What is EP ??

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus,

Actually i am BW consultant but i want to know what is EP and information broadcasting and how are these related to BW.

If somebody can kindly explain me with examples how these things are related with real time scenarios..i will be greatfull.

Can someone suggest me how to start learning...any material r usefull links.

thanks and regards

neel

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Neel, Welcome to EP.

<b>EP Purpose</b>

The EP usage type contains the following components:

<b>Portal</b>: Serves as the front end of SAP NetWeaver, offering a single point of access to SAP and non-SAP information sources, enterprise applications, information repositories, databases and services in and outside the enterprise—all integrated into a single user experience.

<b>Knowledge Management</b>: Provides role-based access to unstructured information from various data sources. The unstructured information can be in many forms, such as text documents, presentations and HTML files, and can be viewed via iViews in the portal.

Knowledge Management makes use of the standalone engine TREX to perform search and classification operations.

<b>Collaboration</b>: Provides services that help communication and cooperation among colleagues and others in the enterprise. Services include virtual rooms, groupware integration, asynchronous and real-time collaboration tools.

<b>Guided Procedures</b>: Provides a framework for modeling and managing processes that involve access to multiple backend systems. It enables runtime collaboration and execution of ad-hoc items, as well as invocation of different types of applications and services within a process. The framework implements role-based access to tools, resources and process steps.

<b>Also Check these links</b>

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/05d9c990-0201-0010-4590-aaf...

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ce/3e98408d953154e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

http://www.diamondcluster.com/ideas/viewpoint/pdf/viewpointv2n2Portals.pdf

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/42/d26a715d745043e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/24/34ba42e2e0c611e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

Regards,

Shankar

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Shanker,

Thankyou very much for the info u have given on EP

But how can use this with BI...can you give me some examples like what will be the integration aspect...is it for reporting from BI can be done in EP (published) and is EP a Seperate server ( i mean physically separate machine)

thanks and regards

neel

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hi Neelkamal,

Did you go through this article on <b> Frequently Asked Questions - EP - BI Integration</b>

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/a5067965-0901-0010-6f8a-bbf...

Regards,

Ganesh N

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi neelkamal,

Portal server runs as a separate engine and in order to integrate it with a BI one needs to create a BI system in the portal and define the properties of the system like connection parameters to BI or BW server etc.

Then a iview can be created from the template in portal and it is used to shoe the BI features to the end user.This is how integration is carried out.

Along with other links posted by others check this BLOG too have a idea on EP-BI integration.

<a href="https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/2708">BLOG on EP -BI integration</a>

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Vivekanandan

[Former Member]

hi Neelkamal,

Checkout the link..,

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/6b1472a7-0301-0010-64bd-dc9...

hope it thelps..,

regards,

Vinoth