SAP Enterprise Portal 7 -...

Product Management, SAP SE

December, 2015

SAP Enterprise Portal 7.4 Overview

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Agenda

Portal Portfolio Overview

SAP Enterprise Portal 7.4 –

Highlights

Roadmap

Upgrade Best Practices

Summary

Portal Portfolio Overview


Product portfolio for SAP PortalInnovations for on-premise and cloud-based UI integration and extension scenarios

SAP Enterprise Portal

Proven user experience platform unifying access to business applications,

information and services (SAP and 3rd party) with modern user experience

leveraging SAP Fiori (launchpad and apps) and SAP Mobile Documents to

provide an end-to-end, personalized multichannel entry point.

SAP HANA Cloud Portal

Flexible portal solution for building attractive business sites, extending

on-premise and cloud scenarios across, devices.

SAP HANA Cloud Portal supports three main business scenarios:

SAP Fiori-based business sites

Self-service business sites

Extensions for cloud applications


Evolution of PortalsKey trends and impacts in business and technology

From static application launcher to personalized, real-time, contextual access point

Simple, customized,

consumer-grade user

experience

Cross-device &

responsive design

Personalized

application

launcher with

real-time,

contextual content

& applications

Flexibility with

cloud & hybrid

deployments

Partner solutions &

custom extensions

Increase reach:

• employee

• customer

• partner

• supplier


PortalsValue proposition

Cost Leadership and Innovation

For your line of business (LoB)

management, a single portal platform

enables reuse of investment across LoB

as well as extending business processes

across the value chain into external-facing

scenarios.

Governance and Flexibility

For your IT, a portal enables a single

management interface to all of your

business applications. It also enables you

to set up access management ensuring

role-based access to business

applications across different departments,

regions and any other criteria which is

relevant for your business.

Efficiency

For your business users, a portal delivers

a single point of access for all their

business applications, thus reducing the

need to search different applications in

different places and helping you find the

information you need to get your job done.

End User Admin LoB


The SAP Portal CustomersThousands of successful customers - globally and across industries

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9jlWmfUjrM&list=PL9075208C0D300BAB&index=1


Portal deployment optionsThe right solution for your business scenarios

On Premise

SAP HANA Cloud PortalSAP Enterprise Portal on

SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

Managed Cloud Public Cloud

SAP Enterprise Portal 7.4


SAP Portal PortfolioMajor topic updates

SAP UX and Portal portfolio is evolving to

a powerful user experience platform with

simplified consumption and deployment

options.

Flexibility with Cloud

Leverage cloud-based portal services to create

new or extend existing business scenarios

(primarily for external-facing scenarios with

customers and partners)

Modernizing Portal UX

Enrich and evolve the portal user experience via

intuitive SAP Fiori UX paradigm and applications

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Evolution to Fiori

Transition to Cloud

EP

BusinessSites

FLP@EP

Cloud Portal

FioriApp

SAP Enterprise Portal 7.4

Highlights

Detailed feature list available via http://help.sap.com/nw74 > Release Notes

http://help.sap.com/nw74


SAP NetWeaver 7.4 – Overview Technology foundation and integration platform for SAP’s on-premise solutions

Optimized access to SAP HANA

Foundation for SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA

Continuous innovation without disruption

– Extension to Cloud, Mobile and Big Data

– Seamless E2E development experience based on Eclipse

Enhanced SAP Gateway and SAPUI5 capabilities

Enhanced connectivity between on premise and on demand solutions

running on SAP HANA Cloud

Enhanced custom development in the context of SAP HANA

Improved development tools, guidelines and best practices

Further information available on http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-35002

