SAP-.NET Distributed Business Processes

Business Process Optimization is about creating new or enhancing existing processes in a manner yielding optimum productivity and efficiency across the enterprise.

Unique business processes define the business, and can also provide the organization with a competitive advantage. Such processes involve transactional, monitoring, informational, analysis and decision making functions activities linked in logical flows meeting specific business requirements.

Those function based activities are constructed around some combination of object types or entities:

• Information Objects
• Business Objects
• Document Objects

With the iNet Platform, SAP business functions incorporating any combination of the three process object types can be extended and enhanced for greater functionality, efficiency and worker productivity when they are leveraged by the Microsoft knowledge worker, office tools and from within .NET business platforms.

iNet exposes native SAP objects (information, business and document) as .NET ready.

The iNet Platform bridges the productivity gap experienced by companies with SAP systems, by seamlessly bringing business data, objects and processes from SAP into information workers' familiar interfaces. Value to the Business: Increased operational efficiency Extend the business with new business process functionality Make better informed and timely management decisions by delivering the right business insights to users with the right tools for their processes.

Intelligent Business Optimization

The iNet Business Optimization Platform supports the .NET- based rapid extension and enhancement of SAP systems by enabling enterprises to leverage Microsoft server platforms and familiar information worker tools in conjunction with back-end SAP business functions.

With ERP-Link's Business Optimization Platform, all three SAP Business Process Object types can be composited or utilized individually in SAP -.NET Distributed Business Process Scenarios:

• Improve, Extend and Optimize Business Processes based on their SAP systems
• Enhance and Optimize Corporate Performance Insights with support for real-time business actions based on SAP Business Intelligence
• Support distributed business processes by linking SAP objects to .NET applications
• Deploy document centric processes optimized for collaborative, automated and distributed delivery, access and management functions

iNet.DM Offers full SAP -.NET interoperability for document centric processes based on utilization of SAP ArchiveLink in conjunction with Microsoft’s’ MOSS2007 document and repository services.

iNet.BI. Transforms SAP R/3 & BW reporting into a complete framework based on Microsoft platforms and tools for business analytics, CPM, goal driven processes, transactional decision support and BI composited with business functions.

iNet.BPS. For authoring new SAP -.NET distributed business processes; iNet BPS includes an Object Design Kit (ODK) with a Business Analyst Process Modeler and Visual Studio 2003/5 Plug-in for .NET developers. and provides Business Process Services (BPS) for secured, real-time transactional, info delivery and business process activity execution.