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BI Portal Federated Portal Network

Implementation
Mangesh Mahadik
Meda Pharmaceuticals
Aravinda Boyapati
Intelligroup Inc
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Agenda
Introduction
About MEDA, US
System Landscape & User Base
Project Scope
Business Intelligence (BI) Portal Implementation
BI 7 Architecture
Need of BI JAVA and BI Portal in BI 7
BI Portal Installation Options (Pros & Cons between different options)
Hardware Sizing
BEx Configuration & Security
Federated Portal Network (FPN)
Different Portal Landscape Scenarios
Implementation Steps
Different Content Sharing Options
BI Portal Publishing Accelerator
BI Portal Content Management & Information Broadcasting
Key Learning
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Terminology
FPN : Federated Portal Network
EP in entire presentation refers to BI Portal.
Ex:
BI Portal is a slim version of SAP Enterprise Portal which is
installed along with BI JAVA
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Abstract Key Functionalities
Learn about BI portal implementation and security
Learn about need for BI Portal in BI Implementation
Learn about federated portal network implementation
Learn about web reporting in business intelligence and content
management in BI Portal
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Return on Investment
Significant reduction in TCO by providing real-time and
historical data in Business Intelligence (BI)
Information broadcasting saves time and money (Go Green)
BI Portal provides a familiar and intuitive environment which
reduces the learning curve and accelerates the implementation
process.
BI Portal enriches user experience and encourages use of BI
applications.
Reusability of content and applications throughout the network
can be achieved using FPN.
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About MEDA Pharma
MEDA Pharmaceuticals Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of MEDA AB.
MEDA Pharmaceuticals specializes in respiratory, allergy,
central nervous system, and cough-cold products.
MEDA AB is an international specialty pharma company that
concentrates on marketing and market-adapted product
development.
MEDA is represented with organizations in 26 countries, with
more than 1,500 employees within marketing and sales.
MEDAs products are sold in approximately 120 countries
world-wide.
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MEDA ERP Journey
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MEDA System Landscape
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Partnering with Intelligroup
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Intelligroup is preferred System Integrator for MEDA in area of ERP systems
and they helped with all stages of roadmap.
Stage-1 MEDA Selected Intelligroup as an Implementation Partner to implement
Materials Management, Product Costing, Logistics, Flexible Planning, Sales&
Distribution, FI & CO processes in SAP 4.6C to manage their operations.
Stage-2 In 2003, MEDA implemented SAP-HR including Personnel Administration,
Org Management, Benefits, Payroll Interface to ADP and Travel Management for
their entire Corporate and Sales Force staff. This included ITS based expenses entry
and approval functionalities.
Stage-3 In August 2006, OS Migration from Unix to Windows NT and patches
applied to existing 4.6C system
Stage-4 July 2007, ECC 6.0 and BI 7.0 Upgrade including Oracle Upgrade, 64-bit
conversion and Unicode.
Stage-5 June 2008, EP 7 Upgrade, BI Portal & Federated Portal Network
Implementation, ESS/MSS Implementation
Current Projects in Pipeline: CRM 2007, MDM,PI 7.1, AII 5.1 and Offline Travel
Mgmt
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Project Scope
Project Scope
The scope of the project is to enable BI Portal for Web Reporting
Enable BEx Web Analyzer, Reports Broadcasting , PDF Print
Implement Federated Portal Network between BI Portal & Enterprise
Portal
Technical Activities
BEx Configuration
Deploy & Configure BI Administration Cockpit 1.0 Business Package
Security / Remote Role Assignment
Federated Portal Network
Functional Activities
BI Reports Publishing using BI Portal Content Accelerator Tool
BI Portal Content Governance
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Project Highlights
MEDA BI Portal / FPN Implementation Project started with
onsite assessment session with Business Process Owners
Team Size
Business Process Team: 2
Technical Team: 4 (one onsite and three offshore)
Project Locations:
Somerset, New Jersey
Remote location in Hyderabad, India
Global team in different time zones working seamlessly using
web conferencing to conduct virtual meetings for periodic
status review
Project Time Line: 3 months
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BI Portal Implementation Details
Business Intelligence (BI) Portal Implementation
BI 7 Architecture Details
Need of BI Java and BI Portal in BI 7 environment
BI Portal Installation Options
Hardware Sizing
Template Based Configuration / RSPOR_SETUP
Install & Run Diagnosis Tool
Sample Errors
Setup KM Document Repository In BI Portal
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BI 7 Architecture Details
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What is Usage Type: Usage types are the installable software components which can
be installed independently based on the IT practice. IT practice is again based on IT
scenario (what the business required).
