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Sample Business Use Cases

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On-Demand
On-Premise
Back Office
Business Systems
~25%
Use SAP
~90%
Use Microsoft
Business
Users
Connecting SAP and Business Users
SAP GATEWAY FOR MICROSOFT

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What is SAP GATEWAY FOR MICROSOFT ?
An interoperability framework that enables
easy creation of solutions so
SAP data can be securely consumed and extended
throughout Microsoft technologies
for on premise and on demand deployment
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Day in a Life of Information Worker
7:30 am
Check emails
on Windows
Phone 8
8:30 am
Schedule CRM
appointment via
Outlook 2013
10:00 am
Review Sales
pipeline via
Windows 8
Surface
11:30 am
Update Budget
via Excel 2013
12:00 pm
Approve team member’s
leave request workflow
using Win 8 native App
12:30 pm
Conduct online meeting
with customer using
Lync 2013 & record it as
CRM Activity
3:00 pm
Create CRM Lead using
SharePoint Online App
5:30 pm
Record timesheet in SAP
via Outlook 2013 Web
(part of Office 365)

SAP Gateway for Microsoft – A flexible interoperability framework
For Business Users, IT, and Developers
IT Professionals DevelopersBusiness Users

Sample Business Use Cases
Slide.
No
LoB Segment of
Target Role
Focus SAP Application Microsoft Application
Scenario
9 Cross LoB Multiple : ERP, HCM, BW, EPM, Microsoft Outlook
10 Cross LoB HCM Microsoft Outlook
11 Vendor Management ERP, SRM Microsoft word
12 Contracts Management ERP, CLM Microsoft word
13 Finance ERP Microsoft Excel
14 Finance ERP Microsoft Excel
15 Finance , Credit Management ERP, Finance SCM Microsoft Excel
16 Finance, Compliance, GRC, Internal audit GRC, Access Control Microsoft Excel
17 IT auditors IT Governance & security Microsoft Excel
18 Cross LoB ERP, SD Microsoft PowerPoint
19 Material Management ERP (MM) Microsoft Excel
20 CrossLoB Multiple : ERP, HCM, BW, EPM Office365

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LOB Application : Business Suite
Target LoB Segment: Cross LoB
Pain Point: Simplify access & complete all SAP tasks via a centralized access point, Microsoft Outlook
SAP Gateway for Microsoft provides managers and employees with:
 Single access point to multiple SAP applications
 Built-in enterprise-ready capabilities to align to SAP back-end user authorization
 Quick & Easy process
 Improved employee productivity in a user friendly Microsoft environment
 More intuitive UI reduces training and improves job efficiency
Current situation:
 Time delay to complete SAP tasks
 Inefficient process: Toggle between multiple SAP systems and Microsoft
applications
Note: Click image for demo

LOB Application: SAP ERP Human Capital Management (HCM)
Target LoB Segment: Cross LoB for Time Recording
Pain Point: No access to Employee Self Service by the nature of employees’ job.
SAP Gateway for Microsoft enables casual users to easily record work
hours via Microsoft Outlook
 Shortened time to create, review, and manage time entries
 Improved time reporting compliance
Current Situation:
 Poor time reporting compliance due to incomplete time records
 Time consuming time reporting process due to complex UI

LOB Application : Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
Target LoB Segment: Vendor Management(VM)
Pain Point: Quick & Easy update to vendors about new policies implemented
SAP Gateway for Microsoft provides intuitive user experience to make
policy update process more efficient:
 Integrated VM with Microsoft word UI to minimize system differences
 More efficient process with easier data entry due to simplified UI
 Create a template in a word document and pull the contact information from SAP
vendor look up task panel available in Microsoft Word.
 Update vendor agreement and send a new vendor policy quickly
Current situation:
 Multiple times log in to the SAP systems to pull SAP contacts.
 Delay in communicating the new policy to vendors

