sap netweaver business process composition

SAP NetWeaver Business Process

Composition

Overview

23. November 2010

Ralf Schaub

Director

Product Management

SAP NetWeaver BPM / BRM

SAP AG

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Today’s Dynamic Business EnvironmentsDemand a New Approach to Managing Business Processes

…requiring processes that can

easily be adapted

…requiring processes to span

across organizational and

geographical boundaries

…requiring tools that foster the

collaboration between LOB who

defines processes and IT who

implements processes

Business changes

more rapidly

Businesses forming

global networks

Closer Business and

IT alignment is imperative

Speed of change!Business & IT alignment!Global Networks!


Managing Processes Effectively is Challenging Limited Process Flexibility, Visibility and Automation

Top issues

How do I effectively create my own

practices easily enabled by IT?

How do I foster collaboration between LOB

and IT?

How do I manage and govern my own

business practices?

How do I leverage analytics to support

decisions and optimize processes?

How do I enforce ever changing business

policies in processes?


Examples

People-centric processes

Paper and approval-intensive processes

Processes spanning across multiple systems

Processes interacting with external parties

SAP Business Suite and SAP NetWeaver BPMLeverage Industry Best Practices And Define Your Own

SAP NetWeaver BPM / BRM(delivered with SAP NetWeaver CE)

SAP NetWeaver

3rd party

SOA-enabled

SAP Business Suite

Enhancement

Packages

Leverage best practices

with service-enabled SAP

Business Suite

Create own practices

with SAP NetWeaver BPM

Examples

Payroll processing

Year-end closing

Purchase order creation

Warehouse management

SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management Embedded in SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment

Comprehensive process management

■ Unifying human and system automation processing steps

■ Business Process is more than just service orchestration

■ Tightly integrated with native Business Rules Management

Composition of event-driven processes

■ Seamless combination of service, event and human task

■ Enterprise services consumption

Benefits of an integrated composition environment

■ Model-driven development

■ Integrated toolset

■ Out-of-the-box ESR integration

■ Lifecycle management

Process Server

Process

ComposerProcess

Desk

Process

Desk

SAP NetWeaver

Business Process Management

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Process Composition DetailsSAP NetWeaver Business Process Management in 2010

Process server

Process

composerProcess

Desk

Process

deskDirect path from business view to

process execution

Model, deploy and execute rule-based

composite business processes

Business-friendly graphical modeler based

on business process modeling notation

(BPMN)

Combine human interaction and system

integration in one model

Support key process concepts (workflow,

event, task, rules, context, roles, and UI)

throughout their life cycle

Provide out-of-the box reporting capabilities

to monitor the processes and identify

optimization potentials.

SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management - Building

Blocks

Key Features

Rules Modeling & Implementation

Business user-friendly rich rule formats

Support for multiple data models for rules

implementation

Data model independent business vocabularies

Rules Composer

Rule Testing & Refinement

Validation of business rules

Testing & refinement of rules based on test results

Report generation for rule invocations

Rules Composer, Manager

Rule Execution

High performance rules engine

Stateless EJB Engine

Rete-based Inference & Sequential Engines

End-to-End Change Management

Web-based rules maintenance by business analysts

Rules versioning & repository services

Permissions, access control & governance

Rules Manager

Rules engine

Rules

composerProcess

Desk

Rules

management

© SAP 2009

SAP NetWeaver Business Process ManagementCommon use cases

SAP SolutionCommon Use Cases for BPM

Automate processes where users are

interacting with multiple systems: Master Data

Record Management, Employee On-boarding,

Vacancy-to-hire, Asset Management, Budget

Preparation, Forecasting, Automated

Procurement Process

Processes that involve paper forms and

approvals: Loan Applications, New Customer

Accounts, Vacation Requests

Handle critical business exceptions and

events: Project Issue Management, High-value

Claim, Out-of-stock, Hourly Worker Exceptional

Scheduling

Expand process automation beyond

enterprise boundaries: Web-based self-service

scenarios to collaborate with suppliers or

customers

Supplier/ Customer

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SAP NetWeaver BPM & BRM Customer proof points – Reference slides


Business Process Expert Community – BPXBPM Community Sharing Knowledge, Expertise and Insight

BPM Use Cases Wiki

30+ Industry Use Cases of SAP

NetWeaver BPM

Maintained by SAP, Partners and

Customers

Real World of BPM @SAP

Bi-Weekly Webinars on multiple

aspects of BPM

Delivered by Customers, Analysts

SAP and Partners

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articles,

tutorials, FAQs,

blogs, videos, …


Get Involved – bpx.sap.comSAP Business Process Expert Community

~300,000

Community

Members

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Key Features of SAP NetWeaver CE 7.2 Significantly enhanced process and rules mgmt capabilities

SAP NetWeaver CE 7.2 Highlights

Comprehensive Business Process

Management New business-friendly user perspective

Enhanced UI technology support

Enhanced process reporting capabilities

Support for intermediate events

Support for BAPIs and RFCs

Composite Developer Productivity Enhanced Composite Designer

Enhanced UI Technology Development

(Web Dynpro and Visual Composer)

