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Jun 12, 2008 at 03:33 PM

What SAP restrictions will we have if we don't use EP as a portal?

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Our company is in the middle of collecting selection criteria for making a decision about what portal technology we are going to implement. We have a lot of SAP systems up and running (R3/PLM/APO/GTS/CRM/BI/XI/SM).Next to this we have CRM 2007 installed, an Enterprise Portal Sandbox and an Enterprise Portal DEV/Q/PROD in BI and also a portal for ESS/MSS up and running. Our logistics systems are all on SAP (global systems), but we also have a couple of core systems created in PowerBuilder and Lotus Notes. We will have to replace them some day, could become SAP but not sure yet.

IT Management is currently looking at 3 portals: EP, IBM Websphere and MOSS. Of course, they have a broader view than SAP. They are thinking about Duet, maybe changing email from Lotus Notes to Outlook, good collaboration tools, Knowledge Management, Solution manager, userfriendly GUI etc.

At this moment they seem to have a strong preference for IBM and MOSS acting as a consuming portal, however they could very well decide to use one of these 2 portals also as the producing portal and leave EP totally out of scope. As we working more and more with good SAP tools like Visual Composer, Guided Procedures, CAF etc., we foresee a loss of these tools in case management will decide to not use EP at least as a producing portal. We are trying to collect "food for thought" to be send to management. My question is : what SAP tools/technology/functionality/sap portal content / features etc. will become out of scope for us in case we will not EP at least as a producing portal?

kind regards

angelique heutinck