SAP EP Intro

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WILD WORLD OF ENTERPRISE PORTALS
SAP Enterprise Portal 101
Naeem Hashmi Chief Technology Officer Information
Frameworks e-mail nhashmi_at_infoframeworks.com Web
http//infoframeworks.com Tel [phone]
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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_at_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

• Information Consumer Centric
• Collaboration and Knowledge Management
• Content Management
• Integration process/information - Delivery
• Security

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Enterprise Portals and The Extraprise Information
Factory
The Extraprise Information Factory is a
Technical Architecture to construct and deploy
scalable, extendable, distributable and
integrated solutions 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

Information Consumers
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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

Information Management
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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.

Information Sources
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Enterprise Portal Infrastructure
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Enterprise Portal Vendors
All vendors support these portal functions in one
share or form
Enterprise Portal Functional Components

• Personalization
• Customization
• Presentation an Navigation
• Aggregation
• Categorization/Taxonomy
• Search
• Integration
• Business Intelligence
• Collaboration
• Workflow
• Single Sign-on
• Administration and Management

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
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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 Factors

• Must have executives sponsorship.
• Must Know what are the objectives
• Listen to your information consumers.
• Focus on information flow in mind designing and
  implementing Portals.
• Focus on your key business objectives.
• Security. Be innovative, but be careful.
• Clear scope definition and plan implement in
  Phases no big bang.
• Focus on building a sense of community.
• Develop a comprehensive re-usable Web Services
  based application Integration architecture.
• 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
Email your question on SAP Enterprise Portal to
info_at_infoframeworks.com
Naeem Hashmi Chief Technology Officer Information
Frameworks
e-mail nhashmi_at_infoframeworks.com Web
http//infoframeworks.com Tel [phone]