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kevin_wilson2
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BPMon

  • Monitors the health of steps in a business process. e.g. If the respone time for transaction VA01 has exceeded 10 seconds for more than 10 sales orders in the last hour then there may be a performance issue with the order creation step.
  • The purpose of BPMon is to monitor critical points in the business process and evaluate their performance against pre-defined tolerances in order to uncover system issues before they become noticed by the users.
  • It allows you to perform the above-mentioned monitoring across any process spanning your SAP landscape defined in Solution Manager. If the system is a NetWeaver system then full monitoring is available, if it's legacy SAP then it's limited to cross - application and interface monitoring (ALE, IDoc, qRFC, BDoc). For non-SAP system it's limited to monitoring log files using the remote CCMS agent.

See FAQs about Business Process Monitoring

SAP EM

  • Monitors the status of an end-to-end process INSTANCE. e.g. The sales order 123 had to have a delivery created by 2PM today but it never did so it now has status "Delivery Creation Delay". In addition it monitors the data / measurements of a process instance itself to uncover further exceptions. E.g. If the product left warehouse A for delivery 123, via Carrier ABC for quantity 1,000 at temperature 32 deg F and it arrives at Warehouse B we can then check whether it arrived at the planned warehouse with the planned quantity (1,000) at the planned temperature (<36 deg F) using the correct carrier. If any of these differ then we may have uncovered a further exception.
  • With SAP EM every instance of the business process is monitored reardless of whether it's in exception or not. Only the exception events are configured to trigger notifications or status changes.
  • SAP EM receives events from SAP systems and non-SAP systems.
  • SAP EM allows for users to access the data via a web dynpro with extensive authorizations and filtering built in to ensure only the correct people can view their applicable data.

For more information on SAP EM check out QData and SDN.

In short BPMon is used to uncover bottlenecks at key points in your process whereas SAP EM is used to actually monitor the status of an end-to-end business process matching up the planned events and measurements with the actual events and measurements to uncover exceptions.

Both tools uncover different exceptions at different levels but use similar mechanisms in alerts and workflows to notify people of these exceptions. They can be used in tandem and both would be beneficial to the business to highlight potential issues with the business.