Duet Enterprise Solution Brief

1. SAP – Microsoft Solution Brief
Duet Enterprise DUET® ENTERPRISE
CONSUME AND EXTEND
SAP ® APPLICATIONS WITH
MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT
Duet® Enterprise for
Microsoft SharePoint When it comes to enterprise SAP® applications. Duet Enterprise
business systems, the fundamental combines the collaboration
and SAP, a product goals of business units and the and productivity supported by
developed jointly by SAP IT organization are not always Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft
and Microsoft, helps IT in alignment. For business units, Office with the business data and
the priority is responding to processing functionality of SAP®
serve the business more ever-changing market conditions applications. As a result, this allows
effectively and helps while driving continued growth. business users to create a unified
To support these efforts, business enterprise view of the data and
boost users’ productivity.
users need intuitive, ready access tasks they need to increase their
The software enables to information and the ability to personal and team productivity. At
interoperability between work collaboratively and efficiently the same time, the IT team can use
with teams across and outside the this software to more effectively
SAP® applications and
organization. serve the business and support
Microsoft SharePoint and increased agility. What’s more, Duet
Microsoft Office. On the other hand, IT organizations Enterprise helps IT realize extended
tend to focus on managing system value by broadening the use of
cost and complexity, ensuring SAP applications throughout the
that business systems can be enterprise and expanding the scope
maintained efficiently and remain of Microsoft SharePoint.
secure. Yet simply managing these
issues is not enough. To support Serving the Business with
business growth, it is imperative Increased Speed and Agility
that technology solutions enable
the business in a timely, agile, and By enabling the interoperability
effective way. To meet this need, between SAP applications and
IT is required to deploy systems and Microsoft SharePoint and
that support flexible, innovative Microsoft Office, Duet Enterprise
solutions while scaling to meet helps bridge the gap between the
dynamic business needs. requirements of business users and
the functionality that IT delivers.
To help business units and the IT
organization address their goals, The software offers three types of
SAP and Microsoft offer Duet® functionality that help you consume
Enterprise.. A product developed and extend SAP applications
jointly by the two companies, Duet through Microsoft SharePoint (see
Enterprise lets people use Microsoft figure).
SharePoint 2010 together with
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2. single sign-on – Enable users SharePoint user interface templates.
to automatically connect to The business content helps harmonize
SAP software while preserving the user experience, enabling quick
authorization definitions. These solution composition by allowing users
features also help SAP and Microsoft to reuse existing content rather than
software share information about user starting development from scratch.
credentials, access rights, and roles.
• System and lifecycle management
tools – Let administrators manage Duet Enterprise,
SAP and Microsoft software and
maintain an optimized IT landscape
jointly developed by
• Application lifecycle support – SAP and Microsoft,
Enables support for the full cycle of empowers employees
deployed solutions using standard
SAP and Microsoft SharePoint tools
to work with and extend
• Support and monitoring features SAP processing and
– Support tracing of a message data from Microsoft
throughout its communication path
using standard Microsoft and SAP SharePoint and
monitoring and support tools Microsoft Office to
• Offline support – Lets users access
extract more value
information retrieved from SAP
applications when they are using from SAP and Microsoft
Foundation for
Interoperability
Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft Office investments.
and are disconnected from the network
Duet Enterprise provides an industry-
standard foundation that enables
Composition Tools and Ready-to-Use Capabilities
technical interoperability between SAP
Business Content Duet Enterprise offers ready-to-
applications and Microsoft SharePoint.
Duet Enterprise includes tools and use capabilities that can help you
This built-in functionality is provided
business content that let your team extend critical data and actions
by add-on modules to Microsoft
accelerate the development of available through your SAP software
SharePoint and the SAP NetWeaver®
composite applications for Microsoft to Microsoft SharePoint users –
technology platform. The add-on
SharePoint and SAP software. without additional development
for Microsoft SharePoint enables
effort. These capabilities let users
connectivity to SAP applications,
You can use SAP tools to adapt and collaborate in workspaces containing
as well as the integrated security,
combine services, develop custom SAP information, participate in SAP
authorization, and data models that
business logic, and modify existing software workflows, and access reports
allow Duet Enterprise to consume SAP
fields or add new ones. You can use generated by SAP BW or SAP ERP..
enterprise services within Microsoft
Microsoft SharePoint Designer to Users can also access information
SharePoint. The service consumption
create external lists and document stored in the SAP ERP Human
layer, which is an add-on module to
libraries and design views and forms. Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM)
SAP NetWeaver, allows streamlined
You can also use Microsoft Visual solution and use Duet Enterprise
access to SAP data models. Duet
Studio to modify Microsoft SharePoint sites, leveraging Microsoft SharePoint
Enterprise also offers the following
Designer solutions and create custom sites, to interact with specified
interoperability features:
user experiences and data integrations. default business content from SAP
applications. The ready-to-use features
• Administration functionality
Duet Enterprise offers preconfigured are similar to templates in that they
– Helps you configure SAP and
business content, including SAP deliver most of the functionality you
Microsoft applications to work
enterprise services and Microsoft need, letting you customize only the
together and then maintain them
SharePoint external lists and templates, portion you need to quickly enable
• Security features, such as
and it provides a set of Microsoft business-specific solutions. Duet
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3. Enterprise offers the following ready- from the SAP ERP application. Duet you can use your existing IT
to-use functionality. Enterprise makes this data available infrastructure, and administrators
in Microsoft SharePoint as a Microsoft and business users can use the new
SharePoint site. The software filters any software with their existing skill sets,
Duet Enterprise allows data presented in this way based on you can gain additional value from
business users to create user authorization and roles defined in previous investments in technology
the SAP software. and training.
a unified enterprise view • Reduced time to value: Using
of the data and tasks Duet Profile available solutions, those you develop
they need to increase You can use Duet Enterprise to extend using Duet Enterprise tools, or
user profile information from SAP ERP solutions offered by SAP or Microsoft
their personal and team HCM into the Microsoft SharePoint partners, you can realize the value
productivity. “MySite” profile functionality. Users of consuming and extending your
can search for and collaborate with SAP applications through Microsoft
colleagues based on their Microsoft SharePoint even faster.
