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Get your SAP NetWeaver Portal implementation project off and running on the right foot!
Introduction to SAP NetWeaver Portal functionality and implementation strategies
Do you have the right mix of skills and resources to guide your SAP NetWeaver Portal implementation?
If, why, and how to consolidate your portal environment using a federated portal network
Case study: How Brown-Forman custom branded its SAP NetWeaver Portal using the portal Theme Editor
Fundamentals of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver Portal integration
Get your SAP NetWeaver Portal implementation project off and running on the right foot!
Determine if now is the time to implement SAP NetWeaver Portal, and if so, the best way to proceed with your project. Watch this session to:
- Explore the key elements that your business case for SAP NetWeaver Portal should include.
- Review the phases and timeline of a typical portal project, from assessment to prototype, from pilot to implementation.
- Get tips and tricks for setting realistic boundaries for your project scope and establishing the best approach for portal development and deployment based on your requirements.
- Learn how to build an appropriate portal project timeline.
- Identify the most important roles to include on your project team and how to select the key players.
- Learn how to decide whether you could benefit from a third-party implementation partner and what to look for when selecting a partner.
- Understand how to define roles and responsibilities (including your own) to ensure your project will be a timely success.
Introduction to SAP NetWeaver Portal functionality and implementation strategies
This special 3-hour session provides a comprehensive introduction to the key features and functions of SAP NetWeaver Portal, along with real-world implementation and optimization advice. Watch this session to:
- Assess the IT resources and infrastructure requirements of embarking on a portal project.
- Acquire project planning and management tips that have been amassed from dozens of real-world portal projects.
- Learn when and how to leverage SAP® Business Packages that offer ready-made content such as SAP Employee Self-Service (SAP ESS) and SAP Manager Self-Service (SAP MSS).
- Understand the concept of iViews, including how they are created and used to display portal content. Explore the benefits, tradeoffs, and requirements of the custom development tools available in the portal toolbox, including the Portal Development Kit (PDK), Business Server Pages (BSPs), and Web Dynpro. Examine your options for populating the portal with SAP and non-SAP system data.
- Find out when and why to use the branding tools SAP makes available to give your portal a custom look and feel your users will love.
- Weigh portal security alternatives and navigate the challenges of implementing single sign-on (SSO).
- Look beyond go-live to develop a long-term portal strategy that will yield continuous benefits and ROI.
Do you have the right mix of skills and resources to guide your SAP NetWeaver Portal implementation?
Watch this session to:
- Obtain detailed recommendations for when, where, and how to acquire the skill sets required for your SAP NetWeaver Portal project.
- Define what is required of managers and technical teams to ensure a successful portal implementation, as well as how these resources should be balanced and organized.
- Understand how and why typical SAP ERP implementation skills differ from portal implementation skills.
- Get expert advice on which portal project activities, such as branding and set-up of Knowledge Management, require the most attention.
- Take away best practices to nurture and grow your portal team through training and prototyping.
- Find out the difference in skill requirements and management approaches between small and large portal projects, as well as the merits and limitations of big-bang versus point solution approaches.
- Uncover the resource requirements of configuring and maintaining single sign-on (SSO), and obtain tips to ensure this does not reduce your portal project ROI.
- Bonus! An organizational chart of a typical portal project team with descriptions of key roles unique to different portal implementations is available in your course book.
Case study: Technical lessons learned during Eastman Chemical Company’s implementation of SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.0
This session explores Eastman Chemical’s journey though its SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.0 implementation. Watch this session to:
- Explore Eastman Chemical’s portal vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Walk through the company’s 10 critical focus areas, such as architecture, interoperability, roles, and security.
- Find out how Eastman Chemical achieved single sign-on (SSO) in the portal front-end and back-end and how it is working to achieve efficient interoperability between the Microsoft SharePoint Portal MOSS 2007 and the SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.0.
- Delve into the company’s portal landscape architecture for Internet and extranet access.
- Gain insight into the company’s change management and object migration strategy.
- Hear how Eastman Chemical is utilizing SAP NetWeaver Mobile, SAP NetWeaver Process Integration and SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence in conjunction with its portal.
- See what portal guidelines, standards, and best practices Eastman has developed, and pick up some valuable dos and don’ts for your own implementation.
Case study: Tips, tricks, and lessons learned from Southern California Edison’s SAP NetWeaver Portal implementation
Find out why and how Southern California Edison decommissioned its company intranet and migrated its high-value content to SAP NetWeaver Portal. Watch this session to:
- Gain insight into why Southern California Edison implemented the portal as the first phase of an overall SAP ERP project.
- Hear how the company mitigated project risk by keeping the portal implementation simple and separate from its SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) installation.
- Delve into the company’s best practices, such as forming a cross-functional team, establishing a sound content and technology governance model, and aligning the portal deployment with key business requirements.
- Find out how Southern California Edison overcame technical, integration, and usability challenges.
- Learn how the company architected its portal by starting with a single central instance and evolved to a completely load-balanced architecture with both local and geographic failover.
- Bonus! A sample portal project implementation plan and a sample portal cutover plan are available in your appendix files.
