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Management Summary

The Business Package for DMS Connector for KM offers portal users a central, role-specific entry point for evaluating and editing document-based structures and the documents assigned to them.

You can use the portal content supplied with this Business Package productively in your enterprise or you can use it as a template for creating enterprise-specific portal content.

Integration of DMS Information in KM

The Business Package connects document management in an ERP system to Knowledge Management in the SAP NetWeaver Portal .

  • DMS:

    Document management (SAP ECC)

    SAP application component: CA-DMS

  • KM:

    Knowledge Management in the SAP Enterprise Portal

    SAP application component: EP-KM

The following overview describes the functions of the two components.

Component

Function

Document management

Document management provides a wide range of editing functions to enable you to efficiently create and manage documents of your choice. It uses the Knowledge Provider (KPro) from the SAP Web Application Server as a media-neutral IT infrastructure for checking in any documents and document-type objects (such as programs).

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management is integrated in the portal with the components Content Management, Retrieval and Classification, and Collaboration.

Together with its submanagers, the Repository Manager controls how the content of the repositories is accessed by portal applications. With its repository framework, Knowledge Management gives you the option of including different repositories in KM. For the portal user, the uniform behavior of the repositories has the advantage of being set up in a similar way to the user interface.

DMS Connector for Knowledge Management

The DMS connector for Knowledge Management provides several functions that enable you to edit the document-based structures and documents from document management in the portal. For more information, see Editing of Folders and Documents .

Benefits for your Enterprise

The DMS connector enables portal users to evaluate and edit the document data from the ERP system in the portal as they wish, without detailed knowledge of document management.

Technical Data

Availability

SAP NetWeaver Portal (see the Prerequisites section)

Browser recommendation

  • All browsers supported by the SAP NetWeaver Portal

  • Recommended browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Version 5.5 or later

Languages

  • CS Czech

  • DA Danish

  • DE German

  • EN English

  • ES Spanish

  • FI Finnish

  • FR French

  • IT Italian

  • JA Japanese

  • KO Korean

  • NL Dutch

  • PL Polish

  • PT Portuguese

  • RU Russian

  • SV Swedish

  • ZH Chinese

Data origin

Back-end system, see the Prerequisites section

Prerequisites

The following system components are required:

  • Portal: SAP NetWeaver 2004 (stack 10) or SAP NetWeaver 2004s

  • Back-end system: SAP R/3 (Release 4.6C and later) or SAP ECC 6.0

  • Plug-In 2003.1 (or later)

    You need the plug-in to display selection variants in the dynamic folder . If you do not implement this plug-in, you can only edit the document-based structures in the public documents and personal documents folder groups.