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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

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

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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


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Personalization- Widget Galery


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RSS Feeds


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Mash-ups


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Mash-ups


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BOBJ Integration – BI Launch pad


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BOBJ Integration


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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


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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


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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


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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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Advanced PCD Search


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You can now create/upload a KM Transport Package from content administration


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You can now create a

Transport Package

from content

administration


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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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SAP Application IViews (Transactional

IView, IAC IView etc.) moved to „IView

from Remote Source‟


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Custom Layouts


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All SAP back end applications IView from

Remote source


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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..)


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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)


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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.


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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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NWA Sitemap


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System Overview / Health Check


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Start/Stop portal instances from NWA


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HTTP Destinations / JCO RFC Provider


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Trouble Shoots – Logs/ Performance / Locks


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Configuration – SSL / Identity Management / Destinations /SSO


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Authentication & SSO, Certificates

New SAML based SSO

Import / Export

Certificates


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PAR Migration Tool


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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


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Advanced KM/ Collaboration Admin Tools …


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New Role Concept: Work center Role

Services(Always open in

new window)

Views

Home Page

Navigation Entries


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New Role Concept: Work center Role

As per SAP UX guidelines


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New Role Concept: Freestyle Role

Gives maximum freedom. Similar to EP 7 role

Visualize run time view while creating role structure


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New Role Concept: Role From Backend


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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


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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..


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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


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RSS Feeds

Create RSS Feeds using RSS Link List content templates in web page

composer


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KM & Collaboration

Advanced KM Administration Tools & Reports

New Repositories

KM Archiving

Multiple Upload


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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


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Contact US

Aravinda B Boyapati

SAP Portal Competency Lead,

Intelligroup Inc

[email protected]


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