External Facing Portal or Exposing Internal Portal to the Outside

[Former Member]

I have read, too numerous to mention, information on implementing an external facing portal. It is a nice set of features and I can see the benefits of using it to minimize the infrastructure (sharing for the internal portal and external website). What I am trying to determine is do I need the extra hardware (documentation shows Customer Portal in Inner DMZ and Corporate Portal in a High Security Area, hence extra firewall separation) and configuration to just expose my corporate portal to my external salesforce and selected B2B Partners?

I want to be able to access order information in my SAP system (order history, order status, place a re-order). Actions that currently are done in SAP via CSRs using the client on their desktop. I want to expose this data over the web for employees (and certain business partners) who are not on our network.

What is the best way?

[Former Member]

OK. If the best way does not exist, then which would be the better way? This cannot be the first time this situation has arisen?

[Former Member]

Hi,

We don't know your rules...

In my company I had to chain an Apache Reverse proxy in a first DMZ and then a SAP Web Dispatcher in a second DMZ before accessing the SAP back office system.

This is not a good or better way: it was our security regulations...

Regards,

Olivier

[Former Member]

Hi,

>What is the best way?

The best way does not exist. It all depends from your company specific needs and security rules which we can't know...

Regards,

Olivier