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Your Hands-on Guide to SAP NetWeaver Portal Technology

Master SAP NetWeaver Portal with the most comprehensive, step-by-step reference available on the entire portal implementation life cycle. Written by SAP architect Rabi Jay, this book provides everything you need to plan, design, install, configure, and administer SAP NetWeaver Portal, including SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java.

SAP NetWeaver Portal Technology: The Complete Reference is filled with detailed descriptions, numerous illustrations, and hundreds of expert tips. Design and deploy portals with high availability, scalability, and performance. Implement single sign-on to backend systems and integrate SAP and non-SAP applications. Configure reliable J2EE engine and portal security, and devise a flawless portal backup and restore strategy. Improve performance using portal workload, GC, thread dump, and HTTP analysis.

• Plan futuristically using PAM, release planning, and maintenance strategy
• Design global portals using federated portal networks and external-facing portals
• Implement self-registration and delegated user and content administration
• Enable authorization using security zones, UME actions, and ACL permissions
• Manage users centrally using LDAP, UME, and Identity Management
• Implement user-, type-, and attribute-based authentication
• Brand your portal using portal desktop rules, themes, and framework pages
• Configure portal transports, and deploy patches and business packages using JSPM
• Monitor your portal using CCMS and GRMG Availability Monitoring
• Manage your portal centrally using NWA and maintain systems using SLD

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Imagine that it’s the 1950s, and you are in charge of developing the U. S. interstate system. There are countless roads already in use. The system can go in numerous different directions Where do you begin?

Starting to transform your business with SAP NetWeaver is that daunting. NetWeaver is both an application platform and an integration platform. It integrates your current IT systems to enable portals, collaboration, data management, and development environments. To grasp the complexities and possibilities of SAP ASAP, dig in with SAP NetWeaver For Dummies and explore:

• MySAP Business Suite
• SAP Enterprise Planning Resource (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Human Capital Management (HCM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), and more
• Mobile Infrastructure that performs like a universal translator for mobile interfaces, including laptops, wireless phones, and PDAs
• Master Data Management, including using the content consolidation technique to “clean up” data, master data harmonization to distribute it, and central master data management to maintain a data repository
• Web Application Service and NetWeaver Developer Studio—tools that let you integrate and create your own customized applications

Written by Dan Woods, former CTO of The Street.com and CapitalThinking, and Jeffrey Word, the Director of Technology Strategy for SAP, this guide features real-life stories from businesses and examples of typical uses to help you cut through the complexities and get up and running. It includes a CD-ROM with:

• Detailed white papers and product overviews
• Stores from customers using SAP NetWeaver today
• Demos that show SAP NetWeaver in action
• A directory of resources for additional information

Like that interstate system, SAP NetWeaver doesn’t have to be integrated all at once. You choose the applications that have the most potential to benefit your company’s operations and bottom line. SAP NetWeaver For Dummies even gives you recommendations for rolling it out and suggests practical ways to get started and get quick returns on your SAP investment. Then you’re going full-speed ahead on the road to success!.
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"This book is the definitive guide for SAP NetWeaver BI professionals Based on their extraordinary expertise with the product, the authors provide deep insights about key innovations in the areas of user experience, query performance, integrated planning, and enterprise-wide data warehousing."
—Stefan Sigg, Vice President, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence

The long-anticipated publication of this second edition reflects the growing success of SAP NetWeaver as well as the various Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities that are embedded with SAP BW version 7.0. Written by SAP insiders, this comprehensive guide takes into account the ever-changing features, functionality, and toolsets of SAP NetWeaver to bring you the most updated information on how to use SAP BW to design, build, deploy, populate, access, analyze, present, and administer data. You'll discover the options that are available in SAP NetWeaver and uncover a new means to improve business performance.

This book reflects the process an organization goes through during an implementation of the software. The authors begin with an introduction to BI and SAP NetWeaver and quickly progress to information modeling and enterprise data warehouse concepts. You'll learn how to access and deliver meaningful analytic information to the organization, as well as perform integrated planning functions. Finally, the authors share invaluable insight on warehouse administration, performance, and security.

