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Interactive Forms Review

At SAP Community Day 2008

Juergen Hauser

Blair Powell

Adobe Systems Inc.

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Agenda

Adobe-SAP Partnership

Form Scenarios

Identifying Business Processes for Forms Usage

“Lead Processing” Example in CRM

Run-time Architecture

Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8.1 Demo

SAP’s Forms Strategy

SAP’S Roadmap for Interactive Forms

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SAP and Adobe -

Strategic partnership since 2002

PDF forms

Integrated as “Document Service” in SAP NetWeaver

Available in SAP ERP and CRM as print and interactive forms

Interactive forms enabling new, forms-based engagement model for SAP users

Enterprise learning

Acrobat Connect Professional integrated in SAP Enterprise Learning and available standalone

Enabling virtual classrooms and meeting rooms for SAP users

Rich Internet Applications

Components of Adobe Flex integrated in SAP Visual Composer

Enables easy creation of engaging Flash dashboards for SAP Analytics

Making user experiences with SAP software easy and engaging - everywhere

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Forms Scenarios

Online Interactive Form ScenarioSAP system access needed

Full integration into Web Dynpro for Java and ABAP frameworks

Context-sensitive value help, online checks

Offline Interactive Form ScenarioNo SAP system access needed

Static value help, static checking, simple arithmetic calculations

Self-contained PDF (XML data+layout)

Form Printing Scenario’Classic’ form processing, not interactive

Output documents are printed, e-mailed, archived or faxed

Browser withAdobe Reader plug-in

SAP

Net

Wea

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Adobe Reader offline

Archive

Down- / Upload

Print

E-mail

E-mail / HTTP

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Identifying Business Processes for Interactive Forms Usage

Business Processes that have the following requirements are good

candidates for adoption of SAP Interactive Forms

Offline forms interaction with business users

Simple UI for interaction with occasional SAP users

Flexible forms-based UI which can be easily customized

Communicate/collaborate with external parties ("external community")

Form layout to match the exact print layout (“well known forms”)

Approval processes before data is stored in the backend

Transformation of paper-based processes into electronic processes

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Lead Processing with Interactive Forms —

Process Flow

Brand Owner (SAP CRM)Brand Owner (SAP CRM)

Lead 4711Sales Partner:ED Systems

Email: “Lead 4711”

Channel Partner (Email Client + Adobe Acrobat Reader)Channel Partner (Email Client + Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Email: “Lead 4711”

(updated)

InternetInternet

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Run-Time Architecture

Application Code (Java) Application Code (ABAP)

SAP NetWeaver Application ServerJ2EE Stack ABAP

Stack

Document Service

EJB*

Web Services

Adobe Document ServicesCore Components

PDF Object (ABAP)

Web Services

SOAP

SOAP*

PDF Object (Java)

Web Services

*SOAP = Simple Object Access Protocol, EJB = Enterprise Java Bean

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Interactive Forms at Sap TechEd

2008

COMP300, Best Practices for Designing Forms with SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, Lecture (1 hour)

LCM262, Creating PDF-Based Print Forms with SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, Hands-on (2 hours)

COMP265, Creating a Real-Life Application with SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe and Web Dynpro for Java, Hands-on (2 hours)

SIM266, Security Aspects in SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, Hands-on (2 hours)

UP266, Bring Your Existing Business Workflows into a New Dimension by Utilizing SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, Hands-on (2 hours)

UP361, Adding Dynamic Features to Your SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, Hands-on (2 hours)

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