Competitive Pressures and Value Propositions, Is Lean the Answer?
The latest kick is Lean and Six Sigma but in most cases that will not make the difference in addressing competitive pressures or your value proposition. Focus on business drivers for your SAP implementation before the project, throughout the project, and after go-live to see real benefit. Bill Wood in Analytics, Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, ERP, SAP Developer Network, SAP Research [Nov. 18, 2009 07:13 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Innovation-Speed to Market is Key
The importantance of getting ot market quickly with innovation. David Cruickshank in Beyond SAP, Business Process Management, Co-Innovation Lab, Partnership [Nov. 18, 2009 05:31 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Slipstream - Live Dashboarding for SAP NetWeaver BPM (“Galaxy”)
One of the value propositions of an SOA is to combine and reuse services. BPM technology has finally come to a point where we are able to model large parts of these service-based processes rather than hiding them within applications. This also enables us to run analyses at any point within the process and visualize the results in real-time instead of implementing awkward hooks into the application code. Christian Janiesch in Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Service-Oriented Architecture [Nov. 17, 2009 11:44 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

My new BPM experience, second post.
This is my second post about my BPM project experience! A lot of things have happened this week! sirnejo in Beginner, Visual Composer, University Alliances Message Board, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Developer Network, Higher Education, Composition Environment (CE), Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Web Dynpro [Nov. 15, 2009 03:56 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

HCM Processes & Forms: Data Sharing
During my implementation of a position change process, I had a peculiar issue with data sharing that I would like to share with the SDN community. According to my knowlegde, there is no SAP documentation that covers Data Sharing in an HCM Processes & Forms context and therefore it seems relevant to write this blog in order to help others with Data Sharing related problems. The process involves updating infotype 0000 and 0001 using service SAP_PA in an ECC6 EhP 2 environment. Elvez in ABAP, Business Process Management, Organizational Change Management, SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe [Nov. 15, 2009 03:55 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Live Expert Session - TechEd Bangalore 2009 - CE BPM Get Connected!
Andrew Whitaker in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Composition Environment (CE), Interoperability, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP TechEd, Service-Oriented Architecture [Nov. 15, 2009 03:54 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Podcast: The Emergerce of the SAP BPM Skill Set
At SAP TechEd Phoenix, I was able to sit down with Greg Chase, and his colleague Patrik Fiegl. During this 19 minute podcast, we were able to examine the relevance of SAP BPM to today's project environments, and take a closer look at some of the skills that are needed as BPM intersects with IT. Jon Reed in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Careers, Professional Services, SAP TechEd [Nov. 12, 2009 09:19 AM | 0 Comments | Download Media | Permalink]

You have the right to access the workitem container, fully !
Reading workitem container. Pavan Bhamidipati in Beginner, Business Process Management, SAP Business Workflow [Nov. 10, 2009 08:56 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