With more than 50 percent new or revised material, this second edition of Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse shows you how to:

• Extract data from online transaction processing systems
• Store transformed data in a way that best supports reporting and analysis
• Use the various Business Explorer tools such as BEx Report Designer, BEx Analyzer, BEx Broadcaster, and BEx Web Application Designer
• Schedule, monitor, troubleshoot, and archive data loads

The companion Web site contains sample chapters in Wiki format and the authors' blog where readers may enter discussions about the book and SAP.

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The companion Web site contains the sample code presented in the text of the book, plus implementation templates..
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* SAP is investing billions to redesign its flagship R/3 product line based on its ESA, and that ESA will become the standard framework for developing all new SAP ERP applications with NetWeaver
* This book provides an overview of the core building blocks of SAP's new ESA, and shows how ESA works with the NetWeaver platform as well as mySAP ERP
* A step-by-step action plan proposes ideas for designing ESA-based SAP applications
* The companion Web site contains in-depth case examples that show how to build various SAP services and applications using the NetWeaver development tools, plus third-party tools
* Some of the SAP tools covered include NetWeaver Developer Studio, WebDynPro and NetWeaver Portal, NetWeaver BI, and the SAP Composite Application Framework.
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This book provides technical consultants, system architects, and administrators with a complete and comprehensive introduction to SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI), Release 3.0 Feature Pack (SP4). Learn the ins and outs of SAP's Integration Broker, and get a guided tour of the design of collaborative processes, the development of interfaces, Messages, Proxies, Mappings, and more. You'll also receive in-depth information and learn how to configure the system-spanning process for a specific system landscape, based on these development objects. Readers will also benefit from chapters devoted to running-time components (Integration Server, Integration Engine, Proxy Running Time, and Monitoring Tools) as well as system-spanning BPM. Plus, with added sections on specific applications—two detailed case scenarios on B2B Communication and system-spanning BPM—you'll learn how business management demands can be technically depicted and efficiently implemented. Highlights Include: Basic principles of process modeling First steps in Integration Builder Design and Development - Collaborative Processes, Interfaces, Messages, Proxies, and Mappings Configuration of system-spanning processes Running time - Integration Server, Integration Engine, Proxy Running Time, Monitoring Tools Case scenarios - System-spanning BPM, B2B Communication.
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This book introduces portal administrators, developers, consultants, and IT managers to the structure and key application areas of SAP NetWeaver Portal Release 7.0. Starting with a brief description of the basics of enterprise portals in the SAP NetWeaver and Enterprise SOA environments, the book goes on to provide you with essential technical details of the portal s functionalities and underlying architecture. Role management, authentication mechanisms, knowledge and content management, unification, and application and system integration are just a sample of the areas covered. In addition, an entire chapter is devoted to portal installation and configuration. The much-anticipated book provides you with a solid technical grounding and a comprehensive introduction to portal development and administration, enabling you to immediately implement what you ve learned. Numerous examples, exclusive tips and detailed screenshots, which are used throughout the book, give you an in-depth understanding of all relevant function areas, making this a truly indispensable reference. Highlights Include: Functions: Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Unification, Portal Content Studio Architecture: Portal Scenarios, Portal Framework, Connectors Installation and Configuration: Components, Basic Settings, Special Features Administration: Authorization and User Management, Monitoring and Reporting, Security, Single Sign-On, Transport System Development: Web Dynpro ABAP/Java, SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, Composite Application Framework, SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, PDK for .NET.