LOB Application : Contracts Life Cycle Management (CLM)
Target LoB Segment: Contracts Management.
Pain Point: Quick & Easy process to update contracts
SAP Gateway for Microsoft provides intuitive user experience to make
policy update process more efficient:
 Integrated CLM with Microsoft Word UI to minimize system differences
 More efficient process with easier data entry due to simplified UI
 Automatic synchronization with the backend data.
 Reduce errors & Increase your efficiency
Current situation:
 Multiple times log in to the SAP systems to pull SAP contacts.
 Delay in communicating the new contracts to suppliers

LOB Application : SAP ERP
Target LoB Segment: Finance
Pain Point: Post documents to the back end via Microsoft Excel
SAP Gateway for Microsoft enables cash/financial executives to quickly
complete transactions
 More efficient process due to more intuitive UI, Microsoft Excel
 Can attach documents and post directly to the back end
 Quick and informed decision-making with easy and quick access to relevant
information
Current situation:
 Multiple line entries to update
 Slow manual process
 Delay in posting documents

Target LoB Segment: Finance
Pain Point: Difficult to narrow down to specific SAP data.
SAP Gateway for Microsoft enables cash/financial executives to quickly
query data from the back end via Excel
 Multiple filter criteria for targeted data extraction For example: Query specific data
(filter values) for specific data such as document type, company code etc. from
the sales op GL accounts.
information
Current situation:
 It is time consuming process to download SAP data and then to clean to create
reports. Delay in decision making process & Improper data analysis
 Note: Similarly, if you bind excel sheet to specific SAP application data from the
back end can be queried via Excel.

LOB Application : SAP Financial Supply Chain Management
Target LoB Segment: Finance , Credit Management
Pain Point: Very difficult to identify the exceptions in the back end SAP systems.
SAP Gateway for Microsoft enables cash/financial executives to query for
exceptions in the backend SAP system
 Create master records quickly. Manage exceptions in the master records. Retrieve
for exceptions – Self service analytics
 Allow visibility to exceptions and proactive decision making
information
Current situation:
 Download the SAP data to Excel, clean the Excel files to narrow down to specific set
of data to do data analyses
 For example in customer master records: Customers set with low credit limit in the
system are hidden

LOB Application : Governance Risk Control (GRC)
Target LoB Segment: Auditors, Access & Process Controllers
Pain Point: Easy way to access SAP data via Microsoft Word, Excel to complete audits
SAP Gateway for Microsoft provides built-in enterprise-ready capabilities to
align to SAP back end user authorization. It simplifies the user experience so that
GRC users can easily access the SAP data via Excel or word to update the working
papers
With Gateway for Microsoft Excel add-in installed you can
 Upload working papers with real-time data the during audits easily
 Minimize delay in audits of time-sensitive documents
 Track & Manage multiple (history) versions of files & updates efficiently
 Apply filter criteria to get targeted data extraction results in quick decision making
process
 Create error free final reports
Current situation:
 Time consuming process to retrieve real time SAP data
 Difficult to manage multiple versions of files

LOB Application : SAP IT Governance & Security
Target LoB Segment: IT Auditors
Pain Point: Extract data on SAP user authorizations directly into Microsoft Excel to facilitate review.
With SAP Gateway for Microsoft Excel, you can easily extract data on
SAP user authorizations directly into Microsoft Excel to facilitate review.
 Re-usable and Shareable Excel template bind to the back end SAP tables
• Quickly binds to OData service
• Fetch most current SAP data
 Scalable , Quick and easy process
 Refresh the pre-built excel template every month and create reports quickly
Current situation:
 Review users who have SAP access to create financial transactions
 Repeated process every month ,time consuming manual process, Create reports
combining 13 SAP tables.

