SAP Enterprise Portal

SAP Enterprise
Portals
Bikram Dogra
NetWeaver Portal Consultant
Agenda
What
What is
is SAP?
SAP?
SAP NetWeaver Platform
What is an Enterprise Portal?
SAP Enterprise Portals
SAP Solution Architecture
Summary
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
SAP Business Applications

Supplier
ERP
Customer
Logistics
SD
FI
Sales &
Distribution
Financial
Accounting
MM
CO
Materials
Mgmt.
Controlling
PP
mySAP
CRM
SM
QM
Quality
Management
Fixed Assets
Mgmt.
EC
Client / Server
ABAP
PM
WF
Plant Maintenance
HR
Human
Resources
Human
Resources
AM
R/3
Production
Planning
Service
Management
Accounting
IS
Enterprise
Controlling
PS
Project
System
Workflow
Industry
Solution
Cross
Application
Functions
mySAP
SRM
Agenda
What is SAP?
SAP
SAP NetWeaver
NetWeaver Platform
Platform
Summary
SAP NetWeaver 2004

Open integration and application development platform for all SAP Products
1 Platform
Synchronized release dates
SAP NetWeaver
PEOPLE INTEGRATION
Portal
Collaboration
1 Package
Coherent installation process
INFORMATION INTEGRATION
Bus. Intelligence
Knowledge Mgmt
Master Data Mgmt

PROCESS INTEGRATION
Integration
Broker
Business
Process Mgmt
APPLICATION PLATFORM
J2EE
ABAP
DB and OS Abstraction
Life Cycle Mgmt
Composite Application Framework
Multi channel access
1 Foundation
SAP Web AS 6.40
1 Set of scenarios
Integrated components
All Apps
Business Suite, partner solutions
and xApps developed on
NetWeaver
Application Platform
SAP Web Application Server
SAP NetWeaver
J2EE 1.3 compliant Java

server
and ABAP server side by
side
Zero footprint UI (Browser)
PEOPLE INTEGRATION
Multichannel access
Collaboration
Bus. Intelligence
Knowledge Mgmt
Master Data Management

PROCESS INTEGRATION
Integration
Broker
Business Process
Management
J2EE
ABAP
Life Cycle Management
Portal
Model driven UI, patterns

Highly scalable and reliable,
advanced caching
OS and DB abstraction layer
Process Integration
SAP Exchange Infrastructure
SAP NetWeaver
PEOPLE INTEGRATION
Multichannel access
Collaboration
Bus. Intelligence
Knowledge Mgmt

PROCESS INTEGRATION
Integration
Broker
Business Process
Management
J2EE
ABAP
Portal
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
Information Integration
SAP Business Intelligence
SAP NetWeaver
End-to-end solution for

enterprise-wide BI
Business content for rapid
deployment
Fully integrated with portal
PEOPLE INTEGRATION
Collaboration
Open architecture
95% integration of SAP and non-SAP
data
Bus. Intelligence
Knowledge Mgmt

PROCESS INTEGRATION
Integration
Broker
Business Process
Management
Portal
SAP Enterprise Portal Knowledge

Management
Unified access to multiple

respositories
Search & classification
SAP Master Data Management
J2EE
ABAP
Information integrity across the

business network
Reduce duplicates
Get accurate reporting
Optimize decision making
People Integration
SAP Enterprise Portal
SAP NetWeaver
Any source
Any audience
PEOPLE INTEGRATION
Role-based
Team collaboration
(both real-time &
asynchronous)
Collaboration
Bus. Intelligence
Knowledge Mgmt

PROCESS INTEGRATION
Integration
Broker
Business Process
Management
J2EE
ABAP
Portal
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

Composite Application
Framework
SAP NetWeaver
PEOPLE INTEGRATION
Basis for development of

composite apps and xApps
Multichannel access
Collaboration
Key Features
Bus. Intelligence
Knowledge Mgmt

PROCESS INTEGRATION
Integration
Broker
Business Process
Management
J2EE
ABAP
Portal
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
SAP NetWeaver
SAP Solution Manager
Implementation
Global-RollOut
PEOPLE INTEGRATION
Multichannel access
Collaboration
Bus. Intelligence
Knowledge Mgmt

PROCESS INTEGRATION
Integration
Broker
Business Process
Management
J2EE
ABAP
Portal
Configuration
Synchronization
Testing
Landscape Reporting
Support Desk
Solution Monitoring
Service Level Reporting
Agenda
What is SAP?
What
What is
is an
an Enterprise
Enterprise Portal?
Portal?
Summary
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 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
Portal The brief history of time

2002 Integration Portal
WebServices
2001 Application Portal
Connectivity Framework
Web
WebServices
content
Transactional
Systems &
Legacy DB
Portal
Portal
Engine
Engine
Enterprise
Portal
User
Enterprise Portal
User
Engine
Engine
2000 Exec Dashboard

