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Duet Enterprise Technical Overview

Duet Enterprise Technical Overview. <NAME> <TITLE> <Company>. Agenda. 1. Duet Enterprise At a Glance. 2. Duet Enterprise Landscape. 3. Out of the Box Interoperability. 4. Ready-to-Use Capabilities. 5. Composite Solutions. 6. Technical Requirements. Duet Enterprise Key Themes.

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Duet Enterprise Technical Overview

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  1. Duet EnterpriseTechnical Overview <NAME> <TITLE> <Company>

  2. Agenda 1 Duet Enterprise At a Glance 2 Duet Enterprise Landscape 3 • Out of the Box Interoperability 4 • Ready-to-Use Capabilities 5 • Composite Solutions 6 • Technical Requirements

  3. Duet Enterprise Key Themes Packaged interoperability between SAP applications & SharePoint • Simple Architectural Approach – Rapid development approach Improves employee productivity and overall business efficiency Expands the value of existing investments in SAP and Microsoft

  4. Duet EnterpriseConsume and Extend SAP through Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Collaboration Collaboration Process Process Ready-to-use capabilities Ready-to-use capabilities Duet Enterprise Composites Duet Enterprise Composites Drive People Productivity Rapidly Respond to Business Needs Interoperability Interoperability Expand the Value of Existing Investments

  5. Built on Microsoft SharePoint 2010The Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise and the Internet Business Connectivity Services Bring data from external systems into SharePoint and Office, interact with it, reuse it, and empower end users to gain insight into the underlying data in a reusable way Sites Composites Communities Rapidly create no-code collaborative solutions Deliver the Best Productivity Experience Cut Costs with a Unified Infrastructure Unlock the value of your enterprise data Insights Content Rapidly Respond to Business Needs Maintain control over end user solutions Search

  6. Ready-to-Use Capabilities

  7. Custom Solution

  8. Agenda 1 Duet Enterprise At a Glance 2 Duet Enterprise Landscape 3 • Out of the Box Interoperability 4 • Ready-to-Use Capabilities 5 • Composite Solutions 6 • Technical Requirements

  9. Duet Enterprise Landscape Duet Enterprise SAP Add-on Duet Enterprise SharePoint Add-on Clients Auto -Deploy SAP NetWeaver Rationalized Architecture Rapid Implementation No Client Installation

  10. Duet Enterprise Architecture Clients MicrosoftEnvironment SAP Environment • SAPBusiness Suite • Duet EnterpriseSAP Add-on • Duet EnterpriseSharePoint Add-on • Application and Template Services • Application and Template Services Administration and Monitoring ApplicationBuilding Blocks User Management Services Runtime Services SAP Netweaver 7.02 (ABAP) Microsoft SharePoint 2010

  11. Agenda 1 Duet Enterprise At a Glance 2 Duet Enterprise Landscape 3 • Out of the Box Interoperability 4 • Ready-to-Use Capabilities 5 • Composite Solutions 6 • Technical Requirements

  12. Interoperability LayerThe Foundation for interoperability between SAP and SharePoint • Pre-built interoperability between SAP Applications and Microsoft SharePoint & Microsoft Office 2010 • Built on the Microsoft SharePoint and SAP NetWeaver platforms Foundation Authentification &Single Sign-On Offline Support Business Content Supportability Landscape Management SAP Roles Based Authorization Monitoring Application Lifecycle Management

  13. Landscape Management The Challenge • Typically Microsoft and SAP IT landscapes are heterogeneous and distributed. Enterprise solutions need to be high available and scalable. • Heterogeneous system landscapes must be supported • Scalability and high availability mechanisms are required • SAP Netweaver • SAP Netweaver • SAP Netweaver Duet Add-on Duet Add-on Duet Add-on The Solution • Duet Enterprise supports heterogeneous system landscapes and provides scalability and high availability. • Multiple and distributed SAP systems • Various versions of SAP systems • System Mapping (Click Image) • Microsoft SharePoint • Microsoft SharePoint • Microsoft SharePoint The Benefits Duet Add-on Duet Add-on Duet Add-on • SAP Netweaver BW • SAP ERP 6.0 • Duet Enterprise provides extended landscape management out of the box and eliminates the need for customers to develop customer specific solutions for system mapping, scalability or high availability. EMEA HR America • SAP Netweaver BW • SAP ERP 2004 North America HR EMEA Authentification &Single Sign-On Offline Support Business Content Supportability Landscape Management SAP Roles Based Authorization Monitoring Application Lifecycle Management

