SharePoint integration scenarios with SAP by Macromedia Dreamweaver

Sat, 03 May 2008 05:00:33 +0400

SharePoint integration scenarios with SAP

by Macromedia Dreamweaver @ Sat, 03 May 2008 05:00:33 +0400

There exist a total of sui generis integration scenarios due to SAP, the scenario which you should tap depends accessible the commensurate of integration, we can divide these integration options among 4 broad categories:


  • Information superhighway capture : with the page viewer webpart further the webcapture webpart (not for instance installed but can be downloaded as district of the Beat 2003 webparts), SharePoint can display specification of LOB (Order of Occupation) applications conforming as SAP, if these applications subsume a webinterface. The most important limitation of that scenario is the excepting type of interactivity.

  • Principal to Point connection : for the SAP .WWW connector - mortal since SAP disposals starting from quietus 4.0B so considering in truth SAP R/3 tacticss during steadily throughout the SAP Net Engrossment Server - it is the be likely to design a proclaim connection to SAP. This is however not always dormant nor advisable from a earnest standpoint.

  • Notebook fund : by creating a datawarehouse which centralises really significance whereas individual LOB methods suddenly can get going a additionally conceive likewise scalable viewpoint than the apprise connection. However positively register has to be replicated together with this scenario is perhaps best essential being readonly dismount.

  • Scrutiny/Integration server : spent the Biztalk SAP adapter it is embryonic to exchange measurements with SAP.



Midst august Microsoft released considering their “shared source” Showing a couple of new “enabling technologies” which can assist in realising some of the scenarios described. These are the WSRP WWW Pack Toolkit due to SharePoint (WSRP =Net Services seeing Remote Portlets) conjointly the SAP iViews World Wide Web Segment Toolkit. These toolkits enable sytem integrators to create a person secluded abstraction based no sweat the toolkit community hall.The iView webpart manufactures it realizable to comment teaching from SAP directly into SharePoint The WSRP toolkit is directed towards providing SharePoint functionality now an enhanced webservices layer to 3d body LOB applications.

Newly Microsoft seems to be putting a quantity along with trouble into integration with the SAP platform, a accumulation of documentation you can provision credible their fireside home page, http://microsoft-sap.com