BI Reporting / Scorecard
2003 Enterprise Portal

Scalability & Performance
Unstructured
Documents
Data Warehouse
& Analytics
1998 Enterprise Yahoo

HTML Aggregation
BPM
2004 Ubiquitous Platform
Process Modeling
1999 Document Portal

Knowledge Management
Need for Enterprise Portal
From Desktop to WebTop
Agenda
What is SAP?
SAP
SAP Enterprise
Enterprise Portal
Portal
Summary
SAP NetWeaver
Enterprise Portal
SAP NetWeaver

Powered by SAP NetWeaver
PEOPLE INTEGRATION
Portal
Collaboration
Bus. Intelligence
Knowledge Mgmt
Master Data Mgmt

PROCESS INTEGRATION
Integration
Broker
Business
Process Mgmt
J2EE
ABAP
Life Cycle Mgmt
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
Portal Infrastructure
Role-based,
Portal
Line
Manager
Sales
Manager
Business
Developer
Authentication
secure
SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0
and Web-based
Single Sign On
access to any kind

of applications,
information and
services
ERP
CRM
Docs*
*covered by KM
Users Need a Personalized Experience

Corporate
Branding
1st level content

personalization: My Role
My Sales Figures
MyWeather
3rd level content

personalization: My iViews
2nd level content

personalization: My Page
Portal
Generating a Role-Based Portal:

The Role Concept
Role
workset 1
workset 2
service 1
service 2
service 3
service 4
workset 3
service 1 service 1
service 2 service 2
Workset
A set of coherent activities that
belong to one or more related
work areas
WS2.2
Role
A content template consisting of
one or more worksets that model
a typical job
service 1
service 2
service 3
service 4
WS2.1
Portal
Service
A (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.
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
Unstructured Information has its Particular Challenges

Knowledge
Management
Intranet
Web
Shared
Drives
Groupware
Unstructured
Email
Doc.
Mgt.
Structured
85%
Structured Information
(e.g. ERP, etc.)
15%
Source: IBM
Homogeneity Would Be Nice But...
Knowledge
Management
...information is distributed in organizations...
Technically
Organizationally
Semantically
Web server
Subsidiaries
Categories
File server
Departments
Keywords
SAP systems
Teams
DM systems
...
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
Knowledge
Management
Feedback, Rating
Discussion
Chat*, Application Sharing*
Collaboration Rooms*
Author
Consumer
Navigation
Search
Subscriptio
Authoring
Publishing
Workflow
n
Connectors
Distributed
repositories
Taxonomies
Classification
Access Control
Content
Manager
* As part of collaboration capabilities of EP6.0
Agenda
What
What is
is SAP?
SAP?
SAP
SAP Solution
Solution Archictecture
Archictecture
Summary
SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 - Architecture
Browser,
Devices
Open Portal Platform

Support of Internet standards
like LDAP, Java, X.509,.Net,
ICE
XML, JCA, JAAS.
Web service support
WebDAV
(SOAP, UDDI)
Portal services like auditing,
logging, caching, rendering, JDBC
personalization service.
Open APIs
Secure environment
Open KM Platform
FTP

Knowledge Management
Content
Retrieval&
Database
Mngmt. Unifier
Classif.
Patented Unification Technology

Drag&Relate operations
between heterogeneous apps
Database
Unifier
LDAP
Application
Unifiers
SOAP
Portal Content Catalog

iViews
Pages
Roles
Worksets
Layout
System
Landscape
Technical Portal Services

Audit, Log, User Mngmt. Personaliz.
Monitoring
Service
Service
Applications around
unstructured information
People-centric collaboration
Enterprise content
management
Real-time
Collaboration
Unification
Caching
Service
Notification Rendering
Service
Service
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
XML
HTTP/
HTTPS
Agenda
What is SAP?
SAP an Enterprise Portals
Summary
Summary
Thank You
For Further Reading

http://www.sap.com
http://sdn.sap.com
Bikram Dogra
SAP NetWeaver Portal Consultant
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (262) 792-0200 Ext 228
Fax: (262) 792- 0202
18650, W Corporate Dr, Suite #120, Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045
http://www.wisdominfotech.com

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SAP Enterprise

An IT based transaction processing system

Integrated information management and retrieval

Covers strategic and operational requirements of the business

SAP Business Applications

SAP NetWeaver 2004

Master Data Mgmt

Life Cycle Mgmt

Composite Application Framework

Multi channel access

J2EE 1.3 compliant Java

Master Data Management

Life Cycle Management

Composite Application Framework

Model driven UI, patterns

Master Data Management

Life Cycle Management

Composite Application Framework

For both internal and external

End-to-end solution for

Master Data Management

Life Cycle Management

Composite Application Framework