Increase Stability and Reduce SAP Storage Costs
The Alfresco Content Connector for SAP is powerful, flexible, easily extendable and parallels the coding standards and best practices between the Alfresco and SAP systems allowing your organization to maintain top performance of your SAP with the reliability of Alfresco. Configure the Alfresco Content Connector for optimal storage of documents with property linkages so affiliated SAP data is always readily retrievable.
Free the Content that Drives your Business
SAP-Certified Integration Solution
The SAP-certified Alfresco Content Connector works seamlessly with your SAP environment, no matter which modules or tools you’re using and means that all criteria and standards are met as required. The communication and performance with the SAP HTTP Content server is an integral part of the certification process and ensures the product is listed within the SAP SLD.
- Seamlessly integrated into the SAP environment
- SAP Fiori-ready with integration SAP S/4 HANA
- SAP HANA / SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) support
Technical Brilliance
The technical features of Alfresco Content Connector for SAP are truly impressive, supporting all ArchiveLink Scenarios based on SAP HTTP-Content Server including managing incoming documents (such as invoices), outgoing documents (such as order confirmations), data archiving (ADK), print list archiving (e.g., quarter-end report) and data retention tool (DART), and also including;
- Supports SAP document finder and SAP solution manager
- Extendable by integrated framework
- Metadata replication by default
- Single sign-on (SSO) support
- Multi SAP system support
- Clustering support
- HTTPS support
Alfresco Content Connector for SAP – How does it work?
Lower Costs and Mitigate Risks
Utilizing Alfresco Content Connector mitigates SAP upgrade risks as storage is not localized and lowers costs for the very same reason. The data, documents, and content offloaded to Alfresco are available for automation of information lifecycle management doubling the efficiency of your SAP.
- Mitigate complexity; Clean and offload as much data as possible before upgrading from R/3 to S/4HANA to greatly reduce complexity
- Lower storage costs; Offload content and data to Alfresco – retain access from SAP on-demand through document and data archiving for SAP R/3 and SAP S/4HANA
- Automate the information management lifecycle; Capabilities like Alfresco Governance Services support the document lifecycle from creation to destruction after a specified time
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SAP Data Unlocked
Use your SAP to its full potential with Alfresco by unlocking stored data and streamlining complicated business processes with ordered objects and faster speeds without application silos.
- Centralized data storage; Successfully optimized business processes rely on central SAP data storage and sharing. Integrate and share the data with a wider user group.
- Overcome application silos; Connect your ERP to the rest of your organization to avoid data slow down and let information flow freely while permanently eliminating disconnected applications.
- Structured plus unstructured data; Get the whole view with your entire process order objects in SAP, including associated documentations such as confirmations, invoices, delivery notes, etc.
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Connect Control and Collaborate
Transform productivity with the automatic discovery of hardware components, without the need for manual installation and configuration to share data from a single location solving SAP collaboration problems.
- Documents stored in Alfresco stay linked to SAP objects; Don’t worry about which module your content is coming from
- Bi-directional data exchange; Store documents from SAP to Alfresco, link documents from Alfresco to SAP, and trigger SAP actions from Alfresco (such as starting an SAP workflow)
- SAP metadata available to non-SAP users in Alfresco; Default replication job transfers common metadata from the SAP business object to the Alfresco document, such as the SAP Object ID
- Turbocharge your workflow; Extended metadata lets you instantly identify SAP documents. Your workflows will never be the same!
- Powerful search; Choice of asynchronous or bi-directional data flow, enhanced by Alfresco search capabilities, makes it easier than ever to find and share content
Easily Extendable
Start small with a few common use cases, adapt more implementing other scenarios and grow with time through an integrated Alfresco and SAP framework.
- Connect up to 100 different SAP systems or content repositories; Different document root folders, credentials, even mix-and-match, all from one Alfresco system
- Plug and play, ready in less than one hour; Install the module, perform a few configuration steps (on SAP and Alfresco side) and your integration will be ready in less than one hour
- Supports scalability for Alfresco systems; Fully supported scalability if Alfresco is installed in a clustered landscape
- SAP® Certified integration with SAP S/4HANA®; All ArchiveLink scenarios are supported on the SAP HTTP Content Server version 4.7 (SAP HANA support). Documents stored within a certain time to avoid performance issues
Alfresco Solutions Business Clients
Organizations of all sizes and industries have benefited from Skytizens and Alfresco solutions
Office of the Prime Minister
Skytizens has collaborated with the Office of the Prime Minister of Thailand to build Alfresco ECM solutions for their document management systems in order to reduce the cost and time needed for handling paperwork. Document management solutions include the efficient capture and scan applications, as well as critical document and content system integrations throughout the office. These advanced content technology solutions help the Office of the Prime Minister lead the country forward into the future.
Pandora
Pandora is a leading manufacturer of high-quality hand-finished contemporary jewellery worldwide and with most of its employees residing and working in Thailand it makes sense they chose Skytizens. We are proud to have helped Pandora, and their employees, with an Alfresco human resources document management system that can handle the over fifteen thousand employee documents, and the countless compliance and regulatory criteria that accompany those documents.
KOHLER
Skytizens can say confidently that Kohler possesses some of the most advanced and technologically capable document management solutions available to an enterprise level company. A few of the Alfresco solutions we have provided include internal audit process, confidential message, control document, scanning, Corrective Action Request (CAR) and ISO requirement applications. We are proud to put our name on their system, and we are proud they rely on us for continued support in any future technological enhancements they may desire or require.
Alfresco SAP Integration FAQs
Do You Have Questions? We Have Answers.
SAP typically stores unstructured content (documents) in an SAP table space. Unstructured content has high costs associated with DB storage and DB maintenance.
Alfresco supports SAP R/3 and S/4HANA, up to the latest versions.
Alfresco does not do installation/changes to your SAP system (no Z-table, Z-transaction, Z-… ), we are only based on SAP standards, configured via standard customizing transactions.
Yes, Alfresco holds a certificate for the content integration (S/4-BC-AL 7.40 – Certified Integration with S/4HANA) and process integration (CP-APP-DPL 1.0 – Certified Built on SAP Cloud Platform).
The solution can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud, as a Platform-as-a-Service, or as a hybrid option.
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