LOB Application : SAP ERP, Sales &Distribution
Target LoB Segment: Cross LoB
Pain Point: Integrate access and retrieve SAP data while doing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations
SAP Gateway for Microsoft provides casual users with easy and quick
access to SAP data via Microsoft PowerPoint
 Unified data access
 Update your power point presentations with real-time data
 Error free presentations to your executives and customers.
 Quick & efficient process
Current Situation:
 Low user proficiency to navigate to SAP systems
 High dependency on IT or business analysts to provide reports
 Need easy-to-access, easy-to-read analytical data
Retrieve current SAP data in PowerPoint

Target LoB Segment: Materials Management (MM)
Pain Point: Integrate access and retrieve SAP data via Microsoft Excel
SAP Gateway for Microsoft provides users re-usable and Shareable Excel
template bind to the SAP MM application in the backend
 Quickly binds to OData service & Fetch most current SAP data
 Mass data update – Quick process
 Share and collaborate with team members efficiently
 Manage updates from multiple locations and suppliers easily
 Quick & efficient process
Current situation:
 Multiple line entry in the backend SAP system
 Hard to manage multiple entry documents
 Time consuming , Exceptions are hidden in the system

LOB Application : Multiple-SAP ERP
Target LoB Segment: Supply Chain Management(SCM), Sales
Pain Point: Integrate, access , retrieve , update via SharePoint online, Outlook etc. available on Office365
SAP Gateway for Microsoft provides users access to your SAP data on
Premise and on Cloud.
 It can be used to surface data and processes from SAP share point and office
applications both online and the classical rich client desktop experience.
 Retrieve SAP data from anywhere anytime and update the data back to SAP
systems
Current situation:
 Difficult to get SAP data at remote customer locations
 Delay in updating the sales data information to the SAP systems

Blogs on SCN related to use cases:
 SAP GATEWAY FOR MICROSOFT SERVICE PACK 03 – EMBRACING THE CLOUD!
 MICROSOFT EXCEL SCENARIO: MASS DATA UPDATE VIA EXCEL
 CONNECTING APPS FOR OFFICE WITH SAP: MICROSOFT WORD ( SAP VENDOR APP)
 CONNECTING APPS FOR OFFICE WITH SAP: MICROSOFT EXCEL APP
 CONNECTING APPS FOR OFFICE WITH SAP: MICROSOFT OUTLOOK APP
 SAP GATEWAY FOR MICROSOFT: BUSINESS USE CASES OFFLINE DEMOS
 SAP FIORI & SAP GATEWAY FOR MICROSOFT: OFFLINE INTERACTIVE DEMO
 AUDIT MANAGEMENT: OFFLINE DEMO

TODAY Planned Innovations Future Direction
Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities
(Release 1.0, SP3)
On Premise
• Consume SAP Gateway services in
Microsoft based applications with
enterprise ready built-in support and
simple consumption of Fiori services
• Developer toolkit and templates in Visual
Studio for Outlook (Calendar, Task,
Contact) and Excel 2010 & 2013
• End-user Add-in for Microsoft Excel to
o Perform mass create / update operations
o Additional features like value help, conflict
resolution, data-type handling
Cloud
• SSO provider to connect Microsoft Azure &
Office 365 based applications to SAP
systems with enterprise built-in support
• Support for SAP Gateway, HANA & MII
• Embrace new Apps for Office model to
allow easy and enterprise ready
consumption of SAP data in Office 365
Cloud
• Continue to leverage new features in both
SAP and Microsoft Cloud offerings
• Provide a Cloud to Cloud integration
SAP Fiori
• Continue the collaboration with SAP Fiori &
simplify integration of SAP Fiori in Microsoft
applications
Developer Experience
• Continue to provide a seamless developer
experience, enhancing current and
embracing new technologies
SAP Gateway for Microsoft -
Consumption Enhancement
• Enhance Microsoft Azure integration to
consume services from SAP Mobile
Platform and SAP HANA Cloud Platform
mobile services
SAP Gateway for Microsoft -
SDK Enhancement
• Visual Studio enhancement with easy
discovery of OData APIs
• Easy consumption of Office 365 APIs
Enable Microsoft consumption in SAP
• Enrich SAP applications with services and
APIs from Microsoft Office
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any
time.

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