CD108

Accelerating Consumption for

Networked and Mobile Solutions
Through Project Gateway

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Agenda

1. Gateway Overview

2. Gateway Architecture
3. Tools and Business Content
4. Development Process
5. Summary

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Three Key Trends Shaping the Future

Devices Expand

1 billion+ connect to the

Internet on non-PC platforms
today

7x more mobile Internet

connections than broadband 1

Data Expands

Data doubles every 18

months 2

72% of all workers agree

that it is easier to locate
knowledge on Web than IT
systems

1 Yankee Group, 2008

2 Yankee Group enterprise storage study - 2008
3 J. Gold Associates, November 2008
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Decision Points Expand

Growth in corporate apps

accessed from smart phones
43% CAGR from 2008 to 2013

60% of Fortune 1,000 will

deploy collaboration tools
by 2013

SAP Product Strategy

Deliver Instant Value to One Billion People

On Device

Orchestration

All devices
All user experiences

Easy to extend

Instant value

Line of business or suite

Integrated to On Premise

Analytics

Collaboration

Mobile

On Demand

SAP Business
ByDesign

LoB on Demand

On Premise

SOA-enabled
Best-practices packages

Non-disruptive enhancements

Platform

In-Memory

Technology Foundation

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Enterprise Computing for Information Users

Requirements and Challenges

Users demand native user

experience across all devices

Brow ser Based

Applications

Mobile Devices

Enterprise
Softw are

Consum er
Devices

Voice

Rapid proliferation of device

manufacturers and
operating systems

Point to Point Solutions

Increase Costs and Complexity

SAP Business Suite

One-off applications specific
to each device platform not
scalable
CRM

SRM

SCM

PLM

ERP

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Project Gateway
....for Any Device and Platform

Meets users demand for native

user experience across all
devices

Brow ser Based

Applications

Mobile Devices

Enterprise
Softw are

Consum er
Devices

Voice

Drives innovation while

keeping IT control

Decouples the lifecycle of

your consumer apps from
the SAP Solution

Project Gateway

SAP Business Suite

Optimized for user

facing and low complexity
scenarios
CRM

SRM

SCM

PLM

ERP

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Demo
DEMO
Examples of Gateway Consumers

Project Gateway
Demo
Collaboration
Information Ideas

Develop Application
(seamless to SAP)

SALES

Support Business
Innovation

DEVELOPER

IT
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Agenda

1. Gateway Overview
2. Gateway High Level Architecture

REST/ATOM
OData / SAP Data

3. Tools and Business Content

4. Development Process
5. Summary

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Gateway Architecture

Consumer
Consumer
SDK
Network Standards

SAP Data Protocol

(Consumption)

Gateway
Tools

Core

Admin

Security

ATOM

WS

Monitoring

ID Mgt.

Content Adaptation

Provisioning
as Data Source
Plug ins

Metering

Fully outside-in driven

High Level Components

Content Provisioning
Content
Provisioning

Application
Application

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Technical Overview
Core Components

Core
Metering

Security

ATOM

Monitoring

ID Mgt.

Content Adaptation

WS

Rest Based Architecture - Hides SAP backend Complexity

Uses ATOM protocol

Resources with multiple representation

Apps Characteristics is Stateless

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Why SAPData Protocol?

HTTP-based data protocol

Based on OData

Uniform way of representing structured data

Atom

JSON

Uniform URL conventions

Navigation, filtering, sorting, paging, etc.

Uniform operations

Addressability

GET, POST, PUT, DELETE always mean the same

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SOAP vs. REST

*Source: A brief introduction to REST http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction

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1..*

resource

Floor Plan

1..*

resource

UxObject

visualize
*

0/2..*

1
refers to
*

resource

Application

Action

resource

Thing

*
resource

OpenSearch

Search
Description
Document

resource

resource

Metadata
Document

Entity Set

1
*

resource

Entity

1
OpenSearch
Response

resource

Service
Document

resource

Collection

represented as

Feed

resource

Member

represented as

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Agenda

1. Gateway Overview
2. Gateway High Level Architecture

3. Tools and Business Content

4. Development Process
5. Summary

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Entry

UX
Extension

Dynpro

SAP Data
Protocol

1..*

DDIC/BO Model

RDBMS

Atom
Publishing
Protocol

Perspective
(Context)

File System

Atom
Syndication
Format

resource

Callable
Entity

Open Data
Protocol

A Common Consumption Model:

SAP Data Stack and Metaphors

Files

Gateway Architecture

Fully outside-in driven

Content Provisioning Tools

Consumer
Consumer
SDK
Network Standards

Content Provisioning
SAP Data Protocol (Consumption)
Custom

Generated
Code

Gateway Code
Screen Scrapping

Standard SAP APIs

Metering

Security

Monitoring

ID Mgt.

BOR Generator

Core
Enterprise Search

Tools

ATOM

Admin

WS

NWS Standards

Provisioning
as Data Source
Plug ins

Content Provisioning
Content
Provisioning

Application
Application

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Content Provider
Screen Scraping
The Goal

Rapid Content Enrichment of the Gateway by its Consumers

How ?

Transforming ABAP Dynpro Screens into Gateway Services

SAP Dynpro Screens

New Gateway Services

Modeled
To

Capabilities

Gateway
Operations

Services

Gateway
Data Models

Gateway Consumers

Consumed
By

Transforms a series of Dynpro screens as shown to the end user into

a Gateway object.
Uses customized and/or modified Dynpro Screens
Supports Read/Write access
Code free solution, utilizes Batch Input Recorder

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Content Provider
Business Object Repository (BOR) Generator
The Goal

The object-oriented repository in the R/3 System

How ?

Capabilities

Read-Write access
Auto generation of Gateway content
Using remote enabled (BAPI based) Stable interfaces

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Agenda

1. Gateway Overview
2. Gateway High Level Architecture

3. Tools and Business Content

4. Development Process
5. Summary

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Gateway
Design Time Flow Example
Consumer
Application IDE

Gateway

SAP Business
Suite

Step 1 (Gateway):

Step 2 (Consumer IDE):

Pick a Dynpro, a BAPI or existing Gateway

Create Proxy Classes using SDK

Model

Create a consumer application

Create a Data Source Model through the

Gateway Design Time

Create a simplified Model and the Adaptation

Logic in the Gateway Design Time

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Demo
DEMO
Examples of Gateway Development Process

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Transaction Consumption 1

1. Specify resulting Object name, and source of the Transaction you are going to
consume

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Transaction Consumption 2

2. Specify Transaction you want to record

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Transaction Consumption 3

3. Navigate through the Transaction screens

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Transaction Consumption 4

4. Select the screen fields you want to use, mark the key field(s) and generate the
service:

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Transaction Consumption 5

5. Verify your Service:

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Further Information
SAP Public Web:
SAP Developer Network (SDN): www.sdn.sap.com
Business Process Expert (BPX) Community: www.bpx.sap.com
SAP BusinessObjects Community (BOC): boc.sap.com

Related SAP Education and Certification Opportunities

http://www.sap.com/education/

Related Workshops/Lectures at SAP TechEd 2010

CD108, Accelerating Consumption for Networked and Mobile Solutions Through
Project Gateway, Lecture
ALM130, SAP Architecture The Way Forward

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