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

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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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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

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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

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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

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• 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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