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SAP BUSINESS PACKAGES
ENTERPRISEPORTAL
Complex, heterogeneous systems crowd the typical IT landscape,
and learning to master them takes time you don’t have.
An enterprise portal can cut through the complexity and unify
applications, information, and services from a single point of
access.
But to truly reap the most benefit from overall IT investment
with an enterprise portal, you need portal content that you can
put to immediate use. After all, an enterprise portal is only as
good as your ability to use it.
Unfortunately, many of today's portal platforms require considerable
post-implementation programming to develop the
content and functionality needed to realize true portal value.
This drains IT resources, frustrates users, and delays return on
investment.
SAP has developed an enterprise portal solution that eliminates
those problems. mySAP™ Enterprise Portal is a robust, industryleading
portal solution that comes with powerful business
packages – predefined, role-specific content that you can use
right out of the box. SAP business packages deliver an intuitive
user interface that brings together all the resources needed for
specific tasks, including internal and external information,
access to services, and access to transactions. The complexities
of transactions have erected an access barrier to business-critical
information and functionality, but SAP business packages tear
down that barrier and allow employees to access the information
they need to do their jobs more efficiently. This unique
combination of portal infrastructure and role-based portal content
offers integrated business processes, fast implementation,
and significant increases in productivity.
PREDEFINED PORTAL CONTENT
FROM THE BUSINESS PROCESS EXPERTS
mySAP Enterprise Portal is a people-centric approach to
mastering today’s heterogeneous IT environments. Based on
open standards, the portal works with both SAP and non-SAP
systems to bring together disparate applications, information,
and services through a single point of access. Its patented unification
technology enhances the portal user's experience with
unique Drag&Relate™ capabilities that simplify portal navigation.
And with integrated business intelligence, knowledge
management, and Web services, mySAP Enterprise Portal improves
collaboration, speeds informed decision making, and
boosts overall employee productivity.
SAP business packages are designed to plug into this powerful
portal platform. Delivering predefined portal content that
follows well-defined business processes, SAP business packages
consist of task-related collections of iViews – specialized portal
applications that users work with from within the portal.
iViews can be personalized at various levels. For example, you
can change the look and feel to match your corporate branding
or determine which iViews are displayed for particular user
roles. Individual users can even decide which iViews they want
to display and in which order.
Most important, by using these business packages, you benefit
from SAP’s unparalleled experience developing business processes
that follow time-tested industry best practices. Many
companies maintain dedicated application specialists trained to
navigate the complexities of underlying applications – SAP business
packages help companies bring transactional functionality
directly to the professionals who need it most. That reduces IT
overhead and increases employee productivity.
SAP breaks business packages into three broad user groups:
users, managers, and specialists.
Packages for Every User: Bonding Users to the Portal
Business packages for users include tasks that are common to
all portal users, regardless of their business area or role within
the enterprise. Tools include e-mail, task lists, calendars, travel
management, benefits management, e-learning, collaboration,
directory searches, and more. By familiarizing newcomers with
the portal environment, these tools extend the benefits of onestop
task processing to a broad base of enterprise employees and
partners. And because they make using the portal easy, these
business packages speed user acceptance and immediate ROI.
Packages for Managers: Boosting Effectiveness
with Sophisticated Decision Support
Business packages for managers provide key information and
analyses for effective decision making, as well as a comprehensive
set of tools for planning and managing staffs and budgets.
With these business packages, line managers, team leaders, and
project heads can drastically reduce the time they spent on
administrative tasks so they can focus their energies on the
strategic work that makes companies successful. Your managers
will be able to:
• Perform administrative duties quickly and easily
• Plan budgets and costs
• React to critical situations on an informed basis
• Plan, measure, and influence business outcomes
• Streamline processes
• Identify and reward top performers
• Initiate and monitor hiring processes
• Manage departmental cost exposure
Packages for Specialists:
Tailoring Content to the Needs of Professionals
Business packages for specialists focus on the needs of specific
professional roles within business areas, including finance, sales,
marketing, and manufacturing. By providing instant access
to task-oriented and role-based business data, these packages
deliver operational tools, ready-to-go analytical scenarios, and
alerts that notify specialists of important business developments
that require immediate attention. The bottom line is that specialists
get consistent, accurate, and up-to-date information
from a variety of sources – information that improves business
efficiency and helps them meet or beat existing deadlines.
