SAP GUI

SAP GUI is an acronym and stands for SAP Graphical User Interface. The term refers to a hand, the graphical user interface of an SAP system, on the other hand also the one program that provides this interface and operates.

Concept

In the multi -tier client -server model of the different SAP systems, which are usually implemented as a three - tier architecture, provides the SAP GUI, the program component of the presentation layer dar. It handles so the screen display and user interaction from, but it is ( not have jurisdiction rule) for application logic or data storage.

SAP GUI ( as a program ) provides access to one or several application servers of one or more SAP systems (more precisely: ABAP systems such as SAP ERP, SAP Web AS ABAP ), to which the DIAG protocol. There are several SAP SAP GUI implementations to cover different operating systems. Access to the full functionality of SAP software allows only the SAP GUI for Windows that to involve a web browser for some features and also with other Windows applications can exchange data.

The SAP GUI processes from relatively few data on a possibly complex screen display. This method serves the purpose of keeping the small communication load and the data for the application server by a large proportion of the computational burden is placed on the local computer of a user to graphically display and thus does not have to come from the host computer. Only the "naked" data coming from the server; all tabular - graphic, colors, etc. builds the SAP GUI program locally (on the workstation ) on, using the individual PC processing power.

Implementations

SAP GUI for Windows

SAP GUI for Windows is a Windows program that runs directly on the personal computer of a user. This is the most frequently used SAP GUI implementation, and also the ' oldest ' in the sense that there is a continuous development, and version sequence since the early 1990s.

The user starts a program copy of the SAPGUI, either

Entry point is often SAP Logon, which can display a list of usable systems, from which the user only needs to select. Another possibility is the use of the implementation of the SAP GUI on a terminal server so that the SAPGUI for Windows can also be used with other operating systems, provided there is a corresponding terminal server access software for this.

From SAP often relatively new patches for the components of the GUI appear. When you install the GUI can be installed ( in addition to the core program, the actual SAP GUI) some additional components. These include applications to access these systems or their contents:

  • BW (Business Information Warehouse) / BI ( Business Intelligence)
  • SCM (Supply Chain Management )
  • APO ( Advanced Planner & Optimizer)
  • SEM ( Strategic Enterprise Management) and
  • KW ( Knowledge Warehouse).

Version History

A specific version of the SAP GUI can usually be older and partially used with newer releases of the server systems. On 20 January 2009, 7:10 version was the current release status of the SAP GUI, while the version 6.20 has been waiting for.

SAP GUI for Java

An alternative way to access an SAP system is to use this platform-independent, largely written in Java GUI. This is also the replacement for the SAP GUI ports for all non- Windows operating systems.

The use is possible on AIX, HP- UX, various Linux distributions, Mac OS X, Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows.

SAP GUI for HTML

A replica of the SAP GUI interface using HTML and JavaScript, so that takes is a web browser to use. See also ITS.

Duet

Another access option opens the Duet software, which was developed in a collaboration between SAP and Microsoft, which has an integration of software products from both companies to target. Duet provides access to SAP functions from Microsoft Office applications for selected scenarios.

Adaptation with Personas

By 2012 ( the so-called " screens " ) ABAP skills were required for the customization of SAP GUI screens. This is now with "SAP screen personas " without programming is possible, but currently not used predominantly in the "SAP GUI for Windows." Personas is (but not 7.1x ) installed on a server with SAP NetWeaver 7.0x or 7.3x and will also be on all other servers (including NW 7.1x, thus in particular Banking Services ) in the system environment available, provided they have via an ABAP kernel release of 7:21 or higher.

In "SAP GUI for Windows " SAP offers since 1998 free at the tool " GuiXT " to adjust the screens.

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