SAP Launchpad Service

With SAP Launchpad service, organizations can build a central entry point on SAP Business Technology Platform and provide enterprise-wide, efficient, secure, and role-based access to SAP and non-SAP applications for their business users.

Overview and Key Capabilities

With SAP Launchpad service, organizations can build a portal-like central entry point and provide enterprise-wide, efficient, secure, and role-based access to SAP and non-SAP applications, whether these are deployed on-premise or in the cloud. Business users can find the resources they need to carry on their job functions through a central intuitive access point available from any device. Administrators can take advantage of predefined application templates and roles from backend systems. They can also easily apply corporate branding or leverage SAP's integrated development environment to customize and extend the user experience.

Key Capabilities:

Central point of access for apps, tasks, and notifications
Home page personalization
Role-based access to content (e.g. from SAP S/4HANA systems)
Intuitive role-based navigation with flexible content structure
Smooth app integration for different UI technologies and third-party Web apps
Integration with central services for managing tasks, notifications, and single sign-on
Extensible framework for customization and branding

Getting Started

Take your first steps into SAP Launchpad service:

Learn more about SAP Launchpad Service

Dive deeper into our learning material:

Integrate Business Content into SAP Launchpad Service (Content Federation Capability)

With content federation, SAP solutions such as SAP S/4HANA and the SAP Business Suite can serve as remote content providers for the Launchpad service. An administrator of a content provider system selects and exposes business roles with their assigned catalogs, groups, and applications. This preconfigured content can be consumed by SAP Launchpad service.

At the moment the so-called “content federation” capability is available for SAP S/4HANA (on premise), SAP Enterprise Portal and SAP Business Suite. More remote content providers are planned to be available in the future.

What you can also do is the integration of content from SAP BTP content providers, which include the content providers for the HTML5 apps and the launchpad modules and also the manual integration of apps.

Blogs on SAP Community

To find all blogs about SAP Launchpad service, follow this tag on SAP Community.

We also recommend reading the following blogs:

Trainings and Tutorials

Get to know our learning and training offerings:

Mission on the Discovery Center
Explore our new Tutorial and Mission Enhance Your SAP Launchpad Site with Federated SAP S/4HANA Content
To find all tutorials search in the tutorial navigator for "Launchpad" and find the available missions for SAP Launchpad service
Video about integration capabilities (developer-focused)

Events

SAP TechEd 2020:

Check out the recording of the SAP Portal and Launchpad roadmap session DEV805
Check out the questions and answer related to SAP Portal and Launchpad roadmap session DEV805

SAP Launchpad Service and SAP Enterprise Portal

As a system administrator, you can configure SAP Enterprise Portal as a content provider for creating launchpad sites with SAP Launchpad service on SAP BTP. This enables you to expose your existing Portal content (such as BEx, SAP GUI Applications, Web Dynpro ABAP, and Java) side by side with new content (such as SAP SuccessFactors and SAP S/4HANA) in one single entry point.

For more information, see:

SAP Help Portal Documentation

Blog on SAP Community (how to configure single-sign-on between SAP Enterprise Portal and the Launchpad service)

SAP Launchpad Service and SAP Cloud Portal Service

You already use the SAP Cloud Portal service on Cloud Foundry environment and you want to move to the Launchpad service? Then these three blog posts are a must-read for you. You will get some insights and recommendations on how to move from your existing SAP Cloud Portal service to the SAP Launchpad service within the same subaccount or in different subaccounts. The aim is the reuse of existing configuration and content, to avoid the need to configure everything from scratch. Please note that the Launchpad service does not support freestyle sites, so your freestyle sites and content cannot be moved to in the Launchpad service.

Transitioning from the Portal Service to the Launchpad Service - some how-to guidelines

How to move from Portal service to Launchpad service in the same subaccount

How to move from Portal service to Launchpad service in a different subaccount