Addressing Access to Line-of-Business Application Information

An organization may use a business application such as SAP or Microsoft Dynamics. Some individuals in the organization need to access information stored in these applications, but it would be costly to install and maintain the application on each desktop and to train all the users.

SharePoint solution— ASP.NET web parts, single sign-on.

ASP.NET web parts can be developed and used to access and display information from other applications and data sources. Single sign-on can also be enabled to provide seamless integration with the application. This provides the user with an easy, usable method for accessing information, and the IT department can maintain the code centrally and not have to worry about desktop deployment and specific training for the line-of-business applications. SharePoint 2010 also supports web parts, which opens it to the ability to view content from multiple third-party software and web part vendors.