SAP EP

What is an Enterprise Portal
- The portal offers a single point of access to SAP and non-SAP information sources, enterprise applications, information repositories, databases and services in and outside your organization—all integrated into a single user experience.
- Via SAP Portal Organizations can provide their employees, supply chain partners, customers, and other communities with immediate, secure, and role-based access to key information and applications across the extended enterprise.
- Enterprise Portal is a web based business-critical system
-- Integrated information view and business applications
-- Unifies and aligns people, information and business processes with Knowledge Management Systems and collaboration.
-- A collaborative environment

Classes of Portals
- Information Portals
- Functional Portals
- Industry Specific Portals
- Enterprise Portals

SAP Enterprise Portal Architecture & Technology

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

Entrprise Portal Building Blocks

Enterprise Portal – Functional Components