  14. Authentication and Single-Sign-On The Challenge • SharePoint and SAP systems have different user identities and credentials in place. • Mechanism to logon to multiple systems with signing in each time • Mapping SAP applications credentials to SharePoint credentials • Enabling a continued connection regardless of upgrades The Solution • Duet Enterprise enables Single-Sign-On (SSO) capabilities out of the box. • Trust relationship between Microsoft SharePoint and SAP Netweaver • Management of different user identities in SharePoint and SAP by mapping of SharePoint users and SAP users (Click Image) The Benefits • Duet Enterprise provides the pre-packaged interoperability including Authentication support. • Supported out of the box from SAP & Microsoft • Upgrade independent • Robust & Secure Authentification &Single Sign-On Offline Support Business Content Supportability Landscape Management SAP Roles Based Authorization Monitoring Application Lifecycle Management

  15. SAP Roles based Authorization The Challenge • SAP systems have numerous SAP roles and profiles in place to secure SAP objects. • SAP role and profile information must be rebuilt on SharePoint • Effective mechanism required to synchronize SAP roles to SharePoint The Solution • Duet Enterprise enables users and administrators to grant access to SharePoint securable objects based on SAP roles. • User profile properties from SAP are synchronized to SharePoint User Profile Store • Automatic synchronization mechanism in place to keep SharePoint User Profile Store up to date (Click Image) The Benefits • Duet Enterprise eliminates the need for customers to rebuild SAP roles in SharePoint. SAP roles can be used to secure SharePoint objects out of the box. Authentification &Single Sign-On Offline Support Business Content Supportability Landscape Management SAP Roles Based Authorization Monitoring Application Lifecycle Management

  16. Business Content The Challenge • Scenario’s require a number of discrete components for an end to end customers specific solution. • Optimized, highly scalable web services are required to be identified and mapped from SAP Applications • SharePoint BCS entities must be created and mapped to SAP web services • Browser • Office Applications • Business Connectivity Services The Solution External Content Type Repository • Duet Enterprise delivers pre-packaged horizontal business content which can be leveraged by both customers and partners. • Highly Scalable SAP Application Web Services • SharePoint BCS Entities \Building Blocks • SharePoint Templates Product Customer Inquiry Customer Quotation Customer Employee (Click Image) The Benefits Business Data Connectivity • Duet Enterprise provides sets of the common SAP Application objects packaged and ready to use by professional and casual developers. • Enables rapid solution development • Opens the door to a broader range of developers • SAP Duet Enterprise Add-on • SAP System • SAP System Authentification &Single Sign-On Offline Support Business Content Supportability Landscape Management SAP Roles Based Authorization Monitoring Application Lifecycle Management

  17. Monitoring The Challenge • System operators need insight into the state of the IT environment, and the IT services running across different systems and workloads. • Interoperability solution specific tools need to be created to show state, health and performance information The Solution • Duet Enterprise leverage existing standard monitoring tools from Microsoft and SAP. • Out of the box Duet Enterprise specific health rules, MOM packs and health packages • Enables the administrator to view status dashboards, deployment status and to receive errors and warnings (Click Image) The Benefits • By leveraging existing standard monitoring tools from Microsoft and SAP no new monitoring infrastructure is required. • Out of the box capabilities to monitor Duet Enterprise specific server and client components Authentification &Single Sign-On Offline Support Business Content Supportability Landscape Management SAP Roles Based Authorization Monitoring Application Lifecycle Management

  18. Supportability The Challenge • Interoperability solutions require mechanisms for cross system supportability and error handling. • Tracing of transactions and data flows needed across the SAP and Microsoft environment • Tools for troubleshooting of deployment issues and end users problems required The Solution • Duet Enterprise enables supportability End-to-end error handling across the SAP and Microsoft environment. • Cross system supportability through End-to-end tracing, troubleshooting and comprehensive system logging • Extended error handling by surfacing of SAP error messages in SharePoint UI, and Office Clients The Benefits (Click Image) • Duet Enterprise provides ready to use supportability capabilities and eliminates the need to develop customer specific supportability and error handling tools. • Decrease support costs for troubleshooting • Speed up time to resolve deployment issues and end users problems Authentification &Single Sign-On Offline Support Business Content Supportability Landscape Management SAP Roles Based Authorization Monitoring Application Lifecycle Management

