Integration of SAP Systems 

Purpose

The main options for integrating applications and data from SAP Systems in the Enterprise Portal are the following:

Before you can use these options, you need to connect the SAP System to the portal. The steps you need to take for this are described below.

Process Flow

For each SAP System that you wish to connect to the portal, you must do the following:

  1. System Landscape: Add details on SAP System to systems.xml and/or jcodestinations.xml on the Portal Server. Here you define the Web access points used to access the SAP System (for example Internet Transaction Server or Web Application Server), or data needed to access the SAP System by remote function call (RFC).
  2. For more information on which data you need to enter in which file, see System Landscape.

  3. Single Sign-On: If you wish to use Single Sign-On in the portal, you must configure both the SAP System and the Portal Server accordingly. For more information, see Single Sign-On.
  4. SAP GUI: If you want to use the SAP GUI for Windows or the SAP GUI for Java to display SAP transactions, you have to install the appropriate GUI on the client computer. For more information, see Support for GUI Types.
  5. For the SAP GUI for Java, you can also make the respective files available by using a server. You can find additional information about the necessary configuration settings for this under SAP GUI for Java.

  6. Integrate SAP applications in portal by one of the following methods: