Sharing my Workflow Experience
In my last blog few months back on workflow I have talked about my take away points while investigating a workflow problem. So this blog is basically about my learning’s about working with workflows in last 2-3 months. nabheetmadan09 in ABAP, SAP Business Workflow [Feb. 10, 2012 05:55 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Dynamic user decisions in SAP Business Workflow
A short demo of the recently released functionality of dynamically determining the decision options for a user decision in an SAP Workflow. R. J. van Looy in SAP Business Workflow [Jan. 29, 2012 03:54 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Lots of new stuff about BRFplus
Time has come to blog again about newly published BRFplus papers and other material. Want to learn how to automatically set the tax code in the purchase order creation? Or how BRFplus is used in the Support Team Determination of the SAP Solution Manager? You want to read the new BRFplus ebook and much more? Check out this blog. :-) Carsten Ziegler in ABAP, Business Process Management, Business Rules Management, SAP Business Workflow [Jan. 27, 2012 06:30 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

These are a few of my favorite SAP transactions
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ... well, these have nothing to do with building SAP Workflows. But my list follows. Susan Keohan in Business Process Management, SAP Business Workflow [Jan. 25, 2012 01:04 PM | 15 Comments | Permalink]

ASUG Presents: Using SAP Workflow to Aid Manufacturing Efficiencies Reporting
So, do you think SAP Workflow can be used to interface with other applications? Attend this ASUG webcast Susan Keohan in SAP Business Workflow [Jan. 18, 2012 11:05 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

News in the BRFplus Formula
Learn what is new in the BRFplus formula expressions. 1. Text editor 2. New formula parser 3. New and better formula functions Carsten Ziegler in ABAP, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, SAP Business Workflow [Jan. 15, 2012 01:53 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Am I certifiable?
For years, I dreamt of being certified in SAP Business Workflow - but circumstances conspired against me. Susan Keohan in Business Process Management, SAP Business Workflow [Jan. 10, 2012 11:41 AM | 14 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Business Workflow - You can use the gravity modeler - you can, you can!
It’s 8 years ago to the day that I announced the e-mail notifications mechanism to the SAP Business Workflow community .... Here is another gift horse to take advantage of. Alan Rickayzen in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, SAP Business Workflow, SAP StreamWork [Dec. 20, 2011 02:42 AM | 18 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Shows some love for SAP Business Workflow
In a Customer Connection series that was held this past summer, SAP customers (and WF developers) around the world had a chance to say what we *really* need... Susan Keohan in Business Process Modeling, SAP Business Workflow [Dec. 15, 2011 10:29 AM | 22 Comments | Permalink]

