Duet Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint and SAP is a new jointly developed product from SAP and Microsoft that enables interoperability between SAP applications and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition. Duet Enterprise empowers employees to consume and extend SAP processes and information from within SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 client applications.
Components that support Duet Enterprise
The following figure shows the components of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 on which Duet Enterprise is built. The SAP system components that are shown support Duet Enterprise.
1. SharePoint workflow functionality supports interactions between SharePoint users and SAP workflows.
2. The Enterprise Content Manager component is used to manage the lifecycle of documents, such as SAP reports.
3. Duet Enterprise uses the SharePoint Security Token Service to interact with the claims-based authentication provider that is provided by SharePoint Server 2010 to authenticate users using SAML tokens.
4. The Microsoft Business Connectivity Services provide a connector for communication between Microsoft SharePoint Server and the SAP environment along with other features used to connect to and interact with SAP information.
5. The reporting modules that run on SAP NetWeaver or SAP Business Information Warehouse provide reporting functionality around SAP data.
6. The SAP Workflow engine runs all SAP workflows.
7. SAP Enterprise services are used to interact with the SAP Business Suite and retrieve SAP information and content.
8. The SAP Shared Master Data and Computing Center Management System tools are used to monitor SAP systems and SAP Duet Enterprise components. These SAP supportability tools are described in the Monitoring and Troubleshooting section, later in this article.
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Components that support Duet Enterprise
The following figure shows the components of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 on which Duet Enterprise is built. The SAP system components that are shown support Duet Enterprise.
The following list describes the key components on the SharePoint system (shown in Figure) that are used by Duet Enterprise and the key components in the SAP environment, (Shown in Figure) that support Duet Enterprise.
1. SharePoint workflow functionality supports interactions between SharePoint users and SAP workflows.
2. The Enterprise Content Manager component is used to manage the lifecycle of documents, such as SAP reports.
3. Duet Enterprise uses the SharePoint Security Token Service to interact with the claims-based authentication provider that is provided by SharePoint Server 2010 to authenticate users using SAML tokens.
4. The Microsoft Business Connectivity Services provide a connector for communication between Microsoft SharePoint Server and the SAP environment along with other features used to connect to and interact with SAP information.
5. The reporting modules that run on SAP NetWeaver or SAP Business Information Warehouse provide reporting functionality around SAP data.
6. The SAP Workflow engine runs all SAP workflows.
7. SAP Enterprise services are used to interact with the SAP Business Suite and retrieve SAP information and content.
8. The SAP Shared Master Data and Computing Center Management System tools are used to monitor SAP systems and SAP Duet Enterprise components. These SAP supportability tools are described in the Monitoring and Troubleshooting section, later in this article.
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