Hour 5: Overview of SAP Applications and Components

Hour 6: Applications and Components SAP NetWeaver: The Foundation for SAP

-Mayank Soni

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Hour 5: Overview of SAP Applications and Components

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Contents
What Youll Learn in This Hour: o SAP Business Suite applications o SAPs small and midsize enterprise solutions o The role of SAP NetWeaver components o How to pick the right solution for your business

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SAP Business Suite Components

SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM) SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

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SAP Enterprise Resource Planning

SAP ERP Financials Includes Financial Accounting,

Treasury Accounting, Controlling, Treasury and Corporate Finance Management, Real Estate Management, and more. Built-in compliance for Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel IIenable companies to provide transparent financial reporting and corporate governance. SAP ERP OperationsIncludes Procurement and Logistics Execution, Product Development and Manufacturing, and Sales and Service. These solutions take logistics to the next level, introducing sales, warehousing, procurement, transportation, and distribution into the realm of collaborative business solutions.
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SAP ERP Human Capital Management (HCM) Transforms an HR department into an organization well equipped to manage and retain its people, the core of any successful business. HCM pushes HR business processes out to the Web, enabling ubiquitous access to long-time HR staples like recruiting ,e-learning, and employee self-service. SAP ERP Corporate ServicesBundles many core company services into aneat package ranging from Project and Portfolio Management to Environment,Health, and Safety (EH&S) Management, Travel Management, QualityManagement, and more. SAP ERP AnalyticsA powerful business analytics function marrying financials,operations, and workforce-based analytics and reporting in one place.
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SAP Customer Relationship Management

Marketing supportEnhances marketing effectiveness, maximizes resource use, and empowers the sales team to develop and maintain long-term profitable customer relationships. From a users perspective, this includes marketing resource management, campaign management, trade promotion management, market segment management, lead/prospect management, and marketing analytics. Sales supportHelps remove barriers to productivity by enabling teams to work with their customers in a consistent manner. CRM Sales empowers and provides the team with the tools they need to close deals. For example, territory management,
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Service supportAssists service management teams in maximizing the value obtained from post-sales services. This enables teams to profitably manage abroad range of functions geared toward driving successful customer service and support, including field service, Internet-enabled service offerings, service marketing and sales, and service/contract management. Web channelIncreases sales and reduce transaction costs by turning the Internet into a service channel (or sales and marketing channel) geared toward effectively connecting businesses and consumers. Interaction Center (IC) management support Complements and arms a companys field sales force. This functionality supports marketing, sales, and service activities such as telemarketing, telesales, customer service, e-service ,and interaction center analytics.
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Partner channel managementImproves processes for partner recruitment, partner management, communications, channel marketing, channel forecasting, collaborative selling, partner order management, channel service, and analytics. Business communications managementEnables inbound and outbound contact management across multiple locations and communications channels. Real-time offer managementHelps manage the complexities of marketing offers in real time, using SAPs advanced analytical real-time decision engine.

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SAP Product Lifecycle Management

SAP PLM is valuable to organizations tasked with managing the product lifecycle. PLM is focused on helping companies develop new products by helping those organizations embrace and facilitate creativity and innovation. Further, SAP PLM helps companies identify and remove productivityrobbing organizational constraints.

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SAP Supply Chain Management

SAP SCM is the most mature component within SAPs Business Suite. By transforming a supply chain into a dynamic customer-centric supply chain network, SAP SCM enables companies to plan for and streamline the firms network of logistics and resources that merge to form a supply chain.

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Improving responsiveness via real-time insight into the entire supply chain Improving inventory turns by synchronizing inputs with outputs (that is, balancing supply with demand) Encouraging collaboration by providing visibility into trends as seen through supply chain monitoring, analysis, and business analytics

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SAP Supplier Relationship Management

SAP SRM is SAPs venerable solution for managing the procurement and support of the very goods and services a company needs to use internally to run day in and day out. Justas SAP CRM manages the relationship between a company and its customers, SAP SRMhelps to optimize and manage the relationship between a company and its suppliers. As another one of SAPs more mature offerings, SRM integrates seamlessly with PLM, enabling a high degree of collaboration between product buyers and parts suppliers. Bidding processes are streamlined, as well.

