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References Each challenge is an opportunity New technology for enterprise business Get an idea of how modern IT can help you to understand the challenges
of new global markets and transform them into opportunities. Here
you'll find a selection of projects that we are currently supervising
or have already completed. (in alphabetical order)
Implementation of an SAP NetWeaver Portal at a German construction financing provider The key benefits of this project are: simple and secure browser-based access without password verification with single sign-on for all intranet applications, efficient role-supported working for all users without client side installation and central role control and allocation. The main features of the implemented solution show the many faces of integrating applications: Single sign-on with WinGUI for access to mySAP.com, mainframe applications, UNIX terminal applications plus web-based applications and local applications like MS-Office. The synchronisation of user and role data with mySAP HR and BHW's proprietary user, role and security system, as well as the mySAP Application Server 6.20 for central user administration, are major components of a solution that will provide one Single Point of Administration for all users and applications from the very first moment of operation. In addition to the role-based provision of applications and information,
a document management system was implemented that now supports approx.
500 internal and external users with their project documentation.
It was integrated by means of the portal's Knowledge Management
Component. Key requirements were a simple authentication management
based on Microsoft Active Directory, version management and secure
external access via Internet. Key features are news, upload and
download sections, TREX search, version management and document
status management. New software features for attribute based and
query based taxonomy will be implemented in a future step.
Sub-project "Strategic Project Controlling" Sub-project "Budget Planning"
Consulting Services in Designing an Executive Portal for the Municipality Group Essen The Municipality Group Essen has implemented
a powerful management information portal based on SAP NetWeaver
and successively expanded this portal with self-service functionality.
The executive portal makes information relevant for planning and
controlling available with the click of a mouse using a uniform,
consolidated database. Management executives can access current
financial and structural data quickly and conveniently. As a central
element of e-government, the portal offers a reliable basis for
better and sounder decisions. Further highlights: Single sign-on
authentication, easy access to SAP transactions and the integration
of familiar Office applications such as MS Excel or MS Outlook were
implemented with SAP NetWeaver.
R/3 SD order registration in customer portal btexx designed and implemented a tailor-made customer portal for entering and tracking SD orders for internationally-active GKN, a components supplier to the automotive industry. The solution is a proprietary development based on Java that includes user and permission administration. It runs on the free J2EE Server Tomcat and does not require the SAP Portal. Implemented features in detail:
Retailer Portal with SAP NetWeaver and mySAP Customer Relationship Management
Development of batch components for the user mapping of a web-shop portal Karstadt Quelle is the largest combined mail-order and department store company in Europe. A considerable share of its turn-over is handled by decentralised agencies. These agencies, amounting to a four digit number in total, are scheduled to process all orders via a portal based on the SAP EP 6.0 in order to increase the efficiency of their business processes. The agencies have access to further back-end systems via the portal using a single sign-on mechanism with user mapping. Taking care of such data manually, would require a great deal of administration, which is why btexx extended the SAP EP 6.0 instead with a batch upload feature. That way, bulk data can be uploaded from files into the portal where it is then automatically filed in the user administration.
Design and Implementation of a secure Enterprise Portal using certificates and eTokens After almost 30 years of market experience, LHI Leasing GmbH (Ltd.) is today in charge of immovable and large movable property worth some 12 billion Euro and is one of Germany 's leading leasing companies. Founded in 1973, today well-known German private enterprises and the state are among its clients. LHI offers its demanding clients a powerful portfolio ranging from classic product and property leasing to funds and cross-border set-ups. Since January 2002, LHI Leasing has been offering its clients
"IQ - intelligent quality". The portal keeps clients and employees up to date about current leasing objects and projects ? secure and simple. All the necessary SAP applications are provided via the portal interface in a web browser with a single sign-on function, the access is individually customised for each of LHI's clients. Portal security is based on, among other things, the SAP Trust Center Services: each authorised user receives a personal key, a certificate, which is stored on a USB token. In order to further improve collaboration with its clients, LHI has extended its service with features of the Swiss portal content provider getAbstract. The content is seamlessly integrated via iViews. LHI's clients have access to the world's largest online library of abstracts of the most important and latest works of economics literature. The compact form allows the reader to grasp the key information of a business book in less than 15 minutes.
