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Introduction to SAP Enterprise Portal

Sanjo Thomas•04:24:00

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.

· Internationalization

· Personalization

· Integration

· 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.

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Introduction to SCP portal Sites

Sanjo Thomas•10:06:00

A digital transformation journey usually includes a comprehensive review and analysis of the current business. In lots of cases, organizations recognize that they need to renovate their business processes and better engage with employees, customers, and partners.

The users should be able to more easily find and access information and self-services via an intuitive entry point. This is exactly where a portal helps organizations to build and manage intuitive business sites.

Use cases
1) A very common scenario to start with is self- service launchpads for employees and managers. In every company, there is a need to provide central access to applications and workflow items. Users not only expect the services to be available inside the corporate network, but also via an Internet connection for employees on the road.

2) Secondly, we see a need for domain-specific home pages, such as human resources. In this area, line of business experts bring together business transactions and managed content such as documents, news, policies, and guidelines.

3) The third scenario is about external-facing sites for customers, partners, and suppliers. This could be seen as an advanced home page with special content for non-employees. In this case, the external users need to register and authenticate in order to securely access data coming from your back-end system. A partner portal or support Web site are good examples.

4) The last use case is social intranet, where we bring together structured business data with collaborative information and processes. The goal is to enable employees to share information and collaborate around a certain business object or process.

SAP Cloud Platform provides the necessary tools and services to implement such scenarios.

So what are the key capabilities of the portal?

1) First of all, the portal offers a design-time environment to build branded Web sites that follow your corporate design guidelines.

2) The portal enables users to easily consume content and services from on-premise or the cloud, with secured access via role-based authorizations.

3) To speed up the implementation, SAP offers out- of-the-box, prepackaged business content. If this doesn't fit your requirements, you can always extend the standard solutions or create your own sites using customizable templates and accelerators.

4) And finally, it enables developers to create their own sites and widget templates to build a truly customized user experience.

Benefits

1) End users benefit from easy and intuitive access to information and services, which leads to greater productivity and satisfaction.

2) Administrators have the chance to support the line of business experts with driving new innovation projects or modernizing the user experience of their existing IT systems.

3) Developers can use the extension points and available APIs to customize and enhance the solution. Therefore, it also offers an integration with SAP Web IDE and UI theme designer. Developers can easily adjust the solution or complement functionality via custom development.

Each customer has different expectations about the best possible user experience, driven by individual preferences and guidelines for corporate design.

SAP Cloud Portal offers various templates to create new sites.

1) SAP Fiori experience with the Launchpad - The launchpad is primarily suited for application and process-centric use cases, such as employee self-service launchpads.

2) Flexible portal sites and home pages(Customized) – It fits well for home pages and more freestyle implementation projects. They combine Web content and applications on various pages, accessible via a navigation menu.

To speed up the implementation, you can leverage business content and templates provided by SAP or partners. For example, SAP offers prepackaged SAP Fiori applications running on SAP Cloud Platform, connecting to your existing SAP Business Suite or SAP S/4HANA back-end system on premise.

Besides the out-of-the-box content, it also provides integration to common services of SAP Cloud Platform. For example, adjusting the look and feel with the UI theme designer. ou may access documents using SAP Document Center. Or you may use collaboration and activity feeds coming from SAP Jam. Furthermore, SAP Web IDE is the central development environment for building new site templates and widgets. SAP Smart Business is especially interesting in case you would like to build analytical SAP Fiori applications.