SAP HANA Cloud Portal - Deep Dive

SAP HANA Cloud Portal – Deep Dive
November 2013

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© 2013 SAP AG or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

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AGENDA
Introduction
High Level Architecture
Product Building Blocks
Available Implementations
Roadmap


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SAP HANA Cloud Portal

Enable lines of business to quickly and easily
create attractive business-driven sites

Arm IT departments and business owners with an
easy-to-administer, lean portal platform to efficiently
extend on-premises and cloud scenarios with
minimal investments

4

Value Proposition
Accelerate time-to-value and increase business agility

Fast

Build scalable
and attractive
cloud-based
sites – quickly
and easily

Open

Integrate
existing content
with custom
widgets on an
open platform


Connected

Powerful

Securely
integrate varied
content
retrieved from
SAP and nonSAP sources

Consume a
range of portal
PaaS services
to create and
configure your
sites

Rich

Design branded
sites, supporting
out-of-the-box
mobile
consumption and
social
experience

5

Easily build secure, scalable and attractive cloud-based business-oriented sites
 Cloud-based solution for easy site creation and consumption create a business website in minutes (B2C, B2B and B2E
scenarios)
 Designed for mobile consumption out of the box
 Based on SAP HANA Cloud (platform-as-a-service)
hosted by SAP public cloud
 Superior user experience, pixel perfect flexible layout design
 Re-use of existing assets via seamless integration with your onpremise landscape
 Leveraging SAP HANA in-memory computing
 Fast branding and customization
 Supports modern standards such as HTML5
(SAP UI5), OpenSocial, SAML2 and CMIS


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AGENDA
Introduction
Roadmap


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High level architecture


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Key Features
1. Authoring Environment (WYSIWYG) – Design webpages / sites with zero coding
2. Navigation – Easily and efficiently navigate between web pages and content using intuitive navigation bar or
from within applications
3. Branding and Theming – Achieve pixel perfect design with rich theming APIs, reflecting your branding, colors
and symbols
4. Personalization – Users can adjust and fit site to their needs and preferences
5. Mobile consumption – Run on all devices (with no extra effort), with responsive design
6. Role Based Authorizations - Manage accessibility to sites and content based on users role in the
organization
7. Connectivity - Connect to different systems in a secure manner comprising new offers, opportunities and
solutions
8. Globalization – Support for locale characteristics and multi-language
9. Site lifecycle - Framework support for staged site development (Create, test, publish and maintain)


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AGENDA
Introduction
Roadmap


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Open Social – Cloud Portal’s Component Model
Open Social is a set of APIs for building rich, open and interoperable web applications based
on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
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Open standard component model for cross platform execution
Backend connectivity and secured features
Enable personalization via widget properties and user preferences
Extendable, develop your own widgets


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Open Social – Developing widgets
Step-by-step walk through
1
4
3

Drag to canvas

End user

2
IDE

Consume

Add to Content Catalog
(Auto discovery)

Develop widget/app

Developer

5

Deploy

OpenSocial
container
(Shindig)

Site Site
Site

HANA
Cloud Portal


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Open Social – Widget Rendering
Flow Chart

Repository

CP Site
1. Request
Page / widgets

End user

(Hana Cloud Platform / Other)
[For each widget:]

Properties

4. get full markup

Pages
Widgets

OpenSocial
container
(Shindig)

2. Fetch widget spec
and markup

Widget
Specification
Markup
(HTML, js, CSS)

3. Execute Widgets

Widget
(HTML, CSS, JS)

Inspect
Inject
Specification features


Execute

Provide
Services

HTML
Markup

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SAPUI5 (HTML5) - Overview
SAP’s HTML5 Toolkit for building lightweight business UIs on multiple platforms, optimized for
consumption of SAP backend system data
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Business agility through responsive design – run on any screen
Use powerful controls and templates to optimize development productivity
Enable smooth access through ODATA integration
Modern theming and branding concepts – enablement of pixel perfect design


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Cloud Portal as the UI Framework
Central UI framework – Configure once, deploy automatic theming everywhere, any device, any
browser

