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From the Microsoft SAP Alliance Team
Feburary was an eventful month. Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 were launched in Los Angeles on Feb 27. A world-record scale was set by SQL Server 2008 on industry standard blade servers in the SAP SSD 3-tier standard benchmark test with 34,000 SAP SD standard application benchmark users. The scalability needs of at least 97 percent of all SAP deployments are expected to be covered with the throughput demonstrated in this benchmark by SQL Server 2008 x64 and Windows Server 2008 x64.
Another exciting announcement: Enterprise Services Explorer for Microsoft .NET (ES Explorer) from SAP has been made available through SDN as an early sneak preview.
The ES Explorer is an add-in for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 that lets you search, browse, and consume SAP Web services that are published and categorized in the Enterprise Services Registry that is part of the upcoming NetWeaver CE 7.1.
The ES Explorer can be considered a successor to the .NET Connector, and it is consistent with SAP moving into the Enterprise SOA (ESOA) space. With this wizard-like tool, a .NET developer can find an SAP Web service more easily than ever and consume it by a simple right-click from within the development environment. The Web service can be consumed as a regular .asmx Web service or as a WCF service.
The ES Explorer is the outcome of the continued collaboration between SAP and Microsoft. Join us for a webcast on March 11 at 8:00 AM Pacific Time, when we jointly demo the tool with SAP.
Thanks for reading and staying connected.
Editor, Microsoft SAP Technical Community Newslettermsftsap@mcrosoft.com
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Upcoming Webcasts
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March 11, 8:00 AM Pacific Time
In this joint webcast between SAP and the Microsoft SAP team, we present several approaches to creating Microsoft .NET applications with the SAP Enterprise Explorer (which is now downloadable via SDN). Developers working with Visual Studio can use this product, which was developed by SAP and Microsoft, to quickly build .NET Applications with SAP Enterprise Services. Nadav Margalat, Architect with SAP, along with Juergen Dailberl, technical evangelist, and Dudu Benabou, architect and author of the Explorer, will demonstrate the Explorer and show how you can use it to quickly create applications that can dramatically improve the productivity of SAP users.
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March 13, 9:30 AM Pacific Time
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 includes the integrated Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services solution to easily create and manage reports on information inside any SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) data warehouse. An updated data provider and a new query designer enable you to take advantage of the data in SAP BW (now called SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence). Join this webcast to learn how to set up, configure, deploy, and use these new capabilities.
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New Benchmarks and White Papers Published
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This latest benchmark demonstrates an increase of throughput of nearly a factor of three over the past four years with industry-standard hardware. With the demonstrated throughput by SQL Server 2008 x64 and Windows Server 2008 x64 running on industry-standard hardware is expected to cover scalability needs of at least 97 percent of all SAP deployments worldwide.
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Migrating an SAP/ERP environment to Microsoft SQL Server can reduce unplanned downtime by over 20%, cut IT labor costs by nearly 25%, and cut ongoing software support costs up to 85%. Migration from competitive databases is made easy by tools, best practices, and certified SAP migration specialists. Payback is as short as nine months, with ongoing annual savings of
30% - 37% possible.
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This Technical Reference Guide lays out the status quo of existing interoperability scenarios between SAP NetWeaver Portal and SharePoint Technologies as of today. The paper was jointly developed by SAP and Microsoft and is a mature statement of do's and don'ts in the Portal Interoperability today. Solution scenarios describe the high level overview where how to guides let consultants and interested techies step through the implementation.
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Enterprises looking for a way to consume SAP Enterprise Portal iViews using Microsoft Office SharePoint System 2007 can consider Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP). The goal of the WSRP technology is to facilitate the reusability of portlets across the boundaries of specific manufacturer implementations. This technology extends SAP Enterprise Portal functionality and data to SharePoint end users without the complexities or the expense of custom solutions.
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Recent Webcasts Now Available On Demand
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In this webcast, we discuss SAP and Microsoft portal interoperability. We cover how you can integrate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the SAP NetWeaver Portal from front-end integration (iView, Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), and URL linking) to integrate components and services across the portal (via Web services, the SAP Portal Development Kit for the Microsoft .NET Framework, and connectors). We explore approaches for interoperability based on search and the Business Data Catalog feature in SharePoint Server 2007. We also demonstrate the various types of solutions and describe how to approach portal integration.
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Learn how to integrate Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Office InfoPath, Project, and Visio with SAP. We start with an overview of the key design principles and detail the guidelines and best practices for integrating these applications with SAP. We show you how to create front-end Web services to connect to SAP, and how to consume these Web services to architect compelling solutions that dramatically improve the productivity of your users.
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Learn how the Enterprise Application Services (EAS) team in the Microsoft Information Technology (IT) department utilizes the new database mirroring and online indexing features in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to dramatically increase the availability of SAP R/3 at Microsoft. We also discuss how, by using the 64-bit version of SQL Server 2005 with commodity 64-bit hardware, EAS was able to lower the total cost of ownership while increasing performance, scalability, and reliability in the SAP R/3 landscape.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is the database that many organizations use to deploy SAP business applications. Attend this webcast to learn the best practices for setting up and operating SQL Server 2005 for secure, reliable, and scalable SAP deployments. Find out about architectures, 64-bit deployments, SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) configurations, database mirroring, and five of the most common configuration problems.
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Office Business Application Resources
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Get the practical guide to implementing the Microsoft Office system as an application-development platform. This book highlights the breadth of approaches developers can take for extending line-of-business information to information workers in the familiar, usable format of the Microsoft Office interface. These approaches, Microsoft Office Business Application (OBA) patterns, are based on real-world implementations in many cases. In other cases, they are built on Microsoft Office features that have a generalized solution rooted in input from customers and partners. This reference delivers the seven key Microsoft Office Business Application patterns and provides professional developers with extensible examples and the architectural guidance needed for developing custom enterprise applications and extending business information to users.
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The Office Business Application Starter Kit for SAP (OBA Starter Kit for SAP) showcases the power of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 in conjunction with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. (These tools are also known as Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition, or VSTO 2005 SE.) These development tools combined with the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 provide a compelling approach to integrating SAP enterprise processes into Microsoft Office system applications, such as Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.
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OBA Central is a comprehensive Web site for Office Business Applications Solutions across industries, line of business apps, and business processes. Search through hundreds of ISV solutions that dramatically improve the productivity and experience of your end users.
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Microsoft to Host SAP Customer Advisory Board Meeting: May 22 in Berlin, Germany (after SAPPHIRE EMEA
EVENT)
If your company is interested in influencing the direction of future Microsoft and SAP interoperability and networking with other customers, please send us an e-mail message for nominations to the Microsoft SAP Customer Advisory Board. |
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