What is BI Portal (EP) and BI JAVA ?
BI JAVA usage type available from NW 2004S. BI Java usage type requires
AS JAVA and BI Portal (EP) as prerequisites.( BI portal is a slim version of Enterprise Portal)
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Need of BI JAVA & BI Portal in BI 7
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Why we need BI JAVA and BI Portal
SAP BI 7 comes with new features such as Web Application Designer, BI
Accelerator, BEx Broadcaster, BEx Query Designer, BEx Report Designer, PDF
print, BEx Web Analyzer and Visual Composer Modeling. All these new
functionality requires the usage types AS JAVA, BI JAVA and BI Portals along
with BI and AS ABAP
Which features of BEx Web in SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 are
requiring Portal runtime? (*)
New BEx Web Application Designer
Exporting to PDF and Printing
Integrated Planning, Drag & Drop (Analysis Web Item)
Web Items (Container Layout, Menu Bar, Tab Pages, Button Group etc)
Formatted Reporting with BEx Report Designer
Document Integration with storage in Knowledge Management
BEx Web Analyzer
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Installation dilemma:
You can either install all these usage types in single server which is called add-in
installation or you can separate BI Portal from actual BI-AS ABAP which is called
stand alone installation.
Add-in Installation
Add-In Installation on one server
as one system (Double Stack
Installation).
Medium scalability because server
itself must scale.
Split is possible but requires
rebuild of Java-Stack. All Dialog
Instances must to be also Add-In
installation (combined AS-ABAP/AS-
Java-Stack).
Combined Start/Stop (system
downtime)
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Standalone Installation: Comes up with two options
One Server with Two Sys Ids
Two Servers with Two Sys Ids
Highly scalability, Server itself
can scale (or) possibly be split
out to two servers
Dialog instances could be mixed
(or) separate
AS-ABAP and AS-Java could be
scaled independently
Recommended basic system
landscape
Highly scalability,
AS-ABAP and AS-Java could be
scaled independently
Dialog instances could be mixed
(or) separate
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Pros & Cons between Add-In, Stand Alone installation
Add-In Installation Stand Alone Installation
Both BI & BI Portal Server down time required
for system maintenance, patch updates
No server down time required for J2ee
maintenance
Installation and configuration could be easy Maintenance could be little more difficult
compared with standalone installation
Less hardware requirements compare to
standalone installation with two servers
More hardware required compared with add-in
installation
Higher number of users can cause performance
issues.
Best suitable solution for high number of users.
SAP Best Practice: One server with two different SIDs is the best SAP suggested
approach, which may require MCOD in database. This is useful because:
It is Rationale: best combination of lowest hardware requirements and highest flexibility
in terms of Scalability (dialog instances could be scaled independently).
Start/Stop (combined using SAPMMC) , Downtime (independent between AS-ABAP &
AS-Java),.
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Hardware Sizing
The BEx Web runtime in SAP NW 2004s BI 7.0 has been reimplemented in
Java, shifting a considerable amount of load from AS ABAP to AS JAVA
BI users generate more load on Portal than normal Portal users
Usage Types AS-Java and EP require additional CPU and memory
Minimum requirement for AS-Java and EP is 2 CPUs and 4 GB memory
See Note 927530 for more info
Recommendation:
Plan a memory requirement of 1 GB RAM for every 300 SAPS.
If you use additional virtual machine (VM) nodes, you need to enlarge the
Java heap (Please see Note 723909 )
Formula for calculating memory capacity for individual report:
mem = # result cells * 0.8 KB + # rendered cells * 5 KB
where:
# result cells are the number of cells (rows * columns) of the result that is
Returned by the query
# rendered cells are the number of cells (rows * columns) that are displayed
on one page in the Web template
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BEx Design Time & Run Time
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Source: SAP
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1. Communication
Java ABAP Communication (HTTP(S))
ABAP Java Communication (RFC/JCO)
2. Single Sign On (with SAP Logon Tickets)
Java is trusting ABAP
ABAP is trusting Java
3. User Management Configuration ( ABAP system as central user
administration, With Add-in installation this step automatically performed)
Configuration Options:
Template Based Configuration: Template Installer to perform the automatic
configuration. In most cases, this template-based automatic configuration is enough
to enable BEx Web in SAP NW 2004s. (Recommended)
Note: Use Diagnostics & Support (Java based) tool to verify the missing
configuration
Run RSPOR_SETUP Report: Used to perform a manual/semi-automatic
configuration.
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Template Based Configuration
Run template installer:
Login to http://hostname:port/NWA with user J2ee_admin
Click on Deploy and Change tab, Select the BI_SYSID_This wizard will execute
Post install steps of technical configuration of BI-Java from table list and click on start.