Enhanced Java EE Development Tools

Business User Enablement through

Business Rules Management Support for flow rules

Integration with Microsoft Excel

Business user friendly Web-interface

New rule testing and verification capabilities


Highlights of SAP NetWeaver BPMEnhanced UI technology support

Auto-generation of user interfaces (UI) out of the

process context (data objects) for Visual Composer

and Web Dynpro Java


Highlights of SAP NetWeaver BPMAdobe Forms Integration

Adobe Interactive Forms

Flexibility of integrating 3rd-party

participants into a process

Allow offline integration of external

process participants

Simple e-mail integration with a process

Form can carry process data

Integrated Design Time for Forms

Simple design of Adobe Interactive Forms

as part of SAP NetWeaver Developer

Studio

Easy integration into process flow with

SAP NetWeaver BPM

Form treated similar to other UI

technology for data flow


Highlights of SAP NetWeaver BPMIntermediate Message Events

Life-cycle & Business Events

Support of various event concepts

(e.g., start, stop, boundary, time-

based, message-based, exceptions

and deadlines)

Intermediate Message Events support

correlation of event messages to

running process instances

Superior connectivity to SAP’s local

event infrastructure for asynchronous

communication in a business process

context

Correlation condition based on

defined process context (data

objects), business rules and functions


Explore the World of Process AnalysisOverview on available variants

NW Administrator

Process List Viewer

Universe Designer

BusinessObjects

Explorer Accelerated

BEx Query Designer

Crystal Reports

BPM Task

Xcelsius

Visual ComposerQuery as a

Web ServiceReal Time

Analysis

of Processes and

Tasks, e.g. for end

users, process

owners and

administrators

Ex-post, multi-

dimensional

Analysis of

processes with

SAP NetWeaver

BW

Extended Analysis, Visualization,

Reporting and Data Exploration

by extracting and loading of BW data

into SAP BusinessObjects™ Enterprise


Explore the World of Process AnalysisOverview on available variants

NW Administrator

Process List Viewer

Universe Designer

BusinessObjects

Explorer Accelerated

BEx Query Designer

Crystal Reports

BPM Task

Xcelsius

Visual ComposerQuery as a

Web Service


Highlights of SAP NetWeaver BPMEnhancement of analytical reporting capabilities

Define reporting activities based on

process context (data objects) to

automatically generate the reporting data

structure.

Runtime reporting with Visual Composer

Out-of-the box data extractors for

SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP NetWeaver 7.3Platform release allows for harmonization across system landscape

People Integration Process Integration Information Integration

Enterprise Portal (EP)

Web Page Composer for easy end

user content creation and portal

mashups

Web 2.0: Portal-integrated Wiki

and Forum solution, AJAX

framework

Streamlined and simplified

business content administration

Near zero downtime maintenance

Componentization for lean

operations

Portal interoperability (JSR

168/286)

Enhanced SAP BusinessObjects

integration

Java EE 5 platform

Process Integration (PI)

SAP Solution Manager integration

(good morning page, PI scenario

visibility)

Fine-grained control over SOA

operations

Enhancements to Advance Adapter

Engine (AAE)

Business event provisioning,

configuration, monitoring and

subscription

Business Process Management

(BPM) & Composition (CE)

Web Dynpro ABAP for BPM

API enablement for BPM

BRM enhancements

Developer Productivity

Business Warehouse (BW)

Tight integration with SAP

BusinessObjects Data Services

(process chains, scheduling, data

quality)

Enable Teradata and HP Neoview

as additional databases for SAP

NetWeaver BW

Semantic partitioning and

accelerated DSO activation for

performance optimization

Business Warehouse Accelerator

(BWA)

Integration with SAP

BusinessObjects XI Next Release

Enhanced analytic capabilities

(e.g. top N analysis)

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SAP NetWeaver 7.3

* Planned to be available in Q4/2010


New Key Features of SAP NetWeaver 7.3

Enhanced integration and increased developer productivity

Sap NetWeaver 7.3 Highlights

WD/ABAP Integration

Browse WD/ABAP UI repository of a

backend system

Use WD/ABAP UI in a BPM task

API for Managing Processes and Tasks

Start process instances

Retrieve task list

Execute actions on task (claim,

complete, cancel, delegate, …. )

Business Rule Improvements

Reuse rules or decision tables across

rule sets

Rules Manager Improvements

Usability and developer productivity

enhancements

Simplification of SOA Configuration

Zero configuration for local services

New ESR perspective in NWDS

Define service interfaces and data types

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WD ABAP IntegrationSupport for WD ABAP Components as Task UIs

Extended task UI wizard – now with WD/ABAP as third

technology option

Enable WDA components for

usage via the CHIP framework

Connect against any R/3

backend system

Find available and supported

WDA CHIP components

Import the UI component into

the process

Run the process and execute

the task within the WDA UI

component


Java API for Process and Task ManagementIncreased flexibility for customization and third-party integration