Key Feature –
 APIs available for rich, up-to-date, pixel perfect theming capabilities of sites, applications
 Automated and simplified process for applying Cloud Portal theme on SAPUI5 applications
1. Automated “widgetizing”– Easily “Convert” any UI5 App to a widget
2. Apply site theme – Widgets (+UI5 controls) automatically inherit site theme
3. Site theme updates, immediately reflect by application
 Apply theme on applications extensions e.g. Success Factor extensions


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IdP Federation (SAML2)
Delegate authentication and identity management to an existing corporate IdP or use SAP ID
(OOTB default IdP)


Corporate
IdP

SAP HANA
Cloud Portal
Trust + SSO
SAP HANA
Cloud

Trust
+ SSO

Employees

Corporate Network

 Using mature and proven security standards –
SAML2 complaint
 Enable corporate users to login to Cloud Portal
via their organizational credentials
 Use roles and grouping to manage authorization
 Benefit from SSO to multiple applications

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Backend Connectivity
FM

Four step integration –
1. Create Gateway service – Expose OData API via GW to communicate with SAP BE system. Use GW Service
Builder to easily build the required service
2. Configure SAP cloud connector – Installed on an intranet local server. Used to expose BE server to the
internet
3. Deploy cloud destination – Configure cloud destinations to specify backend systems / APIs Portal
4. Send requests – Consume oData APIs from the backend systems

Supported Business Scenarios
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Web-to-lead (a.k.a. lead generation)
Web-to-order
Web-to- case
Etc.

Internet (HANA Cloud Platform)
Internat (OnPermise)

HTTP
Destination
REST/ODATA

Cloud Portal

SAP Cloud
Connector

HTTP

Gateway

RFC

CRM / ERP

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Mobile Support
Build once – consume with any device: desktop, tablet, smartphone
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Site layout is rendered for the consuming device offering an optimal user experience for site consumers
Performance optimizations are included to further enhance the experience
Site theme alignment across all devices
Responsive OOTB content
Dedicated mobile sites


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Mobile Support
Authoring Environment
Build once – consume on any device: desktop, tablet, smartphone

1
Single
authoring
environment


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Mobile Support
Any Device
Build once – consume with any device: desktop, tablet, smartphone

2

Optimal consumption experience for any device


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Market Place - Sharing solutions, sites, apps
Step-by-step process
 HANA Cloud Portal enables running the Cloud Market Place ecosystem in a seamless and integrated manner
 Cloud Portal as the platform hosting the solutions / apps and the runtime environment
 In app contribution, discovery and fulfillment

Certify

Catalog
1

1
2

3
4
5

6

Share
apps/sites
Certify
Distribute
Procurement
Fulfillment
Consumption

Discovery

Upload

1

1

CPSelling Point
StoreFront
Customers


2
3
distribute

4
Procurement

6

Partners

Sap
store

5

Consume

Selling Point

Provisioning

Runtime
container

O2C

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AGENDA
Introduction
Roadmap


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Cloud for Customer: Support Site


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Support Solution – Key Features
SAP Cloud for Customers Support Site –
Offer customers self-service while reducing
service costs
Customers can take control by –
 Creating new tickets
 Tracking support requests with latest
status at their fingertips
 Accessing knowledge base to find answers
themselves reducing service costs
 Collaborating with Service Agents to
resolve issues quickly

all from a branded website that’s easy to
administer, design and enhance

Example / lab preview

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How it works…

1

Your Service Agents

Your Customer

3

Uses the site for self-service: to create and
manage tickets, access the knowledge base,
and communicate with your service agents

SAP Cloud Support Site

SAP Customer OnDemand

Widgets

Mobility

Ticket
List

SAP Sales OnDemand

Ticket
Details

Create
Ticket

Ticket
Tiles

SAP Service OnDemand


SAP Social OnDemand

Widgets

Open Platform
SAP Customer OnDemand
Cloud Integration option
SAP Business Suite
BI
ERP
CRM

2

Responsible for authoring and administering the
SAP Cloud Support Site
Site Administrator


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SAP HANA Cloud Platform
for SuccessFactors Extensions


