Aviad Rivlin

February 27, 2010 1 minute read

SAP NetWeaver Portal Looking forward to 2010

Hello all,

As the first decade of the 21^st century comes to an end, and New Year’s resolution decisions are being made, it is a perfect time to start sharing more information with you: the amazing SDN community of the Portal, which is one the most active communities on the SDN!

This year, we are initiating an open discussion with the community on a weekly basis, and per demand even on a more frequent basis. Each week we will share with you a new topic, which we believe will be interesting for you. We of course want to stay tuned to the topics you see of interest: If you feel there is a specific topic that we should cover, please comment bellow and we will cover it in one of the upcoming weeks.

Looking forward to 2010, I would like to share with you our two major planned activities for this year, which we expect to have very positive impact on your implementations

“SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Workspaces”: (tentative name) A new add-on product for SAP Portal, which will provide a flexible, intuitive UI composition environment, enabling enterprise end users to integrate and run structured and unstructured assets using a self-service approach. Not clear yet? Stay tuned to our next blogs…
Next major Portal release: We plan to release a beta version for a limited and selected list of customer for the next major portal release by Q2 of 2010, and expect to make the release available for ramp-up customers by the end of 2010. In this release we gave extra attention to usability, supportability, TCO reduction and special requirements coming from our customers and partners. If you are interested in joining the beta program, please comment bellow and we will contact you directly.

So, please stay tuned. We have some exciting and interesting information to share with you, and we will do so in the coming weeks.

Looking forward for an exciting (Portal) year !

April 27th Update: Thank you all for the great interest in the beta program of the next major release of the Portal. The registration phase for the beta program is closed and the program will start in the coming days. Thanks you all for the great interest and participation. Looking forward for the ramp-up…

Aviad Rivlin and the SAP Portal, KMC and Dashboard builder Solution Management Team

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Former Member

April 1, 2010 at 10:14 pm

Please also inform me about the Beta Program.

I'm also interested

IECISA - Javier Raposo IECISA

April 7, 2010 at 12:30 am

Hi Aviad,

I am very interested in joining join the beta program. Please keep me posted.

Thanks
José Ignacio

Former Member

April 7, 2010 at 8:06 am

Hi Aviad,

I would like to join the beta program as well (especially being an SAP partner) so please keep me posted - thank you!

Former Member

April 7, 2010 at 6:28 pm

I want to be part of the Beta Version Release of the Portal interface.

Thank you.

Kind Regards,
Mohi

Former Member

April 7, 2010 at 10:52 pm

Even I would also like to be part of this release .

Shankar Agarwal

April 11, 2010 at 12:41 am

quite interested in being part of this

Former Member

April 11, 2010 at 8:21 am

Hi Aviad,

I am very interested in joining join the beta program. Please keep me posted.

Thanks
Jaish

Former Member

April 12, 2010 at 1:43 am

Dear ,

Highly impressed with your blog. I represent Reliance Retail, the largest retail company in India. Reliance Retail is part of the USD 37 Billion Reliance Industries Group.

We are currently on Portal EHP1 SP5. We would like to go for EHP2 Beta Version that you mentioned in your blog.

Kindly get in touch with us so that we can go ahead.

Thanks & Regards,
Laxmikant Pathak - EP Lead - Reliance Retail
(laxmikant.pathak@ril.com, +91 9867550349)
Umesh V Shah - AGM - Reliance Retail
(umesh.v.shah@ril.com, +91 9967646632)

John Petter Kvalvik

April 12, 2010 at 11:50 pm

Hi ,

I would like to join in beta program.

Thanks,
Petter

Former Member

April 15, 2010 at 2:12 am

Hi,
SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Workspaces released to customers ? If not when will it be available? Is there in Beta / Ramp up for the same ?

Thanks,
Abdul Raheem S

Aviad Rivlin

Blog Post Author

April 15, 2010 at 4:33 am

Hi Abdul Raheem S,

Enterprise Workspaces is not yet released, it is planned to be released for ramp-up customers by Q3\2010.

Kind regards,
Aviad

Former Member

April 17, 2010 at 7:11 pm

Hi,
Thanks for the info. We wish to be part of ramp up. Pls let us know the details.

