This comprehensive book is focused on heterogeneous system landscapes built using SAP and Microsoft components, and quickly teaches readers about the vast integration capabilities within all layers of the NetWeaver stack. Developers, consultants, and IT managers will benefit from practical examples of all components: interface technologies like BAPI and RFC, process integration with XI and BizTalk, information integration with BW and MS BI, as well as user integration with SAP NetWeaver Portal, SharePoint, and Office (including information on Duet, formerly known as Project Medocino).
Highlights include
– Basis Integration: RFC, BAPI, IDoc, DCOM Connector, SAP Connector for Microsoft .NET, and Web Services
– User Integration: PDK for .NET, Desktop Office Integration, Duet
– Information Integration: BEx Suite, Upload of Data into SAP BW, Open Analysis Interfaces, Open Hub Service, Microsoft SQL Server, Repository Manager, and Portal Drive
– Process Integration: HTTP and SOAP Adapter, Reliable Messaging, BizTalk Adapter for mySAP Business Suite
– User Management: Single Sign-On Scenarios, Active Directory Integration, LDAP Connector, CUA, and more
Andreas Rohr
Andreas Rohr holds a diploma in business administration with a focus on information management. Since January 2005, he has been working as a freelance consultant. In this role Andreas focuses on the areas of interoperability
and interface architecture. Many of the projects he completed in the past focused on interfaces between SAP R/3 or SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft products. Andreas is also a certified Microsoft Partner.
After finishing his studies and a subsequent scholarship at Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG (SNI), Andreas worked as a developer, solutions architect, and project manager at a medium-size IT service provider where he successfully supported projects for several large German enterprises. After that he worked as an IT coordinator for a subsidiary of Deutsche Post (German Postal Services).
In addition to his freelance consulting work, since 2004 Andreas has been teaching information management and EAI with a focus on SAP at the Institute of Management in Berlin, Germany.
SAP Integration SAP XI SAP BW IDoc .NET Connector Duet Sharepoint Exchange Server .NET Framework