Portal - UWL vs. SAP Business Workplace

[Gregory Utley]

All,

We just converted from the SAP Office inbox to the UWL with the
implementation of the SAP Portal.  The big plus for users here is one
stop shopping, i.e., all SAP Office inboxes (R/3, EBP, ESS) are now
available in one place.  Before, users had to enter via SBWP to approve
separately in each system.  The biggest negative with the UWL is the
loss of the "advance with dialog" feature.  We've had to write custom
code to compensate for this.  I think this is a major loss, although I
haven't seen any other complaints on WUG on the topic.

Greg Utley

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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Sherman Wright
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:52 PM
To: UserGroup, Workflow
Subject: Portal - UWL vs. SAP Business Workplace

 

Hi - 

We are using Portal 6.0, and because of unfamiliarity, etc., etc., we
had replaced the Universal Work List (UWL) with the SAP Business
Workplace (transaction SBWP) using Windows HTML GUI.  We have a handful
of workflow approval tasks (PR approvals, Fixed Asset retirement
approvals, Absence Request approvals, etc.) that we route to people in
their Workflow Inboxes, which should be available with either "tool".

We are in the process of moving from SAP R/3 4.6B to MySAP ERP (ECC
5.0).  In light of this, I have been asked to provide pros and cons
regarding replacing the Business Workplace with the UWL, since the UWL
is the default tool in Portal.  Do any of you have any strong arguments
either for or against the use of UWL as opposed to the Business
Workplace?  Some of our users really like the ability to do their
automatic forwarding, substitution maintenance, outbox maintenance,
etc., from Portal.  Most of these things especially don't seem to be
available in the UWL.

Any information would be appreciated...

Regards,
Sherman

 

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