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COREY PEARSON[ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER
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CHAVONE JACOBS[ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER
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ALLAN FISHER[ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER
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SAP Portal 7.3 Ramp-Up Experience, Quick
Comparison between EP 7.0 and 7.3
Orhan Ozalp
Director of SAP Development at
Interpublic Group
Aravinda B Boyapati
SAP Portal Competency Lead at
Intelligroup
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Learning Points
Learn about EP 7.3 architecture details, technical components
which can be selected at the time of installation
Learn about EP 7.3 New Functionalities
EP 7.3 Live demo experience
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Return on Investment
Provides overview of SAP EP 7.3 functionalities and technical
architectural differences between EP 7.0 and EP 7.3. Speed up
your technical/functional upgrade timelines
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Terminology
EP – Enterprise Portal
BOBJ – Business Objects
FPN – Federated Portal Network
NWA – Netweaver Administrator
ADS – Adobe Document Services
CE – Composite Environment
BPM – Business Process Management
BRM – Business Rules Management
DI – Development Infrastructure
NWDS – Netweaver Developer Studio
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Agenda
About IPG
IPG SAP Journey & Landscape
EP 7.3 Ramp up Project Scope & Team Composition
EP 7.3 PAM (Product Availability Matrix)
Key Differences between EP 7.0 and 7.3 in the areas of
Architecture
Screen Elements
Content Administration
System Administration
User Administration
Performance
Administration Tools
Security & Role Design
Branding
NWDI
Ajax Framework Page
Webpage Composer
Mashups
RSS Feeds
KM & Collaboration
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About IPG
4,500 CLIENTS | 100+ COUNTRIES | 41,000 EMPLOYEES |
$6 BILLION 2009 REVENUE
Best-in-class marketing services providers
Industry’s largest provider of integrated, global marketing
programs
Two global media networks and a spectrum of specialist
media companies
Modern global agency model combines accountability with
creativity under single P&L
High-value ideas in high-growth markets
Exceptional group of independent agencies
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About IPG
CREATING NEW AGENCY IMPERATIVES
Digital consumers
Cross-platform integration
Collaboration across boundaries
Professional services models
Client profitability metrics
Resource management metrics
Increase efficiency
Leverage technology
Present flexible offerings
Present “one face” to our clients
Leverage strengths
Economies of scale
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IPG ERP Journey
1998- 2001
SAP 3.1H
SAP 3.1H
SAP 3.1H
2002-2005
SAP 4.6c
SAP 4.6c
SAP 4.6c
2006- 2010
SAP Enterprise
SAP BW 3.5
SAP Enterprise
SAP BW 3.5
SAP ECC 6.0
SAP BW 3.5
SAP ECC 6.0
SAP BW 3.5
20011- 2015
SAP ECC 6.0
BW 7.0/ BI 4.0
SAP NW 7.3
PPM 5.0/ BPC
APAC
EMEA
LATAM
NA
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IPG NetWeaver Landscape
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EP 7.3 Ramp - Up Project Scope
Project Scope:
Test ride the new version of SAP EP 7.3
Evaluate the new/ improved portal functionality and integration
Web Page Composer and mash-ups
Widget Gallery
Business Object Integration
RSS Support
Security (SAP back-end Role integration)
In the light of the findings, revisit the company’s business
transaction portal strategy (i.e. assess the feasibility of replacing
SharePoint portal with SAP EP)
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EP 7.3 Ramp - Up Team Composition
Project Management
IPG
Portal Development
(IPG/ ITG)
BOBJ Report Dev
IPG
Basis
IPG
Security
IPG
Ramp-up Coach
SAP
Project Advisor
ITG
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Navigation and Transaction Integration
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Personalization- Widget Galery
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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RSS Feeds
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Mash-ups
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Mash-ups
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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BOBJ Integration – BI Launch pad
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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BOBJ Integration
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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EP 7.3 PAM (Product Availability Matrix)
Window 2008, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux : 64 bit Only
JVM 6 Only
Developer Workspace
Windows XP, Vista, 7(SP 3)
IE 6 Not Supported
IE 7 & 8 Support for
Webdynpro, ITS, BSP, Adobe Forms, BEX Web, NWBS 3.0, Visual
Composer Runtime & Design Time
Mozilla Firefox & Safari Support for Webdynpro, ITS, BSP
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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EP 7.3 - Usage Types
