Duet Enterprise Features for Solution Development
Duet Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint and SAP developed jointly by SAP and Microsoft, provides a variety of features that help developers create custom solutions that consume and extend SAP applications through Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010.
Applies to: Duet Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint and SAP Server 2.0 | Office 2010 | SharePoint Server 2010
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Features Provided with Duet Enterprise
Duet Enterprise SharePoint Features
Duet Enterprise SAP Features
The Duet Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint and SAP features are installed in the following locations:
On servers running SharePoint Server 2010
On servers running SAP NetWeaver 7.02
Features Provided with Duet Enterprise
Duet Enterprise adds features and functionality to both SharePoint Server 2010 and SAP that helps developers create custom solutions. The Duet Enterprise features create a framework that SAP ABAP developers and SharePoint developers can use to jointly create custom solutions.
Figure 1 shows a high-level overview of the Duet Enterprise features installed on servers that are running SharePoint Server 2010 and SAP NetWeaver 7.02.
Figure 1. Duet Enterprise features
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Duet Enterprise SharePoint Features
The following are the Duet Enterprise features for SharePoint:
Duet Enterprise provide the following functionality:
**BCS solution designer **Provides tools to enable easier access and offline access to SAP data by using Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) external lists and associated task panes and actions.
**Enterprise collaboration ** Enables workers to create a collaboration workspace around an SAP object from either Microsoft Outlook 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010.
**Monitoring and supportability **Provides additional monitoring and supportability tools for administrators.
**Reporting **Provides users with the option to schedule reports from SharePoint Server 2010 and have the reports delivered directly into SharePoint Server 2010. You can also take the built-in Duet Enterprise reporting capability offline and work with the reports offline by using SharePoint 2010.
Role and profile sync SharePoint Server 2010 user accounts cannot be used to directly access information in SAP. To provide authentication and authorization across both the Microsoft and SAP platforms, Duet Enterprise enables SAP administrators to map SharePoint Server 2010 user accounts to SAP accounts. Duet Enterprise also enables the use of SAP roles, which SAP administrators map to SAP users in the SAP environment.
Sites templates Custom site templates included with Duet Enterprise enable employees to interact with SAP information via a simple list in SharePoint Server 2010 or in Microsoft Office.
Workflow Enables SAP workflow sets to be discovered in SharePoint Server 2010 or Microsoft Outlook 2010. You can extend workflows by using the SharePoint Server 2010 workflow capabilities.
Duet Enterprise SAP Features
The following are the Duet Enterprise features for SAP:
**Business content **A set of SAP business objects.
**Workflow **Enables SharePoint Server 2010 users to participate in SAP workflows.
**Reporting **Enables SharePoint Server 2010 users to retrieve reports from SAP. Reporting also enables the configuration of report catalogs, which are then made available on the Reporting site in SharePoint Server 2010.
**Content publisher **Transfers content from SAP to SharePoint Server 2010.
**Object instance cache **Caches Duet Enterprise-specific data and information.
**Routing manager **Routes requests for reports from SAP NetWeaver to the corresponding SAP external system.
**Role provider **Enables SharePoint Server 2010 to get a list of SAP roles that can be used to grant permissions on securable objects in SharePoint Server 2010 sites.
For more information, see Duet Enterprise: Consume and Extend SAP Applications Through Microsoft SharePoint 2010(http://www.sap.com/solutions/duetenterprise/index.epx).