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Accelerate Your Test Automation Journey with Process Mining for SAP

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Automation is a necessity, your users are the key, and they have already provided you the content.

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SAP… Change Is a Constant

• When a new process becomes available, how quickly can I integrate the

process into my business and begin realizing its benefits?

• How can I decrease the time required to implement system changes and

events?

• How do I improve implementation performance, mitigate risks, leverage

accelerators, and measure adoption?

EF

FO

RT

ONGOING

CHANGE

EVENTS

DISCRETE

CHANGE

EVENTS

…establish a quality platform to minimize time/cost of change event efforts

Consolid.

New Implementation

Upgrades

New Processes

TIME

CustomDev.

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Custom Dev.

Hot Packs

Support Pack Support Pack

CHANGE EVENTS

Business drivers Changed business processes,

M&A re-organizations & new

products, vendors…

Compliance drivers Governance, risk management &

compliance

Technology drivers New functionality & Upgrades

Transforming software change control into business change control – company-

wide, across SAP and non-SAP landscapes

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Digital Business ProcessesComplex

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Melinda Ballou, IDC

Companies are exposed to significant risk of business disruption if critical processes aren’t tested frequently.

Public software failures are becoming more and more commonplace, and it’s not merely about security. It is simply not possible to achieve the needed speed and accuracy with non-automated approaches.”

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Digital Risk

It’s not just about security, hackers, and data theft

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Risk is Inherent (and Expensive)!

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Defects Cost to correct per defect

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The Pain! Manual Process Documentation

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One user, one process, one

document, one test at a time…

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Understanding this...

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…without resorting to this?

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INTERACTIVE

CAPTURE

Business Analysts, Subject

Matter Experts, Process

Owners

PASSIVE

CAPTURE

Individual contributors,

task experts, regular users

PROCESS

MINING

for SAP

IT Implementation

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TranslationSynthesisMining

Discovers business

process flow, history and

details

Recreates an accurate

human performance

record

Automatically consolidates

processes and activities

into a multi-variant

representation

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Discovery

Automation

Yields Full Documentation and Automation

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Rethink Change Management.

START with Automation!

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Transferable Automation

1 + 1 = 4!

Automated Discovery Used to Capture a

End-to-End Business Process

Operations• Documentation

• Scripts for robotic

process automation

QA• Documentation

• Test Scripts

Application Team (IT)• Documented requirements

• Work sized, resources allocated

• Stories created for sprints

• Integration with ALM & defect tracking

Business• Visualization of process

• Detailed documentation

generated for training, IT, QA

and Ops

Reduction in manual hours

vs. test automation alone30%

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What if You Could Discover All Your SAP Business Process at Once?

Discover Synthesize Prioritize

• Resource

Requirements

• Documentation

• Test Automation

Distribution

Chile Warehouse

Returns

Inventory

Sales

Deliver

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Change Impact

Analysis

Test Automation

Test Execution

Go Live

Run

How Agile Are You? What are You Automating? What Could You Be Automating?

Prepare Discover Realize Go Live Run

Major update, Consolidation, Use Case Expansion

Major Change

Small Change

Business

Driven Testing

How do you

create test

automation?

What is your

process for

capturing and

documenting

business

processes?

How do you

keep up with

ongoing small

changes?

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Process Mining is a zero touch solution that enables

orgs to auto-discover as-is SAP business processes

at scale and create end-to-end visualizations and test

automation libraries.

Worksoft Process Mining for SAP OverviewAvailable for:

SAP’s Sales & Distribution, Materials Management and Warehouse Management Modules

Discover at Scale PrioritizeAccelerate

Automation

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Automated Generation of SAP Business Blueprints

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Automated Business Process Analysis

See ALL variations in a process in a single view.

Quickly identify the happy path.

Auto-generate supporting documentation.

THINK TIME

How long does it take to perform a business activity?

PERFORMANCE

How do application performance problems impact your critical business processes?

COVERAGE

How well do your current tests cover your critical business processes?

USAGE

How often do end users traverse a particular path through a business process?

CUSTOM CODE

Where is custom code located in the context of a business process?

COSTS

What are the most expensive activities that should be optimized first?

ERRORS

Where in your business process execution do errors most often occur?

TEST HISTORY

Are your business process tests effective? Do they find any errors?

PROCESS VARIANTS

How many variants does a particular business process have and why?

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Process Mining for SAP® Summary

Fast track process automation for SAP: SD, WM & MM

Automatically discover workflows, generate test assets

Identify process knowledge and testing coverage gaps quickly.

Works perfectly along side Worksoft Capture

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Thank You!