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SAP and IBM WebSphere Portal

There are several technologies that can be used to integrate SAP and IBM WebSphere Portal, including web services, WS-I frames, BAPIs, and Web Application Bridge. IBM offers products like WebSphere Portal Integrator for SAP and Web Experience Factory that provide pre-built connectors to integrate SAP data and applications into WebSphere Portal. These tools allow single sign-on, navigation integration, and content integration between the two systems.

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SAP and IBM WebSphere Portal

There are several technologies that can be used to integrate SAP and IBM WebSphere Portal, including web services, WS-I frames, BAPIs, and Web Application Bridge. IBM offers products like WebSphere Portal Integrator for SAP and Web Experience Factory that provide pre-built connectors to integrate SAP data and applications into WebSphere Portal. These tools allow single sign-on, navigation integration, and content integration between the two systems.

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SAP and IBM WebSphere Portal working together

Mark Polly Integration is a long-standing requirement satisfied by enterprise portals. !er the past "# years$ integrating SAP and IBM WebSphere Portal has been top of mind for a lot of people. Marty %e&hleider spoke at the IBM '(&eptional Web '(perien&e )onferen&e on the offerings IBM has for integration. Both IBM and SAP ha!e multiple produ&ts$ so Marty put them into bu&kets and des&ribed whi&h produ&ts integrate with whi&h produ&ts in ea&h bu&ket. In fa&t$ SAP has a portal and IBM has a portal. Some SAP fun&tions are naturally better displayed using SAP*s portal. ften$ howe!er$ we need to integrate SAP data with other &ontent$ whi&h is where IBM WebSphere Portal really shines. +he te&hnologies used to integrate the !arious systems in&lude,

WS-P i.rames Web Ser!i&es -'S+ -.) / BAPIs

'a&h of these te&hnologies work great for parts of SAP integration$ but ea&h &an ha!e its pitfull. WebSphere Portal Integrator for SAP is a pa&kage from IBM that is a!ailable from the Solutions )atalogue. +his software works with 0etWea!er !1.2 to pro!ide integration at the 3ser Interfa&e le!el. +his tool e(poses SAP 3ser '(perien&e 'lements using SAP i.rames spe&ially built by SAP. +hree key fun&tions are pro!ided by the Integrator for SAP,

Single Sign n 4SS 5 using SAM% 6# 0a!igation Integration 7 na!igation through SAP is dynami& and refle&ted in WebSphere Portal dire&tly. )ontent Integration 7 single pie&es of SAP Portal &ontent 43-% Addressable5 is displayed dire&tly in portal. .or these &ontent pages$ SAP pro!ides the &ontent without left side or top le!el na!igation. +his &an in&lude i8iews$ b9e&t 8iews and more.

SAP has a whitepaper about this integration here, http,//s&n.sap.&om/do&s/: )-6;<2= IBM*s Web Appli&ation Bridge is another te&hnology that &an be used to integrate SAP and IBM Portal. In this &ase$ you ha!e to implement SS separately$ but it will e(pose SAP s&reens in WebSphere Portal.

IBM Web Experience Factory and IBM Forms Experience Builder are used for ser!i&es le!el integrations. Web '(perien&e .a&tory 4W'.5 has se!eral pre-built SAP &onne&tors for,

SAP 8iew > .orm SAP BW :ata A&&ess SAP .un&tion )all SAP Info +ype SAP Bat&h Input SAP ?elp 8alues

3sing these &onne&tors$ you &an easily a&&ess the SAP data and present it in a new way using W'.. Sin&e W'. is a rapid de!elopment en!ironment$ you &an qui&kly deploy &ustom SAP appli&ations on WebSphere Portal that e(a&tly meets your needs. SAP now pro!ides a 0etWea!er @ateway that simplifies a&&ess to SAP BAPIs. +he @ateway e(poses -'S+ ser!i&es that are easily a&&essed by both W'. and IBM .orms '(perien&e Builder. Aou don*t need 0etWea!er Portal on the SAP side to take ad!antage of 0etWea!er @ateway. IBM .orms '(perien&e Builder 4.'B5 allows you to use SAP ser!i&es 4WS:%s5 to easily build &ustom forms integrated with SAP data. If you don*t like some of the SAP 3I or want to limit what a user might see on your portal$ .'B is another great way to build a good looking 3I in WebSphere Portal pulling data from SAP. .'B will also let you update SAP data through the SAP ser!i&es interfa&e. Marty ga!e a fine demo of using .'B to build an employee raise appli&ation that pulls data from SAP$ keeps tra&k of a workflow$ displays the appli&ation on WebSphere Portal alongside some so&ial data. And all this works with Mobile tooB

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