Front End Strategy Smart Client and Duet for SAP centric processes

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Front End StrategySmart Client and Duet for SAP
centric processes
Tilo Boettcher Program Manager CTSC, Microsoft
Corp.tiloboet_at_microsoft.com
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The front end provides a strong Interest for SAP
and Microsoft to partner. In this session you
will learn how we will deliver on the partnership
with Duet, Office, Smart Client and the
underlying development strategy.
Front end Development Strategy
Smart Clients with Office connecting to SAP
Duet by Microsoft and SAP
Summary and further links
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Front end Development Strategy
Smart Clients with Office connecting to SAP
Duet by Microsoft and SAP
Summary and further links
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Development Components and architecture

• Client type
• Smart Client/Rich Client (in most cases custom
  applications)
• Portals
• Office Applications
• Mobile Client (Windows Mobile/Windows embedded)
• Components and services to connect to SAP systems
• SAP Connector for Microsoft .NET
• WebServices (SAP WAS gt 6.20),
• WebDynpro and Visual Composer
• SAP Portal Development Kit (PDK) for .NET
• Office Assemblies, VSTO
• Information Bridge Framework (IBF)

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DEMO Using Office to access SAP (no duet)
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Front end Development Strategy
Smart Clients with Office connecting to SAP
Duet by Microsoft and SAP
Summary and further links
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Problem Overview

• Information Workers
• E-mail/document content is neither live nor
  actionable
• Business reports contain snapshots of
  information disconnected from source
• Creating composite views of business objects
  distributed over multiple LOB systems involves
  copy-paste integration
• Casual users need to learn multiple back-end apps
  to discover work with relatively small set of
  business objects
• Solution Developer / IT Implementers
• Developing smart document solutions requires
  custom code and deep understanding of back-end
  systems
• Each application is a one-off information silo
  with little or no reusability
• A reusable, repository of enterprise schemas
  representing most commonly used business objects
  and related actions, composed from multiple data
  sources, is unavailable

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Model to Connect Office Documents to SAP
Web service
Web service
Web service
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Smart Clients and Office Applications

• Components needed
• Office 2003 supports XML for Back end services
• Office Assemblies to use Active Pane (Part of the
  Application Window
• Information Bridge Framework (IBF)
• Visual Studio for Applications (VSTO) for Forms,
  Actions

Word
Outlook
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What is Information Bridge Framework?

• A framework (development tool and run time) that
  enables the rapid development of applications
  that connect Microsoft Office System applications
  to enterprise applications

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DEMO.NET Framework 3.0 accessing SAP Web
Services

• Use case and benefits
• End to End scenario for custom development
• Broad usage for all Applications
• Access to all SAP systems gt6.20 with exposed
  WebServices
• SOA approach Managed code in (client side)
  Workflow and Communicationi
• Easy to use

• Components
• Visual Studio 2005, VSTO, WebServices
• SAP NetWeaver 2004 Sneak Preview
• WinFX (Communication Foundation, Workflow
  Foundation)

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Front end Development Strategy
Smart Clients with Office connecting to SAP
Duet by Microsoft and SAP
Summary and further links
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Duet
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Why Do Customers Need Duet?

• Majority of end users are disconnected from
  best-practice business process
• Desktop and business app information out of sync
• Reliance on power users for critical enterprise
  information

SAP
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Duet Business Benefits

• Improved and more flexible SAP access
• Better decision making Empowers employees with
  accurate data and guided-processes
• Greater IW efficiency Enterprise system
  processes are leveraged by every employee

SAP
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Where Duet Fits
SAP Full Professional
2000
SAP Ltd. Professional
Revenue per IW
1000
SAP Employee
100
10
50
100
of Information Workers at an Enterprise
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Where Duet Fits
SAP Full Professional
2000
SAP Ltd. Professional
Revenue per IW
1000
SAP Employee
MS Office
100
10
50
100
of Information Workers at an Enterprise
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Where Duet Fits
M
SAP Full Professional
2000
M
SAP Ltd. Professional
Revenue per IW
1000
M
SAP Employee
MS Office
100
10
50
100
of Information Workers at an Enterprise
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Duet Version 1.0
Time management Record and review hours worked
and receive approvals Budget monitoring Supports
managers in fulfilling their cost and budget
responsibilities, including annual budget
planning, budget monitoring, cost analysis and
correction of postings Leave management Requests
for leave and receive approvals Organization
management Supports managers in their HR related
administrative and planning tasks. It supports HR
processes relevant to a managers particular tasks
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DEMO Duet V 1.0Time Recording, Leave
Request,Organisation Management
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What we have seen
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Duet and Platform Extensions
Duet Server

• SAP Add-on
• mySAP ERP 2004
• NetWeaver

• Office Client Add-on
• Office 2003 Pro Enterprise
• .NET Framework v2.0
• Microsoft Office Add-On

• Windows 2003 Server with SQL Express
• Microsoft SAP modules for integration

Duet requires Exchange Server 2003 and Active
Directory 2000 Deployment
Microsoft Pluggable Services

• EAI
• BizTalk
• Adapters for Oracle, PeopleSoft, JDE etc.

