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Copyrights 2002 Introduction to SAP Enterprise Portals September 2002 1
SAP Enterprise Portal 101
Naeem Hashmi
Chief Technology Officer
Information Frameworks
e-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://infoframeworks.com
Tel; 603-432-4550
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About the Author• Founder and CTO of Information Frameworks, an author, speaker and
world-renowned expert on emerging eBusiness Intelligence Technologies.
• Author of the best selling book titled, – SAP Business Information Warehouse for SAP, 2000.
• Technical Editor– SAP BW Certification Guide, authored by Catherine Roze 2002
• Co-Author. Getting the Most from Business Intelligence and SAP Business Warehouse, searchSAP, Nov 2002.
• Member of Intelligent ERP magazine's board of editors, is a frequent speaker at IT industry conferences including SAP TechEd, ASUG, Oracle Open World, DCI, The ERP World, and the Data Warehouse Institute.
• 25+ years of experience in emerging Information Technology research, development, and management, Information Architectures; Enterprise Application Integration e-business; ERP applications; Data Warehousing; Data Mining; CRM; Internet, Object and Client/Server Technologies and Strategic Consulting.
• Email- nhahsmi@infoframeworks • Web Site: http://infoframeworks.com Tel: 603-432-4550
Naeem Hashmi
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About the Information Frameworks
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Topics
• Definition of an Enterprise Portal
• Enterprise Portal - Functional Components
• Enterprise Portal Success Factors
• Questions
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Defining Enterprise Portal
• What is an Enterprise Portal?– A portal is much more than an Interactive flashy Web Site to
publish reports or marketing material– Enterprise Portal is a web based business-critical system
• Integrated information view and business applications • Seamless integration between BI, OLTP and Knowledge Management
Systems• A collaborative environment
• Classes of Portals– Information Portals– Functional Portals– Industry Specific Portals– Enterprise Portals
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Top 5 Characteristics - Enterprise Portal
1. Information Consumer Centric
2. Collaboration and Knowledge Management
3. Content Management
4. Integration – process/information - Delivery
5. Security
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Enterprise Portals and The Extraprise Information Factory
““The Extraprise Information Factory is a Technical The Extraprise Information Factory is a Technical Architecture to Architecture to constructconstruct and and deploydeploy scalable, scalable,
extendable, distributable and integrated solutions extendable, distributable and integrated solutions needed to support business critical applications.” needed to support business critical applications.”
““The Extraprise Information Factory is a Technical The Extraprise Information Factory is a Technical Architecture to Architecture to constructconstruct and and deploydeploy scalable, scalable,
extendable, distributable and integrated solutions extendable, distributable and integrated solutions needed to support business critical applications.” needed to support business critical applications.”
The Extraprise Information Factory, Webcast, searchSAP.com Jan 8, 2002
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Topics
• Definition of an Enterprise Portal
• Enterprise Portal - Functional Components
• Enterprise Portal Success Factors
• Questions
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Enterprise Portal Building Blocks
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Enterprise Portal – Functional Components• Personalization• Customization• Presentation an Navigation• Aggregation• Categorization/Taxonomy• Search• Collaboration• Workflow• Administration and Management
Single Sign-on• Integration• Business Intelligence
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Enterprise Portal – Functional Components• Personalization
– One of the critical component– Choice of Content – Value: Improve productivity/loyalty
• Customization– Branding– Look and Feel– Value: Identity
• Presentation an Navigation– User Interface Consistency across
broad range of applications– Value: Less Training, support and
administration
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Enterprise Portal – Functional Components• Aggregation
– Package information from one or more sources for a user personalized view
• Categorization/Taxonomy– Manual and Automatic– Value: Groups information content
• Search– Context based search– Federated Search
• Collaboration– Key component of Enterprise Portals– Value: Knowledge Sharing/Communities
• Workflow– Rules drive Information Flow– Value: Business/Info process Automation
• Administration and Management– Manage all components - single point
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Enterprise Portal – Functional Components• Single Sign-on
– Key feature– Identification, Authentication,
Authorization– Value: Easier to manage - High ROI
• Integration– The most critical functionality– Applications, Internal, External– Value: Provides an Integrated view of
business systems without building point to point interfaces - High ROI
• Business Intelligence– On-Demand Reporting, Analytics– Partners, Customers, Suppliers– Value: Instance Global access to company
information resources.
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Enterprise Portal – Vendors
• Personalization
• Customization
• Presentation an Navigation
• Aggregation
• Categorization/Taxonomy
• Search
• Integration
• Business Intelligence
• Collaboration
• Workflow
• Single Sign-on
• Administration and Management
All vendors support these portal functions in one share or form
How you know which Enterprise Portal is good for your business ?Information Frameworks offers a proven methodology to select a right Enterprise Portal for your Business
Enterprise Portal – Functional Components
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Topics
• Definition of an Enterprise Portal
• Enterprise Portal - Functional Components
• Enterprise Portal Success Factors
• Questions
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Top 10 Critical Success Factors1. Must have executives sponsorship.2. Must Know what are the objectives3. Listen to your information consumers.4. Focus on information flow in mind designing and implementing Portals.5. Focus on your key business objectives.6. Security. Be innovative, but be careful.7. Clear scope definition and plan implement in Phases – no big bang.8. Focus on building a sense of community. 9. Develop a comprehensive re-usable Web Services based application Integration
architecture.10. Assess ROI at the end of every Phase - More often than BI (DW)
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Topics
• Definition of an Enterprise Portal
• Enterprise Portal - Functional Components
• Enterprise Portal Success Factors
• Questions
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Questions
Naeem Hashmi
Chief Technology Officer
Information Frameworks
Email your question on SAP Enterprise Portal to [email protected]
e-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://infoframeworks.com
Tel: 603-432-4550
