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SAP Enterprise Portal 101

WILD WORLD OF ENTERPRISE PORTALS. SAP Enterprise Portal 101. Naeem Hashmi Chief Technology Officer Information Frameworks e-mail: nhashmi@infoframeworks.com Web: http://infoframeworks.com Tel; 603-432-4550. About the Author.

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SAP Enterprise Portal 101

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  1. WILD WORLD OF ENTERPRISE PORTALS SAP Enterprise Portal 101 Naeem Hashmi Chief Technology Officer Information Frameworks e-mail: nhashmi@infoframeworks.com Web: http://infoframeworks.com Tel; 603-432-4550

  2. 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@infoframeworks • Web Site: http://infoframeworks.com Tel: 603-432-4550 Naeem Hashmi

  3. About the Information Frameworks

  4. Topics • Definition of an Enterprise Portal • Enterprise Portal - Functional Components • Enterprise Portal Success Factors • Questions

  5. 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

  6. Top 5 Characteristics - Enterprise Portal • Information Consumer Centric • Collaboration and Knowledge Management • Content Management • Integration – process/information - Delivery • Security

  7. 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

  8. Topics • Definition of an Enterprise Portal • Enterprise Portal - Functional Components • Enterprise Portal Success Factors • Questions

  9. Enterprise Portal Building Blocks

  10. Information Consumers Information Management Information Sources Enterprise Portal – Functional Components • Personalization • Customization • Presentation an Navigation • Aggregation • Categorization/Taxonomy • Search • Collaboration • Workflow • Administration and Management Single Sign-on • Integration • Business Intelligence

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Information Consumers Information Management Information Sources Enterprise Portal Infrastructure

  15. Enterprise Portal – Vendors All vendors support these portal functions in one share or form • Personalization • Customization • Presentation an Navigation • Aggregation • Categorization/Taxonomy • Search • Integration • Business Intelligence • Collaboration • Workflow • Single Sign-on • Administration and Management Enterprise Portal – Functional Components 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

  16. Topics • Definition of an Enterprise Portal • Enterprise Portal - Functional Components • Enterprise Portal Success Factors • Questions

  17. 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)

  18. Topics • Definition of an Enterprise Portal • Enterprise Portal - Functional Components • Enterprise Portal Success Factors • Questions

  19. Questions Email your question on SAP Enterprise Portal to info@infoframeworks.com Naeem Hashmi Chief Technology Officer Information Frameworks e-mail: nhashmi@infoframeworks.com Web: http://infoframeworks.com Tel: 603-432-4550

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