Web-enabled doesn’t always mean less bandwidth or less resource utilization. The standard SAP Enterprise Portal can utilize 60 - 120kbps per connection (variable), and bandwidth can exceed 240kbps when using the SAP Business Information Warehouse. Web-enabled, more often than not, means Web accessible…not optimized.

The Challenges of Portal-Based Application Delivery

Todays organizations typically maintain heterogeneous computing environments with diverse applications, platforms, and client hardware. They often rely on portal solutions, such as the SAP Enterprise Portal to bring together applications, internal and external content, and tools in a Web environment. However, implementing a portal can present unexpected challenges to an organization:

• Web-enabling applications
• Satisfying power users
• Managing browser versioning, incompatibilities, and user installations
• Microsoft Office integration
• Managing the security and integrity of data
• Ramping up for increased network capacity and management

The Solution: Citrix XenApp

Citrix XenApp addresses these challenges. By giving organizations the ability to instantly integrate and publish full-featured applications to any standard Web browser, without application rewrites, XenApp extends the scope of SAP Enterprise Portal with access to any application – UNIX, Java, Windows, or Web - while avoiding the expense and delays of recoding. This capability speeds deployment and saves significant time and expense, resulting in both lower TCO and faster ROI.

• Increased flexibility: By using the SAP Enterprise Portal with Citrix, SAP customers can obtain secure access to any legacy, Web, SAP, or non-SAP application, all from within the portal, using any device or connection.
• Improved productivity: By adding key applications to the information resources accessible via the SAP Enterprise Portal, Citrix helps provide a single point of access to all business information users – including power users – so that they have what they need to get the job done.
• Consistent performance across applications: By delivering applications using Citrix XenApp, the bandwidth and performance characteristics of an application can be consistently managed and maintained. New applications conform to the existing specifications, meaning that IT organizations can spend less time on operational concerns and more time on strategic activities.