Migration of an Enterprise Portal from SAP EP 5.0 to EP 6.0 The Metro Group operates an employee portal based on a SAP EP 5.0. Numerous applications are already productively used by the employees on this platform. Within the tender offer for a follow-up platform, a new portal based on SAP EP 6.0 was devised. The objective of this proof of concept was to achieve functionality for the new portal fully identical to the EP 5.0's. btexx accomplished its commissioned job of migrating extensive customer software to the new platform, in particular Java and .Net iViews, which partly needed redeveloping, together with portal services. Metro's EP 6.0 portal uses an Oracle database instead of a SQL Server. Therefore, one database-driven news application had to be completely redesigned. A newly-added requirement was to automatically determine, depending
on the role membership of a logged on user, which back-end system
to use for the standard Business Packages, e.g. ESS. For this purpose,
btexx developed a dynamic system switch that seamlessly integrates
into the portal's standard APIs.
Development of an Enterprise Portal Based on SAP NetWeaver for Order Entry of Construction Services Oppenheim Immobilien-Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbh (OIK) views
itself as a real estate portfolio manager and assumes the responsibility
for portfolio and property management of real estate within the
framework of developing a multi-asset portfolio for institutional
investors. In the process, Oppenheim Immobilien-Kapitalanlagegesellschaft
mbh attends to over 500 properties across the globe with a total
value of over EUR 10 billion. The goal of the project was to develop
a system for rapid and convenient entry of order information for
construction, maintenance and repair services. Until now, the data
entered and transferred by the property and facility managers had
to be processed manually, which often led to frequent changes in
format. This significantly slowed the process of information acquisition
and processing. The new solution provides the property and facility
managers with a portal that allows them to rapidly enter the individual
properties and integrate them into the existing workflows. This
enables the company to provide construction services more quickly
and eases the employee's workload by custom tailoring processes.
The decision was quickly made in favor of the SAP NetWeaver Portal
due to its ability to seamlessly integrate structured and unstructured
information.
Enterprise Portal with “Traders Workplace” based on the SAP NetWeaver Portal Evonik Aktiengesellschaft (incorporated
company) is an internationally active industrial holdings group
with over 82,000 employees and revenues of over EUR 22 billion in
2005. The company was founded solely as a mining company in 1969
under the name Ruhrkohle AG. Now RAG AG has expanded its value chain,
which is centered around hard coal, into the area of international
business as well. In addition to the Chemicals business division,
which will soon become one of the highest revenue-generating divisions
in the company following the majority takeover of Degussa AG, the
RAG Group also boasts one of the largest real estate firms in North
Rhine Westphalia – RAG Immobilien AG.