Workflow and Orchestration Solutions from SAP – Overview and Positioning
This article outlines the different workflow and service orchestration solutions available to SAP Customers. It provides overview and positioning details, focusing on the strengths of each of them and recommendations for usage. Details of interoperability and comparative summary are also provided at the end of the document. Eduardo Chiocconi in SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP Business Workflow, Business Process Management [Dec. 13, 2011 11:18 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Facts of Workflow Event Mechanism
The blog discusses about the workflow event mechanism. How the event is submitted to the logical system. Pavan Bhamidipati in ABAP, Beginner, Business Process Management, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Business Workflow [Dec. 02, 2011 03:49 PM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Available right now - online - a tool for charting and planning processes
The collaborative process modeling tool in SAP StreamWork has been released into the open public beta phase. That means everyone who's anyone has access. Alan Rickayzen in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, SAP Business Workflow, SAP StreamWork [Nov. 29, 2011 10:32 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Invoice Management: Implementation lessons learned
After doing about 10 SAP Invoice Management implementations it is about time to share some lessons learned. Martin Nooteboom in Beginner, Business Solutions, ERP, Financial Excellence, SAP Business Workflow [Nov. 28, 2011 07:20 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Dynamic Attachment using Simple Transformation
It discusses about how can we make use of transformation in the workflow developments, to create attachments and to populate the content of these attachments dynamically.Check out....... Pavan Bhamidipati in ABAP, Business Process Management, SAP Business Workflow, Scripting Languages [Nov. 21, 2011 08:44 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Calling an External Web Service from an ECC 6.0 system WITHOUT using NetWeaver PI
Recently, one of my colleagues forwarded me a student email to solicit my thoughts: Do you have any experience with calling an External Web Service from an ECC 6.0 system WITHOUT using NetWeaver PI? I would like to find a way to call our SaaS services directly from SAP, but can't use PI because it logs card numbers and security codes which is a no-no for the PCI-DSS requirements. Any good ideas? Kenneth Schieffer in ABAP, Java Programming, SAP Business Workflow, SAP Education, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Nov. 04, 2011 01:07 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Maintaining Decision Keys for a Workflow Task in the Workflow Gateway ODC Service
Maintaining decision keys for Dialog Activity Workflow tasks to integrate them into the Workflow OData Channel service in SAP NetWeaver Gateway. Yuval Zeharhary in ABAP, SAP Business Workflow, SAP NetWeaver Gateway [Nov. 02, 2011 03:43 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Procurement goes mobile: What’s in it for you? Part2 - SAP SRM Shopping Cart Approval
There has been a strong need inside the SAP Procurement community for the need of #mobility in procurement and our first blog of the series was a curtain raiser, this blog is a multi-fold expressions of the roll-out of the use case for Shopping Cart Approval on the Mobility platform...read on...App live Tridip Chakraborthy in Emerging Technologies, Mobile, Procurement and SRM, SAP Business Workflow, SAP NetWeaver Gateway [Oct. 21, 2011 09:08 AM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

Operations Research & ABAP
Can Operations Research make your business smarter? In this weblog I show how to use a solver for linear optimization problems in ABAP that is part of SAP Business Suite in a small example of workitem priorization. Tobias Trapp in ABAP, Business Process Expert, ERP, SAP Business Workflow [Oct. 04, 2011 12:22 PM | 16 Comments | Permalink]

Creating an Extended Workflow ODC Service Inherited from the Existing Workflow ODC Service
Build an expanded Workflow service in OData Channel by inheriting the existing Workflow service and adding your own functionality Yuval Zeharhary in SAP NetWeaver Gateway, SAP Business Workflow, ABAP [Sep. 12, 2011 07:42 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

More about BRFplus
An ASUG webcase about BRFplus is planned for November this year: "BRFplus - Leveraging Business Rule Technology In SAP Applications" The blog further lists a couple of interesting articles and papers about BRFplus. Carsten Ziegler in SAP Business Workflow, Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, ABAP [Aug. 29, 2011 05:58 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

The Waiting is the hardest part
As I watch the tweets and forecasts for Hurricane Irene, I remember another such time, 19 years ago... Susan Keohan in SAP Business Workflow [Aug. 27, 2011 09:52 AM | 10 Comments | Permalink]

Workflow templates fail to activate after transport
After you transport a workflow template you notice it has not activated in the target system. Eddie Morris in SAP Business Workflow [Aug. 24, 2011 07:53 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

BRFplus @ TechEd 2011
September is TechEd time, once again. And again, I will be there for discussions with customers and partners, and of course to demo BRFplus. Carsten Ziegler in ABAP, Business Process Management, Business Rules Management, SAP Business Workflow, SAP TechEd [Aug. 05, 2011 08:33 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Making the Case for Humanitarian Supply Chain Management
Have you ever tried to manage a cold chain for medicine in a region with temperatures about 40° degrees? A region with no roads, an unclear situation after several earthquakes, an unstable political situation and you will have to work for the first time with many very different organizations to deliver the goods. By the way the medicine comes from all over the world… Further earthquakes may strike or people requiring medicine can be brought to new locations. We present in this blog a challenging case for supply chain management and its information system support: humanitarian aid in sudden on-set disasters. We discuss solutions from a management and information system support perspective. Joern FRANKE in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Procurement and SRM, SAP Business Workflow, SAP Research [Jul. 22, 2011 04:13 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SUP Notifications vs. Credentials - Part II
Learn how to use credentials in a Sybase Mobile WF for use with Notification message DCN-WF. Ivan Mirisola in Mobile, Interoperability, SAP Business Workflow [Jul. 12, 2011 02:42 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