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Template Based Configuration
After successful installation, you will see the success messages as shown below
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Install Diagnosis & Support Tool
Diagnosis & Support Tools is a java based tool provided by SAP for
checking the missing configuration performed with template installer
Download the tool from SAP Note: 937697
Login to below BI Portal URL
< http|https> ://<j2ee_server>:<j2ee_
port>/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.portal.runtime.system.console.default
Click on browse button, select com.sap.ip.bi.supportdesk.par file from and click on
upload button.
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Run Diagnosis & Support Tool
Login to below BI Portal URL
http://hostname:port:/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.ip.bi.supportdesk.default
Diagnosis & Support tool will run automatically and display the configuration status.
Diagnostics tool will show all the
configuration checks with status
Red or Green . If any Red
entries exist, you can find the resolution
below.
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Run Diagnosis & Support Tool Sample Errors
Below is a example of errors that you may encounter after you run diagnostics tool:
Error Status:
Error Details:
Fix:
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Run RSPOR_SETUP
Setting up ABAP JAVA Communication
Setting up ABAP JAVA communication is very important step in BEx
Configuration. When user login to any BEx tool (BWA, Query Designer,
Report Designer) it will authenticate with ABAP engine, for publishing /
Broadcasting , ABAP engine communicate with J2EE engine.
Note: Template Installer verifies only the JAVA ABAP communication & SSO.
RSPOR_SETUP report is used to check the communication & SSO from AS
ABAP to AS JAVA (Please refer notes : 916571, 928332 before running
Report)
You can run RSPORT_SETUP in two different ways
Login SAP GUI SE 38
Enter RSPOR_SETUP
Execute
Login SAP GUI SPRO IMG
SAP Netweaver Business Intelligence
Settings for Reporting and Analasys
BEx Web Overview Integration
in to Portal
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Run RSPOR_SETUP
Next screen appears with three different options, if you already ran
template installer, select Check Configuration option to verify settings.
After execute, report will be displayed with status details
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Run RSPOR_SETUPSample Error (1)
Status which are in red color needs to be configured manually
Example:
Resolution: The RFC destination in the J2EE Engine is an RFC server that is
called by the BI system as the RFC client. The connection is required in order to
display content from the portal in the BI system. The RFC destination is used for
the portal in RFC destinations.
Fix: Login to BI Portal Visual Administrator
(<Portal_Directory>\admin\go.bat ) Sid/Server<#>/Services/Jco RFC
Provider Maintain RFC Destination
Create
RFC
Destinatio
n in BI
System
with same
Program Id
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Run RSPOR_SETUPSample Error (2)
Status which are in red color needs to be configured manually
Example:
Resolution:
Export BI Portal Certificate (J2EE Certificate) in BI (ABAP). This will ensure all
requests which are coming from BI portal will accepted by BI (ABAP) System
Export BI (ABAP) certification in BI Portal (J2EE). This will ensure all requests
which are coming from BI (ABAP) will accepted by BI Portal (J2EE) System
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Run RSPOR_SETUPSample Error (2)..
Export BI Portal Certificate (J2EE Certificate) in BI (ABAP):
Download the
Certificate from
BI Portal
Upload BI Portal
Certificate in to
BI System using
TCode STRUSTSSO2
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Run RSPOR_SETUPSample Error (2)..
Export BI Certificate (ABAP Certificate) in BI Portal(J2EE):
Download Certificate from
BI System using
TCode STRUSTSSO2
Upload BI (ABAP)
Certificate in to
BI Portal
Visual Admin Server Services
Security Provider
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How To Identify Communication Errors
BI Portal
AS ABAP
AS JAVA
BEx (WAD)
RS_TEMPLATE
_MAINTAIN_70
Note : 989525
RSPOR_SETUP
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Possible Errors , If set up not done properly
Below Errors may Occurs while publishing query in to BI portal if the Certificates are
not configured properly between BI (ABAP) and BI Portal (J2EE)
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KM Document Repository configuration in BI Portal enables to save the queries,
reports and BI Applications as KM documents
Use KM Services for:
Subscription, Feedback,
Discussion, Collaboration,
Rating, TREX search,
Notes, Download
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Log on to the portal System Administration -> System Configuration -> Knowledge
Management -> Content Management Repository Managers Classes BI
Document Repository Create new repository
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BI Portal Demo
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Federated Portal Network (FPN)
A federated portal network (FPN) allows organizations with
multiple portals, SAP and non-SAP, to share content between the
independent portals.