  19. Application Lifecycle Management The Challenge • Duet Enterprise solutions and features have to be updated when business needs come up. • Tools and processes requiredto manage life cycle of already existing solutions • Easy deployment required for Office Client based solutions The Solution • Duet Enterprise supports the end to end life cycle: Expose, Compose, Consume, Deploy and Innovate. • Solutions deployed to Office Client using Click Once • Out of the box application upgrade management for BCD models, Ready-to-Use capabilities, Business Content and language packs (Click Image) The Benefits • Duet Enterprise provides tools and services to manage the life cycle of applications. • Decrease deployments costs by using Click Once technology for Office client based Duet Enterprise solutions • Lower support costs by providing tools and processes required to manage life cycle of Duet Enterprise solutions Authentification &Single Sign-On Offline Support Business Content Supportability Landscape Management SAP Roles Based Authorization Monitoring Application Lifecycle Management

  20. Offline Support The Challenge • Information Workers need access to SAP information and processes while being offline or disconnected. • Services and tools required to bring SAP information offline • Stable and reliable interoperability framework for synchronization between client data and SAP backend data needed The Solution • Duet Enterprise enables offline scenarios with external data. SAP information integrated as External Content Types in SharePoint can be made available offline in: • Microsoft Office Outlook as Contacts, Tasks, Calendars or Posts • Microsoft SharePoint Workspace as Lists, SAP Reports and Word doc libraries with external data columns (Click Image) The Benefits • Duet Enterprise enables Information Workers to work with SAP information while being offline. • SAP data available in well known Outlook and SharePoint Workspace UI • Reliable synchronization framework ensures data consistency Authentification &Single Sign-On Offline Support Business Content Supportability Landscape Management SAP Roles Based Authorization Monitoring Application Lifecycle Management

  21. Agenda 1 Duet Enterprise At a Glance 2 Duet Enterprise Landscape 3 • Out of the Box Interoperability 4 • Ready-to-Use Capabilities 5 • Composite Solutions 6 • Technical Requirements

  22. Ready-to-use CapabilitiesEnsuring quick time to value • Immediate business value to all employees Simplified access to processes and information from SAP Ready-to-use Capabilities Contextual Workflow Sites Enterprise Collaboration Profile Reporting

  23. Enterprise Collaboration End User • Collaboration sites presenting business Information from SAP • Sites created ‘on the fly’ for business data instances • Office ribbon actions link to Business Collaboration sites • SharePoint site templates for Business collaboration • Access through Outlook & SharePoint Outlook Workspaces SharePoint (Click Image) BCS Framework • Automatically create related site • Tracks link between entity and site SAP (Click Image) Contextual Workflow Sites Enterprise Collaboration Profile Reporting

  24. Contextual Workflow End User • Receive Workflow Approval requests in Outlook Inbox or SharePoint Tasks folder • Rich contextual information within approval object • Approve request from email object or SharePoint Tasks folder • Monitor and manage your Workflows as part of your SharePoint/Office tasks • User Collaboration around a Workflow task • Ability to delegate the request to another person (Click Image) (Click Image) SP SP SP SAP SAP SAP SAP Contextual Workflow Sites Enterprise Collaboration Profile Reporting

  25. Duet Enterprise Profile Integrated View of User Identity • SAP personal data out of the box available on SharePoint Profile Page • Search for and collaborate with People based on both their SharePoint and SAP Profile • Leverage content based on SAP User roles and authorization in SharePoint • Ability to sync User Profile properties from SAP into SharePoint User Profile Store • Ability to sync User Roles from SAP into SharePoint, so that content / applications / services that are part of Duet Enterprise applications can be secured by SAP ACLs SharePoint Profile BCS (Click Image) (Click Image) SAP Contextual Workflow Sites Enterprise Collaboration Profile Reporting

  26. Duet Enterprise Sites End User • Interact with SAP Information via SharePoint Lists • Easily take information offline with SharePoint workspace or Outlook Outlook Workspaces SharePoint (Click Image) BCS SAP (Click Image) Contextual Workflow Sites Enterprise Collaboration Profile Reporting

