Welcome to another series of tutorial blogs on SAP NetWeaver
Portal. Lets start with the introduction to SAP Enterprise Portal.
SAP NetWeaver Portal is one of the building blocks in
the SAP NetWeaver architecture. With only a Web Browser, users can begin work
once they have been authenticated in the portal which offers a single point of
access to information, enterprise applications, and services both inside and
outside an organization. The NetWeaver Portal also provides the tools to manage
this knowledge, to analyze and interrelate it, and to share and collaborate.
With its coherent interface, role-based content, and personalization features,
the portal enables you to focus exclusively on data relevant to your daily
decision-making processes.
Knowledge Management offers capabilities that
everyone can use to distribute and access unstructured information within an
organization through a heterogeneous repository landscape.
Collaboration brings
users, information, and applications together to ensure successful cooperation.
All collaboration tools and channels are easily accessible directly from the
portal. These tools include collaboration rooms, discussion forums, instant
messaging, chat, e-mail, and calendar integration. The Portal is used for
different purposes.
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Internationalization
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Personalization
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Integration
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Authorization
SAP NetWeaver Portal is the platform for running Web Dynpro
applications or Dyn Page applications created by SAP or custom designed for
connecting to some ERP functionality. In short for a fresher, we can say that
EP is a Portal where we can integrate different types of applications in to it.
We have user administration for managing the users of portal.
EP is People Integration in Netweaver stack.It is mainly
for browser enabling of various heterogeneous systems data.
The Endusers of an organization like CEO, Manager,
Vendor, Employee, Customer, Partner, Supplier,
Dealer, Distributor etc will connect to portal server and
portal server will connect to various
heterogeneous systems.
EP supports role based access to heterogeneous systems
based on the roles and responsibilities of an
Enduser of an organization.
EP supports SSO (Single Sign On) Access to end users for
connecting to heterogeneous systems based
on roles and responsibilities of an end-user.
SAP NetWeaver Portal offers a
single point of access to SAP and non-SAP information sources, enterprise
applications, information repositories, databases and services in and outside
your organization—all integrated into a single user experience. It provides you
the tools to manage and analyze this knowledge, and to share and collaborate
based on it.
With its role-based content,
and personalization features, the portal enables users—from employees and
customers to partners and suppliers—to focus exclusively on data relevant to
daily decision-making processes.
SAP NetWeaver Portal is the
Web UI for the newest generation of SAP enterprise applications, providing intuitive, Web-based access
to HR, financial, customer relationship management, product lifecycle
management, and other critical applications. As a unified interface to these
applications, the portal helps each user quickly access the right resources and
be as productive as possible.
