Many companies have implemented SAP as their primary business application for Finance & Controlling, Human Capital Management, Procurement and Logistics, Supplier Relationship Management, Customer Relationship Management, Manufacturing, Sales & Service, Supply Chain etc. They may also have installed or planning to install Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server as a single integrated portal to manage content, facilitate collaboration and simplify access to information spread throughout the organization using powerful enterprise search feature of MOSS. In such scenarios it is essential to share data between the two systems to make full use of their powerful features that complement each other.
Integrating SAP into MOSS
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Configure MOSS to display SAP IViews within Sharepoint site using out of the box IView Web Part.
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Display Business Server Pages (BSP) within Sharepoint using web parts.
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Setting Business Data Catalog (BDC) of Sharepoint to fetch business data from SAP by connecting to SAP ER web services created using SAP Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI), SAP Remote Function Call (RFC) etc.
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Displaying business data fetched from SAP using Business Data Catalog (BDC) in the form of Enterprise Search, Sharepoint Lists, Web Parts, Excel Services, Charts and Pivot Services and custom applications coded on top of BDC API.
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Integrate for Enterprise Content Management, Records Managements etc.
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Integrating Microsoft Infopath and Forms Server with SAP to provide write back scenarios into SAP.
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Integration SAP Netweaver from MOSS Workflow
Integrating MOSS into SAP
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Integrating Sharepoint pages with SAP Enterprise Portal (EP) using SAP IViews.
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Configuring XML IView for RSS Feeds
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Consuming Sharepoint web services using Visual Composer, Webdynpro for Java.
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Configuring the SAP WebDAV Repository Manager to interate Sharepoint Document Libraries.
Sachin Rathi