Within the scope of a proof of concept, the technical possibilities for integrating the SAP BW system into the SAP portal topography of Ruhrgas, were analysed and implemented prototypically focusing on particular requirements. Specifically, the following issues were taken into account:
Migration of a SharePoint Portal to SAP EP 6.0 An existing Microsoft SharePoint portal with a data volume exeeding 10 GB in 15,000 files was migrated into the content management of the SAP EP 6.0. The objective was to transfer the existing data and meta information as extensively as possible and in its original structure to the SharePoint portal. To do so, appropriate properties were created in the SAP EP 6.0 CM and filled with the meta information from the SharePoint portal in an automated procedure. In addition, the versioning of SAP EP 6.0 CM was applied to each document's versions in the order in which they were in the SharePoint portal. Implemented key features in detail:
Introducing EP 6.0 as global internal portal of SAP AG At present SAP operates a multitude of web-based internal applications including some 30 employee portals, amongst others. Some of these applications are proprietary developments, some of which were implemented on the basis of Microsoft .Net. Within the scope of its project EP6@SAP, SAP is now embarking on a global consolidation strategy intending to harmonise a major part of its infrastructure plus, the up-to-now widely spread applications, into one Enterprise Portal 6.0. As a result of its expertise in the sector of portal technologies,
and its specialisation on portal implementation, btexx is playing
a supportive role in this project. SAP's Lines of Business (LOB)
successively implement their business processes into the enterprise
portal, country by country. Recently the production start-up of
the LOBs Sales and Marketing took place with their application "SMI"
(Sales & Marketing Intranet), based on EP6. The portal system is
situated in the USA . The rollout of SMI in ten European countries,
followed by Asia , will be carried out during the next months. After
the completion of the rollout, some 3,000 sales employeeswill use
the EP6 productively. The next step in this project will be the
set-up of an EP6 for the EMEA region in Walldorf. More LOBs to be
moved in here are the service department with CRM service processes
and the human resources department with ESS and MSS scenarios. In
the course of this process, the connection of the two portal setups
in the USA and Europe to one "federated portal" is deemed to be
a great challenge. Currently, a SAP-wide strategy for content management
is being devised. The objective of this inter-LOB sub-project is
to replace the present SAPNet, SAP's Intranet, with a modern high-performance
KM solution. In this project btexx consultants are in charge of
the following tasks and roles:
Implementing mobile access to an Enterprise HR Portal using PDAs The buzz phrase for this project for a large telecommunication service provider is "new benefit potential by mobilising". Mobile access allows employees to record their work times and activities both online and offline and to exchange the data with the HR portal. The application is implemented as an ActiveX control that runs in an HTML page in the Internet Explorer of a PocketPC. The control is divided into two parts, the first of which is a XML parser that interprets the local saved XML files. The second part is the graphical user interface, which reacts to events triggered by user interaction and changes XML files accordingly, and then updates the displayed information. The locally recorded data is then transmitted to the HR portal via a synchronisation function assuming the PocketPC can access to the Internet (e.g. Via GPRS or WLAN).
 Wacker
Chemie AG implemented integrated communication processes with SAP
NetWeaver to their customers and took the first step to an Enterprise
Service-Oriented Architecture (Enterprise SOA). Wacker Chemie AG is a globally operating chemical company with about 20 production locations and 14400 employees worldwide. In order to standardize IT-architecture they decided to develop a customer portal based on a sustainable platform for a targeted and effective information and communication. The platform had to cover the necessary functionalities within the standard product. For this reason Wacker Chemie AG decided to build the portal on SAP NetWeaver. In October 2005, after six month's implementation phase, the new customer portal went online. A substantial reason for the rapid implementation was the support by btexx business technologies, a Special Expertise Partner for SAP NetWeaver Portal. btexx business technologies brought in its experiences from numerous portal installations. "That was especially in our project very helpfully." said Juergen Hamann, project leader. About 150 customers are already integrated into the portal, at the end of 2007 about 250 customers will have access to the Wacker portal. Each customer is registered with several unique users. Additionally Wacker Chemie AG introduced the Web Content Management solution easyWCM of btexx business technologies. Editorial content can now be provided, maintained and published directly in the portal in the existing navigation structure.
HR time planning processes and setting up the SAP EP 6.0 Portal In order to optimize the internal HR processes, ZF changed its time economic systems from Mainframe applications to SAP. For the visualization of the HR time restaurant processes iView applications were written. The ZF requirements were interfaced with the SAP ESS standard. btexx did development and infrastructure changes, as well as instructing the developers, in the production setting. The portal, EP 5,0, which affected over 5000 associates, was successfully put into production on time. The search engine TREX from SAP was developed as a high-available universal search machine, which facilitates the access to information for all ZF users. It was also integrated in all websites, and from non-portal applications, with a TREX webservice. Step by step components are integrated. For example the group-specific operational sequence and communication forms are easier to support. In order to create a world-wide entrance for associates, as well as suppliers and customers, btexx developed a global EP 6.0-Infrastructure. In the next phase, further content and additional HR processes will be integrated. The goal is to allow access to applications for about 30.000 persons in one uniform global portal.
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