SAP MAPI provider and performance in SAP R/3

[Boulay, Serge]

Hi,
 
It is wright that SAP try to go away from that... If you still whant to use Outlook, i suggest that you take a look at http://www.desktopworkplace.com they have a tool that integrate Outlook with Workflow inbox. I just installed it yesterday to  take a look at it and for the moment, it is working perfectly...
 
Serge
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jaeger, Carsten (Calgary) [mailto:Carsten_Jaeger at nexeninc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:52 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: SAP MAPI provider and performance in SAP R/3
 
 
We have been using SAP MAPI through MS Outlook for approximately 1.5 years.  Although it works for the most part, there are some problems.  There are conflicts when using on a machine where user has a RIM Blackberry (most of our executives).  We are moving to Windows XP and there is no guaranteed support for MAPI with the new version of Outlook.
 
SAP is moving away from this method of communicating workflows and at the May 2003 ASUG, it was strongly suggested that companies look for an alternative.
 
We will be instructing our users to use SAP Business Workplace for now (yes, they will have to log into SAP), but we will be sending them a reminder via Outlook once or twice a week if they have work items that need to be processed.
 
Eventually the plan is to use Portal technology in R3 Enterprise to deliver the workitems.  HTH.  cj
 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Pruitt [SMTP:Chris_Pruitt at sind.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:44 AM
> To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      SAP MAPI provider and performance in SAP R/3
>
> Folks,
>
> We are considering several options to make workflow items available to
> our users community via MS Outlook. One of the options that I am looking
> at is the SAP MAPI provider that comes with the GUI. Is anyone using the
> SAP MAPI provider? If so how many users are you supporting, and do you
> see any degradation of performance in your R/3 environment?
>
> -Chris
>