Thanks,
Abdul Raheem S

Aviad Rivlin

Blog Post Author

April 18, 2010 at 12:02 am

Hello Abdul Raheem S,

Please read more at: http://service.sap.com/rampup
or contact your SAP Account Executive.

Regards,
Aviad

Former Member

April 29, 2010 at 6:16 am

Hi Abdul,

Do you know when will be the enterprise workspace be available for customer

Former Member

April 19, 2010 at 1:02 am

Hi Aviad,
I am very motivated in joining and contributing the program.
Thanks for the update
Frank

Arun Jaiswal

April 19, 2010 at 1:56 am

Hi Aviad,

I would like to join the beta program. Please keep us updated.

Regards
Arun

Former Member

April 19, 2010 at 4:42 am

please include me...
clinton.premananthan@gmail.com

Former Member

April 19, 2010 at 10:08 pm

Hello Aviad,

We would like to apply for the SAP NetWeaver 7.3 Beta for Portal.

Our focus at Oliver IT is on composite applications and architecture upon the Netweaver platform. All our consultants are Senior Netweaver Consultants with a lot of experience with Portals and the other Netweaver components. Therefor we think we could be of added value to the beta program.

If you want more information about us, let me know.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Best Regards,
Christophe Benoit
Oliver IT

Former Member

April 19, 2010 at 10:41 pm

Hi...i am pretty interested in knowing the beta program updates......vikrant.raj@sap.com

David Pierre

April 20, 2010 at 12:03 am

Dear,
We would like to join the beta testing effort.

BR ,
David PIerre

Former Member

April 21, 2010 at 1:08 am

Hallo, I'm interested to be a participant in testing phase as well.

Former Member

April 23, 2010 at 3:51 am

We would like to apply for the SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.3 Beta testing.

As a SAP partner and customer we at Vinity AB are very interested in joining and are looking forward at further information about this Beta program.

Best Regards
Martin Lindahl
Vinity AB

Former Member

April 26, 2010 at 4:59 am

Extremely interested in Beta testing

Former Member

April 28, 2010 at 9:24 am

Hi,

I would like to be a part of beta testing.

Please let me know the details, my email id is vivsharma20@gmail.com.

Thanks,
Vivek

Thomas Hensel

April 28, 2010 at 11:01 pm

Hello!

thanks for the enormous interest in the "SAP NetWeaver 7.3 Beta for Portal". We definitively appreciate your willingness to contribute and provide early feedback. In order to ensure high quality of support from the back office team, we planned to offer only 15 seats in the program. Due to the big interest we are now checking the option to extend the program. Please be patient, we are trying to gather information and let you know, in case we have some seats left for you 🙂

Have a great day!
Thomas

Twan van den Broek

April 30, 2010 at 1:28 am

Hi Thomas,

*ouch* only 15 seats - and I wanted to express our interest as well. It looks like you have to organize some sort of Portal/Idols election 😉

Anyway if you have a seat left, or if you organize another beta program, please consider us (CIBER NL) as well.

Kind regards
Twan

Former Member

April 30, 2010 at 9:30 am

Hello Thomas,

We would definately like to join this program if given an opportunity. We are using SAP Enterprise portal 7.0 SP16 very extensively as our Intranet application. We are using following features for the portal which we think could help to test 7.3 Beta Portal very well

1. Extensive use of Web Page Composure.
2. Customize layout for various pages on Intranet
3. Certificate, Kerberos based Single Sign On with LDAP
4. Integration with multiple Data Source like Active Directory, LDAP etc.
5. Single Sign On setup with various SAP application like CRM, Business Object etc.
6. Integration with Reporting Application.
7. Exposing our intranet over the internet using F5 load balancer and Apachy Reverse proxy.
8. Use of LDAP/AD Groups for Access Control for various pages on Intranet.

list is longer than this but these were some of the highlights of it.

In case you need more details we can provide it to you.

regards,
Jaish

Former Member

May 1, 2010 at 8:24 pm

Hi,
Does 7.3 is an integrated portal / CE / KMC paltform ? Or just new version of portal / KMC.

Thanks and Regards,
Abdul Raheem S

Former Member

May 2, 2010 at 6:01 am

Hi Abudul,
Could you please provide me your email address, so that I can be in touch with you.

Thanks

Former Member

May 2, 2010 at 6:01 am

Hi Abdul,
Could you please provide me your email address, so that I can be in touch with you.

Thanks