A Vast Array of Business Packages
to Meet Your Business Needs
SAP has more than 60 business packages currently available
or under development. Leveraging open standards to integrate
with both SAP and third-party vendors, these business packages
fulfill a wide range of portal content requirements for a host
of business areas and industries. Some examples of business
packages include:
• Users and administrators
• Employee and manager self-service
• Enterprise-wide collaboration
• Assets, product, and project management
• Customer service management
• Strategic enterprise management
And SAP has developed additional business packages to leverage
and extend the value of SAP and non-SAP business intelligence
solutions. These business packages deliver sophisticated tools to
research business performance, analyze data, and access supplemental
information from outside sources.
With reports that provide comparisons, what-if scenarios, and
insightful trend analysis, these business packages help your business
professionals make truly informed decisions. Some of these
include business packages for:
• Sales analysis
• Customer credit management
• Inventory analysis
• Production analysis
• Procurement analysis
• Campaign management
• E-analytics
As part of its firm commitment to open standards, SAP has
developed business packages in conjunction with technology
partners, such as eRoom, WebEx, and Documentum. Still other
business packages utilize real-time Web content and Web services
from partners like Yahoo!. Together, these business packages integrate
third-party and SAP technology to deliver comprehensive
functionality across the entire IT landscape.
The iViewStudio
SAP's iViewStudio Web site (www.iviewstudio.com) hosts
the largest portal content catalogs available in the industry
today, providing a full listing of both SAP and certified partner
content, as well as information on upcoming releases. You
can browse the descriptions of content, download the business
packages themselves, and participate in technical discussions
hosted at the programmer-oriented DevZone. With sections
for both the Java and Microsoft .NET programming communities,
the DevZone reflects SAP’s commitment to supporting
both major technology standards. Partners can also register
online and learn about Portal Development Kit for Java™, which
provides tools and information for developing customized portal
content.
EXAMPLES OF SPECIFIC BUSINESS PACKAGES
Employee Self-Services: Reducing
Administrative Overhead and Costs
The business package for employee self-services helps streamline
administrative tasks common to large numbers of employees
within the organization. For example, where managing business
travel and the associated expense reports previously required
significant human resources, one of the areas within the business
package for employee self-service brings together diverse
sources of information, enabling employees themselves to:
• Plan flights
• Check flight status
• Access hotel descriptions
• Book rooms
• Get maps
• Create, submit, and monitor expense reports
Such functionality requires access to external systems (airline
reservations), external links (hotel information and access to
maps), and internal human resources systems. But the entire
process is completely transparent to users so they can easily
complete travel-related tasks in a way that increases employee
efficiency and vastly reduces administrative costs.
From Alert to Action: Flexible
Inventory Management on the Fly
SAP provides business packages for flexible inventory management
across the entire enterprise. With integrated alerts that
closely monitor back-end systems, specific users receive notification
of critical pieces of information that require prompt action.
A sales manager, for example, may be alerted to a drop in orders
from an important customer, whereas an inventory manager
might be alerted to low levels of inventory.
In response to such alerts, each user can investigate the problem
by drilling down into underlying systems to take the appropriate
action. For example, the inventory manager can investigate
which suppliers offer the needed stock items, examine the terms
and conditions for each supplier, and evaluate the company’s
previous experience with them. Based on this information, the
inventory manager can make an informed decision and place
the order – all from a single, Web-enabled point of access that
eliminates the need to navigate through multiple systems.
FAST IMPLEMENTATION, BUILT-IN BUSINESS
PROCESSES, AND A GREATER RETURN ON YOUR
PORTAL INVESTMENT
By leveraging open standards and integrating information
from any source, SAP business packages provide an exceptional
way to make the most of your portal investment. Offering fast
implementation and ready-to-go business processes, business
packages require a minimum of IT resources while delivering
out-of-the-box content that gets you up and running quickly
and easily.
SAP business packages improve mission-critical decision making,
increase employee productivity, and reduce the overall cost of
doing business. That helps you achieve a rapid portal ROI and
increases the value derived from your enterprise IT investment.
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