SAP Enterprise Portal
| SAP NetWeaver Portal | |
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| Basic data
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| developer | SAP SE |
| Current version | 7.5 |
| operating system | various |
| category | Portal system |
| German speaking | Yes |
| www.sap.com | |
The SAP Enterprise Portal is the company portal software from SAP SE . Even before October 2005 the product was called "SAP Enterprise Portal", from October 2005 to the end of May 2014 it was called SAP NetWeaver Portal .
The portal uses the SAP Application Server ( Java ) as the basis .
Functions are u. a .:
- Single Sign-on (SSO)
- personalization
- role-based representation
- Application integration such as Manager Self Services (MSS) and Employee Self Services (ESS), with which it is possible, for example, to view or edit your own data in the personnel system in the browser interface (WebGUI).
In addition, functions such as document management , team rooms, real-time collaboration (e.g. chat , application sharing ) and the integration of various groupware systems are available via the Knowledge Management & Collaboration ( KMC ) module, which must also be installed .
A search and indexing service is integrated using TREX.
As far as the applications within the portal are concerned, SAP relies on so-called iViews . These are comparable to the portlets known from other portal solutions .
SAP Enterprise Portal 7.5 is the current version. The predecessors are called SAP Enterprise Portal 5.0 and 6.0 and SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.0. Version 6.0 was available in two versions, one with the basis SAP Web Application Server (SAP Web AS) 6.20, the other with SAP Web AS 6.40. For EP 5.0 (SAP Web AS 6.10) and EP 6.0 based on SAP Web AS 6.20, mainstream maintenance ended on December 31, 2006. This does not affect the Enterprise Portal 6.0 based on SAP Web AS 6.40, which as part of SAP NetWeaver 2004 was in mainstream maintenance until the end of March 2010.
Single sign-on mechanisms
In the Enterprise Portal 6.0 (Stand SPS16), SAP provides the following mechanisms, among others, for the implementation of SSO with backend systems:
- SAP Logon Ticket (the user receives after successfully logging on to the portal / web application server). This ticket is provided in the form of a cookie . This cookie contains the user and session data, digitally signed. With the implementation of the portal key memory and the decryption process in other applications, a single sign-on can be established between the portal and the application. Since this procedure is based on cookies, the corresponding restrictions (e.g. domain restrictions) must be observed - however, there is the domain relax level, which can be used to expand the options across domains. SAP backend systems must import the portal certificate using transaction STRUSTSSO2 in client 000 and assign it to the ACL in the target client in order to enable SSO. Numerous parameters regulate the behavior when logging in, for example with an initial or expired password.
- Transfer of UID / password (mapping can be maintained by the user and / or the administrator)
- Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS)
- SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language)
Changes with version 7.3 / 7.4
Changes from version 7.3 are in particular a changed architecture of the underlying Web Application Server ( JEE5 ) (in the versions 7.1 & 7.2, which are also based on JEE5, only the "Enterprise Portal Core" was available, i.e. a portal without Knowledge Management & Collaboration ( KMC ) functions).
literature
- SecurIntegration GmbH (Ed.): The Secure SAP NetWeaver Portal . Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-7876-5 .
- Valentin Nicolescu, Katharina Klappert, Helmut Krcmar: SAP NetWeaver Portal . Galileo, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-8362-1025-6 .
- Marcus Banner, Tom Franke, Ralf Friedrichs, Heinzpeter Klein, Roland Schroth: SAP Portals, The Practical Guide. 2017 SAP PRESS, ISBN 978-3-8362-4458-9