aBPM – a solution extension offered by SAP Consulting

Extend the development capabilities of SAP BPM by using a declarative UI-design based on business-friendly Excel format.

This page contains an update to the previous aBPM overview that is located here.

Overview

SAP Business Process Management enables business and IT professionals to compose processes jointly using a single, directly executable process model.

As a framework which comprises multiple years of experiences with BPM implementation projects aBPM complements SAP BPM for the rapid and model driven implementation of customer-specific user interfaces as well as associated typical requirements within the BPM context based on the newest UI technologies from SAP.

The aBPM framework is based on a metadata model which is leveraged to render user interfaces during runtime. This approach allows the configuration of a process data model in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet template from which all necessary artefacts are being generated.

The aBPM-framework enables you to extend the development capabilities of SAP BPM and to benefit from the advantages of code generation.

For recurring requirements standardized solutions have been implemented as part of the aBPM framework. This contains:

• Context sensitive process search with an overview about important process details and a form inside
• Change tracking options
• Help value integration (locals as well as loaded from external systems)
• Social collaboration options
• Process attachments with DMS integration
• Full versioning (extends BPM process versioning to UI and callback versioning)
• Translation tool for support with internationalization of user interfaces and all other process artifacts
• HTML email services
• PDF generation

Here you will soon find the latest learning opportunities, including presentations, webinars and access to aBPM experts.

There you will find the following opportunities:

LEARN

Learn about the latest capabilities of aBPM and enhance your skills for professional usage & development

TALK

Exchange ideas and network with your peers

INSPIRE

Influence the progress of aBPM

Take a closer look and explore our blogs and further content on this hot topic – you will love it!

Resources

Overview blogs on aBPM

• Benefits and funding concept of the Solution Extension
• How can I influence the backlog of aBPM?
• Typical use cases and arguments for aBPM (accelerated implementation for SAP NetWeaver BPM)

Introduction

• aBPM Step by Step – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• Standalone application generation with aBPM (e.g. Custom Inbox)

Technical blogs

• aBPM: Retrieve Helpvalue Contents Programmatically in Callback Methods
• Persist additional task data with a small DB footprint
• Mail notification of JMS queue content
• Develop aBPM scenarios for NW 7.40 within NWDS 7.50
• Using JMS queue inside of an aBPM scenario
• Trigger an aBPM event call during the tab/window close
• Tab/window close management (Part 1 – Add an event listener to the aBPM link – provider side implementation)
• Tab/window close management (Part 2 – aBPM scenario implementation)
• Hide default aBPM header buttons
• Extend aBPM with PDF.js (a PDF viewer that runs inside different browser environments)
• Create a Custom UI Element in aBPM

BPM and tooling topics

• Delete useless SubstitutionRules
• SonarQube and the NWDI

Related SCN Spaces

SAP Business Process Management
SAP Process Orchestration
SAP Solution Extensions
SAP UI5 Developer Center

Any further questions?

Please contact Marco Lommatzsch (marco.lommatzsch@sap.com)