New Terminology:
Consumer Portal
Producer Portal
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One Central Portal
Pros
Less Hardware Requirement
Serves for all back end Apps
(ECC/BI/CRM/SRM etc..)
Cons
May cause performance issues
Complex maintenance
Non - FPN
Pros
Load Sharing
Easy maintenance
Cons
Require multiple logins
Not a best practice
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Federated Portal Network
Pros
One central consumer portal serving as
the entry point for all end users.
Seemlessly accesses content residing on
multiple producer portals (SAP as well
as Non- SAP portals).
Load Sharing
Different producer portal can upgrade to
provide enhanced functionality without
effecting the main portal server which all
employees use.
Business units use different portal
(Producer) servers to create and
maintain their required functionalities
Cons:
Consumer portal becomes only source
of accessing all business functions in an
organization
Note :
SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (2004s) SPS 10
and above FPN is available
Consumer Portal and Producer portal
should be at same patch level
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FPN Implementation Steps
System Administration
Proxy Setting
Trust between Consumer and Producer
Cache
Define and Configure Producers in Consumer
User Administration
Make sure users in consumer and producer should be same
Content Sharing
RRA (Remote Role Assignment)
Remote Content Copy
WSRP Content Sharing (mostly for Non-SAP Portals)
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FPN System Administration Settings
Proxy Setting (If you are using proxy server)
Need to be configured on both
producer and consumer
Login to Portal (Consumer & Producer)
System Administration System
Configuration Service Configuration
Applications com.sap.portal.ivs.httpservice
Cache Setting
Improve performance while
accessing content between consumer
and producer(s)
Login to Portal (Consumer & Producer)
Configuration Service Configuration
Applications com.sap.portal.ivs.global.gpcache
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Cache Settings
Login to Portal (Consumer & Producer) System Administration Federated Portal
My Self As Content Consumer Cache Management com.sap.portal.ivs.httpservice
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Trust Settings : Enables the user authentication between consumer and producer
while sharing content
Download the verify.der file on the
consumer portal
Configuration Key Store Administration
Import the verify.der file on the
producer portal
Configuration Key Store Administration
Import Trust certificate
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Trust Settings
Login to Producer Portal Visual Administrator (Go.bat), Enter the consumer portal
certificate details as follows
Visual Administrator SID
Server XYZServices
Security Provider Run time
Policy Configuration
Restart J2EE Server
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Define and Configure Producer(s) in Consumer
Create a Producer in Consumer
System Administration
Federated Portal
My Self As
Content Consumer
Manage my Producers
Netweaver Content Producers
Register Consumer With Producer
To use the content shared by
producer, consumer must
register with producer
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How to Verify Producer Content & Roles in Consumer
To Verify Producer (BI Portal)
Content in Consumer Portal.
Content Administration
Portal Content Netweaver
Content Producers
To Verify Producer (BI Portal) Roles in Consumer Portal.
User Administration Identity Management
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Different Content Sharing Options
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BI Portal Publishing Accelerator tool is developed by
Intelligroup for streamline the BW/BI content publishing
process in BI Portal, It is used to
Publish BEx Query/Report/Template as an Iview
Assign Iview properties
Assign iview
To page/workset/role
To KM Folder as link
Assign page to workset or role
Assign workset to role
Assign roles to user/User groups
Search for roles
Search for users
Generate Transport file for the assignment
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Publish BEx Query / Report / Web Application Designer Template as an Iview
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BI Portal Content Management
Use WorkSet Map IView to display the iview links as pictogram
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BI Portal Content Management
Use KM Document Explorer Iview to display all report iViews (as
a KM links) for easy report navigation
KM Folder Structure
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Information Broadcasting in BI Portal
Information Broadcasting in BI Portal allows the distribution of BI
Information
via different channels
E-Mail
Enterprise Portal
in different formats ...
HTML, MHTML
BEx Analyzer Workbooks
ZIP Files
of different sources
Queries
BI QAD - Dashboards,
BEx Analyzer Workbooks
in different modes
Online & pre-calculated
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Information Broadcasting in BI Portal
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Access Producer(BI Portal) Roles to Consumer using
RRA
BI Portal
(Producer)
Assign producer portal roles to consumer portal (login to consumer portal User
Administration Identity Management Search producer role , Assign to user)
RRA
Enterprise Portal
(Consumer)
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Federated Portal Network Demo
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Key Learning
Think of BI Portal as an add-on to your existing BI environment
Portal that incorporate BI are much more powerful
BI Portal gives you new tools and options for information
governance
Understand the different BI portal installation options &
Hardware Sizing
Federated Portal Network gives much control and
performance while accessing enterprise applications
KM gives powerful content management options
Think of Information Broadcasting for timely report delivery
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