signavio & sap solution manager 7.2 integration overview
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Signavio & SAP Solution Manager 7.2Integration overview & Best Practices
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• Signavio and SAP Solution Manager overview
• Basic integration concept
• Detailed integration overview
• Best Practices
• Summary & Further Information
Table of content
Overview
Signavio and SAP Solution Manager
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SAP Solution Manager & Signavio Process Manager
▪ Manage your business processes along the application lifecycle
(prepare, design, build, test, operate)
▪ Describe both business and IT perspective on processes,
applications and system landscapes in one place
▪ Business documentation and system reality are always
synchronized
▪ Foundation to do business process-based test/change management and monitoring
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▪ IT / Project teams
▪ Test & Training teams
▪ Administration/operations team
▪ SAP solution information (Systems, Transactions, Fioris,
Configuration, etc.)
▪ Solution documentation (functional & technical specifications
▪ SAP testing (test planning, test cases, test steps, etc.)
▪ Intuitive process and decision modelling for all
▪ Organization-wide transparency
▪ Processes and decisions available in a single platform
▪ Efficient agreement on processes and decisions
▪ Increased productivity from getting everybody on the same
page
▪ Business and IT
▪ Process and subject matter experts
▪ Transformation/project teams
▪ Customer journeys
▪ High-level and detailed process information
▪ Supporting process information (e.g. roles, risks, controls, KPIs, etc.)
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▪ License included in SAP support contract (on-premise) ▪ SAP price list based component
Basic integration concept of
Signavio and SAP Solution Manager
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Signavio – SAP Solution Manager basic integration concept
Import of
SAP Best Practices
Collaboration, Communication and Workflow capabilities
Detailed integration overview
Signavio and SAP Solution Manager
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Signavio & Solution Manager synchonisation details
• Folder structure
• Sub-Folders as Scenarios
• BPMN Diagrams as Processes
• Tasks as Process Steps
○ references to process steps
○ references to executables
• Custom Attributes
• Executable / Transaction Library as
Dictionary Entries (for reuse in different
Process Models)
• Process Step Library (for reuse in
different Process Models)
• Copy (aka one-time import) of
Folder structure, Scenarios,
Processes & Process Steps including
Custom Attributes
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Import SAP Solution
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Export
Best Practices
Signavio & SAP Solution Manager
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Signavio & Solution Manager best practices
SAP Library Import
▪ Syncronize the Executables(Transactions) & Process Stepswith the Signavio Dictionary forreuse in Processes
▪ Copy the existing processhierarchy into Signavio includinglinks to executables and processsteps
▪ Build/Adjustprocess hierarchyand business processes withSignavio Process Manager
▪ Link existing transactions and/orprocess steps with processmodels
▪ Collaboration on processes withIT and Business to definebusiness requirements
▪ Review of processes and requirements on processes withIT (Business Expert, SAP Expert)
▪ Process models will be refinedand enhanced with SAP specificinformation
Create Models and link with transactions
▪ Synchronize BPH/Processes toSolution Manager
▪ Process hierarchy in SAP SolManbased on scope defined in Signavio
▪ Additional technical Information and documentation to support design will also be stored in Solution Manager
Process hierachy and Process Export
▪ Insights for the departments through the Collaboration Hub (knowledge transfer)
▪ Deviations can be quickly adapted by the specialist departments
▪ SolMan User can implement the changes directly and give feedback
Collaboration & Optimization
SolMan
SAP IMG
Link Configuration and Other Documentation
Process definition
Signavio
SAP Library (Executables)
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Release N+2
Signavio SAP Solution Manager integration
Signavio
Solution in SAP Solution ManagerProduction branch
Development branchMaintenance branch
Design branch
ChangeDocument
Change cycle
Release N+1
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Collaboration
SAP Best Practice /
SAP Market StandardSAP Landscape Library generation of
executables and interfaces
Import branch
• Import of SAP Best Practice /
Model Company or
• Optional: Generate Executable /
Interface Library based on system usage
• Release process scope into Design branch
• Initial sync to Signavio
• Perform Fit Gap workshops in
Solution Manager and define requirements
• Perform Design workshops for process redesign in Signavio
(Signavio leads for any
structure and modeling purposes)
• Sync back to Solution Manager
• Solution design documentation
in Work Packages required for configuration and WRICEF
objects in Solution Manager
• Design documents and
functional specification (test steps) to be written in Solution
Manager
• Release into Development
Branch and starts
implementations with Work Item
• Release into Production
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ChangeDocument(for structure
changes)
ChangeDocument
Transport
Request
Work Package / Item
Transport
Request
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Signavio & SAP Solution ManagerSummary & Further Information
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Why Signavio with SAP Solution Manager?
▪ Leading Business Process Management solution including collaboration hub, process modeling and mining capabilities
▪ Strong business focus with alignment to IT
▪ End-to-End process focus independent of supporting IT systems
▪ Collaboration with stakeholders, process experts and and end-users
▪ Long-term retention of process knowledge
▪ Continuous improvement independent of project timelines
▪ Tight scope management through integration with Signavio
▪ Business and IT alignment
▪ Documentation of SAP deployments
▪ Single source of truth for technical SAP information
▪ Seamless integration with test management
▪ SAP lifecycle management to support build and run phases.
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Signavio SAP Solution Manager integration roadmap
Q2 2021 Q3 2021 Q4 2021 Q1 2022
• Improved import of
executables
• Transfer
BPMN process diagrams into Signavio
• Transfer
BPMN process diagrams from Signavio to SolMan
• Support SolMan
Scopes in imports into Signavio
• Transfer published
states of BPMN diagrams to SolMan
• Further items to be
defined
• Further items to be
defined
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Further Information
• Interface setup guide
• Integration overview video
• Blog about Integration
• Integration paper
• Process Management wiki
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