SAP NetWeaver Portal OnDevice - Consuming your SAP NetWeaver Portal On Mobile Devices

SAP NetWeaver Portal On Device
Including SAP NetWeaver 7.3 SP7 SP8 Enhancements

Aviad Rivlin, Product Manager, SAP Technology and Innovation Platform
October 2012

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Agenda

Overview

Detailed Offering

Implementation Overview

Roadmap & Timelines


Mobile Enablement of the SAP NetWeaver Portal
Consume portal services from everywhere

 Easily expose already available portal assets and services to
mobile users via online, browser-based access channel
 Leverage an optimized portal user experience on mobile devices
via mobile framework pages and portal services
 Re-use or tweak the UI of dedicated business applications for mobile
consumption and access via the portal


Same Content Different Devices
Desktop – Tablet – Smartphone

SAP NetWeaver Portal – Consumption Across Devices


Must Know About Portal On Device

 Portal On Device is not a new product, it is an extension for
the existing SAP NetWeaver Portal offering

 … supports only an always connected scenario

 … best for lightweight applications

 … is a web based offering, supporting multi-platform apps.

 … best for integration of structured and un-structured
content

 … can run on any NetWeaver operating system

 … is based on a robust, scalable and mature platform

 … re-uses the SAP NetWeaver Portal investment


How Does SAP NetWeaver Portal On Device work?

/irj/portal/mobile*
Rule
Collection

1 2 3
Framework 1 Framework 2 Framework 3

SAP NetWeaver 7.30 SP7 (Smartphones) - SP8 (Tablets) Administration
SSO

SSO

SSO

LDAP

* This is a schematic example of the solution and not a technical explanation
* Framework page redirection can be achieved via portal aliases or automatically by identifying the useragent


Smartphone Framework Page – Components
Details

Homepage(s) – The Home page is the entry page
for your portal on the mobile device. The home
page displays one or more running applications in a
single column. You can define more than one home
page, for different contexts, and page between
these pages. Content area

Content area – The area on the screen where the
applications are displayed for the end user.

Home Page(s)


Details

Launcher – The Launcher contains applications
you can launch and folders you can access, Actions
arranged in a grid layout. You can assign custom
icons to the applications and folders. Launcher

Toolbox – The toolbox area is a side panel
aggregator used for commonly used widgets like
Toolbox
favorites, generic launchers and other widgets.

Actions and actions bar– The actions bar
provides the end users options to log off, refresh
the page and add the current page to his favorites’
area. The actions bar is not extensible with more
widgets. Additional widgets can be added to the
toolbox.


Details

Search – You can use the suggestions and search
bar to type a string and display navigation
suggestions as you type, according to your roles.
When you navigate to a suggested item, it is Search
displayed either in the portal content area or in a
new portal window, depending on the way the item
is configured. You can also use the suggestions
and search bar to search for a string using a
specific search provider.


Re-using of Portal Objects & Services

 User/Group profile
(Roles, iViews, Users)

 Unstructured Content
(Document)

 Authentication & Security
(Single sign on, Session management)

 Internationalization
(Translation)

 Branding
(Look & Feel customization)

 Scalability & Maintainability
(Cluster support, update/upgrade services)

 Application Delivery
(Web applications management, Enterprise standards)

 Connectivity and System Landscape
(SAP & Non-SAP connectivity capabilities to backend systems
and repositories)


Content Consumption

Business Applications Unstructured Content
 Portal Applications  SAP KM Document
access
 Web applications
 OpenText Document
 URL based applications Access*

 Native Applications*  Web Page Composer
Content

Reports Others
 Web based reports  Enterprise Workspaces
 Native applications  Non-SAP content
accessing BIBO reports

* Planned enhancement

Structured & Unstructured – SAP & Non-SAP


Tablet Framework Page

New out-of-the-box fully
supported framework page
designed for tablet devices.

This new framework page is
complementary for the
smartphone framework page
already available with SAP
NetWeaver Portal 7.3 SP7.


SAP NetWeaver Gateway Services Consumption

Create a Project Select GW Server
Enhancing existing portal
applications by integrating with
external data sources of SAP
NetWeaver Gateway. The
integration is implemented by
generating Java proxies to SAP
NetWeaver Gateway services.

A dedicated NetWeaver Developer
Studio Plugin for consuming SAP Generate Proxies Select Service
NetWeaver Gateway oData
services via a dedicated wizard.


Toolbox Area

The toolbox area is a side
panel aggregator used for Toolbox
commonly used widgets like
favorites, generic launchers
and other widgets.

The toolbox area is available
for both smartphones and
tablet devices.
Toolbox


Out-of-the-box Mobile Configurations

To minimize the configuration efforts, the following
out-of-the-box configurations are provided:
 An Every User Mobile Role
 Desktop display rules for device types
Smartphone and Tablet are defined in the
Master Rule Collection
 Enhanced logon pages for on-device usage


Consumption of Web Page Composer Content

Consumption of Web Page Composer
pages on mobile devices.

