SAP Enterprise Portal 101

Naeem Hashmi
Chief Technology Officer
Information Frameworks

e-mail: nhashmi@infoframeworks.com
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
Naeem Hashmi – 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
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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
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
Information Information
Management Consumers

• Personalization
• Customization
• Presentation an Navigation
• Aggregation
• Categorization/Taxonomy
• Search
• Collaboration
• Workflow
• Administration and Management
Information

Single Sign-on
• Integration
Sources

• Business Intelligence

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 Enterprise Portal – Functional Components
Information
Consumers

• 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
Management

– Value: Groups information content

Information

• 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
Information

– On-Demand Reporting, Analytics

– Partners, Customers, Suppliers
Sources

– Value: Instance Global access to

company information resources.

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 Enterprise Portal Infrastructure
Information Information
Management Consumers
Information
Sources

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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
1. Must have executives sponsorship.
2. Must Know what are the objectives
3. 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

Email your question on SAP Enterprise Portal to

info@infoframeworks.com

Naeem Hashmi e-mail: nhashmi@infoframeworks.com

Chief Technology Officer Web: http://infoframeworks.com
Information Frameworks Tel: 603-432-4550

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