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Vera_Gutbrod
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Welcome to the Portal news blog for the month of July 2012. In this edition you can learn about:

I. SAP NetWeaver Portal Enterprise Workspaces 1.1 SP2

II. News on SAP Portal Content and Site Management by OpenText

III. Portal Tweetchats

IV. Blogs From the SCN Portal Community

I. The New Features of Enterprise Workspaces 1.1 SP2


Few weeks ago we have achieved a new and exciting milestone with the release of Enterprise Workspaces 1.1 SP2 to the market. This new release of Enterprise Workspaces provides substantial enhancement for our existing Enterprise Workspaces customers and for new customers who are evaluating Enterprise Workspaces to be implemented on-top of their existing SAP NetWeaver Portal foundations.


For those of you who are not yet familiar to Enterprise Workspaces: Enterprise Workspaces is an add-on solution for the SAP NetWeaver Portal providing casual users tools to quickly and easily create and share workspaces (one or more pages) while leveraging existing portal assets.


With Enterprise Workspaces 1.1 SP2, several new enhancements are provided like mobile representation of existing workspaces on tablets, using mobile web browser (only iPad devices are supported in this release). For more information see this blog which contains also a very interesting demo. Have also a look at this new presentation giving an overview of Enterprise Workspaces 1.1 and the new capabilities including the enhancements delivered with Support Package 1 and Support Package 2 of the product.

II. News on SAP Portal Content and Site Management by OpenText

Did you ever consider replacing Knowledge Management by our new offering SAP Portal Content and Site Management by Opentext?

Have a closer look at these solutions in this new updated presentation on SCN.

Check out the main features of SAP Portal Content Management (PCM) by OpenText:

  • Enterprise-ready Document Management & Collaboration system based on the market-leading OpenText ‘Enterprise Library’
  • Tightly integrated with SAP Portal using Out-of-the-box iViews
  • Social Collaboration with ‘Pulse’
  • Enhanced search with OpenText ‘Search Provider’
  • Team Sites using ‘Enterprise Workspaces’
  • Enhanced content workflows seamlessly integrated with ‘Universal Work List’
  • MS Office / Outlook Connectivity with ‘Enterprise Connect’
  • Utilizes Portal infrastructure SSO, LDAP, Personalization, Theming, Mashups & Localization
  • Extended ECM upgradability & adaptability


And the main features of SAP Portal Site Management (PSM) by OpenText:

  • Best-of-breed & Enterprise-ready Web Content Management system based on the market-leading OpenText ‘Web Site Management (RedDot)’
  • Tightly integrated with SAP Portal using Out-of-the-box iViews
  • Empowering non-technical editors to create, edit, and manage content
  • Structured & unstructured data convergence using Application Integrator
  • Enhanced content workflows User-defined workflows
  • Multi-channel publisher allows publishing web content outside SAP Portal
  • Multi-language tools allow semi-automatic translation and localization
  • Utilizes Portal infrastructure SSO, LDAP, Personalization, Theming, Quick-Launch, Mashups & Localization

This image shows how PCM can be integrated into SAP NetWeaver Portal:

III. Portal Tweetchats


On July 18 you were invited to join the Portal experts Aviad Rivlin, Thomas Hensel, David Kviti and Winfried Wenisch from 17:00 to 18:00 P.M. CET for the first tweetchat of the SAP NetWeaver Portal Product Management team of this year. The topic of this tweetchat was a very innovative one “Get to Know Portal Mobile Enablement". Thanks to all who participated in the chat.

For those who missed it: skemp put together this tweetchat summary via Storify: http://storify.com/skemp/sap-portal-mobile-enablement-tweetchat.

And I added a transcript of the chat created by http://searchhash.com/ as attachment of this blog.

The next tweetchat is planned for August 08 from 11:00 - 12:00 am CET on "Portal Theming and Branding". Read this blog to get detailed information, in case you would like to participate.


We also plan more tweetchats this year. Stay tuned on the Portal SCN space and on Twitter and you will always be informed on our latest plans and the time schedule.

IV. Blogs from the Portal Community


I recommend the following blogs for reading:

Retrieve Portal Objects From PCD in 7.3 Version by sandip.agarwalla: This blog shows how to retrieve PCD objects (iViews/Pages/Roles etc.) from a PCD folder on the SAP Portal 7.3 version using Custom Java Code.

Creating WPC Regional Pages by nadav.nuri: In this blog Nadav explains the regionalization feature of Web Page Composer (WPC) which enables displaying different runtime content for different users according to some algorithm.


Naming Conventions in SAP NW Portal 7.3 by roman.loshevsky: Roman explains in this blog how the naming convention feature enables creating new content with predefined list of names used as content prefix in content object id. Roman already got very good ratings for his blog, congratulations!