Australian SharePoint specialist Devworkz has launched its solution accelerator to integrate SAP content in SharePoint, called SIpoint.

Deploying SAP into a portal allows a wide audience to easily search, view, edit and create core business data. Devworkz intends to link the SAP and the Microsoft worlds to empower users through rich, highly accessible information systems.

SIpoint provides development options for dashboards, custom displays, data exports through to employee and manager self service solutions. More complex custom applications are also possible such as time sheets and pay records, travel requests, employee on boarding that require both read and write back capability from SharePoint to SAP.

SIpoint leverages the existing ‘services architecture’ in SAP in a way that ABAP developers can build and provision a defined set of service patterns to ZOA, an SAP open source standard. These services expose a rich set of content and features ready to snap into SharePoint via tools such as Quest Web Parts for SharePoint and Nintex Workflow. SIpoint provides a framework to standardise, simplify and significantly remove the traditional risks associated in cross platform integration and application development.

John Ackery founder of Devworkz said “Our efforts have focused on standardizing and demystifying the web service provisioning on the SAP side whilst ensuring proven tools work in a seamless ‘snap together’ manner. This approach greatly reduces the integration risk and rapidly enables solution development to keep it in line with business needs”.

During November and December Devworkz, supported by Quest Software, will be holding a number of public seminars to preview the range of capabilities and solutions that can be developed in SharePoint using SAP content.