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Microsoft-SAP Technical Guidance

Microsoft is committed to providing you with technical information on how to better integrate Microsoft and SAP solutions, reduce complexity, and have a continued focus on TCO. As such, providing the latest technical details and know-how on how to implement and integrate Microsoft and SAP technologies is of utmost importance. From learning about details on Microsoft SQL Server for SAP environments to integrating SAP applications with the Microsoft Office System, you'll find a breadth of knowledge in this section.

Such technical information is always a work in progress as new versions of technologies are released, best practices are refined, and some technologies are no longer applicable. Therefore, bookmark this page and return often. We're confident you will find helpful information to aid in your efforts of either implementing SAP on the Microsoft Windows and SQL Server platform or integrating SAP with Microsoft .NET.

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Interoperability Resources - Office System
Integration Topic Document Abstract Date

InfoPath, Forms Solution, SAP NetWeaver

 Integrating Microsoft Office 2007 Form Solutions with SAP Web Services

This paper describes several scalable options for online and offline SAP form solutions. The intent of this paper is to provide suggestions for how to build a forms solution with SAP Web services and Microsoft Office InfoPath® and Microsoft Office Forms Services as part of Microsoft Office SharePoint® Technologies.

08/2008

InfoPath, NetWeaver

 Consuming SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Services in a Microsoft Office InfoPath Form

To demonstrate interoperability features of SAP Enterprise SOA in its integration with Microsoft Office tools, Anne Tarnoruder of SAP NetWeaver Product Management, and Dudu Benabou of Microsoft Consulting Services introduce a sample InfoPath 2007 form template that consumes SAP Enterprise Services to retrieve information from back-end systems. For better understanding of each implementation step in the article, you can download and examine the accompanying code.

02/2007

Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2003, SAP R/3, SAP NetWeaver, SAP Web Services

 Smart Client Solution to Access SAP Travel-related Transactions using Microsoft Outlook

This whitepaper describes a practical and powerful approach to use Microsoft Office as a single point of access for enterprise travel management, with seamless integration to SAP for transaction processing.

11/2006

Office, Visual Studio, .NET Framework 3.0, NetWeaver, WebServices, Workflow Foundation, Communication Foundation

 Building Workflow Enabled End-to-end Smart Client Apps using .NET Framework 3.0, SAP Web Services and Office VSTO

Sample source code

This paper provides information about how to use the Web Services SAP NetWeaver Application Server offers with Visual Studio 2005. The paper contains a detailed walkthrough of how to configure SAP NetWeaver for offering Web Services including screenshots and the necessary SAP transactions and a detailed explanation of how to write a .NET application using the Web Services from SAP. In addition the author describes a possible approach for tracing and debugging.

07/2006

Office, NetWeaver XI, Web Services

 Integrating MS Office and SAP Apps

The aim of this article is to show you how to connect to SAP R/3 systems from Microsoft Office applications. In this article, it will be shown how simple this task is provided you have the right tools. It will also be shown how you connect to a J2EE application from Microsoft Office applications.

02/2006

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