Governance To Discover For SAP

SAP will have to address potential conflicts of interest between its partners and its own ambitions. Asked about possible differences between players in the market and SAP, on the occasion of a new version could literally wiped off the map all the partners who offer a process covered by the basic package, the head is reassuring: We think in fact in this case, For example we might offer our partners a new commitment to 12 months forcing us not to launch the process directly competing offers. This is a point still under consideration.

The next update of SAP ByDesign, version 2.5, is expected in the third quarter of 2009. It will be the first to benefit from a global launch. However, it must wait until 2010 to witness the launch of the bid cloud of SAP.

Managing Permissions Roles To The SAP Users

Managing permissions in SAP NetWeaver BI can restrict user access. These limitations apply to both the possible actions (or launch a state change, etc.), functional domains available (represented by cubes), and the scope of analysis (such society, country, etc.).

In general, the assignment of permissions to users is not direct but passes through objects called "Roles". Indeed, a role for combining users, permissions and menus. It is often too complex to assign and track users directly with permissions because the number of combinations to process and lack of user-friendly graphical interface.

Thus, the role will bring together a set of users with the same need analysis, a user can belong to multiple roles. A user assigned to a role can run the state and access to performance indicators.

The Management Organization:

A solution exists yet in SAP NetWeaver BI, to assign positions and not users. This feature allows you to manage a hierarchy of positions and assign users to those positions, according to the reporting period. This management can be supported by human resources in ERP, and duplicated in all systems, or run directly into BW.

Positions are assigned to roles and not directly to users. A change in position does not require changing the allocations to authorities: the user automatically inherits the permissions associated with his position.

From a technical standpoint, the tree management positions and organizations can be achieved by the transaction PPOCW. The positions are then assigned to roles in the transaction PFCG (for extended), in the "User" button and "Organizational Mgt". The assignment of the user's position is performed by the transaction SU01.

The Security Risks Factors:

This system provides general satisfaction because it simplifies the assignment in the original draft. However, it has a major drawback: it merges the individual and the position it occupies in the organization. Maintenance requires translating the actual position of the user roles to provide the necessary permissions.

However, permission management is rarely managed by human resources, but directly between business and IT services. This produces long-term some complexity in the permissions, or a lack of visibility and gaps for authorization. A recent study moreover demonstrated that among the risks in poorly managed companies are primarily the fault of security.

The Integration Of SAP NetWeaver BI and Business Objects

This part is designed for SAP customers wishing to make and distribute their reporting on the data stored in SAP solutions using BusinessObjects tools. The main potential of this integration are,

Return of SAP NetWeaver BI data:

1. Crystal Report:

Crystal Reports is the tool of choice for layouts graphics. In its latest version can even embed Flash documents (.swf) which allows the integration of files built in Xcelcius.

Given the historical links between Crystal and SAP NetWeaver BI, Crystal is the best tool integrated. The integration kit gives it a toolbar similar to that of the Bex Analyzer. SAP users find the same interface for the selection of their applications (bookmarks, history, role and infoarea).

Integration is made possible by the direct use of BW queries in the body of the state.

2. Universe Designer:

The Universe Soundtrack trades are views of the database where certain filters, rules management and permissions are predefined manner transparent to end users. They use these Universe data source for analysis from other reporting tools.

The integration kit can quickly convert a query or a cube in BW Universe. The recommendation is to use queries in source so enjoy browsing capabilities (attribute, calculated ratios, variables) and performance optimization of queries.

The universe can be used by both Web Intelligence, Crystal Xcelsius, or (via a web service).

3. Web Intelligence:

Web Intelligence is the Universe Soundtrack available to users. Accessible from the Web Portal for Business Objects (called Infoview), it allows users to choose their data self-service in a friendly environment. After selecting the universe, the user can format, apply filters, add graphics, etc..

In case integration with BW through the use of the universe based on BW.

4. Xcelsius:

Xcelsius allows you to create dashboards with a good graphics rendering from a source of data imported into an Excel internal Xcelsius. This tool is based on Flash and Flex technology from Adobe. Simply place objects (tables, graphs, Selectors, Gauges, Sliders, cards ...) and associated data from the Excel sheet. It is possible to make objects interact with each other.

The feeding data through a Web Service from such a universe based on a BW query, or LiveOffice. The Web service is generated by the tool "Query as a Web Service".

SAP NW Resumes All Technologies

SAP NetWeaver resume all technologies and strategies:

• Business Services - (Pre-packaged, Business Packages, Web ...)
• Standards and open technology - (industry standards, interoperability, industry standard ...)
• ABAP and JAVA technologies - (SAP kernel, portal, eCommerce, services and developments)
• Security - (Identity, authorization, encryption, SSO, Network Security ...)
• Internationalization - (multilingual adaptation process to the country, legal obligations ...)
• Interoperability with market tools - (Microsoft. NET, IBM WebSphere ...)
• Monitoring and Diagnostics environments - (BI Solution Manager and Alerting, Monitoring ...)