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Learn how to effectively manage your enterprise's master data with SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (MDM). With this book, you'll find out how to develop and implement your own comprehensive master data strategy to meet your organization's unique requirements. Written by an SAP insider, the book explains the importance of an enterprise data management (EDM) strategy, and how to integrate the best one for your company. It then teaches you key master data and data management concepts, including quality management, architecture and standards, governance organization and processes, and deployment and technology. You'll also explore case studies illustrating EDM at work, and learn advanced topics, such as how to incorporate an EDM project into a large ERP project, and the issues around globalization and EDM. This is the one resource you need to get your EDM strategy in place. Highlights Include: SAP NetWeaver MDM 5.5 SP04 EDM Framework As-Is Assessment Scorecard Best Practices Integration with SAP PI (formerly XI), and SAP NetWeaver BI Interfacing with SAP Solution Manager, and ARIS.
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The challenges facing BI/BW projects can be cultural, political, technical, or fiscal in nature. This book helps you navigate past a wide range of potential pitfalls to ensure a largely problem-free BW implementation. Using a lessons-learned approach, the author highlights critical BW project-related issues from the start of an implementation to the end. Readers discover how to eliminate problems before they occur, by preparing for them from the outset. Learn about common BW mistakes, find out how to avoid them and understand how successful BW projects can be executed. Readers of this comprehensive reference get unparalleled advice to run your BW project efficiently, while circumventing major delays and common stumbling blocks. In addition, you'll benefit from the experience of others via sample documents such as review checklists, communications documents, and landscape and architecture documents. This book is highly valuable for those implementing BI NetWeaver 2004s (7.0) as well as 3.x. Highlights Include: Enterprise Data Warehousing Data Quality Scope Management Risk Analysis Data Modeling Transport Management Change Management ABAP Standards ..
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This practical reference introduces you to the BI Integrated Planning tool, an integral part of the SAP NetWeaver 2004s platform. Avoid spending countless hours researching the various options available in the BI Integrated Planning tool - as all the resources you need are right here in this convenient guide. Readers learn how best to configure, develop, and manage a planning application, plus much more. The authors take you on a journey, the goal of which is to make BI Integrated Planning for Finance more accessible. Real-world, practical examples help you learn vital concepts via a step-by-step, easy-to-understand approach. You'll quickly enhance your understanding of the importance of planning and then leverage that knowledge to build a complete financial planning application using SAP BI Integrated Planning. The highly-detailed examples help you develop a deeper understanding of the various features and allow you the opportunity to then reproduce them in your own environment, showing you firsthand how the BI Integrated Planning tool really works. Plus, readers also get expert guidance on the fundamentals of developing their own custom financial planning applications. Whether you're a functional analyst, a consultant, a business manager or a developer, this book goes beyond the basics to help you build world class planning applications in support of your organization's most important business processes. Highlights Include: SAP NetWeaver BI, up-to-date for SAP NetWeaver 2004s Insights on business planning concepts Exclusive techniques to maximize return on Investment (ROI) Expert advice to foster reliable business decision-making Critical details on SAP Financials.
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This book provides system architects, administrators, and IT managers with a description of the structure and usage scenarios of SAP NetWeaver MDM. It uses three comprehensive real-life examples to give you practical insights into the consolidation, harmonization, and central management of master data. In addition, you ll uncover the concepts and business-related requirements of master data management as well as best practices for integrating MDM in your Enterprise SOA. An entire chapter is devoted to describing the technical details - to their full extent. Plus, more than 130 pages are dedicated to an MDM compendium, complete with detailed answers to all of your most pressing questions on individual components, data extraction from SAP systems, options for integration with SAP XI, SAP NetWeaver BI, and the SAP Portal (including user management), as well as on workflows and the Java API. The book is based on the current SAP NetWeaver MDM 5.5 Release, but is also a valuable tool for those utilizing earlier versions. Highlights Include: Overview of MDM Master Data Management in Companies: Concepts and Requirements MDM as a Central Component of an Enterprise SOA: MDM in the Context of a Service-Oriented Architecture Sample Scenarios: Data Synchronization in Marketing, Identity Management, Mergers & Acquisitions MDM Technical Details: Components of MDM, Data Extraction, Integration, Workflows, Java API.
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