Collaborative Workspaces SharePoint and SAP ERP HCM profiles.
This feature helps you create
collaborative workspaces that present Reporting
information from SAP applications With Duet Enterprise, users can
to users of Microsoft SharePoint and schedule reports or run them on
Microsoft Office. The collaboration an ad hoc basis through Microsoft
workspace in Microsoft SharePoint SharePoint. Users can select reports
lets users work together and from a catalog available in Microsoft
collaborate around a specific topic SharePoint, and they can personalize
with the relevant information from reports using specific parameters.
SAP applications. Users can employ Reports requested in Microsoft
predefined templates to create SharePoint are generated by the
collaboration sites on an ad hoc basis. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse
component or by SAP ERP.
Contextual Workflow
This feature lets users address workflow Bridge the Gap Between IT
approval requests generated by SAP and Business
applicaitons in their Microsoft Outlook Using Duet Enterprise, you can realize
inbox or in their Microsoft SharePoint the following benefits:
Duet Enterprise
task folder. With this functionality, helps you bridge
users can explore rich contextual • Greater agility to meet dynamic the gap between
information sources, approve requests business requirements. Duet
using e-mail or a Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise can help you address the
the requirements of
task, and monitor and manage needs of your business units and business users and
workflows as part of their Microsoft users in a timely, effective manner. the functionality
SharePoint or Microsoft Office tasks. Administrators or skilled business
In addition, users can start ad hoc users can compose solutions quickly that IT can deliver.
Microsoft SharePoint workflows or to meet changing business needs.
collaborate based on a Microsoft • Enhanced user productivity. Duet
SharePoint workflow task. Enterprise helps empower employees Find Out More
with solutions that improve For more information on Duet
Duet Enterprise Sites individual and team productivity. Enterprise, contact your Microsoft
With Duet Enterprise sites, users can Blended processes and collaborative representative or visit us online at
interact with selected content from work efforts enhance user efficiency. www.microsoft.com/duet.
SAP applications, such as customer, • Maximized business value from
quotation, or product information existing IT investments. Because
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4. QUICK FACTS
Summary
To help both business units and IT organizations address their goals, SAP
and Microsoft offer Duet® Enterprise . A product jointly developed by SAP
and Microsoft, Duet Enterprise combines the collaboration and productivity
supported by Microsoft SharePoint with the business data and business
processing functionality of SAP applications.
Business Challenges
• Help business units react to dynamic market conditions while driving growth
• Deliver business systems that are simple and intuitive to use, help enhance
productivity, accelerate the flow of information, and support flexible,
innovative solutions
• Enable IT to support business requests in a timely, agile, and effective way
• Provide ready access to business data as well as the ability to work This document is provided “as-is”. Information and
views expressed in this document, including URL
collaboratively and other Internet Web site references, may change
• Ensure that business systems can be maintained efficiently and remain secure without notice. You bear the risk of using it.
Some examples depicted herein are provided for il-
Key Features lustration only and are fictitious. No real association
or connection is intended or should be inferred.
• Foundation for interoperability – Consume SAP enterprise services within
Microsoft SharePoint with prebuilt interoperability that enables connectivity, This document does not provide you with any legal
rights to any intellectual property in any Microsoft
integrated security, and authorization product. You may copy and use this document for
• Composition tools and business content – Quickly compose solutions in your internal, reference purposes. You may modify
this document for your internal, reference purposes.
SAP applications and Microsoft SharePoint by blending data and processes This document is confidential and proprietary to
Microsoft. It is disclosed and can be used only
supported by SAP software with content and collaboration features from pursuant to a non-disclosure agreement.
Microsoft SharePoint
©2010 Microsoft Corporation and SAP. All rights
• Ready-to-use Capability – Extend critical data and actions available reserved.
through SAP software to Microsoft SharePoint users – without any additional
This article is pre-release documentation and is
development effort subject to change in future releases.
Duet Enterprise is a new jointly developed product
Business Benefits from SAP and Microsoft that enables interoper-
• Greater agility to meet business requirements through the ability to quickly ability between SAP applications and Microsoft
SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition. Duet
compose solutions that meet changing business needs Enterprise empowers employees to consume and
extend SAP processes and information from within
• Enhanced user productivity by supporting blended processes and SharePoint Server and Microsoft Office 2010 client
collaborative work efforts applications.
• Maximized business value from existing IT investments by using the This article helps SharePoint and SAP administrators
existing IT infrastructure to increase the reach of enterprise applications to and system architects understand the Duet Enter-
prise architecture, the ready-to-use capabilities
more users and how SAP information is surfaced in SharePoint
• Reduced time to value thanks to available solutions, those you develop, or Server and Office applications, and how authentica-
tion works. A high level overview of monitoring and
those you purchase from SAP or Microsoft partners troubleshooting is also covered.
For more information about the Duet Enterprise
For More Information benefits, see http://microsoft.com/duet.
Visit us online at www.microsoft.com/duet.
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