1. The document discusses SAP Netweaver's business process management, composition environment, business rules management, and Gravity collaborative process modeling tool. 2. It provides an overview of each component, including how business processes can be modeled visually using BPMN, how rules can be managed to allow non-technical users to change them, and how Gravity allows real-time collaborative process modeling in a web browser. 3. Gravity is highlighted as SAP's cloud-based collaborative business process management tool that is currently in beta and built on SAP Netweaver BPM.

1. SAP Netweaver
Business Process Management
Abdulbasıt Gülşen
07.05.2011

2. 2010 SAP Inside Track Locations

3. Agenda
1 Composition Environment
2 Business Process Management
3 Business Rules Management
4 Gravity

4. Agenda
1 Composition Environment
2 Business Process Management
3 Business Rules Management
4 Gravity

5. Composition Environment
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6. Composition Environment
Composite Applications are user centric applications supporting
highly collaborative and dynamic business processes which span
several functional areas across and beyond organizations.
Composite Applications make use of data and functions provided
as services by platforms and applications, combining these into
user-centric processes and views, supported by own business
logic and specific user interfaces.

7. SAP SOA Stack

8. Composition Environment
PORTAL
LAYER
Requestor Approver HR Specialist
PROCESS
LAYER
ABSENCE APPROVAL PROCESS
UI LAYER
UI for Absence UI for UI for
Request 1st Approval 2nd Approval
BUSINESS
LAYER
LOGIC
Business Rules Service Composition
Define Approval Steps Create Absence Service
BACKEND
LAYER
SAP ERP
REGISTRY
ESR AND
LAYER
Enterprise Service Directory Service Registry

9. Composite Development
 Improve developer productivity by providing a central entry point for modeling and
assembling composite applications
 Integration of existing tool sets into one perspective

10. Agenda
1 Composition Environment
2 Business Process Management
3 Business Rules Management
4 Gravity

11. Business Process Management
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12. Business Process Management
 Seamless combination of service, event and human task
 Model driven development
 Out-of-the-box ESR integration
 Integrated with Business Rules Management

13. BPMN
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a graphical representation
for specifying business processes in a business process modeling.
BPMN was developed by Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), and
is currently maintained by the Object Management Group. The current version
of BPMN is 2.0.

14. Single Process Model
IT
BUSINESS
Business users and developers use the same model.
Single Process Model prevents the possible errors during Process Development.

15. UI Generation
Auto-generation of user interfaces (UI) out of the process context (data
objects) for Web Dynpro Java and Visual Composer

16. User Interface
Web Dynpro Java Visual Composer
Web Dynpro ABAP
Adobe Interactive Forms (SAP Netweaver 7.3)

17. Agenda
1 Composition Environment
2 Business Process Management
3 Business Rules Management
4 Gravity

18. Business Rules Management
SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management helps you manage your business rules
and maintain more flexible and agile applications that reflect these changing rules.

19. Business Rules Management
Rules Modeling & Implementation
 Business user-friendly rich rule formats
 Support for multiple data models for rules
implementation
 Data model independent business vocabularies
Rule Testing & Refinement
 Rules validation, testing & refinement
 Optimization, simulation, What If’s and analysis
Rule Execution
 High performance rules engine
 Integrated administration, monitoring & justification
End-to-End Change Management
 Business user rules management interface
 Rules versioning & repository services
 Permission, access control & governance

20. Before
 Rules only exist implicit in the mind of people
Rules in the mind of people  Inadequate, ambiguous and inconsistent business
rules across the enterprise
 High risk of compliance violation
 Rules de-coupled from the process itself
Rules maintained in  No structured approach for enforcement of corporate
spreadsheets
policies
 Missing visibility
 Cumbersome & time-consuming to change rules
 Inefficient as rules might be duplicated over and over
Rules coded into programs
 Errors in rules implementation due to missing
background by those (IT) who maintain rules

21. After
 “If” conditions are satisfied “then” fire action
“If Then” Rules  Use simple English like statements joined with and/or
 Models rules in familiar spreadsheet like structure
Decision Tables  Integration with Microsoft Office Excel
 Model rules visually as flow chart
 Conveniently drag “rule flow elements” from the
Rule Flows
project explorer and simply “drag” them to the flow
editor

22. Business User Empowerment
Allow non-technical users to …
 … change rules at runtime
 … view version history
 … compare versions
 … generate reports
 … find usage of any artifacts
 … validate consistency of rules
 … activate / deactivate rules

23. Access Control
 Access rights are managed with the
SAP Netweaver Administrator
 Each rule can be given a different
access permission

24. Agenda
1 Composition Environment
2 Business Process Management
3 Business Rules Management
4 Gravity

25. Gravity
 Collaborative Business Process Management tool in SAP StreamWork
 On-Demand
 Currently in Beta Release
 Developed by SAP as an extension to the on-premise SAP Netweaver BPM
solution

26. Benefits
 Model processes graphically and intuitively directly on the web browser
 Multiple users can view and change processes at the same time
 Export diagram to BPMN 2.0
 http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BPX/Collaborative+Process+Modeling+Tool

27. Gravity

28. Gravity

29. Gravity

30. Questions?
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