Business Process Management - How it can change the face of small businesses
Business Process Management, BPM, as it is widely known is a tool to automate various processes in a well defined business model. Large corporations have been using BPM tools for a long time and today...
View ArticlePossible approach to efforts estimation of BPM implementation project
1 IntroductionOften on consulting projects need to quickly perform an efforts estimation for consulting services in the implementation of BPM development tasks. In this blog I want to show my approach...
View ArticleNow well prepared: Using preview for faster roundtrips when developing BPM...
MotivationIn SAP BPM process modeling, you use tasks and assign them to the human activities in your process. The task is executed by a human. The UI component assigned to a task allows the user to...
View ArticleGenerating Fiori UIs
In the previous blog post, we explained how to use the SAP UI5 generation provided with SAP BPM to create task UIs. These generated UIs have been a useful starting point for developing your own UIs....
View ArticleA Word on Federation
There are different ways to achieve federation across multiple systems using Process Observer. After recent inquiries from customers I think it may be worth to share one specific approach here. This...
View ArticleInclusive Gateways in SAP Business Process Management
Introduction Defining the runtime of a process based on conditions is a common use case. So far, SAP BPM supports this by offering an exclusive gateway. However, this gateway has a restriction: only...
View ArticleMulti-level SLA breach notification in SAP BPM
Multi-level SLA breach notification in SAP BPMIn SAP BPM, we know how to design a simple SLA breach notification (Single level). But there are many cases, in the business process, it should escalate...
View ArticleEasy Consumption of BPM Events via Public API – using the example of custom...
Introduction In BPM, it is already possible to send e-mail notifications to potential owners when new tasks are created. What can you do if this is not your standard notification mechanism and...
View ArticleHow to properly read Picture file to upload to UME as User Photo - NW 7.31/7.40
Hello everyone As you might know, since NW 7.31 it is possible to display the user photo of the initiator of a BPM Task, in the Stream View of BPM Inbox. It shows as it follows:The photo which is shown...
View ArticleUsing preview for faster roundtrips when developing BPM tasks UI
MotivationIn SAP BPM process modeling, you use tasks and assign them to the human activities in your process. The task is executed by a human. The UI component assigned to a task allows the user to...
View ArticleSending reminders to users about expiring tasks
I had an issue on a BPMN project. I had to inform the users that they need to complete the actions required. So I had to try what the different options was. I think I did find a solution after some...
View ArticleArchitecture of Process Performance Monitoring in S/4HANA
In the first blog post about Process Performance Monitoring in S/4HANA we introduced the performance monitoring for sell-from-stock processes in the S/4HANA Cloud Edition 1506. This post discusses the...
View ArticleProcess Performance Monitoring in S/4HANA
S/4HANA Enterprise Cloud Edition 1506 is delivered with predefined content for monitoring the performance of sell from stock processes (order type SO02).The goal is to deliver a ready-to-run solution...
View ArticleUser texts as process subject in BPM
Recently I had a request to add a value from the process start trigger to the Process Subject field of the BPM monitoring page. That's this field: I followed the steps in the SAP Help page...
View ArticleSAP BPM Java api How to automatically populate process start DataObject from...
This post will describes steps to automatically populate process start DataObject from Webdynpro context.Fist of all I will identify the problem of populating complex DataObjects while starting SAP BPM...
View ArticleWhat does error “Galaxy Could not be evicted” mean?
What causes this error to appear in log files and how to handle this:... Caused by:com.sap.glx.core.cluster.ClusterEntryUnavailableException: Storage group XXXXXXXXXXXXX could not be evicted (2499 ms...
View ArticleProcess Observer: More to See
We have written about visualization before, but there are some improvements to the visualization of process flow that deserve a separate blog post.I will discuss the visualization of the process...
View ArticleBPM OData: What’s new in SAP NetWeaver 7.31 SP16?
This blog post, as part 7 of BPM OData blog series, refers to the OData Service in SAP BPM available with SAP NetWeaver 7.3 EHP 1 SP 09 and higher. The features described in this blog post are...
View ArticleSecuring SAP UI5 task UI applications also resolves log-on issues
IntroductionFor enabling end users to process BPM tasks, you might have created an SAP UI5 application. You can do this with the SAP UI5 generation feature in SAP BPM Process Composer, or you can do...
View ArticleCreating OData-based SAPUI5 UIs for BPM tasks – complex is now easy as well…
In his blog post “Creating OData-based SAPUI5 UIs for BPM tasks – the easy way…” Frederic showed the ‘New Task’ wizard capable of generating custom task UIs with just a few clicks. In the SAP NetWeaver...
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