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EP 7.3 PAM (Product Availability Matrix) …
Important Notes1509421 - Main Browser Note for NW 7.3
1533256 - No Browser Support for Microsoft IE 6 in SAP Netweaver 7.3
1485525 - No Adobe Reader support for Firefox 3.x on MacOS
1446519 - Safari Restrictions for Unified Rendering and ACF
1115332 - Web Dynpro Flash Islands Requirements
1347768 - Web Dynpro and Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 8.0
1384060 - Interactive forms in webdynpro and Microsoft Internet Explorer
Version 8.0
1090464 - Interactive Forms-Web Dynpro Java-Limitations/Recommendation
1089062 - FireFox Limitations for Unified Rendering and ACF
1029680 - BEx Web applications Java: Limiations for Firefox
1016683 - ACF controls on Vista
990763 - HTMLB Handling of Internet Explorer 7
990034 - Firefox browser for end users
957075 - FireFox Limitations for Theme Editor
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Architecture Differences between EP 7.0 and 7.3
AJAX Framework – Default
Enhanced Wiki’s & Forums are included in EP 7.3 as a add-on. No Special license is required
Mashups
J2EE 5 / JAVA SE 6
EP / CE Can be installed in same instance
No support for PAR files. All portal applications are now EAR (Enterprise Archive) based
Visual Admin is no longer available and is completely replaced with NWA (Netweaver Administrator)
Enterprise Workspaces are not available for EP 7.3 as of 04/06/2011
SAML 1.1/2.0 Support for SSO mechanism (SAP Recommendation for SSO)
JSR 168/286 support for remote portlets integration
New Navigation API’s for cross system navigation
Browser back button still an issue EP 7.3
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Screen Elements
EP 7.3 Screen Elements
Content
Area
Header Area
Navigati
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Panel
AFP Widgets
Masthead
Content Area
Toolbar
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Content Administration – What’s New
Portal display work set now part of
content administration role . This allows
content administrators to create new
portal themes, configure framework pages.
Note: Desktop & Display roles iview is
still part of system administration
Framework page Configuration
Select/Change framework page
Show/Hide masthead links
How/Hide toolbar links
Set number of levels for in top levels
navigation
Configure menu links (History, favorites
etc..)
Configure navigation panel mode (default or
contextual)
Configure personalization settings
Logo / Splash screen configuration
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Content Administration – What’s New
Configurable Overview
page allows to add, edit, delete
easy accessible links
(GAPL) Generic Portal Application
Layer for all locally deployed
applications such as Java webdynpro,
portlets, Portal Applications et..
My Objects used for frequently used folders can
be added to „My Objects‟ for easy access
My Open Changelists consists of all the portal
objects which are changed. This feature will help
to find all the changed objects and collect them
for creating transport package
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Content Administration – What’s New
Advanced PCD Search
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Content Administration – What’s New
You can now create/upload a KM Transport Package from content administration
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Content Administration – What’s New
You can now create a
Transport Package
from content
administration
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Content Administration – What’s New
New Role Types
Backend Application IViews
For frequently
used folders
Hide Available
Templates
Menu Items
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Content Administration – What’s NewMenu Items
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Content Administration – What’s New
SAP Application IViews (Transactional
IView, IAC IView etc.) moved to „IView
from Remote Source‟
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Content Administration – What’s New
Custom Layouts
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Content Administration – What’s New
All SAP back end applications IView from
Remote source
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Content Administration – What’s New
Change Organizer for
view/manager all
change lists
New Roles required for
Change Recording
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System Administration
System Objects
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User Administration
User Authorization Reports (Ex: User‟s assigned to Role etc..)
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Performance
Observed 3 times faster performance than current EP 7X portal
Portal server Start/Stop time is reduced drastically (Near to Zero Down
time)
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Administration Tools
Visual Admin is replaced with NWA
Installing CE/EP 7.3 in same machine is possible
PAR migration tool for converting PAR files to EAR files
SDM is replaced with JSPM
Un deployment of SCA’s/EAR files are not possible using JSPM. You
have to use NWDI for this purpose.
