Migrating SAP Portal Application to JBoss Portal Sushil Ajgaonkar

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1 Migrating SAP Portal Application to JBoss Portal Sushil Ajgaonkar

Challenges with existing Portal USD 12B Engineering conglomerate Existing Self Service Portal for Vendors Release of PO and amendments Issue of Material / Receipt of finished goods

2 Challenges with existing Portal USD 12B Engineering conglomerate Existing Self Service Portal for Vendors Release of PO and amendments Issue of Material / Receipt of finished goods Quality Inspection Reports Approval of Invoices Challenges Mounting costs as vendor base expanded High maintenance and support cost Erratic response time Non-intuitive user interface

3 Solution Requirements Our solution had to address four areas Cost should not linearly increase with number of vendors added Address existing user interface concerns and should offer better user experience Scale well to support existing & additional users Integrate and render data from SAP ERP

Took advantage of core based pricing model of JBoss Portal For an annual outgo of USD

4 Managing TCO TCO Proposed migrating the SAP Enterprise Portal to Redhat supported JBoss Portal. Took advantage of core based pricing model of JBoss Portal For an annual outgo of USD 14000, About 400 users supported on the SAP EP platform 16-core JBoss Portal subscription supporting unlimited users Exploited the flexibility in deploying the 16 cores

Rich User Experience User Experience Developed Rich Portlets which would render similar views if not richer than Flex based iviews on existing portal Seam portlets combined with RichFaces Implemented

5 Rich User Experience User Experience Developed Rich Portlets which would render similar views if not richer than Flex based iviews on existing portal Seam portlets combined with RichFaces Implemented an inter-portlet communication (IPC) framework to provide intuitive and minimal navigation Leveraged AJAX for seamless screen refresh Used custom-renderers and themes to improve look-andfeel of the portal. Cross browser support

6 Client Side IPC Event Publisher Event Subscriber

7 User Experience Rich User Experience - Example

the flexibility in deploying the 16 cores Tuning

8 Manage Performance Performance JBoss Portal supports horizontal and vertical scaling Exploited the flexibility in deploying the 16 cores Tuning JVM, Pool of connections to SAP ERP, Seam framework, UI layer

9 Integrate with SAP Integration Custom developed using SAPJCO library Invoke appropriate RFC exposed by SAP ERP

10 Solution Summary RichFaces Seam iview SAP Net Weaver Portlet JBoss Portal JCO RFC RFC SAP ERP SAP ERP

11 Migration Approach Create Seam portlets using Rich Faces components to replicate existing views onto a portlet B Wire appropriate portlets for IPC D C F E Use appropriate themes etc. for desired look-andfeel Deploy the portlets into the portal G Configure the portal to use appropriate authentication mechanism A Develop Seam Bean to invoke appropriate SAP RFC calls using JCO. For each portlet, invoke the Seam Bean to bind the SAP ERP data to the view

QuikPortal Framework Ready framework to accelerate the

creation of views using Rich Faces components Allows

and Seam Bean to invoke SAP RFC Portlet Development

12 QuikPortal Framework Ready framework to accelerate the time-tomarket for portal applications Automates the creation of views using Rich Faces components Allows wiring of the portlets for IPC Generates Java proxies and Seam Bean to invoke SAP RFC Portlet Development Process View Generator Publisher/ Subscriber Wiring Publisher Subscriber

13 QuikPortal Generated Views Tree View Form View Composite View List View

14 QuikPortal - Portlet Wiring Wizards to configure the Portlets as Publishers or Subscribers or both. Allows wiring such configured portlets together to perform IPC. Portlet View Portlet View Choose Choose events from to various events subscribe from Publisher Wizard Subscriber Wizard Publisher Enabled View Subscriber Enabled View

15 Rich User Experience - Example

16 QuikPortal Proxy Generation Connects to the SAP RFC repository Generates ready to use Java proxies and Seam Bean Seam Bean can be used to generate Portlet Views

17 Summary Our migration approach Create Portlets to migrate the view Bind the view to the source of data. For an enterprise app, identify appropriate integration touch point Enhances user experience and performance Leverage the features and capabilities provided in the JBoss Portal Can be generalized to migrate applications out of commercial portals to improve user experience and performance while reducing TCO

18 Thank You

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