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Unifying Your Business Operations: Integrating SAP Build Work Zone with SAP Business One

EunSeok_Bang
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‎2024 Aug 23 6:37 PM
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In today’s fast-paced business environment, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need more than just robust ERP systems to stay competitive. they need integrated digital workspaces that unify access to all their critical applications. SAP Build Work Zone, when integrated with SAP Business One, offers a powerful solution to streamline operations, enhance collaboration, and boost productivity. This blog post provides an overview of SAP Build Work Zone and its use cases for SAP Business customers, as well as the overview of this integration, concluding with recommended e-learning resources for those interested in exploring the details further.

 

SAP Build Work Zone Overview

SAP Build Work Zone is a digital workplace solution that offers a unified, role-based user experience, integrating applications, content, and processes in a single interface. It comes in two editions:

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SAP Build Work Zone Use cases

For SAP Business One customers, where often only about 10% of employees use the ERP system, there's an opportunity for partners to extend their reach by targeting the non-ERP users and even non-Employee users with Work Zone solutions. Traditionally, these users have relied on third-party or custom-built solutions. In addition, SAP Work Zone Standard Edtion can complement other BTP apps and services, particularly since it is included at no additional cost with Build Apps and Build Process Automation.

The Advanced Edition is also a cost-effective option for replacing third-party groupware or intranet/extranet solutions.

This approach enables partners to generate recurring cloud revenue and additional income from contents and services.

 

Integration with SAP Business One

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This illustrates the Build Work Zone demo site, featuring tiles and cards.

  • HR Space includes the Employee Self-Service page with two tile apps:
    • Employee Lookup app - built with SAP Build Apps
    • Employee Store Apps - 3rd party UI5 app
  • Sales Space contains two pages:
    • Overview Page features ...
      • Company dashboard - brought from SAP Analytics Cloud Story
      • Business Partners app - built with SAP Build Apps
    • Sales Processing Page is divided into two sections “Sales Orders” and “Invoicing”, each hosting ...
      • Business One Web Client URL app - opens SAP Business One Web Client Views
      • UI Integration card - built with SAP Business Application Studio with no-code manner. it displays the most-concise pieces of business data and enable straightforward and decisive user action in a limited-space container, helping users structure their work in an intuitive and dynamic way.

 

This site was configured with the view mode "Space and Pages – New Experience" to host UI integration cards. 

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Then how to create a tile and card in a site? Here are three ways to manage business contents in a site.

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Overview of Step-by-Step Process to create the above demo site in Build Work Zone standard edition, integrated with SAP Business One

Prerequisites

  1. Maintain a destination to represent SAP Business One service layer in BTP subaccount.
  2. Configure SAP Cloud Identity Services - Identity Authentication (IAS) to let IAS users work as business users across the different systems with single sign-on. 
  3. Optionally create applications in the SAP IAS admin console for SAP Business One if you want to achieve single sign-on with SAP Business One Web Client.

Configuration steps

  1. Create the Work Zone standard edition in BTP subaccount.
  2. Prepare for apps for Tiles and Cards for the above demo site.
    • Create applications in Build Apps and/or Business Application Studio and deploy them to HTML5 repository (the managed router created by Build Work Zone) in the BTP subaccount.
    • Create UI integration cards and build a content package for UI integration cards in Business Application Studio.
    • Create a SAP Analytics Cloud Story.
  3. Create a new site in the Build Work Zone Site Manager
  4. Create the 1st space for HR 
  5. Create the 2nd space for sales and its 1st page
  6. Deploy the content package for the UI integration cards to Work Zone and assign the role
  7. Create the 2nd page for the sales space, including UI integration cards

 

Conclusion and Call-to-action

Integrating SAP Build Work Zone with SAP Business One provides a powerful solution for SMEs looking to unify their IT environments, enhance productivity, and improve business agility. With its flexible capabilities, role-based access, and mobile readiness, SAP Build Work Zone is an essential tool for businesses aiming to streamline their operations and empower their employees and business partners.

For the detailed step-by-step guides on how to implement this integration and explore its full potential, access the e-learning course on the SAP PartnerEdge portal (S-user required) : 

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