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SAP & Microsoft. Office Integration. SAP's Integration with Microsoft Office Products. Travel Expenses: Microsoft Access construction parts: Microsoft Excel Consolidation: Microsoft Access/Excel Human Resources: Microsoft Word Customizing: Microsoft Word
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SAP & Microsoft Office Integration www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
SAP's Integration with Microsoft Office Products • Travel Expenses: Microsoft Access • construction parts: Microsoft Excel • Consolidation: Microsoft Access/Excel • Human Resources: Microsoft Word • Customizing: Microsoft Word • Scheduling: Microsoft Visual Basic • XXL Listviewer: Microsoft Excel • R/3 Help: Microsoft Help Compiler • Startup of Excel/Word out of the R/3 Application www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
SAP Automation SAP Automation Presentation Server SAP Automation Application Server ODBC Database Server Desktop Standard Applications Customer-specific Applications R/3 Integration Architecture www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
COM COM SAP Assistant BOR Component COM GUI CodeGen Transaction Component COM GUI Component RFC Class Library COM RFC Component RFC Library GUI Library R/3 Architecture - Current www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
SAP Automation for intelligent user interface programming User Solution SAP Automation for OCX (ActiveX) programming • Excel • Internet Browser • Telephonyapplication • Kiosk solution(touch screen) • ... R/3 Application Server SAP Automation for RFC programming SAP Automation: Integration of Alternative User Interfaces www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
R/3 Application Purchase Order BAPI Broker R/3 Application, SAP Business Workflow Purchase Requisition BAPI CORBA Server CORBA Client (under development) CORBA communication BAPI Material Business Object Repository Visual Basic, Excel, MS Project, ... BO OCX R/3 Database COM / DCOM Internet Explorer, Netscape, ... R/3 InternetApplication HTML BAPIs and Business Objects www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
SAP Automation to integrate desktop applications based on Microsoft COM R/3 Application Server OLE Autom. (e.g. VB) Logon OCX Table OCX Remote Function Call (LIBRFC) Applications (e.g. Excel) OLE Custom Controls View OCX C++ Functions OCX R/3 Funktion Library R/3 can act as OLE-client and as OLE-server SAP Automation for OCX/ActiveX www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
ActiveX (OLE) • Today: Integration via RFC • Future: Replacement of RFCs with ActiveX Controls (R/3 4.0 Q3/Q4 1997) • R/3 will directly support ActiveX Interfaces: • ABAPs directly call ActiveX Server Objects • R/3 directly export ActiveX Objects • SAP’s Strategy: further exploit NT Standard Functionality www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
ActiveX: Insight for SAP R/3 Insight 2.0 von Arcplan GmbH: www.arcplan.de www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
COM Support • COM supported Components • RFC Component • GUI Component • Transaction Component • BOR Component • SAP Assistant • Delivers Language neutral access • Delivers object-oriented programming www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
Session Manager User Interface • Navigating in R/3 Systems is more straightforward • User-specific requirements • List of the most frequently used transactions • Different settings for the screen layout (column width, font, etc.) • Transactions start up immediately • Double-click • Drag and drop • It is possible to work in more than one R/3 System Frontend: Windows 95 oder Windows NT 3.51 www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
Session Manager 2 www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
Gewinn- und Verlustrechnung 1 2 3 A Erlöse B 50 C Excel Spain 4% USA 50% Switzerland 21% France 10% Germany 15% active connection automatic update R/3 FI-LC changes R/3 Aktives Excel: Reporting with Excel www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
aktives Excel - 1 www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
aktives Excel - 4 www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
Microsoft ExcelOpen Information Warehouse www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
Integration Word www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
SAPInq • End User PO, Invoice, Delivery Inquiry • Receptionist Inquiry for Goods Delivery • Reduce inquiries to AP Helpdesk • Moving to Web with MSMarket • No training • Easy install www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
Journal Entry Upload • Excel Based JE Front End • Replaced Functionality used in Legacy Systems • On-line Validation • Rolled Out WW • 125,000 line items per month www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us
SAP Developer Program • ISVs are encouraged to develop R/3 complementary products and add-ons based on Microsoft technology • First SAP Developers’ Conference took place in Orlando, May 15-17. Big success • Next SAP/Microsoft conference for partners or customers who do a large amount of development complementary to R/3, or adding functions, is planned for end of 1996 www.microsoft.com/germany/partner/sap/us