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SAP NetWeaver Components

Foundation ManagementIncludes SAP NetWeaver Application Server (theplatform for Business Suite), Identity Management (for user identity and systemaccess), and SAP Solution Manager (to manage SAPs implementationand operations throughout the system lifecycle) MiddlewareComprises SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (used to integrate SAP and non-SAP applications and data sources together), partner adapters (to simplify complex system connections across business networks), and support of various industry-standard protocols (necessary to support business to business connections)
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Information ManagementIncludes SAP NetWeaver Master DataManagement (for managing and synchronizing companywide data), SAPNetWeaver Business Warehouse and Warehouse Accelerator (SAPs long-timedata warehouse and search solutions), and SAP Information LifecycleManagement (to efficiently manage legacy SAP systems in the name of legalcompliance) Team ProductivityIncludes user experience tools and applications like SAPNetWeaver Portal (which provides role-based web access to SAPs applications),SAP NetWeaver Mobile (access for mobile users), and SAP NetWeaverEnterprise Search (SAPs gateway to the enterprises information)
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CompositionIncludes tools to develop, monitor, and manage business processes using SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment, SAP NetWeaverDeveloper Studio (for more complex business applications), and SAPNetWeaver Visual Composer (for rapid model-based business applicationdevelopment, no coding required)
Business Process ManagementComprises a subset of the SAP NetWeaverComposition Environment, including SAP NetWeaver Business ProcessManagement (to specially model and run business processes) and SAPNetWeaver Business Rules Management (to create and manage the businessrules that describe business processes)
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SAP Business One

The idea behind Business One is to replace isolated, disparate applications with an integrated software system handling CRM, manufacturing, and financial solution requirementsmuch of what a small business needs in a single system. Functionality Like its more capable big-business counterpart SAP ERP, Business One supports the following key business processes: Financial management Inventory Warehouse management Purchasing Manufacturing Banking CRM
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SAP All-in-One Functionality

Account and Contact Management Activity Management Pipeline Performance Management Campaign Management Segmentation

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Choosing SAP SME Offerings over Business Suite

The license costs associated with SAP Business Suite The complexity of SAP Business Suite, which directly drives the cost of consultin gand other professional services necessary for implementation A lack of the IT professionals necessary to maintain and support the complexities of SAP Business Suite Little appetite for the long timeframes (oftentimes years) involved in implementing the SAP Business Suite Little appetite for all the risks associated with implementing the more costly, complex, and time-consuming SAP Business Suite Less time and money to invest in training end users on how to use the more comprehensive and feature-rich SAP Business Suite solutions Monday, December 02, 2013 19

Hour 6: Applications and Components SAP NetWeaver:

The Foundation for SAP

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Brief Overview

History and strategy of SAP NetWeaver Overview of SAP NetWeaver Strategic benefits of SAP NetWeaver Designing a NetWeaver system using building blocks

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SAP NetWeaver

provides the technology foundation for most of SAPs products and applications. provide the vertical support necessary to tie applications together. extend and push SAP out to the Internet or mobile devices, or facilitate business analytics and reporting.

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A Brief History

SAP Basis layer- SAP technology stack SAP supported a handful of operating systems and databases, all systems were built on Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) systems could be extended a bit but were generally part of a somewhat isolated SAP-only landscape.

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Back to the Future

Web Application Server (WebAS) - integrates SAPs Internet Transaction Server (ITS), formerly a separate product, into SAPs core technology stack. - standalone technology product that could be installed independently from the SAP business modules as either a traditional ABAP technology stack, as a Java technology stack, or as both.

SAP Java - platform-independent model for web development, followed by connectivity and support for Microsoft .NET
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Introducing NetWeaver

broadened the technology stack concept into a complete integration platform. The earliest NetWeaver foundation included WebAS ,ABAP and Java components. SAPs mature Business Warehouse and Enterprise Portal products were added later on. A hub-and-spoke integration technology called Exchange Infrastructure allowed SAP and non-SAP systems to connect more easily SAP R/3 Enterprise eventually transformed into SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) Applications like SAP SRM soon followed, while brand new components like SAP Product Lifestyle Management (PLM) benefited developmentally.
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The SAP NetWeaver Umbrella: Six Areas

SAP organize its portfolio of applications, utilities, and tools around six areas (sometimes called domains or themes): Foundation management Middleware Information management Team productivity Composition Business process management

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1. Foundation Management

SAP NetWeaver Application Server The base platform for the SAP Business Suite; an open, reliable, extensible, and scalable platform for business transformation. SAP NetWeaver Identity Management Used to manage user identity and cross-system enterprise-wide access. SAP Solution Manager (SolMan) ubiquitous tool for managing SAPs implementations and operations.
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2. Middleware

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration or PI (formerly SAP Exchange Infrastructure) ties non-SAP applications and data sources together with SAP systems.

