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Liferay and SAP Integration
Date: March 14, 2012
Presented By: Tom Rodgers – Head, US Delivery, CIGNEX Datamatics Saket Thakkar – SAP Practice Director, CIGNEX Datamatics Parth Barot – Sr. Consultant, CIGNEX Datamatics
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Agenda
• Liferay - SAP as User eXperience Platforms (UXP)
• Liferay – SAP Integration
• Case Study – Supplier Collaboration Portal
• About CIGNEX Datamatics
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Portal Ecosystem Vs UXP
Traditional Portal
• User Experience is an afterthought
• Heaps of Functionality
• Lack of usability
Portals on UX Platform
• User Experience is prime
• Pre-integrated suite that installs mostly off-the-shelf
• UX design & management features are coupled with usability centered designs and usability testing
User Experience Platforms are ‘Consumer/User Driven IT’
Source: Gartner, March 2011
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UXP components in Supplier Portal
Supplier Portal
Flexibility & Scalability
Compliance to Standards
Security
Administration
Multi-tenancy
Web Content Management
Search
Document Management
Integration with Supply Chain applications
B2B Integration
Infrastructure UXP Components
Integration Support
Offline Editing
Dashboards
Collaboration
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JCo based Integration • Features
– RFC middleware based on the JNI (Java Native Interface)
– Support of SAP ECC -R/3 Systems and other mySAP components with BAPIs or RFMs (Remote Function Modules)
– Execution of function calls • Inbound (Java client calls BAPI or
RFM)
• Outbound (ABAP calls Java Server)
– Support for • synchronous, transactional, and
queued RFC
• Connection pooling (important for Web servers)
• Various platforms
• Extensive code page handling, including multi-byte
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Integration Scenarios
SAP ECC 6.0 - R/3
Workflow BI & Reporting
Forms
Social Content Collaboration
User Groups and Roles Authentication
Presentation
Liferay Services
SAP CRM SAP SRM SAP GRC SAP RPM
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A Global Leader in Reliable Power Conversion Solutions
Success Story: Supplier Collaboration Portals
IBE - UXP using Liferay + SAP
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Client Overview
• Headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, Client is the global leader in reliable power conversion solutions
• Founded in 1981, and have regional centers in North America, Asia and Europe
• Over 1400 employees are primarily engaged in the creation and supply of thin-film manufacturing, solar energy and semi-conductor devices
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Business Challenges
• Business Challenges
– Manual communication using spreadsheets and emails
• Low Productivity & Time Consuming
• Increasing risk and costs
• Margin of error
– Material requirement planning were slow to communicate with little collaboration
– Legacy systems lacked functionalities which were expensive to modify
• Architecture Infrastructure
– Client was searching for an alternative to SAP Enterprise Portal while achieving its capabilities. The challenges being
• Enterprise Portal costs – license and maintenance & associated cost to support the portal
• Functionality enablement within SAP ECC to support portal enablement
• Advanced portal functionality not available utilizing SAP Portal
Problem Background Client lacked a centralized system to collaborate with their suppliers. They used siloed approach where each communication (Fax, email, phone) was used independent of one another.
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Key Solution Features
• Client-Supplier collaboration through – Message Boards, Upload and download of documents – Contact information with requisite permissions
• Registration with approval for new suppliers users
• Facilities for suppliers on forecast and purchase order
lines – Email capabilities to request information – Special alerts on priority actions – Excel download capabilities – Popup and hover information
• SSO enabled for client LDAP users
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Benefits
• A Portal that enables supplier to forecast and procure purchase order along with seamless features • Scalable solution in various SAP functions including ESS, CRM, MSS and more
– SAP transactions to extend functionality out to the portal – Features and functions compared that support collaboration and
interoperability – Support for EDI and XLS using SAP Netweaver PI
Estimated 50% savings in TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) for three year period
– Eliminated the highly priced SAP resources for portal
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TCO Savings over SAP SNC Portal
Supplier Collaboration SAP SNC Portal* Liferay w/ SAP web services*
Software/Hardware $ 200,000 $ 100,000
Software Maintenance (3 Years) $ 150,000 $ 36,000
Implementation $ 400,000 $ 300,000
Staffing $ 750,000 $ 400,000
TCO – 3 years $ 1,500,000 $ 836,000
Over 50% savings on Total Cost of Ownership by adopting Liferay + SAP web service
* - All the figures are approximations Source: Based on comparative estimates done in Y2011
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About CIGNEX Datamatics
A subsidiary of Datamatics Group Services Limited
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What Does CIGNEX Datamatics Do?
Saving
Tim
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In the last 11 years, CIGNEX Datamatics helped clients save over US$ 500 Million by adopting Commercial Open Source Software across 200+ implementations
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Where We Can Help You
portals
intranets
e-commerce
social collaboration
integration & ESB
mobile apps
SAP/ ERP apps
big analytics...more
web content management
document management
records management
digital asset management
big data
business intelligence
business process
enterprise search
Open Source Center of Excellence (CoE)
DAM
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Liferay @ CIGNEX Datamatics • Global Platinum Partner
– Close working relationship since 2006
– Conduct Liferay trainings in Asia, Middle East, UK and USA
– Over 150 Liferay consultants
– Over 3500 posts in Liferay Community
• Achievements
– Deployed over 100 enterprise solutions
– Authored 5 Liferay Books
– Liferay Partner of the Year Award – 2011, 2010
– Community Excellence Award - 2011
Liferay Partner of the Year, 2010
Liferay Partner of the Year, 2011
Community Excellence Award,
2011
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SAP @ CIGNEX Datamatics • SAP Partner
– 20+ years of SAP implementation & Integration experience
– Experience of leading & managing 3rd Largest SAP Consulting Company (Rapidigm and Fujitsu Consulting)
• SAP Expertise in
– Integration with Open Source Products
• Liferay Portals
• Alfresco ECM
• Magento e-Commerce
– Consulting services
• SAP ABAP
• SAP Functional
• SAP BASIS
– Adobe Forms Development
– ECC Upgrades
– Quality Assurance & Test Services
– Project Management, Training & Change management
– Netweaver
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Free Assessment Workshop • This workshop enables
Enterprises to maximize existing IT assets and build a road map based on the integration of proven Open Source technologies that reduce software Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in excess of 50% and help generate IT budget savings.
• The FREE Assessment Workshop includes: – Situation Analysis
– Gap Analysis
– Recommendations
For additional information visit:
www.cignex.com or contact marketing@cignex.com
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Q & A, Thank You for your time
Making Open Source work
for the Enterprise
Tom Rodgers – Head, US Delivery tom.rodgers@cignex.com
Saket Thakkar – SAP Practice Director
saket.thakkar@cignex.com
Parth Barot – Sr. Consultant parth.barot@cignex.com
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