Process

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SAP NetWeaver

Application Servers

ABAP and Java

PortalBusiness

Warehouse

SAP Business

Suite

SAP HANA Any DB

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-35002


SAP Enterprise PortalDescription

● Increase usability via a intuitive, personalizable user interface and

appealing, customized web sites in your corporate design

● Secure, multi-channel access via desktop, mobile or other clients

● Central, multi-system, role-based access to business processes,

information and services

● Improve user productivity for individuals and teams

● Easy integration of SAP applications and reports via wizards or

pre-configured business packages

● Run responsive web sites based on advanced document

management and web content management solutions

● Proven, highly scalable, open and standard-compliant platform

SAP Enterprise Portal provides easy access to business processes

and information across various consumption channels


Application & Analytics Integration

Collaboration, Documents, Web Content

Usability & Branding

Multi-channel consumption

powered by SAP HANA Platform


SAP Enterprise Portal 7.4 Highlights

TODAY

Modern user experience platform enabling users to

efficiently access and aggregate enterprise assets

Scalable SAP NetWeaver platform optimized for SAP HANA

Improved user experience for desktop and mobile access

SAP Fiori experience with new SAP Fiori launchpad

Integration with SAP Fiori apps

Enhanced theming capabilities with UI Theme Designer

Integration with SAP Mobile Documents

Performance improvements and landscape simplification

Example: Customized Workbench / Portal by Red Bull


UI Theme Designer Easy theming of the portal experience

Easily customize the visual appearance of the

portal and integrated web applications

Theming Modes: Quick | Expert | CSS

Theme can be stored and published in the

portal repository

Theme integration between portal and SAP

applications

Leverage dynamic stylesheet language

(LESS) and Web Resource Repository to

manage branding information and images

Details in SAP note 1890375 and 1852401

TODAY


SAP Portal Content / Site Management by OpenTextProfessional solution for managing documents and web sites*

OpenText Suite for SAP

SAP Portal Connect by OpenText

- Add-on Module of Extended ECM

Document Management & Collaboration

• Version control, Check-in/ check-out

• Activity feeds & Discussions

• Multi-step approval workflows

• Archive

• Tight integration into SAP Enterprise Portal

SAP Portal Site Management by

OpenTextWeb Content Management

- Add-on to SAP NetWeaver stack

• Easy to use for non-technical editors

• Multi-language support

• Multi-channel support

• Multi-step approval workflows

• Personalization

• Tight integration into SAP Enterprise Portal

Extended ECM Business Workspaces

• Access to xECM Business Workspaces via Portal

• Deep connection with SAP data, structures, roles

and permissions

• SAP and ECM always “in-sync”

*Thanks to OpenText for providing the information on this slide.

SAP Fiori user experience for



Motivation: Modern Employee Portals following the Fiori Design

Web-based, multi-channel access to

applications, information and processes

Modernize the portal user experience with

SAP Fiori design

Desktop & mobile* access to portal content and

applications

Central management of portal roles**

Central login for authentication / SSO

Integration of SAP Mobile Documents (via KM)

and Web Content***

*Depending on UI technology; ** including remote catalog connector to ABAP frontend server; ***Support for Web Page Composer currently in evaluation


New SAP Fiori User Experience for SAP Enterprise PortalSAP UX harmonization to offer consistency across SAP platforms

New SAP Fiori user experience for portal providing users a simple and intuitive multi-

channel access on desktop and mobile devices

Scenarios

Integration of SAP Fiori applications

(via SAP Fiori iView and remote catalog consumption)

SAP Fiori launchpad as alternative user experience

(new Fiori Framework Page, theme and browser support)

SAP Fiori integration availability

available with SAP Enterprise Portal 7.4 SP8 and 7.31 SP13;

we recommended to start with SAP EP 7.4 SPS 11 and 7.31 SPS16

Further information: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-58340



SAP Screen

Personas

SAP Fiori

Apps

SAP Mobile

Documents

Unified

Inbox

SAP GUI

for HTML

Example: Central access to business

apps and portal content via SAP

Enterprise Portal (Fiori experience)