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Administration Tools: Visual Administrator (VS) NWA
Visual Admin NWA (Netweaver Administrator)
HTTP Provider /nwa/http
/nwa/logon-groups
JDBC Connector
JMS Connector
/nwa/app-resources
EJB Container
Web Container
/nwa/app-modules
SLD Data Supplier /nwa/sld-config
Licensing Adaptor /nwa/licenses
Destinations /nwa/destinations
Log Viewer /nwa/logs
Log Configurator Log-config
JCO RFC Provider /nwa/jco-destinations
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Administration Tools
NWA Sitemap
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Administration Tools
System Overview / Health Check
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Administration Tools
Start/Stop portal instances from NWA
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Administration Tools
HTTP Destinations / JCO RFC Provider
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Administration Tools
Trouble Shoots – Logs/ Performance / Locks
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Administration Tools
Configuration – SSL / Identity Management / Destinations /SSO
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Administration Tools
Authentication & SSO, Certificates
New SAML based SSO
Import / Export
Certificates
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Administration Tools
PAR Migration Tool
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Administration Tools
Advanced KM/ Collaboration Admin Tools
Archiving Tools
KM Resources for Archiving
Room Archiving
Consistency Checks:
Cleanup of E-Mail Attachments
Collaboration Consistency Check
Replacement of Invalid Room Owners
Room Cleanup
Room Consistency
Advanced Content Management
Reports
Approval Maintenance
Folder Settings
Folder Size Calculations
Link Consistency
Resource Statistics
Time-based publishing
Mass Operations
Copy
Delete
Propagation of Properties
Room Event Cleanup
Security:
ACL permissions
Propagation of ACL's
Tools:
Cache Administration
Folder Size Risk Analysis
Resource Locks
Room Inventory
User Related Cleanup:
Deleted Items Cleanup
Deleted Items Quota Check
Deleted User Cleanup
Subscription Cleanup
User Resources
User Validity
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Administration Tools
Advanced KM/ Collaboration Admin Tools …
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Security & Role Design
New Role Concept: Work center Role
Services(Always open in
new window)
Views
Home Page
Navigation Entries
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Security & Role Design
New Role Concept: Work center Role
As per SAP UX guidelines
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Security & Role Design
New Role Concept: Freestyle Role
Gives maximum freedom. Similar to EP 7 role
Visualize run time view while creating role structure
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Security & Role Design
New Role Concept: Role From Backend
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Security & Role Design
New Role Concept: Role From Package
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Branding
SAP Signature Theme for consistency look across all SAP systems
Splash Screen
New AJAX Framework page & Interop Framework page
New AJAX Desktop & Interop Desktop
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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NWDI
Eclipse 3.5.2 based
JDK 1.6.0_7 or higher
OS Support for
Windows XP 32-bit
Windows Vista 32-bit
Windows 2008 64-bit
Windows 7 32-bit
Windows 7 64-bit
3 GB Free Space
2 GB Ram Required
Improved Performance
New Visual Composer
Environment
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Ajax in EP 7.3
Below are some of the areas where Ajax is used
Ajax Framework Page
Ajax Desktop Page
Configuration Editor for configuring framework page settings
Theme Editor
Full screen mode
Splash screen
Navigation
Personalization
Show Breadcrumb
Title bar and Tool bar
Powerful L-Shape API’s
Navigation API
History API etc..
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Webpage Composer
Design time and runtime Improvements
Role ‘Web Page Composer’ renamed to ‘Area Management’
Supports on page editing, workflow, permissions and time based
publishing, tagging, indexing, feedback etc..
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Webpage Composer
Page Editor
Article Editor
Design Time Vew
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Mashups
Mashup editor is part of web page composer
Used for connecting iViews and enables data transfer between them
Enables auto refresh between different iViews
Enables mapping one iView output parameters to another iView input
parameters
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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RSS Feeds
Create RSS Feeds using RSS Link List content templates in web page
composer
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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KM & Collaboration
Advanced KM Administration Tools & Reports
New Repositories
KM Archiving
Multiple Upload
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Key Learnings
EP 7.3 architecture details, technical components which can be
selected at the time of installation
New EP 7.3 functionalities
EP 7.3 live demo experience
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Contact US
Aravinda B Boyapati
SAP Portal Competency Lead,
Intelligroup Inc
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