  27. Duet Enterprise Reporting Admin End User • Distribute reports to groups of users or based on rules • Schedule Reports by end user or admin • Administrator can define Reports Catalogue, Report settings (Titles, Parameters, scheduling, etc.), Users roles for the various Catalogues, Report distribution rules • Run a report Ad Hoc or subscribe to a report from SharePoint • Report catalog available in SharePoint • Receive reports in Outlook and SharePoint • Personalization and subscription of reports • Offline support using Microsoft SharePoint Collaboration Workspace • Schedule Reports by end user or admin Outlook Workspaces Offline SharePoint Subscribe Deliver Duet Enterprise Reporting (Click Image) (Click Image) R/3 BW Contextual Workflow Sites Enterprise Collaboration Profile Reporting

  28. Agenda 1 Duet Enterprise At a Glance 2 Duet Enterprise Landscape 3 • Out of the Box Interoperability 4 • Ready-to-Use Capabilities 5 • Composite Solutions 6 • Technical Requirements

  29. Duet Enterprise Composite SolutionsRapid development approach • Blend SAP data and processes with Microsoft SharePoint content and collaboration • Focus on solution innovation and value add rather than plumbing • Develop solutions using familiar tools opening the door to a broader range of developers Partner eco-system solutions for rapid deployment Solution Composition

  30. Duet Enterprise Composites Overview Easier to Get Started Enterprise Ready Ecosystem Solutions Microsoft and SAP Solutions IT Sponsored Solutions End User Solutions Extensible and Customizable

  31. A Project team at “Contoso Corp.” Example – Collaborative Quotation SharePoint Collaboration SharePoint Workspace Access SAP from the Workspace Word + SharePoint Outlook SAPWorkflow in Outlook Jim invites people and adds data Creates a Collaboration Workspace Kathrin accesses SAP documents reports They jointly author the response Jim views new quotation notification Document saved to SAP; Kevin approves quote A Project team at “Contoso Corp.” Jim Kolehan, Sales Manager Kevin Marks, Regional Sales Director Kathrin Reidel, Operations Managers

  32. Development and Configuration Tools Ease of development using standard tools, leverage existing skill set Tools • Service composition and adaptation • Custom Business logic development • Field configuration • Declarative, No-code • Create lists and doc libs • Design Views/Forms • Modify SPD solutions • Custom UX and data integration • Creating/editing building blocks SharePoint Designer SAP ABAP Developer Business Power User Microsoft .NET Developer

  33. External Content Types SharePoint External Lists SharePoint Workspace with InfoPath Forms Office Applications Outlook Forms and Task Panes • Browser • Office Applications • Business Connectivity Services External Content Type Repository Customer Employee Product Customer Inquiry Customer Quotation Customer specific ECT’s Business Data Connectivity • SAP Duet Enterprise Add-on • SAP System • SAP System

  34. Flexibility in Exposing SAP Information Outlook Forms and Task Panes SharePoint Workspace with InfoPath Forms SharePoint External Lists Office Applications

  35. Agenda 1 Duet Enterprise At a Glance 2 Duet Enterprise Landscape 3 • Out of the Box Interoperability 4 • Ready-to-Use Capabilities 5 • Composite Solutions 6 • Technical Requirements

  36. Technical RequirementsDuetEnterpriseFoundation

  37. Technical RequirementsReady-to-use capabilities

  38. Duet Enterprise – Solution Summary Ready-to-use Capabilities • Collaborate around SAP information • Participate in SAP workflows • Access SAP reports • Explore HR information • Interact with SAP Information • Via SharePoint and Office Tools & Business Content • For IT organizations and partners • Enables composition of solutions that blend SAP data and processes with Microsoft SharePoint content and collaboration • Leverages the standard development tools of Microsoft and SAP Foundation • Access to SAP from Microsoft SharePoint and Office • Developed by Microsoft and SAP • Built on the Microsoft SharePoint and SAP NetWeaver platforms • Unifying lifecycle mgmt., security, manageability and supportability

  39. Duet Enterprise Delivers More Drive People Productivity Expand the value of existing investments Rapidly respond to business needs Empower employees with solutions that Improve personal and team productivity Drive Adoption of SAP and Microsoft Solutions to all employees Address Business needs timely and effectively • Leverage existing platforms • Incremental Business value • Built-in Interoperability • Blend process and collaborative work • Deliver business insight – timely, relevant, targeted • Increase people engagement • Quick solution composition • Empower Business Innovation • Utilize Partner solution

  40. Links Microsoft Web Site http://microsoft.com/duet Joint Site w/SAP: http://duet.com

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