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Weblog:    Connect SAP R/3 4.6C and SharePoint 2003 - Part II: Define SAP Proxy
Subject: Good one, follow-up
Date: 2005-12-19 16:14:34
From: Shannon Giacomo  Business Card

Yes this is great information, thank you. Our company is also on 4.6C, installing a Sharepoint infrastructure and evaluating Enterprise Portals as well. I keep coming back to the question: why use two portals? My manager showed this in practice by linking a dynamic BW 3.5 web report (hosted on a Netweaver WAS 6.40) into our test Sharepoint team site, everything worked just fine except for the single sign-on which we haven't addressed but that should not be a big deal. So it seems to me that you only need ITS/WAS 6.20 for a version 4.6C or older system, or WAS 6.40 in the Netweaver world, then you could still use Sharepoint as the sole portal without ever installing Enterprise Portals? Any thoughts or ideas on direction from here? I just attended the Enterprise Portals seminar in Orlando and this seemed to be a valid approach, but am concerned that we are missing something by not implementing SAP Enterprise Portals?

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  • Good one, follow-up
    2006-06-15 07:50:15 Eric Bellmore Business Card [Reply]

    Shannon,


    Have you done anything with single sign on from your Sharepoint portal into SAP? We're trying to do this right now and it's not as simple as I had hoped - we've got thousands of users who don't actually login to SAP, so they won't have logon accounts, but we need to seamlessly pass them through (with a token possibly) but from what I've seen, the built in SSO for Sharepoint can't do that...


    Thanks!


    -eric

  • Good one, follow-up
    2005-12-20 01:43:58 Ted Teng Business Card [Reply]

    I have no experience with SAP .net weaver portal. So I cannot give your a direct answer.


    And what is more important, we need consider business needs to check whether SPS can cover all needs or whether SAP portal is a need.


    My expertise is mainly with SharePoint. So far I think to present SAP data on SharePoint using SAP .Net Connector still needs quite amount of coding development.


    What I want to do is less coding and take more advantages of new products to quickly meet business challenges. Not sticked in coding.


    Recently SQL 2005 and its .Net Provider for mySAP suite were both released. I have found a lof interesting features to quickly present SAP tables and do business intellogence works using SQL 2005 and lastly it is easily to present the reports on SharePoint.


    I will write some tips on SAP-SQL-SPS-BSM(Microsoft BusinessBoard Manager). hope I get some spare time.


    hope these ideas helpful.


    Ted

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