Netweaver and BPM concepts

Business process management (BPM) is a systematic approach to improving an organization's business processes. BPM activities seek to make business processes more effective, more efficient, and more capable of adapting to an ever-changing environment. BPM is a subset of infrastructure management, the administrative area of concern dealing with maintenance and optimization of an organization's equipment and core operations.

A business process is a set of coordinated tasks and activities, conducted by both people and equipment, that will lead to accomplishing a specific organizational goal. The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), a non-profit organization, exists to promote the standardization of common business processes, as a means of furthering e-business and business-to-business (B2B) development. To this end, the organization has developed the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML), an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based metalanguage for modeling business processes.

BPM(Business Process Management) is a structured approach that models an enterprise's human and machine tasks and the interactions between them as processes. BPM software uses a dashboard interface that offers a high-level view of the operation that typically crosses departmental boundaries. The dashboard integrates with all the applications that perform processes as well as related databases and can be used to trigger the start of a unit of work.

Evolving from document management, workflow and enterprise application integration (EAI), a BPM system can monitor and analyze tasks in realtime and set off alerts when specified limits are exceeded or a response is not received within a specified time.

Management for People/Machine Systems

For decades, systems that are entirely automated have more or less taken care of themselves. However, operations requiring a mix of people and machine procedures employ BPM as a higher-level management system that keeps track of them both.

Over time, a BPM system can provide historical data of human-machine interactions that might be extremely difficult to obtain from information systems, especially disparate systems from several departments or systems running on different platforms.

The BPM Suite (BPMS)

A BPM system may comprise a variety of independent packages or a comprehensive business process management suite (BPMS), which includes tools for modeling and analysis, application integration, business rules support, business intelligence (BI), activity monitoring and optimization. Advanced BPMSs provide a development tool for creating forms-based applications, which are often the start of many business processes.

The following r excellent websites containing PDF & PPT docs on BPM :

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT WITH SAP NetWeaveru2122

http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/pdf/BWP_NetWeaver_BPM.pdf

Business Process Management Essentials

http://www.glintech.com/downloads/BPM%20Essentials%20with%20Open%20Source.pdf

Business Process Management

http://www.seeburger.es/fileadmin/es/pdf/SEEBURGER_-_Business_Integration_Server__TA000714BPM_.pdf

BPM Process Patterns Repeatable Designs for BPM Process Models

http://edocs.bea.com/albsi/docs55/pdfs/BPM%20Process%20Patterns%20White%20Paper.pdf

Business Process Management -Modeling to Execution

http://www30.sap.com/korea/company/events/techday05/img/data_06.pdf

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT (BPM)

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/ed49db90-0201-0010-c4a5-c52...

BPM Process Patterns:Repeatable Design for BPM Process Models

http://www.bptrends.com/publicationfiles/05%2D06%2DWP%2DBPMProcessPatterns%2DAtwood1%2Epdf

Patterns: SOA Foundation - Business Process Management Scenario

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247234.pdf

A BPM Roadmap

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gyanaraj

aashish_sinha · ‎09-15-2008

Hi,

>>> basics of Netweaver, Netweaver components

Have a look into this link for Netweaver Information..

http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/index.epx

>>> learning BPM concepts

Have a look into these links

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/advancedsearch?query=bpm+concepts&cat=sdn_all

Regards

Aashish Sinha

Former Member · ‎09-15-2008

Hi Sagar,

Net weaver : SAP Net Weaver provides an open integration and application platform and permits the integration of the Enterprise Services Architecture. Net weaver covers following topics:

People Integration

Process Integration

Information Integration

Application Platform.

BPM :

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e0fdea31-7098-2910-95b3-979949d9... -

introduction to BPM

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/7091f205-1a99-2a10-9e8f-93cd00b8... -

Fundamentals of BPM

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/62/dcef46dae42142911c8f14ca7a7c39/content.htm -

Explanation of BPM steps

BPM simple scenario