Portal Navi Structure: Business Function Cnetric or SAP Module Centric?

Dear all,
When designing your portal navigation, which layout would you prefer?
1. Business Function Centric
top level has tabs representing different business departments (HR, Finance, Sales, etc.)
2. SAP Module Centric
top level has tabs representing different SAP modules (HR, MM, SD, BW, etc.)
We know that either design has its pros and cons. Really would like to know which way most you go?
Many thanks and best regards,

You raised in deed a very good question. For people new to SAP products it is not always clear what belongs to what since a lot of stuff is part of SAP ERP (deployed as a SAP ECC system).
To answer most of your questions:
Most of the things above are in deed part of ECC. ESS/MSS is part of ERP HCM and therefore ECC. But many companies dont deploy HCM with the rest of ECC, but put HCM in a seperate installation/deployment - so two deployments of ECC.
SolMan is not part of ECC. It comes as an own system which need to be deployed seperately from ECC. SolMan helps IT departments with ITIL processes, technical monitoring, etc.
TM is based on SCM, I am not sure if it can run with other SCM modules.
BW as well as BO are seperate and used for data warehouse and reporting toolsets.
PI is SAP's Enterprise Service Bus and also used for SOA.
CRM is for Sales and Marketing processes - a seperate deployment deeply integrated with ECC.
For Strategy management and BPC I am not 100% sure.
Hope that helps!
Wolfgang

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