SharePoint integration with SAP

A while back, I was looking into the SAP’s Portal offering and trying to understand how it differs from SharePoint.  In my investigation, I found the following to be the best practice:

• SAP R/3 Power users can use SAP GUI, or SAP Enterprise Portal, to interact with SAP apps


• Casual SAP users should use SharePoint to consume relevant SAP info


• Example:


• Using a web part to display a user's personnel information from SAP in a web part


• View open purchase orders in a web part

 

• Single Sign-On would be the solution to interface SharePoint with SAP apps


• User signs on to their windows account, which is tied to their SAP account credentials, and gets instant access to all SAP apps


• Personalized access to views of the user's own data