• Reporting
• Reporting Services 2005
• SQL Server 2005

• Presence
• Live Comm Server 2005
• Live Meeting

• Office Servers
• Share Point Portal Server
• Office 12 Servers

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One face to the Duet Community -- Duet.com
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2006 Product Roadmap Duet Value Packs
Duet Value Pack 1
Target Employees Managers more self-service
value
Availability Q3 Y2006

• Benefits
• Increase compliance
• Improve process visibility
• Optimize resource allocation
• Reduce costs
• Simplify recruitment travel
• Align with IT strategy

• Capabilities
• Streamline Recruitment
• Simplify Travel planning
• Receive actionable Analytics
• mySAP ERP 2005 support
• Additional Languages
• German, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
• Enhanced platform features

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Duet Value Pack (Preview)
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Recruitment Management
Schedule interviews and follow up actions
Recruiting Manager

• Schedule interview
• Receive Alerts

Hiring Manager

• Approve interview schedule
• Complete feedback
• View reports

• Key Benefits
• Improve process efficiency
• Enhance compliance
• Improve recruiting decisions

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Travel Management
Make travel reservations through MS Office
Employee

• Submit travel request
• Search travel options
• Re-create past travel itineraries

Manager

• Approve/reject travel requests
• View travel and budget reports

• Key Benefits
• Reduce travel processing operating costs
• Improve corporate travel policy compliance

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Reports and Analytics
View scenario reports and analytics (mySAP ERP or
BW)
Employee

• Receive Reports in mail folders
• Run ad-hoc reports in Excel

Manager

• View authorized reports
• View analytics and dashboards

• Key Benefits
• Increased process visibility
• Improved resource allocation
• Reduced costs

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Additional Platform Capabilities
Enhancing the capabilities of the Duet
infrastructure components
Features

• Support for new languages, (FR, DE, JP, PT, ES)
• ERP 2005

• Integrated reporting and embedded analytics

• Robust scalability and supportability

• Ability to leverage smart-tags for improved
  information navigation

Benefits

• Global solution adoption through multi-lingual
  feature
• Smart-tags enhances value of analytics and
  problem-solving capability
• Scalable architecture supports large-scale
  deployments for thousands of users

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2006 Product Roadmap Duet Value Packs
Duet Value Pack 2
Target Lines of Business broaden value and
adoption
Availability Q4 Y2006

• Benefits
• Reduce cost of sales
• Rapid, informed decision making
• Reduce procurement costs
• Decrease request-to-order cycles
• Increase efficiency compliance

• Capabilities
• Manage Sales Contacts and Activities
• Simplify Purchasing Management
• Broaden Analytics workflow
• Office 2007 support
• Enhanced platform features

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Sales Management
Manage sales activities and price approvals
Sales rep

• Record sales activities
• Look up customer contacts and activity
• Request workflow approval

Sales Manager

• Workflow approval or rejection
• View sales analytics and reports

• Key Benefits
• Compressed sales cycles
• Reduced cost of sales
• Rapid, informed decision making

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Purchasing Management
Manage purchase requests effectively
Buyer

• Place materials order
• View reports

Purchasing Mgr

• Approve/reject purchase requests
• View purchasing analytics and reports

• Key Benefits
• Reduced procurement costs
• Faster request-to-order cycles
• Increased purchasing efficiency

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Nine Value-Added Scenarios Available in 2006

• Q3 2006
• Scenarios
• Recruitment Management
• Travel Management
• Reports and Analytics
• Scheduled Reports
• On-Demand Reports
• Analytics
• Additional languages
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• mySAP ERP 2005 support

• December 2005
• Preview phase
• 80 customers, 20 partners
• June 2006
• SAP / Microsoft General Availability
• Scenarios
• Time Management
• Leave Management
• Budget Monitoring
• Organization Management
• English
• mySAP ERP 2004

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Futures

• SAP adds support for mySAP Business Suite 2005
  and additional scenarios
• Microsoft will provide increasing support for
  Office 2007
• Both companies will provide more tools and
  framework support around Duet
• Increasing cooperation around enterprise
  information worker people ready and
  enterprise ready

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Front end Development Strategy
Smart Clients with Office connecting to SAP
Duet by Microsoft and SAP
Summary and further links
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Summary
SAP and Microsoft are reliable STRATEGIC
PARTNERS SAP and Microsoft support long term
development for Office and Smart Clients SAP and
Microsoft support SERVICE ORIENTED
ARCHITECTURES Duet is the strategic product to
combine Microsoft Office and SAP Enterprise
Services
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Microsoft
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Further Information