Document management requirement

[Former Member]

Hi,

We need to provide document management feature in SAP enterprise portal. The requirements are users should be able to create

folders, rename folders, delete folders, create, upload, delete documents such as word, pdf, excel etc. Also we would want

some kind of an access restriction to be imposed based on certain roles.

I think SAP Knowledge Management is mostly used for integrating heterogenous repositories and for providing search capabilities. In our case we do not require search capabilities and we only need to store different kinds of documents created by users in a folder hierarchy similar to that of windows explorer and provide required access rights. Can external applications like MS Sharepoint or any other application be used if there are no requirements for search or integrating with heterogenous repositories. What are the considerations for deciding what approach to be followed.

Thanks in advance,

Veena

[praveenkumar_gudapati]

Hi Veena,

Ofcourse it all depends on your business requirement whether you need KM or Sharepoint. In your case for your business requirement you may even use Sharepoint, and once the requirement needs search functionality you can either migrate your files to KM or connect your Sharepoint with KM through WEBDAV connector.

Integration between the Knowledge Management Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft Sharepoint Services:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/4128

To get insight of KM capabilities:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/webcontent/uuid/53599a47-0a01-0010-c98c-bc5c9...

Greetings,

Praveen Gudapati

p.s. Points are always welcome for helpful answers

[Former Member]

Thanks for your reply praveen. I have assigned the points for your answer.