EP (Enterprise Portal) 

Usage type EP brings SAP NetWeaver to the user in a uniform and consistent manner, and provides the tools to manage this knowledge, to analyze and interrelate it, and to share and collaborate on the basis of it.

Tightly integrated into usage type EP are the following key capabilities:

·        Portal: Offers a single point of access in a Web-based interface to SAP and non-SAP information sources, enterprise applications, information repositories, databases and services across organizational and technical boundaries—all integrated into a single user experience.

·        Knowledge Management: Enables portal users to distribute, access, and manage unstructured information within an organization through a heterogeneous repository landscape. Capabilities include collaborative document authoring and publishing, version management, search and navigation through taxonomies, automated classification and subscription, and more.

·        Collaboration: Brings users, information, and applications together to ensure successful cooperation and interaction in the portal. These tools include collaboration rooms, instant messaging, e-mail, and calendar integration.

·        Guided Procedures: Offers a framework allowing business expert to create reusable components and model people-centric business workflows with them. At runtime, business users can initiate a process from a process template, and follow its execution until completion. It helps end users to understand their work contexts better by clearly defining their individual tasks, at the same time providing them with different views on the overall workflows, and enabling them to effectively contribute to collaborative processes using groupware functions, such as offline interactive forms and ad-hoc process steps.

·        Universal Worklist: Offers users unified and centralized access to their work and relevant information from within the portal. It collects tasks and notifications from multiple provider systems – Business Workflow, Collaboration Task, Alert Framework and KM Recent Notifications – and displays them in a single list.