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SAP Enterprise Portal Architecture & Technology

Component
Enterprise Portal (EP)

Management Summary
SAP Enterprise Portal features an architecture that is consolidated and scalable. The components of the portal platform are cluster-aware and can be deployed on several machines running load-balancing services, ensuring high availability.
The investment in SAP Enterprise Portal is future-proof since a broad range of industry standards such as LDAP, Java, .Net, JCA, SOAP, JAAS, ICE, XML and Internet technologies such as Web services are supported. Business

Value

The SAP Enterprise Portal architecture adds business value because it: Enhances performance through its consolidation and scalability. Enables the integration of SAP and non-SAP applications. In this way it boosts the return on an organizations existing infrastructure. Provides an open platform that supports industry standards and technologies .

Description
SAP Enterprise Portal runs on the SAP J2EE Engine, a component of the SAP Web Application Server. The SAP J2EE Engine manages the portal infrastructure, supporting Web services and the integration of heterogeneous applications in the portal environment. The SAP J2EE Engine makes the portal highly available, secure and scalable across several machines. The portal platform contains the following components: Portal Server Content Management and Text Retrieval and Information Extraction (TREX) component of the Knowledge Management platform Connector Framework Unification Server

Using iViews, the Portal Server brings content to end users, enabling them to collaborate with each other, to search internal and external sources, and to access structured and unstructured information through the Knowledge Management component. iViews use the SAP Connector Framework to connect to various backend systems including SAP and non-SAP. The Portal Runtime is the enhanced runtime mechanism for launching iViews. It supports the tools for creating iViews and provides the capabilities required for running them. In addition the Unification Server together with the Unifier projects that can be built on it extend the reach of iViews to enterprise applications by using SAPs patented Drag&Relate technology. Drag&Relate operations can be performed between heterogenous applications, such as SAP, Oracle Applications, Baan, etc.

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Web Application Server (SAP J2EE) Portal Portal Server Server Portal Portal Runtime Runtime Portal Components Page Page Builder Builder Portal Services
Web Web Services Services Cache Cache

Knowledge Knowledge Management Management TREX TREX Content Content Management Management

Collaboration Collaboration

Single Single Components Components (iViews) (iViews)

User User Man. Man. (WS) (WS)

Sync. Sync. Collaboration Collaboration

Web Web Server Server

Unification Unification Server Server Unifier Unifier Unifier Unifier

Interfaces/Applications Interfaces/Applications iView iView Roles Roles Apps Apps Portal Portal Content Content Directory Directory User User Management Management Corporate Corporate LDAP LDAP

ConnectorFramework Framework Connector

Connectors Connectors (JCA) (JCA)

DB DB

R/3 R/3

EIS EIS

Databases Databases

Web Web

Documents Documents

Apps Apps

 
Browser, PDA Java Application Server SAP J2EE Engine Portal Server Portal Runtime (PRT)
PRT Basis Functionality (ClassLoader, PageBuilding, etc.)

Portal Components
Containers

Portal Services
Caching

Corporate LDAP

Web Services User Mngmt. WS ...

Content Management User Mngmt. Service

Database (Persistence)

Single Components (iViews)

Semantic Portal Objects iView Role Page ...

PCD Service ...

Connectors
Connectors (JCA)

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Backend systems

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