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From the Microsoft SAP Alliance Team
Welcome to the January 2008 edition of the Microsoft SAP Technical Community Newsletter. The team has recently published a very comprehensive whitepaper with SAP on interoperability between NetWeaver Portal and Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. We also conducted a webcast packed with demos on this topic. I encourage you to review these to get an understanding of interoperability across several layers of the technology stack including front-end content, documents, development, search, authentication, identity and workflow.
We are also proud to host the upcoming Pacific Northwest (PNW) ASUG Meeting on February 22, 2008 at Microsoft. We will be actively participating as an SAP Customer and share best practices of how we run SAP at Microsoft IT. If you are in the PNW area, we encourage you to attend.
The alliance team has also scheduled our next free technical workshop in Redmond, WA on April 3, 2008. At this workshop, technical product team members will deliver in-depth information on Duet, Interoperability (BizTalk Server 2006 R2 WCF Adapter Pack for SAP, Enterprise Services Explorer for .Net), running SAP on Windows/SQL Server. Please mark your calendars and register today. Details and agenda included on the registration site.
Our series of SAP TechNet/MSDN Webcasts continues in the coming weeks. On February 6, 2008, we show the new SAP Enterprise Services Explorer for Visual Studio. Please register today for these live events and enter a chance to win Windows Vista Ultimate when you fill out an evaluation.
Thanks for reading and staying connected.
Editor, Microsoft SAP Technical Community Newslettermsftsap@mcrosoft.com
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Register today for an upcoming free SAP Technical Workshop hosted by Microsoft in Redmond, WA on April 3, 2008. Learn from Microsoft Product Managers about Duet, upcoming SQL Server 2008 for SAP, and Interoperability in-depth. Meet other SAP customers and network with your peers.
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New White Papers Published
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This Technical Reference Guide lays out the status quo of existing interoperability scenarios between SAP NetWeaver Portal and SharePoint Technologies as of today. The paper was jointly developed by SAP and Microsoft and is a mature statement of do’s and don’ts in the Portal Interoperability today. Solution scenarios describe the high level overview where how to guides let consultants and interested techies step through the implementation.
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Enterprises looking for a way to consume SAP Enterprise Portal iViews using Microsoft Office SharePoint System 2007 can consider Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP). The goal of the WSRP technology is to facilitate the reusability of portlets across the boundaries of specific manufacturer implementations. This technology extends SAP Enterprise Portal functionality and data to SharePoint end users without the complexities or the expense of custom solutions.
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Recent Webcasts
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In this webcast, we discuss SAP and Microsoft portal interoperability. We cover how you can integrate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SAP NetWeaver Portal from front-end integration (iView, Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), and URL linking) to integrate components and services across the portal (via Web Services, SAP Portal Development Kit for the Microsoft .NET Framework and connectors). We explore approaches for interoperability based on search and the Business Data Catalog feature in SharePoint Server 2007. We also demonstrate the various types of solutions and describe how to approach portal integration.
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Learn how to integrate Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Office InfoPath, Project, and Visio with SAP. We start with an overview of the key design principles and detail the guidelines and best practices for integrating these applications with SAP. We show you how to create front-end Web services to connect to SAP, and also how to consume these Web services to architect compelling solutions that dramatically improve the productivity of your users. Watch the recording.
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Learn how the Enterprise Application Services (EAS) team in the Microsoft Information Technology (IT) department utilizes the new database mirroring and online indexing features in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to dramatically increase the availability of SAP R/3 at Microsoft. We also discuss how, by using the 64-bit version of SQL Server 2005 with commodity 64-bit hardware, EAS was able to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) while increasing performance, scalability, and reliability in the SAP R/3 landscape.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is the database that many organizations use for SAP business applications deployments. Attend this webcast to learn the best practices for setting up and operating SQL Server 2005 for secure, reliable, and scalable SAP deployments. Find out about architectures, 64-bit deployments, SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) configurations, database mirroring, and five of the most common configuration problems.
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Office Business Application Resources
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Get the practical guide to implementing the Microsoft Office system as an application-development platform. This book highlights the breadth of approaches developers can take for extending line-of-business information to information workers in the familiar, usable format of the Microsoft Office interface. These approaches, Microsoft Office Business Application (OBA) patterns, are based on real-world implementations in many cases. In other cases, they are built on Microsoft Office features that have a generalized solution rooted in input from customers and partners. This reference delivers the seven key Microsoft Office Business Application patterns and provides professional developers with extensible examples and the architectural guidance needed for developing custom enterprise applications and extending business information to users.
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The Office Business Application Starter Kit for SAP (OBA Starter Kit for SAP) showcases the power of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 in conjunction with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. (These tools are also known as Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition, or VSTO 2005 SE.) These development tools combined with the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 provide a compelling approach to integrating SAP enterprise processes into applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office system, such as Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Download the kit today on MSDN.
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OBA Central is a comprehensive website for Office Business Applications Solutions across industries, line of business apps and business processes. Search through hundreds of ISV solutions that dramatically improve the productivity and experience of your end-users.
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January 2008
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