mySAP Enterprise Portal is available in two versions:
Basic version: Enterprise Collaboration Portal
Thus, all typical requirements of firms are covered.
Advanced version: Enterprise Unification Portal
This version includes features for the information abstraction between applications and for Drag & Relate between mySAP Business Suite applications and applications from other vendors (Siebel, Oracle, Baan, etc.).
Role Management
Significantly to an enterprise portal is the ability for the user, access to internal and external information, applications and services to which he needed in his role in the company. Employees business partners can be assigned roles, which the company
managed.
What is the role?
SAP defines the role as a collection of tasks, services and information the user groups are available. The role determines can be accessed which service.
In an enterprise portal solution for each business function roles designed to automatically access to necessary information, applications and services simultaneously. Pre-defined roles for the different responsibilities in sales, purchasing, controlling, and human resources or in the company's management are included here. About these roles is fixed at a central location, what content users, the company make available to the Enterprise Portal will.
Personalization
The personalization enables the user to the portal according to his interests (set design and adaptation of content) and includes the following features:
• Server Favorites
• Individual adjustment of the layout and content
• Adapt easily realizable
• Individual setting of language
iView
iViews enable the user to set up workplace that offered on a single page overview with all the information and services. These mini applications - in the jargon they are called iViews - Offer the following:
• Information (messages from the company, monitoring, alerts, documentation and knowledge management)
• Applications (e-mail, calendar, e-procurement, Employee Self Service, mySAP Business Suite solutions)
• Services (Internet search engines, travel services, freight calculation, virtual marketplaces) iViews are not limited to content from SAP systems, but can information from many different sources provide.
Content Management
The content management covers the entire lifecycle of Web site content from (including creation, classification, structuring and deployment) such as:
• Access via sophisticated search functions, registration and publication opportunities to all content
• Management, classification and retrieval of content
• Control of the release cycle, with capabilities for online editing and workflow capabilities for handling
• A combination of information and transactions
• Combination of internal and Internet resources
Syndication
It allows access to applications, information and services various sources. information can be analyzed and evaluated, and combined results will be displayed at any time and anywhere.
For example, a sales representative can before contacting a customers access the entire customer history, in adjacent iViews open orders and open invoices and view current news get to his customers on the Internet. Thus, all information is to his work focused on one side and structured. The salesperson has thus in a short time an updated and comprehensive overview provides to its customers and can act accordingly.
Drag & Relate
Two objects can by moving (drag) an object in the browser windows are related to each other (relate), and so certain Trigger functions. For example, the code of a package using the mouse to one link provided by the consignor to be drawn, thus The tracking is triggered via the Internet and in a designated iView displayed.
Single Sign On - Session Management
Through the Single Sign On, the applications (via user ID and password) to the different applications and systems unnecessary when once the receipt of authentication on the Enterprise Portal has been made.
The Single Sign On (SSO) mechanism of the Enterprise Portal is available in two Variants, depending on the security requirements and supported back-end systems:
• SSO with SAP logon tickets
• SSO with user ID and password
While SSO with SAP logon ticket to a secure ticket allocation mechanism is based, are at SSO with user ID and password, the credentials of a user (user ID and password) to the system passed, which would call on the user. |
