In the age of e-business, many companies are turning to enterprise portals to streamline business processes that, by their nature, span many different application environments, different data sources, and even different business organizations. These companies want to give their employees a powerful single point of access to the information and services they need to do their jobs.

Right now, end users with critical business responsibilities must navigate diverse applications from diverse vendors to get their jobs done. Some significant part of each employee’s day is spent just calling up the different applications, searching for needed data using application-specific tools, and then correlating the information they find locked in these different application silos. They need a tool that integrates and correlates all information and services available to perform a specific enterprise task into a single, task-oriented display, specific to the user. This is the true value of a portal.

SAP Netweaver Portal (no longer called as Enterprise Portal) provides a complete portal infrastructure with knowledge management and collaboration software that Integrate people, information and processes. It comes with predefined business content that speeds implementation and reduces the cost of integrating existing IT systems. SAP Enterprise Portal provides employees, partners, customers, and other workers with immediate, secure, and role-based access to key information and applications. It allows people to identify and address business issues faster, more effectively, and at lower cost – creating measurable benefits and strategic advantages.

SAP Netweaver Architecture – 

Key capabilities

SAP Enterprise Portal performs the following:

• Portal-infrastructure management – SAP Enterprise Portal provides a personalized, secure interface that can be accessed through a wide range of devices. It unifies enterprise applications, information, and processes from both SAP and non-SAP sources into a coherent, role-based portal experience. It supports both UNIX and Microsoft Windows servers and is localized to support more than 20 languages.

• Collaboration – SAP Enterprise Portal provides collaboration rooms and real-time collaboration tools to allow teams and work groups to share information, ideas, and their work in a highly productive manner. Shared e-mail, calendars, threaded discussions, and document stores are managed by local administrators, who can independently update memberships and access rights.

• Knowledge management – SAP Enterprise Portal provides a single point of access to unstructured content stored in third-party repositories and SAP content-management systems. It also enables user-friendly and flexible document authoring and publishing, intelligent classification and subscription, robust version management, and powerful search and navigation. It also provides an open framework for creating and managing document-based and file based applications, content, and user Services.

SAP Enterprise Portal allows a company to quickly and effectively integrate SAP applications and third-party applications, legacy systems, databases and unstructured documents, internal and external Web content, and collaboration tools.

SAP Enterprise Portal uses open standards, web services, and its tight integration with other components of the SAP NetWeaver platform to support heterogeneous systems from all major technology vendors through Java; Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE); and Microsoft .NET technology. In addition SAP Enterprise Portal offers predefined, portal based business content that reflects SAP’s 30 years of experience in building business solutions. The business content speeds portal deployment, reduces integration and maintenance costs, and lowers total cost of ownership (TCO).

• Content Management services –

Browsing, Search, Check-In/Check-Out, Subscription, Workflow, Feedback, Rating, Versioning, Meta data, Forms, Authorizations

Reality Is Hard – Let’s accept this

If you are looking for structured information this is what usually happens

•    People do not find the right information
•   Related information cannot be connected
•   Collaboration and information exchange between people does not work
•   Internal and external customers are served neither well nor timely

While these numbers, prospects and scenarios can seem daunting …

… The really good news is that you probably already have the answer within reach if you are deploying SAP Netweaver Portal!

To summarize –

SAP Netweaver Portal is a scalable infrastructure, with an open architecture capable of integrating unlimited contents. Portal content is designed to retrieve information form valid sources such as websites, legacy systems, R/3 servers, enterprise applications, and database & document directories. This provides complete set of tool for managing organizational data at one place. It helps your organization in streamlining data in accordance with user privileges and protects the sensitive information from being exposed to everyone. Without Netweaver portal landscape, your SAP Landscape will always remain incomplete.

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