If, why, and how to consolidate your portal environment using a federated portal network
Watch this session to:
- Get an overview of portal consolidation principles, and determine whether the integration of individual siloed portals into a federated portal network (FPN) could help you realize significant manpower, cost savings, and application reusability benefits.
- Delve into different types of federation scenarios supported by SAP NetWeaver, and understand the challenges and benefits of FPN.
- Gain insight into important configuration differences between a producer portal and a consumer portal in an FPN.
- Learn how to address key issues that will arise during your portal consolidation, such as content aggregation, role assignments and management, and single sign-on (SSO).
- Find out how to manage the security, scalability, and availability of the portal after consolidation.
- Bonus! A checklist of tasks for your portal consolidation project, along with an interoperability matrix for implementing an FPN that involves SAP and non-SAP portals are available in your appendix files.
Case study: A detailed look at how Brown-Forman created an easy-to-use custom application for its SAP NetWeaver Portal
Watch this session to:
- Learn how Brown-Forman combined Knowledge Management (KM) tools (including taxonomies and XML Forms), Web Dynpro for Java, HTML, JavaScript, Web services, and SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Integrated Planning to present hard-to-please users with one seamless and consistent user interface to dynamic, personalized content.
- Find out how the company integrated SAP HR, SAP CRM, and SAP BW with the portal.
- Learn how Brown-Forman uses HTML and JavaScript to dynamically create navigation links to XML documents.
- See how Brown-Forman used Adobe Document Services and Web Dynpro for Java to create a single summary document of multiple XML documents.
- Examine how Brown-Forman used the portal theme editor for its HTML objects to create a consistent look and feel for the portal.
- Gain insight into how the company uses JavaScript to configure eventing, allowing variables to be passed from one iView to another.
- Bonus! Sample code to help you get started with your own project is available in your appendix files.
Case study: Lessons from The Scotts Company on how to transform a portal to meet the needs of diverse users
Step through the evolution of The Scotts Company employee portal. Watch this session to:
- Examine the enterprise infrastructure and reporting tool investments the company made and why.
- Learn how The Scotts Company approached the enablement of SAP BW within the portal.
- Step through The Scotts Company’s transition from intranet to portal.
- Gain insight into how the company dealt with the challenges of a mature portal environment, such as increasingly diverse needs of different associate groups.
- Explore the process The Scotts Company used to re-skill existing portal resources.
- Get insight into the pitfalls The Scotts Company faced during this evolution, including governance, branding, and adoption challenges, and see how each challenge was overcome.
- See what The Scotts Company’s next steps are for updating the look and the feel of the portal as well as upgrading from SAP Enterprise Portal to SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.0.
- Bonus! Look for sample functional and technical specification templates in your appendix files.
Case study: How Brown-Forman custom branded its SAP NetWeaver Portal using the portal Theme Editor
Find out how Brown-Forman Corporation used the Theme Editor to brand its SAP NetWeaver Portal without the need for custom code. Watch this session to:
- Get a first-hand account of Brown-Forman’s experience working with Theme Editor components, such as the portal outer frame (which houses the main branding images), settings for text, buttons and tables, and SAP Business Intelligence 2.0, 3.0, and business server page (BSP) graphics.
- Learn how the company used theme elements to create the branding for the portal’s integrated interfaces, such as Knowledge Management, collaboration, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Integrated Planning, and SAP CRM.
- Hear how Brown-Forman avoided common user interface inconsistencies such as dark text on dark background, fill colors and fill trays.
- Gain insight into how the company obtained approval from its branding team.
- Examine the amount of time Brown-Forman allocated for testing and design iteration and why this was crucial to the success of its project.
- Bonus! In your appendix files, look for a theme editor user guide and a theme settings template to help get you started.
Features, components, knowledge transfer strategies, and configuration essentials for Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management (KM) is much more than a means to locate information. Watch this session to:
- Get a comprehensive understanding of what KM is, knowledge transfer strategies, and a guide to all of the major components of KM.
- Obtain advice to configure and use KM.
- Explore the concepts of search and classification, document management, and collaboration, and learn the important differences between taxonomy, classification, and retrieval searching.
- Learn how to set up collaboration rooms and extend their functionality.
- Get an overview of taxonomies, find out how they are used, and learn how to develop them for your organization.
- Learn how third-party KM systems can exist within SAP NetWeaver Portal, and determine if, when, and why you would want to take that approach.
- Come away with real-world examples that show why and how KM is becoming an essential tool for Web-enabling applications.
- Bonus! A checklist of time-saving KM configuration tasks and a step-by-step guide for introducing KM within your organization are available in your course book.
Fundamentals of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver Portal integration
Examine how to integrate SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) with SAP NetWeaver Portal as part of your overall business intelligence strategy. Watch this session to:
- Get an introduction to the tools that support SAP NetWeaver BI and SAP NetWeaver Portal integration, such as SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, SAP BEx Portfolio, SAP BEx Web Analyzer, Portal Favorites, and SAP BEx Broadcaster.
- Obtain advice to help you determine when and why to use each tool or combination of tools.