Alternative Task Lists as Custom Implementation

Retrieve list of available

process definitions

Start processes instances

and pass parameter values

Get a list of task

instances assigned to the

current user (custom work

list)

Invoke actions on a task

such as Claim, Execute and

Complete programmatically

Execute standard task UI

from custom work list


BRM Productivity EnhancementsReuse of Ruleset

Reusable Rulesets in Rules Composer and Rules Manager

Create rules and

decision table once and

use across ruleset

Eliminate duplication

Reduce maintenance

effort

Organize rules more

efficiently


BRM Productivity EnhancementsDefine More Than One Action in Decision Tables

Decision Table with “Other Action”

Build an application using only decision tables

Reduces number of rules in project

Makes rules easier to build and to maintain

Assign and Execute actions can be used in “Other Action” cell


Simplified SOA ConfigurationImproved Ease of Use via Wizards and Automated Configuration

New Wizard to create and assign a provider system

Zero Configuration for local

services via default provider

system

Reuse system information

from services registry

Create a new provider on-

the-fly when configuring a

service group

One-step assignment of

provider systems

Improved error log

messagesLocal Provider System flag Provider System Assignment


Enterprise Service Repository Tools in SAP NetWeaver CESingle Development Environment for Defining and Consuming Services

New ESR Perspective in NWDS

Explore existing ESR objects

Create new service

interfaces and data types

with an easy-to-use, form-

based editor

View and edit metadata such

as release state

Extend the metamodel with

custom attributes

View the source of service

interfaces in WSDL format


Import / Export Data

Feature Description

Enables business users to make

changes in Decision Table Rules

Export Decision Table Data to MS

Excel

Modify Data in Excel and Import

back data in Decision Table

MS Excel 2007 Supported

Value Proposition

Feature parity with Rules

Composer

Business users will now be able

to make changes to values using

MS Excel 2007 and upload these

at runtime

Highlights of SAP NetWeaver BRMRules Manager Integration with MS Excel


BPM Future Direction


Future Direction

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BPM as a service

■ BPM design time on-cloud

■ BPM staging / testing environment on-cloud

■ Public business processes on-cloud

Collaborative Process Modeling

■ Integrated modeling environment with SAP NetWeaver BPM and SAP StreamWork

■ Real-time visibility of BPM modeling by multiple modelers

TCO, performance & availability

■ Shared process engine with SAP NetWeaver Process Integration

■ Enhanced Integration with SAP Solution Manager

Network orchestration

■ End-to-end business processes executed on premise and on demand

■ Semi/Un-structured processes

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New capabilities for line-of-business use

■ Simulation – both assumed and actual data

■ In-flight process changes

■ Organization and role management

■ Live, collaborative process design

Semi/Un-structured processes

■ Enable knowledge workers to work on collaborative/un-structured tasks within a structured process (SAP Streamworks Integration)

Integrate Your Business Processes

NetWeaver CE/BPM – What’s Ahead

Analytics / BAM

Structured Process

Time Cost

BPM / BRMBusiness Process

Library

Service & Event Bus

Semi-Structured

Process

Collaborative Process Design

Collaboration

Business Applications

Transactional

SAP

on

demand

3rd

party

apps.

Warehouses

Maste

r Data

Life

cycle

Managem

ent

Content

Knowledge Worker

“Process of me”

SAP SAPSAP

Manage Business Networks

B2BB2B

Enhanced line-of-business consumability

and collaboration

Roadmap

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LAB PREVIEW

Planned Capabilities in

OnDemand Environment:

Task Execution Collaboration

Collaborative Process Design

Simulation

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Business Process Library

Broad enterprise service portfolio of over

3,000 services

Descriptive application processes and

events exposed in a standard, extensible

manner

Industry-specific business process

templates

Methodology support via content-fluent

tools and repository

Collaborative content creation

Semi-automated mapping (“WARP

10”)

Self-learning on-demand community platform

Canonical meta-data model based on CCTS / UNCEFACT data types and industry standards

1:N reduction of interfaces

Leverage Business Content

Business Process Library

Business Applications

Transactional

SAP

on

demand

3rd

party

apps.

SAP SAPSAP

Life cycle ManagementContent SAP / Non-SAP

Process Extensions

Own Practices

Pre-packaged application, industry and

B2B content, methodology and tools for

time-to-value acceleration

Roadmap

ContactQ&A


Business Process Expert Community – BPXBPM Community Sharing Knowledge, Expertise and Insight

BPM Use Cases Wiki

30+ Industry Use Cases of SAP

NetWeaver BPM

Maintained by SAP, Partners and

Customers

Real World of BPM @SAP

Bi-Weekly Webinars on multiple

aspects of BPM

Delivered by Customers, Analysts

SAP and Partners

Read more on BPM Use Cases:http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BPX/Business+Process+Management+Use+Cases

Registration Page; Blog:


Recordings will be made available on the BPM Use Case wiki .


























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Get Informed – sdn.sap.comSAP Developer Network

articles,

tutorials, FAQs,

blogs, videos, …


Get Involved – bpx.sap.comSAP Business Process Expert Community

~300,000

Community

Members


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