Remote Catalog Consumption

• Consumption of Remote Catalogs and Groups from the

ABAP Front End server to SAP Enterprise Portal

• Consumption of all the transactional Fiori apps and also

analytical apps from the HANA database

• End users will seamlessly use a combination of apps

coming from remote catalog and local iViews in the Fiori

framework page

• Availability: starting with SAP Enterprise Portal 7.4 SPS11


SAPSAP

SAP

HANA / anyDB

Fiori Framework Page

ABAP Front End Server

SAP Gateway | UI Add-on

Fiori launchpad

App

App

App

App

App

Rem

ote

Cata

log


SAP Fiori iView Template for SAP Fiori Applications

• Integration of single Fiori Apps

(transactional, standalone Scenarios)

• Integration of SAP Fiori launchpad for central

access to SAP Fiori Apps via launchpad

• Various display options (with/without header,

display embedded or open in new window)

• Supports for Application Integrator services

(theme, log off)

• Check Blog in SCN and SAP Notes 2031108,

2017946, 2103156 for further information

…….

http://scn.sap.com/community/enterprise-portal/blog/2014/09/05/sap-fiori-apllication-integration-with-sap-enterprise-portal

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2031108

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2017946

https://css.wdf.sap.corp/sap/support/notes/2103156


SAP Fiori iView Template


SAP Fiori launchpad on SAP Enterprise Portal

Fiori Framework Page

Responsive design and browser standards-mode support

Support for SAP Blue Crystal theme

Evolution of “Mobile Portal” scenarios (smartphone / tablet framework page)

Theming via UI theme designer

Leverage existing portal concepts: roles, iViews, FilterID

Supported Content

Portal iViews (e.g. Screen Personas, SAPGUI HTML, BW, Web Dynpro)

SAP Fiori Apps (wave 1) via SAPUI5 iViews

SAP Fiori Apps (wave 2+) via Remote Catalog consumption / SAP Fiori iViews

Launch native mobile apps (on mobile devices)

SAP Mobile Documents (for access to Knowledge Management)


Integration of SAP Fiori applications into SAP Enterprise Portal

Details: http://scn.sap.com/community/enterprise-portal/blog/2014/09/05/sap-fiori-apllication-integration-with-sap-enterprise-portal and SAP Note 2103156

Integration of single SAP Fiori App Integration of entire SAP Fiori launchpad


Access to KM Documents via SAP Mobile DocumentsRuntime | Designtime

End user access

(via Desktop | Web | App)

SAP Enterprise Portal and Knowledge

Management as document repository

Roadmap


This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Today Future DirectionPlanned Innovations


Product road map overview – key themes and capabilities

SAP Fiori launchpad (on SAP Enterprise Portal)

Fiori launchpad as simplified experience across devices

for Application Portal scenarios

Personalized single point of access for Portal iViews

and Pages alongside Fiori transactional applications

My inbox integration for task management

Classical Portal Experience

Ajax Framework Page standards mode enabled

Integrating standalone Fiori applications

New Blue Crystal Theme for Ajax Framework Page

Administration

Theme Designer for central look&feel management

across UI technologies

Remote catalogs’ role assignment editor

Powered by HANA

Qualified to run on SAP HANA as a database and run

natively on the HANA server

Support the consumption of Fiori Analytical and

Factsheets

Integrate SAP HANA search

SAP Fiori launchpad (on SAP Enterprise Portal)