When creating a Web Page composer
page, the list of page layouts now
includes the portal on device layouts
for smartphone and tablet devices.


Implementation
One time configuration

•Define a URL alias to access the mobile framework page (e.g. irj/portal/mobile)
Portal Alias •This task is done via the new URL alias manager wizard

•Define the supported / un-suppored devices to access the portal
Supported Devices •This task is done via the Device Group Manager wizard
•This wizard allows you to group certain OS’s, user-agents, etc.

•Adjust the rule collection to access the smartphone framework page per
Rule Collection device group

•Develop, deploy and configure mobile search providers
•To ensure content availability on mobiledesktopboth framework pages, set
Search Providers the correct filter ID’s for each search provider
•Mobile KM search provider is available out-of-the-box

•Create one or more roles holding the mobile portal iViewsapps.
Mobile roles •Assign the roles to the end users groups


Implementation
Content Settings (setting for each iViewapp)

•Create an iView for each mobile portal apps (the apps can be running locally
Mobile iViews on remotely)

•Set the mobile filter ID for each iViewfolder – to make the mobile iViews
Filter ID available on the mobile devices only

•Set the mobile perspective property for each iViewfolder
•Home – available as home pages
Mobile Perspective •Launcher – available in the launcher area
•Toolbox - available in the toolbox area

Mobile iView icon •Set the mobile icon URI for each mobile iView

Add the iView to the •Add the mobile iView to the relevant rolefolderworkset
mobile role


Portal On Device Content Settings
Basic settings

Folder settings:
 Entry Point: Yes
 Filter ID: Mobile
 Mobile Perspective: Launcher

iViewpage settings:
 Entry Point: Yes
 Filter ID: Mobile iView settings:
 Mobile Perspective: Home  Entry Point: Yes
 Filter ID: Mobile
 Mobile Perspective: Launcher

* “Mobile” filter ID is an example for the Filter ID used for the relevant mobile framework page


Supported and Validated Platforms

Operating System Browser
Tablets
iPad iOS5 + Safari
Android Honeycomb (R3) Android browser
Galaxy Tab Android IceCream Sandwich (R4+) Chrome, Android browser
Surface* Windows 8 IE

Smartphones
iPhone iOS5 + Safari
Galaxy Android IceCream Sandwich (R4+) Chrome, Android browser
Windows IE
Windows 8
phone*

*Validated and confirmed, but not officially supported yet
**Check SAP Note 1705067 for more details


Timelines

 Out-of-the-box framework
page designed for
smartphone devices
 Dedicated administration
wizards to define mobile
SAP NetWeaver navigation structure and SAP NetWeaver
mobile device access
7.30 SP5 7.30 SP8

 Enable all portal services SAP NetWeaver  Out-of-the-box framework
(navigation, search, page designed for tablet
favorites,…) as public API’s 7.30 SP7 devices
 Framework page code  Enhanced branding
sample on SCN capabilities
 SAP NetWeaver Gateway
Services Consumption
 More…


Planned Innovation

 Tight integration with Enterprise Workspaces – Mobile
Homepage
 Notifications and Feeds aggregation in mobile profile
 Worklists and Tasks consumption
 Integrations with:
 Afaria - Native applications invoking
 Gateway – development environment integration II (Client side
consumption)
 Visual Composer – Allow quick mobile business Apps generation
based on visual composer’s models
 Usability and productivity enhancements
 SAPUI5 integration - allow easy Portal mobile apps development with
UI5
 SAPUI5 as infra – Provide UI5 based framework page
 REST / oData enablement of core portal services
 Additional services enablement
 Integrate with Social oriented Services (User Profile, People,
Relations, etc.)


Key Takeaway

 Portal On Device aggregates, displays and
launches mobile web applications while
leveraging the existing SAP NetWeaver
Portal infrastructure and capabilities.

 Portal On Device combined with the upcoming
release of Mobile Homepage of Enterprise
Workspaces provides an easy entry point into
mobilizing your business.


Further Information
Check the various resources for additional, valuable information and demos

Official Documentation
 Implementing Portal on Device
 SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.3 SP7 release notes
 SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.3 SP8 release notes

Blogs
 Consuming Your SAP NetWeaver Portal On Different Devices – Introduction
 How to Consume Your SAP NetWeaver Portal on Different Devices – The
End User Perspective
 SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.3 SP8 release update

Recorded Demos
 SAP NetWeaver Portal On Smartphone
 SAP NetWeaver Portal On Tablet
 Consuming SAP NetWeaver Gateway Services

Central SAP Note – 1705067

Release Plan
 SAP NetWeaver 7.3 SP7 and SP8 (enhancements as appear in the release notes)
 SAP NetWeaver 7.31 SP4 and SP5 (enhancements as appear in the release notes)


Thank You!

Aviad Rivlin
Product Management, SAP Technology and Innovation Platform
15 Hatidhar St.
Ra'anana 43665, Israel
+972-9-7775251

E-mail: aviad.rivlin@sap.com twitter: http://twitter.com/AviadRivlin LinkedIn: http://il.linkedin.com/in/AviadRivlin

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