SAP Business Client Intro

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• SAP Business Client overview• Client-side configuration• Server-side configuration

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SAP Business Client

SAP Business Client offers a harmonized access to SAP business applications including SAP Fiori, WDA and SAP GUI as well as any web-based content• Single point of entry for role based access• Harmonized experience of different UI technologies• Allows mash-ups using side panel

• ~1600 ERP transactions enabled• ~130 reusable chips available

• Theming and branding• Web browser-like interaction paradigm

SAP Fiori Experience On Windows Desktop

SAP Business Client offers an integration of the SAP Fiori launchpad to allow a unified SAP Fiori user experience• Integration of the SAP Fiori launchpad

• Launch SAP GUI transactions• SAP Fiori launchpad as start page • Additional system connection type • Business role configuration

purely SAP Fiori launchpad-based • SAP Blue Crystal as default theme

SAP Business Client Key Capabilities

Today• Tight integration with SAP GUI and SAP Logon • Improved integration with SAP Screen

Personas 3.0 • SAP Fiori – Apps integration in PFCG menu • SAP Fiori UX in SAP Business Client 6.0:

• SAP Fiori launchpad with SAP GUI native experience

• Business role configuration purely SAP Fiorilaunchpad-based

• Enable business experts, not administrators, to configure content

Planned Innovations• UI theme designer support for SAP Blue

Crystal base theme • Windows Desktop client for SAP S/4HANA, on-

premise edition

SAP Business Client 6.0

• New name – no longer NetWeaver Business Client• Hardware Prerequisites

• Same as Microsoft Window Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications• Minimum 1GB of memory• Minimum screen size 1024x768

• Software Prerequisites• Microsoft .NET 3.5 and 4.5 (or higher)• Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for VisualStudio 2012• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9+• SAP GUI for Windows 7.40

Installing SAP Business Client

Client-side• Download installer from SAP Support Portal• Create and distribute system connection and

client configurations• Install SAP Business Client and SAP GUI 7.40• Create and distribute Internet Explorer

security options

Server-side• Configure ABAP backend• Define User Roles

Client-side: Desktop Installation

• Two options• SAP Business Client for Desktop (stand-alone)• SAP Business Client with SAP GUI

• Recommendation is to install with SAP GUI

Client-side: System Connections and Configuration

• SAP UI Landscape files contain:• Message server hosts and ports• Routers• Predefined SAP Fiori Launchpad connections (new)• Predefined BC connections• Predefined SAP GUI connections• Predefined Search providers

• NwbcOptions.xml configuration allows• Predefined default values• Control of end-user modification or creation of new values• Control of runtime behavior

• Configuration files can be distributed by• Push• Pull

Client-side: Internet Explorer Security Options

• Ensure that server addresses are in the Local intranet or Trusted sites zone• BC for Desktop renders HTML content in IE• Also used to navigate to SAP GUI transactions

Server-side: Server Configuration

• The server runtime transfers system and user data. • Two server runtimes are available:

• Server runtime for SAP NetWeaver user interface services• Server runtime for SAP Business Client

• Recommended to use the NetWeaver UI services• New UI services features can be applied to SAP Business Client.• New UIs and latest developments based on SAPUI5 and SAP Gateway can be used with SAP

Business Client.• SAP NetWeaver UI services can be supported by the provision of small-sized support packages.• Features of a SAP Business Client version are guaranteed back end enabled.• New UI features are shipped with support packages within a few months.

Server-side: Activate the Runtime

• Activate NWBC ICF services• Test by launching NWBC for HTML in SICF• In customizing,

• Define a welcome message• Specify a theme• Define a whitelist

• Activate side panel business function in SFW2

Server-side: Role Maintenance

• Roles are used to define authorization settings as well as the navigation structure used by the UI client

• Roles match the real life roles that people play within a work environment

• The NWBC runtime retrieves all roles assigned to a specific user and makes the navigation structure available to the shell

• If the role doesn‘t provide a navigation structure, NWBC uses the SAP Menu

Conclusion

• SAP Business Client requires both client-side and server-side setup• Client-side setup is installation, configuration and security settings• Server-side setup is configuration and role settings.

• Detailed set up at goo.gl/YMDcQT