sap business process blueprinting for sap solution manager - webinar presentation

SAP Business Process Blueprintingfor SAP Solution Manager 7.1Karsten Erxleben, SAP AG/Product Management Repositories and Modeling ToolsMay 2011

SAP Business ProcessBlueprinting

Karsten ErxlebenProduct Management Repositories and Modeling ToolsBusiness Information Technology & Global Research

SAP AG

03/2011

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The Business Blueprint ExerciseGoals and Procedures

Demo: SAP Business Process Blueprinting for SAP Solution Manager 7.1Rich Modeling Environment based on Eclipse RCP

Architecture in a NutshellSAP Solution Manager and Business Process Library

Q&A


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Q&A


Dimensions of Business Process Library

The Business Process Library concept strives for managing the overall business processcontent of corporations to remove information silos by integrating them and by relating,building and re-using semantics to maximize leverage of existing knowledge.

EnterpriseArchitecture

BusinessProcess Analysis

BusinessProcess

ManagementSystems

ApplicationLifecycle

Management

Business Process Library


The Content we Need to Link

Reference content

Customer (adapted) content

Des

crip

tive

Exec

utab

le

BPR

Blueprint

Impl.

SAP NetWeaver BPM

ESR

Business

3rd Party Modeling


Implementing a Solution with Clarity and Transparency

ProjectPreparation

Realization FinalPreparation

Go Liveand Support

Blueprint


Implementing a Solution with Clarity and Transparency

ProjectPreparation

Realization FinalPreparation

Go Liveand Support

Blueprint

Define Your Business BlueprintDocument Your Business Process Requirements andProcessesAdapt SAP best-practice processes to meet Yourbusiness bestFacilitate discussions on process implementation andoptimizationVisualize Your Scenarios and Processes for bettercommunication and proper scopingGenerate Blueprint Documents for Sign-Off


Business Blueprint in SOLAR01

Organizational units

Master data

3 level hierarchyBusiness scenarioBusiness processesBusiness steps

Interfaces

System information Transactions Custom developmentDocumentation


Process Structure and Graphical Visualization

Process(Purchase

Requisitioning)

Business Scenario(Procure-to-Pay)

Process Step(Create Purchase

Requisition)

A Business Scenario isa set of processes thatdefine a business task ina comprehensive andself-contained manner.

A Process is a set oflogically related activitiesperformed to achieve abusiness outcome.

A Process Step is anelementary activityperformed to accomplisha process.

Enhanced Business Blueprint

Well, BPMN seems to be veryappropriate to describe the givenstructures…why not using it?


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Q&A

DemoDEMOSAP Business Process Blueprintingfor SAP Solution Manager

DemoDEMOSAP Business Process Blueprintingfor SAP Solution Manager

Document insights from discussion w/ line ofbusiness „Procurement“

Sketch an amendment to an existing process in theblueprint structure

Annotate this model for addtional detailing by co-workers

Search for additional information


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BPL High Level Architecture

SAP Solution Manager Server

BPL Solution Composer Server Add-On

Local Data Store

Fragment Manager: Assembly/Disassembly

Adapter

Pipe & Filter: Representation/Layout Transformation

HTTPProcess Observer / APIs

APIs

SAP BusinessSuite / ByD

SAP NetWeaverBPM

...

SAP Business ProcessBlueprinting ...

SAPGUI embeddedBPMN rendering forSolution Manager

...RESTful Services HTML

SAP Solution Manager

Project Directory

BPR

Solution Directory

SMSY

...

BPL Solution Composer Server StructureHTTP - Request handling

e.g. HTTP („server nodes") or User/UI Events(„tool nodes")

Pipe & FilterCreating the requested data representation fora given item

Fragment ManagerAssembling data into a semanticrepresentationDisassembling incoming dataNode- and Universe Of DiscourseManagement

Persistence / AdapterDatabase, File or other storage and retrievalhandling

With the goal to deal with ModelsA model is a problem-adequate, isolatingabstractionA representation of knowledge and assumptionsabout the world suitable for a specific purpose


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SAP Business Process BlueprintingRoadmap-Strategie-FAQ

Karsten Erxleben, SAP AG/Product Management Repositories and Modeling ToolsMärz 2011

SAP Business ProcessBlueprinting

Karsten ErxlebenProduct Management Repositories and Modeling ToolsBusiness Information Technology & Global Research

SAP AG

03/2011


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