Running an Enterprise Portal
This IT scenario provides all members of a company’s value chain—employees, customers, partners, and suppliers—with uniform, role-based, and secure access to their day-to-day work and information resources through a Web-based portal interface. These resources include SAP applications, third-party applications, databases, data warehouses, desktop documents, Web content, and services. The portal makes it possible to search internal and external sources, and to access both structured and unstructured information from any geographical location throughout the organization.
Using the role-based user interface of SAP NetWeaver Portal, a company can use modular building blocks to dynamically structure its business processes and deliver business content tailored to the needs of specific user groups. SAP customers can speed up their portal implementation by leveraging a wide range of predefined role-specific business packages suitable for a variety of industries and user roles.
The security features integrated into the portal include authentication, single sign-on (SSO), and authorization capabilities. Business users only require a standard browser on their desktop, without the need for additional software components.
Required or Optional Installable Units
To use this IT scenario you require the following installable units:
System with activated usage types:
● Application Server Java (AS-Java)
● EP Core (EPC)
● Developer Infrastructure (DI)
■ Usage type DI is required only if you intend to develop your own applications and content for the portal.
■ You can install usage type DI either in the EPC system or in a separate system. If you choose the latter option, you will have one system with usage types AS-Java and EPC, and a second system with usage types AS-Java and DI.
Standalone engines:
● No standalone engines are required
For more information about the required system landscape, see the Master Guide at service.sap.com/instguidesnw70.
Integration with Other IT Scenarios
This IT scenario serves as a basis for the following IT scenarios or their variants:
● Enterprise Knowledge Management
● Enterprise Reporting, Query, and Analysis
● Developing, Configuring, and Adapting Applications
● Business Planning and Analytical Services
● Integrated User and Access Management
Scenario Variants
This scenario consists of the following scenario variants:
Variant |
Description |
Lets organizations develop, configure, and operate a knowledge-based, Web-like user interface that provides their users with a consistent environment and single point of access to content they need to perform their daily tasks. |
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Lets organizations configure and operate a network of enterprise portals. The federated portal approach makes it possible for organizations to share content among portals and to create a single virtual-content pool. SAP NetWeaver Portal supports the WSRP standard, thus enabling the portal network to also integrate content from WSRP-compliant portals of other vendors. |
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Lets organizations implement public Web portals that perform well in low-bandwidth networks and offer a familiar Web experience for anonymous users, as well as create Web portals that provide business partners, employees, and other registered users with a Web portal that fully supports SAP application functionality |
Related Information
The following role-specific guides contain further information about this IT scenario:
Task |
Documentation Reference |
Planning (Installation) |
Master Guide - SAP NetWeaver: SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/instguidesnw70 ® Installation |
Planning (Upgrade) |
Master Guide - SAP NetWeaver: SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/instguidesnw70 ® Upgrade |
Installation and Upgrade |
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Configuration |
SAP Solution Manager or SAP NetWeaver Technology
Consultant's Guide:
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Getting Started |
Getting Started -
Using SAP Software:
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Administration |
SAP NetWeaver
Technical Operations Manual (TOM):
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Security |
SAP NetWeaver
Security Guide:
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Development |
SAP NetWeaver
Developer's Guide:
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Technology
Consultant's Guide