Extended document management capabilities with SAP

Mobile Documents

Support Dynamic Navigation and Related Links

Simply SAP Fiori - SAP Portal upgrade dependencies

Continues UX and launchpad extendibility

enhancements

Extend the integration with native applications

Development and Extendibility

Enrich developer experience leveraging SAP Web IDE

Allow deployment of SAPUI5 and Fiori-like applications

on the Portal for 3rd party and extendibility purposes

Continues enhancements for Fiori launchpad on SAP

Enterprise Portal

Integrate S/4HANA applications

Consume Remote Catalogs from SAP HANA Cloud

Platform

Integrate technology services: usage analysis,

collaboration (Jam), SAP Mobile Documents, Lumira

Integrate with SAP HANA Cloud Portal sites

Enhance HR scenarios via SuccessFactors integration


Related Product Roadmapshttp://service.sap.com/saproadmaps

SAP User Interface Technologies SAP Enterprise Portal and

SAP HANA Cloud Portal

SAP NetWeaver

Upgrade Best Practices


Your way to SAP Enterprise Portal 7.4Options for Installation / Upgrade

New installation

Install Portal 7.4 SP3 on

SAP HANA DB or

other supported DB

Upgrade + DB Migration

Upgrade from Portal 7.x to 7.4

including database migration to

SAP HANA DB

Upgrade from Portal 7.0x

Upgrade Portal 7.0x to 7.4

Portal 7.4 Portal 7.0x Portal 7.4 Portal 7.x Portal 7.4

HANA DB DB DB DB HANA DB

Attention: check migration guide for details on custom developed applications

based on Web Dynpro Java and portal applications (PAR > WAR format) due

to major release upgrade (similar to EP 7.0x to EP 7.3)


Recommended Information

Documentation http://help.sap.com/nw74

Master Guide, Installation Guide, Upgrade Guide

Release Notes, Functional Documentation

SAP HANA DB migration guide

SAP Community Network Information

SAP NetWeaver 7.4 Landing page

Check upgrade blog for details and recommendations blog

SAP Fiori on Enterprise Portal product page

Enterprise Portal on NW 7.4: Feature Presentation

SAP Notes

1751237 Add. info about the update/upgrade to SAP NetWeaver 7.4

1850327 SP Equivalence for update/upgrade to SAP NW 7.4

1648480 Maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 Software

1874939 SAP Business Suite for SAP NetWeaver 7.4 Hub-Systems

http://help.sap.com/nw74


http://scn.sap.com/community/enterprise-portal/blog/2011/07/25/sap-netweaver-portal-73-top-10-lessons-learned-from-ramp-up-you-should-know-before-getting-started



Summary


Summary

SAP Portal is a core component of SAP’s UI Strategy

SAP Enterprise Portal 7.4 defines marks the go-to-release for portal customers - primarily for internal

corporate employee portals.

SAP Portal portfolio offers a proven user experience platform leveraging SAP HANA platform,

Flexible integration

Unifying access to business information, services and apps (SAP or 3rd party)

Modern user experience with SAP Fiori

Customer can easily customize the user experience and branding

via UI theme designer or leverage SAP Fiori experience


Top 10 next steps to broaden your SAP Portal expertise

1) Join the SAP Portal community http://scn.sap.com/community/enterprise-portal

2) Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/portal_sap

3) Watch the demo videos & testimonials http://www.youtube.com/user/SAPNetWeaverPortals

4) Share your feedback and success story http://www.facebook.com/SAPPortal

5) Download further presentations http://www.slideshare.net/SAPNetWeaverPortal

6) Evaluate the trial software SAP Enterprise Portal 7.4 and SAP HANA Cloud Portal

7) Explore solutions on SAP Store https://store.sap.com

8) Sell your own solution https://service.sap.com/partnerportal/products

9) Check related road maps http://service.sap.com/roadmap

10) Check release notes & documentation http://help.sap.com/netweaver

http://scn.sap.com/community/enterprise-portal

http://twitter.com/portal_sap

http://www.youtube.com/user/SAPNetWeaverPortals

http://www.facebook.com/SAPPortal

http://www.slideshare.net/SAPNetWeaverPortal



https://store.sap.com/

https://service.sap.com/partnerportal/products

http://service.sap.com/roadmap

http://help.sap.com/netweaver

© 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Thank youContact information:

Vera Gutbrod

Senior Product Manager, SAP SE

@VeraGutbrod

Thomas Hensel

Senior Product Manager, Product Management, SAP SE

@ThHensel



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