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Use

SAP NetWeaver Portal is a scalable portal, with an open architecture capable of integrating unlimited content. Portal content is designed to retrieve information from varied information sources such as Web sites, groupware applications, legacy systems, enterprise applications, databases, and document directories.

The portal provides a complete set of tools to administer, manage, and monitor the portal within a single environment.

  • Content administration: The Portal Content Studio provides a central administrative environment in the portal for code-free development and management of portal content.

  • Role definition: The structure and delivery of content to portal users is determined by role definitions based on the user's task within the organization. Through roles, a company can structure its business processes and deliver business content according to the needs of certain user groups of the portal.

  • Delegated administration: Comprehensive delegated administration helps manage large-scale implementations by targeting tools and content specifically related to the functions and tasks of users in the organization.

  • Customization: The portal design can be modified to fit a specific corporate image. It provides design templates for users to choose from. Portal administrators determine the level of personalization available to portal end users, including portal themes, languages, passwords, and page and iView properties.

  • User administration: The portal utilizes a user management service that connects to and manages user and group data stored in the user persistence store. A Web-based interface in the portal enables administrators to administer user data centrally and access multiple user data sources in parallel, such as corporate directories, databases, or SAP systems.

  • System administration: The portal provides system administrators with specific tools that enable the configuration and ongoing maintenance of the portal and its landscape.

  • Supportability: The portal provides a number of functions for extended supportability, including monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting tools, for use administrators and support specialists.

For information about the initial configuration of the portal, see Configuring the Portal for Initial Use .

This section discusses the design-time authoring, deployment, and administrative aspects of a custom portal implementation.

Note

The portal's administration interfaces can be modified by developers; therefore the interface descriptions in this guide might not be identical to the interfaces in your portal. For example, you might have additional context menu options in the Portal Catalog, and your editor interfaces could have different names.

Integrating SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment Portal Content

You can integrate composite applications, modeled and developed in SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (CE), into a portal environment for testing and production purposes. You can also use the portal's own built-in tools to create portal content and integrate applications.

Optionally, you can use the federated portal network capabilities of SAP NetWeaver to expose applications running in SAP NetWeaver CE to an existing SAP NetWeaver production portal. For more information, see Running CE Portal Content in a Remote Portal Using FPN .

SAP NetWeaver CE provides a lean portal platform without knowledge management and collaboration capabilities, offering improved performance and reduced memory consumption.