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Technology and protocol-specific adapters IDOCStandard SAP interchange document format RFCStandard SAP function call File/FTPLocal and remote file systems including FTP servers HTTP(S)Servers using the Web protocol SOAPWeb services JMSMessaging services JDBCRelational databases SMTP/POP3/IMAPEmail servers EDIFACT/ANSI X.12For electronic data interchange (EDI) IBM 3270/5250Screen-based mainframe/midrange system access
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Application-specific adapters

Ariba, Baan, BroadVision, IBMs venerable CICS, Clarify, i2, IBM IMS/TM, JD Edwards World and OneWorld, Lawson, Lotus Notes, Manugistics, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Vantive

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Industry-specific business-to-business (B2B) Adapters HL7 (healthcare data exchange standard) UCCnet and Transora (consumer products data exchange standard) SWIFT (financial transactions) CIDX (chemical process integration) RosettaNet (high-tech process integration) Automotive EDI standards Chemical EDI standards Consumer products EDI standards High-tech EDI standards Paper EDI standards Pharmaceutical EDI standards Retail EDI standards
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SAP NetWeaver supports several different technologies and standards, including these:

Java Microsoft .NET interoperability IBM WebSphere interoperability Web services Security, including security mechanisms targeted at providing data integrity, protection, and confidentiality Globalization, specifically worldwide business and legal requirements Accessibility, in that SAP works to make its product portfolio of solutions`accessible to people with disabilities
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3. Information Management
SAP identifies four ways to accomplish this: SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management supports customer data integration, enables global data synchronization and spend analysis, facilitates product content management, and helps companies sort out data needs of those in the midst of mergers and acquisitions.

SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) SAPs long-time scalable enterprise data warehouse.
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SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator a highly capable, scalable,and efficient appliance used to accelerate the results of BW queries at a lower cost than would be possible using BWs technology model. SAP Information Lifecycle Management enables companies to efficiently comply with legal and regulatory mandates related to managing their legacy SAP datas access, storage, and retention.

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4. Team Productivity
User experience (UX) tools and applications

SAP NetWeaver Portal enables collaboration and knowledge sharing can also be integrated with Microsoft SharePoint and Citrix, providing end users with a simpler or more consolidated method of working.

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SAP NetWeaver Mobile supports building functionality that extends applications to the mobile Web. mobile users can run their mobile-enabled applications without actually being connected to the network. SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search (ES) provides a simple and secure gateway to an organizations enterprise information and business processes. speeds up decision making, helps keep users informed, and makes work simpler.

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5. Composition
tools used to develop, monitor, and manage business processes that span multiple applications and technologies

SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (CE) a Java development environment,intended to build and run composite applications rapidly and efficiently. powerful, necessarily complex, and quite useful when it comes to designing, implementing, and running composite applications.
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SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio an open source Eclipse-based tool used to develop Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)-based, multitiered business applications. create full-featured systems based on Java and web services.

SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer used to create ad hoc freestyle user interfaces based on drag-and-drop technology. model-driven and requires no manual coding. create special iViews for SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal.
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6. Business Process Management

subset of the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment model, execute, and monitor an organizations business processes based on a common process model enables us to monitor the process flows over time to improve their speed and efficiency.

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Process composer used by architects and developers to create and test business process models.
Process server executes the process models. tied into SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment. Process desk accessed by process users to perform their specific BP steps.

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SAP NetWeaver BPM works hand in hand with other NetWeaver tools to create rich and unified development and deployment environment

SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management SAP NetWeaver Process Integration SAP NetWeaver Portal SAP NetWeaver Identity Management

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Strategic Benefits of NetWeaver

More rapidly deployed business solutions. Decreased development and testing costs. Easily enabled integration, speeding up the time necessary to deploy SAP and shrinking the time necessary to perform system upgrades and so on. Reduced system lifecycle total cost of ownership (TCO), primarily because maintenance and support costs are dramatically reduced in the wake of platform standardization. Through SAP NetWeaver, a companys IT organization needs to spend less time performing low-value maintenance task. Greater potential for innovation; IT organizations can spend more time figuring out how to meet the changing needs of the business.
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SAP NetWeaver Building Blocks

SAP developed the concept of installable software units system building blocks of SAP systems.

systems with usage types, systems with standalone engines, systems with clients.

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Systems with Usage Types

Two usage types The Enterprise Portal Core includes the base components formerly installed during the standard portal installation.

The Enterprise Portal installation bundles the former add-on components (Collaboration, Knowledge Management, and others) into one usage type:
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Development Infrastructure (DI) Business Warehouse Java (BW Java) Enterprise Portal (EP) Enterprise Portal Core (EPC) Business Warehouse (BW) Process Integration (PI) Application Server Java (AS Java) Application Server ABAP (AS ABAP)

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Standalone Engines
The six engines install on a separate server or along with other system usage types on the same server: Content Server Gateway SAP Job Scheduler by Redwood liveCache Search and Classification (TREX) Web Dispatcher
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Clients

combination of front-end components and development tools The traditional SAP graphical user interface (GUI) options for Windows, HTML, and Java are still available, as standard web browsers and the BI Business Explorer. The Developer Workplace ,the Mobile Infrastructure Client, and Adobe LiveCycle Designer offer rich development environments for Java applications, mobile devices, and SAP forms, respectively:

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SAPGUI Business Explorer (for BW) Developer Workplace Developer Studio Adobe LiveCycle Designer Web Browser Mobile Infrastructure Client (MI Client)

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Bringing It All Together

Online SAPNetWeaver 7.3 Master Guide

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