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SAP Enterprise portal 7.3 SAP library study notes

There are two usage types of SAP enterprise portal.

EPC or EP core - when full portal capabilities are not needed. This will have Portal and Universal Worklist.
EP - when full capabilities are needed. This will in addition have Knowledge management and collaboration.

SAP EP 7.3 provides Providing Unified Access to Applications and Processes. SAP EP 7.3 also provides web page composer which is used by business users  to create portal pages which is a composition of business custom generated content. Based on the business understandin a a business user has, he can create a portal page which he wants without involving a developer. SAP EP 7.3 also helps more in Building Communities with Wikis and Forums

SAP EP 7.3 provides Knowledge management services for managing the content within and outside the organization. Portal can be accessed from desktop and also from mobile devices. This feature is called portal on device. It can run on various operating systems like windows and UNIX  so it is platform independent. Portal supports many languages. It can be deployed in almost all the countries of the world. Clustering and caching mechanisms provide high performance and high availability. Using authentication, single sign-on, authorization, integrated user management, and secure communications, portal can provide secured access to confidential company information to its users.

Immediately after the portal has been installed, following tasks need to be perfomred :

  1. Configuration of functional units.
  2. Primary tasks.
  3. Secondary tasks

Security is one of the most important feature a SAP EP must have. This can be acheived by authorizations, secure network and communication, security on data storage, operating systems and trace and log files.

SAP EP consists of a open architechture. It is open to accept information from Web sites, groupware applications, legacy systems, enterprise applications, databases, and document directories.
If a company has both the usage types of portal ie EP core and EP installed in its landscape, it is possible to use applications running on EP Core to run on EP. This can be done using federated portal network.
 

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