Extending the reach of SAP with SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010 and Duet Enterprise. Session delivered at SharePoint Saturday India (online event) on 24 April 2010.
3. What is SAP? Fourth largest software enterprise in the world Circa 40,000 employees Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany Main product: SAP ERP Accounting, logistics, human resources, etc. ERP market share (2006): Market share in Fortune Global 500: In many industries more than 80% run on SAP
6. The Gap More than 40% of ERP implementations experience user adoption issues or lack significant ROI(AMR research) 57% of SAP customers don’t believe they’ve achieved a positive ROI from their implementation(Nucleus Research)
7. Reach - Agility - Adoption SharePoint Mobile Services Web EnterpriseData Other UI Platforms Smart Client Office
8. Two Worlds – People and Process Unstructured Estimate custom design Validate specs with Tech Sales Get specs from customer Approve proposed response Assemble proposed response Decide discount strategy Cost out the solution Complete Sale Create Invoice Create Oppt’y Create Quote Create Lead Qualified? Closed? CRM ERP Retire Lead Structured
10. SharePoint 2007 Interoperability Front-end integration Simple links to launch specific portal pages Page embedding: Page Viewer Web Part Portlet embedding: IView Web Part Portlet syndication: WSRP Web Part Content syndication: RSS Viewer Web Part Custom development Custom web parts connecting to SAP web services Forms and workflow InfoPath Forms submitting to SAP web services Business Data Catalog (BDC) for surfacing SAP data in: Business data web parts SharePoint lists and document libraries Search User profile properties Custom solutions SharePoint SSO
14. SharePoint 2010 Interoperability Front-end integration IView Web Part no longer available IFrame integration of IViews, BSPs and Web Dynpro apps CMIS Standard for enterprise content management interoperability Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Read and write Offline scenarios through Office Improved toolset for modelling business data entities Duet Enterprise Interoperability-in-a-box Foundation of core capabilities
18. Interoperability-In-A-Box Security Authentication and single sign-on (SSO) Management of user mappings SAP roles-based authorisation of SharePoint objects Administration and Supportability Scalability and availability by standard SAP and Microsoft mechanisms Upgrade and patching mechanism for Duet Enterprise add-ons Leveraging existing monitoring tools from SAP and Microsoft End-to-end (cross system) tracing and troubleshooting Templates and Building Blocks SharePoint External Content Types representing SAP objects