SUP Notifications vs. Credentials - Part I
Understand how notification works within SUP for sending new workflow tasks to mobile devices. Ivan Mirisola in Mobile, Code Exchange, Interoperability, Java Programming, SAP Business Workflow [Jul. 06, 2011 12:59 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Top 3 reasons why workflow and business process experts should get involved with data governance
This blog discusses the similarities with workflow and data governance initiatives. Ginger Gatling in Business Process Expert, Data Integration and Quality Management, Master Data Management (MDM), SAP Business Suite, SAP Business Workflow [May. 27, 2011 09:03 AM | 20 Comments | Permalink]

Configure SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.02 SP6 Trial Version for developing & running Workflows ( Part 2 / 2 )
I have configured my SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.02 SP6 32-bit Trial Version for developing and testing my custom workflows just for the purpose of learning. Here I share with the community how I did this in a step by step manner. Farhan Mahmood in Application Server, Beginner, SAP Business Workflow [May. 11, 2011 04:19 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

BRFplus @ SAP Skills Conference 2011
Business Rule Framework plus (BRFplus) will be presented at the SAP Skills Conference 2011. Carsten Ziegler in ABAP, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, SAP Business Workflow [May. 06, 2011 08:08 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Configure SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.02 SP6 Trial Version for developing & running Workflows ( Part 1 / 2 )
Learn how you can configure SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.02 SP6 Trial Version for developing & running Workflows. Farhan Mahmood in Application Server, Beginner, SAP Business Workflow [May. 03, 2011 09:34 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

We want you for BRFplus - Customer Engagement Initiative
The BRFplus Customer Engagement Initiative allows customers to get early insight into SAP product plans and closely collaborate with SAP in the area of Spec, Design, implementation and test. Carsten Ziegler in ABAP, Business Process Management, Business Rules Management, SAP Business Workflow [Apr. 20, 2011 04:27 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Rapid growth of workflow table SWWCNTP0
You notice a rapid growth in workflow container table SWWCNTP0. Eddie Morris in SAP Business Workflow [Apr. 13, 2011 02:01 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

SAPMentors + ASUG +VNSG +SAP = #winning!
So I wanted to use this tag (#winning) before I have to pay for the right to use it. But regardless of how you feel about *that* person, please read on for some real news... Susan Keohan in ABAP, Business Process Management, Business Rules Management, SAP Business Workflow [Apr. 05, 2011 02:57 PM | 22 Comments | Permalink]

A simple & brief but effective explanation of Organizational Management for beginners
Organizational Management - a foundation for HR & other SAP Applications Faisal Iqbal in Beginner, ERP, Human Capital Management, SAP Business Workflow [Apr. 04, 2011 06:59 PM | 13 Comments | Permalink]

Unwiring Your Enterprise with SAP Enterprise Mobility - SCN and SAP EcoHub Webinar
This is an announcement of an upcoming webinar by SCN and SAP EcoHub that I am particularly interested in because mobility customer Tellabs will be sharing their experiences with Sybase and SAP Mobile Workflow. Kevin Benedict in SAP EcoHub, SAP Business Workflow, Mobile [Mar. 24, 2011 10:20 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Deactivation of Event Linkage in SAP Business Workflow
To inform about the cause and resolution of event linkage deacivation. and also how to prevent it in the future. Eddie Morris in SAP Business Workflow [Mar. 18, 2011 03:53 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Good news regarding "mobility for SAP"
New "mobility for SAP" version released with new functionality of CRM and Workflow Integration. And very important news: "Mobility for SAP" is planned to also connect via Sybase SUP Frank Ahland in SAP Business Workflow, ERP, ABAP, Mobile, CRM [Mar. 18, 2011 11:16 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Informing users via email about a change in the Basic Fixed Date of a project milestone.
I have often been approached with workflow tasks where the requirements have been to have the system send an email to inform certain users about a change in some transactional data. Just send the email, nothing else. No interaction by the user. Lande Santos da Silva in ABAP, SAP Business Workflow [Mar. 17, 2011 10:37 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

