Presentation at the Mastering SAP Technologies conference in Sydney 2010.

2. SAP/Microsoft Technical Interoperability Tutorial Kristian Kalsing - Extend Technologies

3. What I’ll Cover Introduction and Overview Why SAP/Microsoft interoperability? What is possible with SAP/Microsoft solutions? How to realise SAP/Microsoft solutions? Key points to Take Home Questions

4. Reach – Agility – Adoption Mobile Applications Services Web Applications EnterpriseData Other UI Platforms Smart Clients Office Applications SharePoint

5. Two Worlds – People and Process Unstructured Estimate custom design Validate specs with Tech Sales Get specs from customer Approve proposed response Assemble proposed response Decide discount strategy Cost out the solution Complete Sale Create Invoice Create Oppt’y Create Quote Create Lead Qualified? Closed? Retire Lead CRM ERP Structured

6. What Examples of surfacing SAP through Microsoft UIs .NET Application Commodity Management Windows Mobile Asset Management Excel Data Management SharePoint Federated Search and Enterprise Collaboration

7. .NET Application: Commodity Management Consolidate SAP screensto simplify business processes

8. Windows Mobile: Asset Management Enable the mobile workforce

9. Excel: Data Management DEMO Reduce cost of SAP data management

10. SharePoint: Search and Collaboration DEMO Bring SAP to the broader user base

11. How CONSUME Portal Devices Web 2.0 Office COMPOSE EXPOSE ERP Data Legacy Partners Custom

12. SOA: SAP & Microsoft Technologies .NET Apps WindowsMobile Office SharePoint Consume Human Workflow: SharePoint, K2, Nintex, etc. WCF Services Microsoft BizTalk SAP XI/PI WCFAdapter Compose Ent Services Web Services BAPIs/RFCs IDocs Expose SAP

13. Interoperability Tools SAP Connector for .NET Discontinued SAP Enterprise Services Explorer for .NET Requires Enterprise Services Repository (ESR) BizTalk LOB Adapter for SAP Can be used without BizTalk Duet Enterprise Foundation

14. Third-Party Products Sitrion (http://sitrion.com/) Development tools and templates for Visual Studio Winshuttle (http://winshuttle.com/) Data management with Excel, Access and SharePoint Theobald (http://theobald-software.com) Replacement for the SAP Connector for .NET ERP-Link (http://erp-link.com/) .NET interoperability platform for SAP Stone Bond (http://stonebond.com/) .NET-based integration framework Simplement(http://www.simplement.us/) Data replication for enabling Microsoft BI tools

15. SAP Connector for .NET

16. SAP Enterprise Services Explorer for .NET

17. BizTalk LOB Adapter for SAP Supports execution of BAPIs, RFCs and IDocs Certified for SAP NetWeaver Can be used without BizTalk Security: SSO and SNC

18. Duet Enterprise Pre-Packaged Business Scenarios Foundation and Tools

19. Duet Enterprise Architecture Microsoft Environment SAP Environment Clients NetWeaver 7.02 SharePoint 2010 Duet EnterpriseSAP Add-on Duet EnterpriseSharePoint Add-on SAPBusinessSuite Application andTemplate Services Application andTemplate Services Administrationand Monitoring ApplicationBuilding Blocks User ManagementServices Runtime Services

20. Interoperability-in-a-Box Security Authentication and single sign-on (SSO) Management of user mappings SAP roles-based authorisation of SharePoint objects Administration and Supportability Scalability and availability by standard SAP and Microsoft mechanisms Upgrade and patching mechanism for Duet Enterprise add-ons Leveraging existing monitoring tools from SAP and Microsoft End-to-end (cross system) tracing and troubleshooting Templates and Building Blocks SharePoint External Content Types representing SAP objects

21. Foundation Capabilities Enterprise Collaboration Create collaboration sites with 360 degree views of SAP business data Contextual Workflow Extend SAP workflows within SharePoint to cover the unstructured part of core business processes Duet Enterprise Profile Expand the standard SharePoint user profiles (My Sites) with HR data coming from SAP Federated Search Provide one single interface for searching for both collaborative content in SharePoint and business data in SAP Duet Enterprise Reporting Deliver SAP reports in either SharePoint or Outlook

23. Solve security and single sign-on (SSO)

24. Do not underestimate service composition efforts

25. Encourage collaboration between technology practices

26. Take a holistic view of business processes

27. Adopt a “best of both” approach

29. Realise returns on existing investments by extending the reach of SAP to an environment users are already comfortable in.

30. What

31. Surface SAP data and transactions in Microsoft UI platforms including .NET Applications, Windows Mobile, Office and SharePoint.

32. How