SAP NetWeaver BPM

Despite standard functionality in the field of BPMS, key advantage of SAP NETWEAVER BPM is the prevalence of the SAP platform in the Russian companies that does it convenient for the solution of small tasks regarding process automation.

SAP NetWeaver BPM is a component of the SAP NetWeaver platform and it is intended for rapid and agile development of processes, and their subsequent deployment – considerably reducing costs.

SAP NetWeaver BPM provides itself a set of the outstanding means based on standards and allowing you quickly and to effectively model processes – according to flowing to requirements of the real world – and to perform them without long manual coding. This product allows you to involve standard, implemented in the form of services, functionality of SAP applications of Business Suite and also to connect applications of other suppliers, for the purpose of creation or adaptation and modification of the most suitable – for your business – processes. Moreover, SAP NetWeaver BPM gives to business professionals and IT experts unified, shared environment for design of the innovation processes, creation of new processes and the adaptation existing under business requirements. This approach leads to considerable improvement of quality of processes, their flexibility, development fall forward – that finally reduces your costs connected with implementation and support of business processes.

Support by a product

• Joint modeling of processes by business analysts and specialists of IT departments
• The central accomplishment of processes by the "process server" (Process Engine) implemented on Java
• Providing the intuitive interface for final business users
• Embedding of business rules in the created process of SAP NetWeaver BPM supports more effective joint team work, providing to your business processes experts uniform complex tools for modeling and composition. Eclipse based on the popular platform of development *, these tools helps business experts and IT specialists to create and configure jointly processes in a standard notation of BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation).

Regarding assembly of processes in SAP NetWeaver BPM the functionality is maintained:

• Comprehensive business process management – support of all aspects of process management, from initial determination at the top level before accounting of all technical details at the level of integration and deployment
• Modeling of processes in a notation of BPMN – an opportunity to set both the user tasks, and automated.
• The user tasks (Human activities) – initiate and cause the works intended for accomplishment by the user
• The automated tasks (Automated activities) – cause Web services, supporting a full integration about service - the focused business applications of SAP

Thanks to close integration with the software of a business intelligence of Business Objects (an SAP Company), SAP NetWeaver BPM allows to involve additional functionality of the analysis, including registration of processes and monitoring. It gives you the chance to receive process metrics (for example, runtime of process) and crucial data (for example, volumes of sales orders).

Transition to use of architecture of SOA

SAP NetWeaver BPM helps to understand benefits from use of service-oriented architecture (SOA) – a modern IT paradigm which allows the companies to create new processes on the basis of the standardized Web services and reusable a component, reducing thereby the total costs. The business applications of SAP based on the SAP NetWeaver platform already comprise thousands of services and support SOA approach. The functionality of SAP applications of Business Suite and practices implemented the best in them are available in the form of reusable services from ESR storage (Enterprise Service Repository).

Sharing of SAP NetWeaver CE and the SAP component of NetWeaver BPM integrated into it allows to combine flexibly these services and to create new composite applications and also to implement SOA for business solving of tasks quicker and more effectively.