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SAP HANA Cloud Platform for SuccessFactors Extensions
Executive Summary
This solution enables you to extend your SuccessFactors implementation with Extension Apps
running on SAP’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) in order to meet today’s and future growing
business needs.
Key Components of the Platform Extensions:
 User Experience for the Next Generation
– Intuitive and harmonized end-user experience across the standard
SuccessFactors modules and Platform Extensions
– Admin and end-user ability to discover, trial, and author new Extensions
to solve new personal and departmental needs
 App Development for a Future-proof Investment
– Out-of-the-box services for building and deploying Extensions that reduce the time-to-develop apps
– Connectivity to SuccessFactors and On-premise to reduce integration efforts & costs
 Partners & SAP Store for Rich Content & Relevant Apps
– Growing number of Partners and Extension Apps, marketed through the SAP Store

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Platform Extensions at a Glance
Feature Highlights
Cool, intuitive
experience of E-Learning
and Extension Apps

Extensions Apps
easily created by
Partners based on
SAP’s out-of-thebox development
services

Discover, trial, and tweak
Extension Apps from
Partners and SAP available
from the SAP Store
lab preview


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SAP HANA Cloud Platform for SuccessFactors

Home
Web Page

Theming API

SF
Application

BizX
Software
as a Service

BizX
Entities

Extension
Entities (MDF)

SSO

Lifecycle mgmt’

Integration
UI Theming
& Navigation

Extension
Application

SAP and 3rd
Party apps

Integration API

UI Theming
& Navigation

OData API

Shared
Services

OAuth

HANA Cloud
Platform
as a Service

Extension Application
Web Pages

Portal Services


Extension Entities
and Files

Etc.

Platform Services

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Perks & Leisure
(SAPlus, SAP runs SAP)


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HR Solution Overview
SAPlus – Leisure and Benefits site for SAP Israel HR
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Benefit and perks published by SAP HR to employees and their families
Targeting ~800 SAP IL employees and their families
Initiated as an alternative to an SAP IL Employees Facebook page
Light Content Management capabilities
External users are invited to the site


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How it works…

HR Content Admin edits benefits
in a dedicated Cloud Portal site

1

Content persisted in Cloud Portal
generic authorized list service

2

Content is updated automatically
in SAPlus site

3
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Cloud Portal Experience Site


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Marketing and Campaigns
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External facing sites to attract many users
Video streaming and photo gallery
Useful links for additional material
Interactive ‘Contact Us’ form connected to a backend
system
 RSS feed for news or messages
 Social links embedded in all pages
 Consume on a desktop and mobile

Cloud Portal Official Website:
http://tiny.cc/CloudPortal

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Lumira Analytics Site Builder


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Lumira Cloud Customization – Value Proposition
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Enable analytics site builder
Sites could be customized and branded
Aggregate Lumira content and external content (Jam, custom apps, static content etc.)
Lumira Cloud Dashboard with the ability for the end user to maintain mass number of Lumira reports
efficiently (e.g. using categories)


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Regular Lumira Cloud


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HANA Cloud portal home page with Lumira Cloud content


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Adding an new category (1/2)


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Adding an new category (2/2)


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Adding a visualization to a category


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Lumira Cloud Customization – Customer Feedback

1

What extension functionality is most valuable for
you?

2

What additional capabilities would you like to
have?


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AGENDA
Introduction
Business Scenarios
Roadmap


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SAP HANA Cloud portal
Product road map overview – key themes and capabilities
Cloud-based portal for easy
site creation & consumption
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Success Factors extensions UI
framework
Cloud for Service support site
Integrated with Jam
Superior user experience designed for mobile
consumption
Secure, standards-based
integration capabilities
Customization and branding
Leveraging SAP HANA DB
Monthly release cycle

Extending SAP solutions
with cloud-based portal
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Integration with Fiori and
Lumira
Extensions store front
HANA UI services adoption
HANA XS applications support
Web Content Management
integration
Forms with pre-defined back
end integration to ERP, HCM,
CRM
Advanced usage analytics

TODAY

Planned Innovations

October 2013

H1 2014

Superior user experience
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Advanced personalization and
content discovery
Widgets store front
Enriched development tools
Additional content integrations
with SAP and non SAP
content
Enrich platform with out of the
box content

Future Direction
H2 2014
* This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.


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SAP HANA Cloud Portal Resources
Cloud Portal on SAP.com:
http://sap.com/cloudportal
Cloud Portal Experience Site:
Cloud Portal Community:
http://scn.sap.com/community/hana-cloud-portal
Cloud Portal YouTube Playlist:
http://tiny.cc/cp-youtube
Cloud Portal on SAP Store:
http://tiny.cc/cp-store


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