- Understand what features are dependent on the portal framework, and how they are used to deliver an integrated solution.
- Learn how to align your portal security and SAP NetWeaver BI security strategies to minimize system complexity and support access requirements.
- Find out why it is essential to include the portal in your reporting governance model and reporting processes.
- Determine what sort of resources you will need, in addition to traditional data warehousing resources, to implement a portal that delivers business intelligence.
- See a demo of how to create and publish an SAP BEx report in SAP NetWeaver Portal, and get best practices for successfully delivering SAP NetWeaver BI through the portal.
Integrate your SAP NetWeaver Portal and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 content, forms, and search functionality
Watch this session to:
- Learn how to integrate SAP NetWeaver Portal search with Microsoft SharePoint Server search to provide users with federated search capabilities across structured and unstructured enterprise data and documents.
- Take a look at the techniques for integrating SAP NetWeaver Portal, TREX, and Microsoft SharePoint search engines.
- Examine integration and interoperability techniques that allow these technologies to harmoniously coexist in your landscape.
- Discover how to include Microsoft Windows desktop results in your searches.
- Find out how to leverage structured SAP data and unstructured documents from Microsoft SharePoint document libraries in both the SAP NetWeaver Portal and Microsoft SharePoint applications.
- Examine critical single sign-on (SSO) design options between SAP NetWeaver Portal and Microsoft SharePoint Server.
- Bonus! A whitepaper with step-by-step instructions on each integration technique is available in your appendix files.
Case study: How Whirlpool Corporation administers and secures the SAP NetWeaver Portal Content Directory
Discover how Whirlpool Corporation organizes and administers user roles within the SAP NetWeaver Portal Content Directory (PCD) in order to preserve SAP’s default content and prevent unauthorized modification of the PCD. Watch this session to:
- Find out how Whirlpool gave its development teams sufficient authorization to efficiently execute their portal projects without exposing other areas of the portal to potential manipulation and corruption.
- Learn how Whirlpool assigns “safe” administration capabilities so that developers can access what they need without constantly interrupting the portal administrator.
- See how Whirlpool assigns the roles it has created to testers in the development environment without granting access to roles that are not a part of their own project.
- Gain insight into how and why the company gave developers the ability to create their own transports and exports while blocking their ability to import external packages.
- Walk through Whirlpool’s steps for configuring the portal so that developers could control and administer the contents of their own PCD folder.
Dramatically reduce your portal administration workload by using a Central User Agent (CUA) service to create and maintain user roles
Determine if and how the use of a Central User Agent (CUA) service could help you reduce the effort required to create and maintain portal user roles, as well as better synchronize portal roles with corresponding back-end system roles. Watch this session to:
- Learn how a CUA service can be used to automatically transfer roles from your SAP ERP system directly to your SAP NetWeaver Portal-based employee self-service environment.
- Explore the system prerequisites and implementation requirements for a CUA service.
- Examine the difference between Flat versus Deep and Read-Only versus Rewrite data stores, and understand which stores to use in database, ABAP™, and LDAP security environments.
- See how to use Excel and the User Management Engine (UME) to mass upload user information into the portal and automatically notify users when their portal accounts are ready for use.
- Learn how to detect and resolve common UME issues, such as invalid passwords, switching UME providers, and enabling secure connections to the UME.
Improve SAP NetWeaver Portal security using single sign-on and an X.509-based public key infrastructure
Determine if and how single sign-on (SSO) and an X.509-based public key infrastructure (PKI) could properly secure critical, back-end transactions and data that feed your SAP NetWeaver Portal and protect it from unauthorized external access. Watch this session to:
- Examine the implementation and configuration requirements for SSO, such as the configuration of the portal login stack and exchange of credentials with other trusted systems.
- Obtain recommendations for how to avoid common SSO pitfalls, including a lack of SSO integration for legacy systems accessed from the portal.
- Find out when to use an X.509-based PKI as an authentication mechanism for your portal to provide users with seamless access to back-end SAP systems.
- Step through an example of how to set up SSO in the portal and identify the amount of customization that may be required.
- See how to utilize SAP Logon Tickets and third-party tools to authenticate the user to your portal and all of your backend systems.
- Learn how the portal end-user experience could be improved with SSO and X.509-based PKI.
Case study: Lessons learned from The Home Depot's implementation of a global federated portal architecture
Take an in-depth tour of The Home Depot's evolving SAP NetWeaver Portal architecture, the SAP landscape that supports it, and the global IT strategy upon which it is based. Watch this session to:
- Review three types of portal frameworks — fully centralized, syndicated, and federated — and find out why The Home Depot selected a federated architecture for its portal (Hint: User experience played a key role in its decision).
- Examine the technical and business benefits and tradeoffs of using a federated portal, such as the many different portal footprints you will have to configure and maintain, as well as the maturity of the technology.
- Get best practices for applying patches and upgrades to different back-end systems without affecting the user experience in a federated portal environment.
- Get guidelines for how to set up and manage security and authentication for federated portals.
- Determine why using a central LDAP will result in a limit on federated portal and usage types.