Technical Guidance for Connecting Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 to mySAP™ ERP
Brief Description
Technical Guidance for Connecting Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 to mySAP™ ERP demonstrates how organizations can make the business information they store and manage in SAP applications available to users in an intranet portal site displayed in a Web browser.
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Overview
Technical Guidance for Connecting Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 to mySAP™ ERP demonstrates how to extend the functionality of a portal built on Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to incorporate information stored in an SAP system. This sample portal site utilizes SharePoint Web Parts, .NET Web services, and the SAP .NET Connector.
There are two examples in this sample portal site: one example demonstrates how to display a user's personnel information from an SAP system in a Web Part, and the other demonstrates how to view information about open purchase orders in the SAP system in a Web Part.
User access to the SAP system is handled through the Single Sign-On service in SharePoint Portal Server 2003. The Single Sign-On service enables users to seamlessly access data in the SAP system from within the portal by mapping their Microsoft Windows® credentials to their SAP user name and password.
This sample portal site is not a fully functioning solution. It is a working sample that can be utilized to jump-start the process of understanding, designing, and developing a full solution that integrates SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and an SAP system. An understanding of SAP business application programming interfaces (BAPIs) and SAP remote function calls (RFCs) is required to fully implement the solution.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP
Server Requirements:
• Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003, Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0
• Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Client Requirements:
• Windows 2000 or later
• Windows XP or later
To download the Technical Guidance for Connecting Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 to mySAP™ ERP (MOS-SPS-SAP.exe):
1. In the Files in this Download section at the bottom of this page,
click the MOS-SPS-SAP.exe link.
2. Do one of the following:
o To start the extraction immediately, click Open or Run this
program from its current location and specify an extraction location
on your computer.
o To copy the download to your computer for extraction at a later time, click Save or Save this program to disk and specify a location to save
the .zip file on your computer. To extract the installation files from the .zip file,
double-click the .zip file that you want to extract.
3. In WinZip Self-Extractor, specify the folder to which you want to extract
the files, and then click Unzip.
4. For instructions about how to install Technical Guidance for Connecting Microsoft®
Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 to mySAP™ ERP, download
MOS-SPS-SAP_Guides1.0.exe and read the Installation chapter in the guide.
To download the Technical Guidance for Connecting Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 to mySAP™ ERP documentation (MOS-SPS-SAP_Guides.exe):
1. In the Files in this Download section at the bottom of this page, click the MOS-SPS-SAP_Guides1.0.exe link.
2. Do one of the following:
o To start the extraction immediately, click Open or Run this
program from its current location and specify an extraction location on
your computer.
o To copy the download to your computer for extraction at a later time, click Save or Save this program to disk and specify a location to save
the .zip file on your computer. To extract the documents from the .zip file,
double-click the .zip file that you want to extract.
3. In WinZip Self-Extractor, specify the folder to which you want to extract
the files, and then click Unzip.
4. After the files are extracted, do one or more of the following:
To open the Solution Guide in Microsoft Word, double-click
SPS-SAP_SolutionGuide.doc.
