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SAP BI Connector
Duet Enterprise for Microsoft
SharePoint and SAP
SAP NetWeaver Gateway
productivity accelerator for
Microsoft
Synch enterprise data between
SAP BI and Microsoft Excel
Present SAP transactional data in
SharePoint UIs
Update and analyze SAP data from
within Microsoft Office
Example use case: Leverage Excel to
perform one-time analysis on SAP BI
reporting data
Example use case: present SAP leave
request/approval in SharePoint
Example use case: include SAP purchase
data in SharePoint collaboration process
Collaborate in Context with SAP
(e.g. FI/CO, MM, HCM, SRM, CRM)
SAP-run
Business
Processes
Increase SharePoint Efficiency/Functionality
Give SharePoint users access to SAP data and related unstructured content
and enable them to perform simple process steps
Improve SAP Process Efficiency
Let SAP users easily find, add or edit SharePoint content from within a
business process (e.g. work orders, maintenance manuals, regulatory
submissions, etc..)
Preserve/Destroy
Create/Capture
Strengthen Governance and Compliance
Store/
Secure
Review/
Collaborate
Access/Distribute
As part of the leading system of record, SAP-relevant content needs to be
managed with equivalent control
– Integrated, centrally-managed access controls
– Records management (physical and digital) integrated with content/ data
retention policies
– Complete data and content archiving
Business Suite
The world’s market
leading process engine
SharePoint
The world’s market-leading
collaboration platform
Extended ECM
The world’s market-leading enterprise
content management system
Integrates SharePoint content with SAP
Objects, and makes it available through
multiple UIs
Presents SAP-related content and data in a
SharePoint UI
Archives SharePoint content and places under
enterprise retention management controls
Restricts site proliferation
Improves
Collaboration and
Process Efficiency
Extends Control
and Governance
SAP metadata information
displayed in Widget Web Part
Business Workspace
content displayed in
Enterprise Library
Web Part
Link to SAP GUI, Business
Relationships, Recent
Changes displayed in
Widget Web Part
SAP GUI and SAP NW BC
SAP NetWeaver® Portal
SAP Business
Workspace
MS Windows Explorer
MS Outlook and MS Office
SAP CRM and SAP SRM
SAP, Microsoft and OpenText at Anglian Water
Solution and Benefits
• Anglian Water had disparate information systems to
manage asset documentation.
• Improve access and remove information silos (e.g., by
linking customer relationship management to work
orders)
• SAP, OpenText and Microsoft teamed up to deliver a
solution to connect business data, process and
content and integrate SAP Plant Maintenance with
SharePoint
• Deployed over 5,500 seats in the past 2+ years for
internal and external users
Marquee Clients in North America
• Align information management with business
programs and processes
• Effect significant behavioral and cultural change within
the organization, resulting from more resourceefficient information management
• Reduce regulatory risk with a single point of truth for
documentation history, versioning and audit trails
• Implement corporate retention, archive and disposal
policies and corporate naming standards in support of
compliance
• Anglian Water is saving 4,500 hours of work time
for its employees per week through improved
maintenance and material management processes
Link to Case Study
Reduced business process efficiency
Content related to SAP
processes filed in SharePoint
without business context
information
Often unclear if SAP related
content is up to date; danger
of content duplication
SAP GUI users have no
access to content filed in
SharePoint
HR
Finance
Legal
Business context information
often added manually,
getting out of sync with SAP
metadata
Production
Asset
Management
Sales &
Customer Marketing
Service &
Support
Inability to find such
content amongst growing
volume of overall
SharePoint content
SAP related content not
retained for legally required
duration, or kept too long
Increased legal and compliance risk
Increased legal and compliance risk
ERP data underutilized; not
leveraging investment =
unstructured collaboration
processes
Data without content
hinders eDiscovery
processes
HR
No insights of SAP users into
unstructured information, no
single version of the truth
Finance
Legal
SAP data not used in context
with unstructured
information
Production
Asset
Management
Sales &
Customer Marketing
Service &
Support
Lack of business context
Enterprise Search issues,
which repository holds
related content
Lack of auditability and
business insight
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Customer
Integrated
Customer
Support
Extensive
Product
Testing
Jointly
Aligned
Advice
Content
Management
for SharePoint
Portal Site &
Portal Content
Management
Best-of-breed
ECM with unique
SAP integration
and process
support.
Collaborate and
work with SAP
related content in
Microsoft
SharePoint.
Enterprise
Records
Management
Information
Governance for
SharePoint
Content, DoD
5015.2 and VERS
certified Records
Management
Powerful Intranet/
Extranet,
document Mgt,
collaboration,
authoring and
publishing
embedded into
SAP NetWeaver
Portal and
Enterprise
Workspaces
Employee File
Mgmt
Travel Receipts
Mgmt & OCR
Invoice
Management
and OCR
Extended ECM
Automate HR File
administration
and enable self
service scenarios
Automate receipt
handling and
streamline
expense
management
process
Minimize data
capture effort and
human
intervention
Streamline
accounts payable
processes
Document Access
360 degree information access
Digital Asset
Management
Optimized
management of
rich
7 8 media assets
Integrate media
into marketing
communications
Document
Presentment
Automate
document
generation and
personalization
(e.g. billing)
Document
Presentment
add on
Business
Correspondence
Archiving
Secure, compliant, cost-efficient storage of information
LOB specific Solutions
Horizontal Platform Products
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