SAP Solution: Sharepoint

KGS, a specialist in digital archiving, knows the data and document archiving trends of 2025.

The integration of SharePoint and other Microsoft tools into the SAP Sales Cloud promises added value - for customers and employees alike. Faster, simpler, and leaner processes benefit businesses and enhance the customer experience.

External or new employees are often not familiar with SAP interfaces. Nevertheless, they often have to work with SAP data, such as when creating an order.

High data and document throughputs characterize every project business. Unexpected information bottlenecks usually occur at the interface between SAP ERP and SharePoint. A customer also felt this in his projects and found a solution to the problem.

With the introduction of Hana 2, the path to S/4 for existing SAP customers has become even more challenging. In this exclusive interview with E-3, Hinrich Mielke, Director of SAP at Alegri, outlines the advantages and disadvantages of possible changeover scenarios.

As part of the SolMan upgrade strategy, solution documentation is one of the biggest issues. Although the effort of a conversion is considerable, it is a good investment in the future.

With the Archive Content Manager (ACM), the Henrichsen system house has now been able to close a gap in the work with the SAP and SharePoint platforms: audit-proof archiving of all incoming and outgoing documents including the link with SAP objects.

When it comes to mapping workflows and task areas for internal collaboration, SharePoint is set in many companies. Anyone who also needed to access their SAP data from this environment previously needed time and nerves.

More and more companies are adopting a dual-platform strategy to combine the benefits of different software solutions. The most prominent example is the integration of SAP and SharePoint.

Since 2011, SAP has been offering NetWeaver Gateway, an extension for all SAP products based on NetWeaver ABAP, to enable simple, controlled access to SAP system data via an open, REST-based interface. The OData protocol used for this is optimized for the requirements in the user interface area. This allows various UI technologies to be used with mission-critical data from the...