Alfresco AWS FastTrack to SAP

As an Amazon Technology partner, we offer a pre-configured Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to launch an EC2 instance from it. The AMI includes an Alfresco Content Services 6 installation (Docker) as well as our pre-configured connexas content interface. Once you’ve launched the EC2 instance based on our AMI, you just need to customize your SAP system and you’re ready to use Alfresco as content server for SAP.

Requirements to successfully test the FastTrack approach:

  1. Amazon Web Services Account

    To launch an Amazon EC2 instance from our pre-configured Amazon Machine Image (AMI) you have to login to Amazon AWS with your account.

  2. SAP System

    The Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and therefore, later the launched EC2 instance of it does not include a SAP system! It only contains Alfresco Content Services with a pre-configured and ready-to-go connexas content installation. You must use your SAP system. However, if you can’t connect your SAP system due to any reason, you can request a free SAP S/4HANA trial version. If it doesn’t work either, please get in touch with us! We can provide you a live demonstration.

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Connect Alfresco Content Services with SAP in less than 30 minutes!

If you’re familiar with launching Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), have SAP expertise as well as Alfresco knowledge, then you are able to connect Alfresco Content Services with your SAP system in less than 30 minutes. Just follow the Quick-Start guide below. However, if you need a step-by-step guidance, you can download the detailed installation guide – of course, this will then take a few minutes more to connect both systems.

Quick-Start Guide

AWS: Launch Amazon Machine Image

The Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is called connexas and you’ll find it on the AWS Marketplace (click here to directly access it). Setup the infrastructure as desired. We recommend to choose m5d.large as EC2 instance type.

Our Amazon AMI image: connexas
Choose EC2 instance type for connexas

Alfresco: Connect & Login

After the connexas EC2 instance is up and running, you can connect and login to Alfresco Content Services (Share) as followed:

  • Protocol: HTTP
  • IP-Address: Use the Public DNS name or the IPv4-address of the current EC2 instance (you can find it in your AWS console)
  • Port: 8080
  • Alfresco Share User: admin (lowercase)
  • Alfresco Share Passwort: The current EC2 instance id (you can find it in your AWS console)

Example: http://<ec2-instance-public-dns-name>:8080/share

To get an overview about the pre-configured connexas content installation, just navigate to the connexas Administration Panel in Alfresco Share: Admin Tools -> connexas. There is one pre-defined SAP system configuration which uses an asterisk as name in section “SAP Content Repositories”. This means, in SAP you can choose any name for a content repository and also connect as many content repositories as desired. But it also means, with this pre-configured EC2 instance there is no additional data-replication is possible. If you want to test the connection from Alfresco to SAP, there is need to to adapt some more settings (detailed information are available in our configuration guide). The root folder in Alfresco for all documents arriving from SAP is “SAP_Documents” within a site called “connexas”. You can just click on the folder name to jump to the site directory immediately.

Alfresco: Install connexas content license

SAP: Create Content Repository, Document Type & link it

In SAP, you have to create a new content repository (t-code OAC0) by using the following information:

  • Document Area: ArchiveLink
  • Version No.: 0047
  • HTTP Server: Public DNS name or IPv4-address of the current EC2 instance (you can find it in your AWS console)
  • HTTP Port: 8080
  • HTTP Script: alfresco/service/com/pernexas/archivelink
SAP: Create Content Repository

After creating the content repository, a certificate has to be send to establish a connection. This can be easily done in t-code OAC0 as well (use related mail icon). The certificate can only be enabled in Alfresco. To do so, login to Alfresco Share (see above), open the connexas Administration Panel, scroll down to the content repository (you’ve created before) and hit the “Enable” button. That’s it! The connection is now established and can be used.
Now, go ahead and create a new document type (t-code OAC2) and the related linking to the content repository (t-code OAC3) matching the required use-case. Then, open a business object and attach a document via the GOS menu -> “Store business document”.

Done: Ready to use

Now you should be able to attach documents to SAP business objects where the file is physically stored in Alfresco Content Services.

 

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DO YOU KNOW OUR PRODUCTS?

  • SAP NetWeaver® Integration

    Choose our product connexas content to connect Alfresco Content Services with SAP in a certified way. Store documents from SAP in Alfresco, make meta-data from the SAP business object available at the Alfresco document, or trigger a SAP action from Alfresco side.

  • SAP Fiori® Integration

    Our product connexas frontend enables current Alfresco Process Services user to access their workflows through the SAP Fiori Launchpad running within the SAP Cloud Platform. Approved and certified by SAP.

  • SAP® Integration

    With connexas process we provide a solution that empowers companies to use meta-data from SAP within custom workflows of Alfresco Process Services. Pre-defined SAP function calls make it easy to start with SAP related data in the App designer.

Reseller & Integration Partner

Choose a reseller or an implementation partner of our products. The following list shows all available partner that we have in Europe! However, if you're looking for a partner in any other region (America, Asia/Pacific, Middle East/Africa) you will find a company by following this link to our global partner network.

Partner: Kalydia
Partner: SVISS, Austria