NWBC client - must or nice to have?

[vladimir_kogan4]

Dear Gurus.

What is the added value of NWBC installed on frontend PC?

Is it enough to open the URL like http://hostname:8000/sap /bc/nwbc and work in Internet Explorer?

Regards

Vladimir Kogan

[HuseyinBilgen · Accepted solution]

Hi Vladimir,

NWBC is not an alternative to SAPGUI, but another interface where you can put rich web applications next to the classic SAPGUI screens. The interface technology displayed within NWBC is the Webdynpro ABAP UI mostly (WEBGUI, BSP also works). In the newest versions of NWBC, you have option to put sidebar applications related to the transaction you're running.

AFAIk, this will be only possible with NWBC Windows Client, not with NWBC Web Client (The one works within IE as you mentioned).

Also you can intergrate it with Search providers and use the TAB feature in the latest version (NWBC 4.0) to open multi sessions within the same interface.

[vladimir_kogan4 · Accepted solution]

Thank you a lot for the answer.

We are going to implement ESS/MSS using WDA in ECC 6 EHP5.

So the question we are asking  if it is necessary to install NWPC to all employees desktops.

As I see the embedded NWBC client is 3. Is it possible to upgrade the embedded NWBC client to the higher versions?

Thank you  again

Vladimir

[HuseyinBilgen · Accepted solution]

Do you have an SAP Portal within environment?

[vladimir_kogan4 · Accepted solution]

No.

[HuseyinBilgen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The NWBC 3.5 is availabe as of NetWeaver 7.03 AFAIK.

[fredrik_borlie]

Vladimir.

NWBC must or not is depending on your solutions.

There are some solutions that today requires NWBC to work properly.

For instance there is a cockpit transaction in SCM that requires NWBC to work properly. However you can use the HTML version if you want. But then you don't get access to the SAP gui transaction screens when needed.

So, you should revise your UI strategy and see whether your user wants the fast SAP gui or can live with the little slower web gui transactions.

As I understand from SAPs presentation SAP Gui as a standalone UI is no longer used. SAP GUi is part of the NWBC-UI. Meaning you should install both the Gui and Business client on the users desktops.