Defining the System Landscape

Use

The portal system landscape is a collection of systems - the portal objects that represent external, or back-end applications or Web services - and the tools needed for managing them. The portal uses systems to connect to the applications and retrieve data from them to display in portal iViews.

The system landscape provides the following tools and capabilities:

• System Landscape Overview

• Creating Systems

• Editing System Properties

• Managing System Aliases

• Checking System Connections