This unique platform for application integration to unify and to exploit synergies between people, processes, information (structured and unstructured) and ensures a better infrastructure management SAP share the same base (MySAP Business Suite, SAP CRM, SAP SRM, SAP ECC ...).

SAP NetWeaver Offers

SAP NetWeaver is the technical platform upon which is common to all of the applications offer SAP Business Suite. It includes an offer of Process Integration EAI / ESB (SAP PI), an offer of Business Intelligence (SAP BI ), offers a Master Data Management (SAP MDM) offers a portal (SAP EP) and offering mobility. This base is open to industry standards and delivers SAP solutions to be interoperable with other environments and technical applications (eg: Microsoft. NET, Sun Java EE, IBM WebSphere, Oracle / BEA).

• Finally, SAP Netweaver provides enterprises a robust and stable foundation for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) by providing a particular integrated development environment for building composite applications.

SAP NetWeaver

SAP NetWeaver is a web application platform and open integration that companies can use to align business processes and enterprise information across all services. This platform is based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and uses open standards to allow integration of information from virtually from any source. While this solution provides a solid platform to align IT infrastructure with corporate goals, environments around the world may have poor performance over the WAN.

SAP appliances have been certified as SAP integration and can accelerate their applications running on SAP NetWeaver WAN. SAP can help companies looking to the future seeking to adopt an SOA. SAP NetWeaver actually help such companies to achieve their goal of scalability while significantly reducing the time required to perform the task of SAP.

The deployment of SAP solutions in SAP environments can cause response time of under two to ten times faster. Given that more and more SAP environments operate a web service or SOA using SAP NetWeaver, SAP NetWeaver can offer significant benefits for traffic XML, HTTP and HTTPS. SAP NetWeaver has also granted the status of SAP certified integration. SAP has integrated the their appliances in the laboratory of co-innovation (COIL) and tested the SAP technology to prove interoperability with its products.

SAP NetWeaver Portal

SAP NetWeaver Portal collects, processes and applications important to enable users to access specific role and central to all information and all relevant services. All information in one glance, centralized access to all enterprise applications. Thus NetWeaver contributes significantly to increase efficiency and productivity across the enterprise as a whole.

SAP Integration Is Made Easy Using SAS

All users of SAP ERP, and the platform SAP NetWeaver in particular, can therefore rely on business intelligence solutions from SAS to make their data not only SAP but also other data sources (software, legacy applications ,...). SAS (R) 9.1 also offers advanced analytic functions (statistics, data mining and forecasting) and allows to retrieve very large volumes of data efficiently. In addition, SAS (R) 9.1 includes features extensive processing of data quality, including real-time, thanks to its offer SAS (R) Data Quality Solution.

This close integration is possible through access solutions available with the SAP platform SAS (R). On the one hand, SAS (R) Data Surveyor for SAP provides access to all data from SAP. On the other hand, the five options, the SAS (R) Solutions Adapters allow trades SAS solutions to access data in SAP préparamétrée: SAS (R) Human Capital Management for management of human resources, SAS (R ) Finance Management) for the financial reporting, SAS (R) Activity Based Costing / Activity Based Management for piloting activities, SAS (R) Supplier Relationship Management for managing the procurement function, SAS (R) Information Technology Management for information technology.

All these offerings based on SAP and protocols comply with the safety standards of access for SAP.

About SAS www.sas.com / canada

SAS is the leading global decision support with a turnover of 1.68 billion dollars in 2005. SAS is the only publisher in the market which offers a platform for business decision-making open and integrated.

SAS solutions cover all activities of the company: human resources, finance, marketing, sales, purchasing, risk management of information systems. Beyond functional issues, they respond to specific business sectors such as telecommunications, distribution, banking, insurance, pharmaceuticals, public sector services. They help to optimize the organization and costs, income growth and help to implement an effective performance management of the company.

SAP Popularity Around the World

More than 3,000 organizations have chosen to use SAP NetWeaver Process Integration as middleware (SOA, Service Oriented Architecture) and business integration to improve the inter-application (A2A, application-to-application) and inter-enterprise (B2B, business-to-business) via a network of exchange. This offer includes an Enterprise Service Repository (repository of business services), bus services, business templates and predefined integration adapters and application techniques for the integration process from end to end. SAP NetWeaver PI goes beyond a purely technological focus and offers models of B2B integration as predefined integration scenarios, components of processes, descriptions of interface, the international data formats, etc.. This allows customers to focus on the results of business integration and reduce their total cost of ownership.