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Author's profile photo Venugopal Chembrakalathil

SAP Workflow Management – Live Process Content

SAP Workflow Management – Overview

Workflow Management is a key service in SAP Digital Process Automation portfolio. It enable enterprises to automate processes, decisions  and gain visibility into business processes. SAP line of business applications can use Workflow Management to build extension scenarios or to create net new cloud applications in SAP Business Technology Platform.  Customers , as part of their S/4 HANA adoption can keep their core clean and build their process extensions using Workflow Management. Building extension use cases in SAP Business Technology Platform decouple the life cycle of the core application from extension applications.

Workflow Management – Live Process Content

Process content packages are delivered through SAP API Business Hub. These content packages are from different industry and line of business solutions. Some of the content packages are Capital Expenditure Approval,  Purchase Requisition Approval in SAP ERP , Manage Invoices without Purchase Order in SAP ERP , Manage Purchase Info Record in SAP ERP, Visibility Into Ariba Procurement Operations and Document centric approval process.. These content are  production ready content, accelerator content and sample content . A content package  consists of digital workflows, decisions , process visibility scenarios , user interfaces and  cloud application programming model modules. Some of the content packages also include related integration content to enable faster go live and reduce the total cost of development. Each content package provides required documentations to consume the content and a graphical view of the process , decision and visibility content.

Process Flexibility Cockpit – Discover and Consumer Process Content Packages

Customers can consume this content from their SAP Business Technology Platform account using Process Flexibility Cockpit. Process Flexibility Cockpit enable business process experts to discover, import, configure and  consume live process content. It provides single view of all workflow instances, decisions and visibility content  of a process scenario. A business process expert can discover content packages to their account using Process Hub.

Process Flexibility Cockpit – Mange Process Variants

A business process expert can manage all process variants of a process template, related decisions and visibility scenario. It provides transparency into all process variants deployed, decisions and aggregated view of all process instances part of this process area.

A process content package provides Process Templates enable customers to create different variants of a process. A process template consists of process steps, configurations including a constraint model. A business process expert can modify an existing variant or create a new variant using Process Variant Editor. It is a low-code/no-code editor enable a process expert to easily make changes without any support from IT side.

 

Customers and Partners can create similar content packages and publish to their stakeholders. SAP Business Application Studio enable developers to build process templates using SAP Workflow Service. Manage packages application enable customers and partners to packages Process Templates, Decisions , Visibility Content and related content.

Live Process content accelerate automation of business processes and enable customer to achieve higher level of automation with lower cost of development and time.

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      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Venugopal,

      This blog contains entire text. It could have been better if you have added sufficient links to the items. For instance I wanted to go to process flexibility cockpit but couldnt find it. Even google could not find it.

      Please could you add some links to help other users like me who would want to simply click and get to the right web pages?

      Thanks

      Kumar

      Author's profile photo Jannes Schofeld
      Jannes Schofeld

      Hi Kumar,

      please have a look at the following tutorials for SAP Workflow Management, which can be performed using the SAP BTP trial:

      1. Set Up Workflow Management in Cloud Cockpit
      2. Discover and Configure Live Process Content with Workflow Management

      Note that SAP Workflow Management is currently evolving into SAP Process Automation. If you would like to try out SAP Process Automation, have a look at this blog by Archana Shukla. In this case you can use the SAP BTP free tier offering to try things out. As the Live Process Content still has some dependencies to SAP Workflow Management services, currently you can only test it with above mentioned Workflow Management trial offerings.

      Best regards,

      Jannes

      Author's profile photo Keerthana Jayathran
      Keerthana Jayathran

      Hi Venugopal Chembrakalathil ,

      I am trying to import a package created in my subaccount to my trial account,while importing its failing in packageinfo stage with error " Content deployment for module "packageinfo" failed " .
      Could you please guide me why its failing or how can i rectify that error.
      Edit:Later when i removed taskui mtar it got successfully imported.What will be the issue with Task UI?Could you please suggest what should be done to resolve the issue?

      Thanks & Regards,

      Keerthana

      Author's profile photo Kamal Kant
      Kamal Kant

      Is this applicable only for Cloud.

      Can we run the scenarios in Trail mode somehow

      Author's profile photo Jannes Schofeld
      Jannes Schofeld

      Hi Kamal Kant,

      please have a look at the following tutorials for SAP Workflow Management, which can be performed using the SAP BTP trial:

      1. Set Up Workflow Management in Cloud Cockpit
      2. Discover and Configure Live Process Content with Workflow Management

      Note that SAP Workflow Management is currently evolving into SAP Process Automation. If you would like to try out SAP Process Automation, have a look at this blog by Archana Shukla. In this case you can use the SAP BTP free tier offering to try things out. As the Live Process Content still has some dependencies to SAP Workflow Management services, currently you can only test it with above mentioned Workflow Management trial offerings.

      Best regards,

      Jannes