Collaboration – Information Loop

Consumer

ConnectorsConnectors

Distributed repositoriesDistributed repositories

TaxonomiesClassificationAccess Control

SAP Enterprise PortalSAP Enterprise Portal

AuthoringPublishingWorkflow

NavigationSearchSubscriptio

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Feedback, RatingDiscussionChat*, Application Sharing*Collaboration Rooms*

Author

Content Manager

* As part of collaboration capabilities of EP6.0


Agenda


Summary

What is SAP? What is SAP?



SAP Solution Archictecture SAP Solution Archictecture

SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 - Architecture

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 Drag&Relate operations

between heterogeneous apps

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

Technical Portal Services

User Mngmt.Service

Audit, Log,Monitoring

Personaliz.Service

SOAP

CachingService

Portal Content Catalog

WorksetsRolesPages LayoutiViews SystemLandscape

NotificationService

RenderingService

LDAP

XML

HTTP/HTTPS

Unification

Database Unifier

Database Unifier

ApplicationUnifiers


Real-timeCollaboration

Retrieval&Classif.

ContentMngmt.

WebDAV

ICE

JDBC

FTP

SAP Enterprise Portal

Browser,Devices

Applications / RepositoriesApplications / Repositories

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SAP an Enterprise Portals


Summary Summary

What is SAP?

Thank You

Bikram DograSAP NetWeaver Portal Consultant

Email: [email protected]: (262) 792-0200 Ext 228

Fax: (262) 792- 0202

18650, W Corporate Dr, Suite #120, Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045http://www.wisdominfotech.com

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