BRFplus and Business Workflow - How to combine the best from both worlds
The blog comments on the combination of business rules management (BRFplus) and business process management (Business Workflow). A very detailed paper has been created and an ASUG webinar is scheduled to show the recently added capabilities to combine the two products. Carsten Ziegler in ABAP, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, SAP Business Workflow [Mar. 11, 2011 07:14 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

A little help for SAP Workflow 'freshers' (part 1)
In this blog series, I will try to give practical advice to those embarking on the wonderful journey of learning SAP Business Workflow. Susan Keohan in ABAP, SAP Business Workflow [Feb. 15, 2011 06:49 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Send Auto Mail to Specific User on Creation of every New ABAP Program (Workflow) Part 3/3
1. Create Function Group and Function Module (BAPI) 2. Add Method in Business Object 3. Add Activity in Workflow 4. Create task Faisal Altaf in ABAP, Beginner, SAP Business Workflow, SAP Developer Network, SAP Education [Feb. 15, 2011 01:52 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Send Auto Mail to Specific User on Creation of every New ABAP Program (Workflow) Part 2/3
1. Create Structure 2. Create Business Object 3. Create Workflow Faisal Altaf in ABAP, Beginner, SAP Business Workflow, SAP Developer Network, SAP Education [Feb. 15, 2011 01:52 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

How to build in a "Wait" in workflow?
With this Blog, I would like to point out the best practice for treating a 'Wait' within a Workflow! It just happens too much that people are using a coded 'Wait up to x seconds' which can have a devestating effect on your overall performance! P. Decock in ABAP, SAP Business Workflow [Feb. 03, 2011 02:54 PM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Are your subjects too short?
How can you get your SAP Workflow users to read a message, when it's truncated to 50 characters? Susan Keohan in SAP Business Workflow [Feb. 02, 2011 04:34 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

What not to Workflow, the end of the blog series
This is the last of my 'What not to WF' blog series - based on the popular TV series 'What not to Wear'. I hope you can go from drab to fab using some of these tips! Susan Keohan in SAP Business Workflow, Business Process Management, ABAP [Dec. 24, 2010 06:38 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Part 10: Enterprise BPM framework; The maturity of the SAP BPM framework can be improved !
The Enterprise BPM framework has been used to identify the currently available SAP software and SAP BPM methodologies which can be used to implement the BPM vision. The vision of SAP on BPM is much more than Netweaver BPM only and the SAP market communication should be improved in order to get this BPMS message across to the SAP customers and market research firms. Frank Luyckx in Business Process Management, Application Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Architecture, Organizational Change Management, SAP Business Workflow [Dec. 23, 2010 12:36 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SOMEBODY's been very, very good...
Wow, I never realized I put this on my letter to Santa, but... Susan Keohan in ABAP, Business Process Management, SAP Business Workflow [Dec. 15, 2010 05:11 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Santa baby, hurry down the chimney tonight...
While I certainly wish for an end to world hunger, and world peace, I do have some more reasonable wishes this holiday season. Susan Keohan in ABAP, Business Process Management, SAP Business Workflow [Dec. 14, 2010 08:29 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

What not to Workflow <cont.>
In this blog series, I am examining some scenarios where implementing SAP Workflow might not be the right answer. Susan Keohan in ABAP, Business Process Management, SAP Business Workflow [Dec. 10, 2010 08:13 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

What not to WF <cont.>
In this blog series, I hope to shed some light on things that should NOT be done using SAP Workflow. Susan Keohan in SAP Business Workflow [Dec. 01, 2010 09:12 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]