End of Ownership?
Discussing the problems facing copyright holders in this digital age. Bill Pfleging and Minda Zetlin in Beginner, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Ranting [Nov. 06, 2009 02:26 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SAP System Implementation & Business Process Reengineering
SAP system is a very useful and efficient tool for enterprise BPR, the target of SAP system implementation is not just go-live, the original intention of SAP is, after SAP system go-live the company can combine SAP standard processes and its own business processes and make company's business processes better than before! Tao Zhang in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Solutions [Nov. 06, 2009 02:26 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Enhance Your Business Process Productivity by Enhancing User Productivity. [Part 1]
Have you ever thought about, why most of the expensive and complex SAP implementations are failing to satisfy the end users. And to make them user friendly how much money is spent in rework. Follow this blog series to understand how low user productivity can directly hit the overall business productivity and also learn few solutions to resolve these problems. Mohid Khan in ABAP, Web Dynpro, Visual Composer, Universal Worklist, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Enterprise Portal (EP), Business Solutions, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Composition Environment (CE) [Nov. 06, 2009 02:22 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Missed SAP TechEd 2009? Get 130+ sessions with Virtual SAP TechEd
If you missed out on the education and networking opportunities from SAP TechEd 2009 event, consider getting the next best alternative: Virtual SAP TechEd now available at 20% discount till December 31, 2009. Siva Darivemula in ABAP, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Product Lifecycle Management, Master Data Management (MDM), Interoperability, Integration and Certification, ERP, Enterprise Portal (EP), Enterprise Performance Management, EcoHub, CRM, Business Suite 7, Business Process Management, Business Objects, Business Intelligence (BI), Banking, Automotive, Application Server, SAP TechEd [Nov. 05, 2009 01:27 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Event trace and extending a BOR object
Learn how to use the event trace to find events that exist in your system and then extend an SAP object, adding an attribute, event, use the new objects in your workflow! Ginger Gatling in ABAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Suite 7, ERP, SAP Business Workflow [Nov. 05, 2009 08:51 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP CRM 7.0: Making Use Of Tileset Pages
The intention of this blog is to show how flexible the new CRM Web UI is and what benefits you can get out of this, based on an example on the CRM Resource Planning Application. Alexander Biesinger in Business Process Management, Business Server Pages, Business Solutions, Business Suite 7, CRM [Nov. 03, 2009 06:05 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Insurance Innovation (Promises...promises)
On the 28th of October in Sydney, SAP hosted an innovation lunch for executives from the Australian Insurance industry. Central to the discussions was a talk by Reg Price, author or the book "Reliability Rules" the ground breaking manual for using Promises Management to keep customers, build your brand and grow your business. Paul Garrity in Banking, Business Process Management, CRM [Nov. 02, 2009 05:12 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

BPM in Ten Years? My Best Shot
At SAP TechEd 2009 Vienna, I met Chris Horak, who told me that he wondered what the future of Business Process Management might look like: “What will the successors of today’s BPM and ERP software in 10 or 15 years look like?” I took up the challenge and gave the matter some thought. Here's my best shot at it. Thorsten Franz in Beyond SAP, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Ranting, ERP, Emerging Technologies, Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Universal Worklist [Oct. 31, 2009 04:15 PM | 16 Comments | Permalink]

Prototyping model for developing custom reports in SAP
Right approach to development of report can save huge amount of time and cost during the implementation of project as well as during post go live support Surya in Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling [Oct. 31, 2009 11:50 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

My new BPM experience, a process automation
This is my new blog about my experience as a student developing a process automation of a supply process using BPM for my grade work. sirnejo in Service-Oriented Architecture, Visual Composer, University Alliances Message Board, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Careers, Higher Education, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Web Dynpro [Oct. 30, 2009 10:01 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

The Real Reason Executive Participation Creates SAP Project Success
Successful SAP projects occur with executive involvement because of the nature of their role of setting direction, creating long term goals, and developing strategy. This is the hidden reason that is often overlooked--, it is their strategy "imprint" on the project that changes the dynamics. Their forward looking insight provides more possibility for satisfied customers and successful implementations than the more common reasons of authority or visibiity. Bill Wood in Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Solutions, CRM, ERP, Manufacturing, Professional Services [Oct. 30, 2009 08:05 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Workflow: Add a start condition to your first workflow created from scratch
This blog extends the elearning "Creating a workflow from scratch", in this elearning you add a start condition to your workflow. Ginger Gatling in ABAP, Business Process Management, Business Suite 7, ERP, SAP Business Workflow [Oct. 29, 2009 05:40 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Business rules on a full stomach
A response to some questions raised about business rules by Vijay Vijayasankar James Taylor in Business Process Management, Business Rules Management [Oct. 28, 2009 09:52 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

WWW = Way to a Wiser World!
Based on my search in the internet on the topic of Orgaanizational Wisdom I tend to form a view that the publication of these two books, one in 1998 and the other in 2007, the presentation by JPCarlisle in 2006 and many more resources in the web may be considered as an indication of the recent progress in the subject. The Chicago University's Arete Initiative and other initiatives by individuals reflected by the number of websites may certainly be taken to indicate the interest and concern with the subject. Hence we may reasonably conclude that the 'Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom' trajectory appears to be becoming an interesting area of study. This seems to give hope that IT would eventually help a wiser world dawn as a continuum of processing of data, information and knowledge so far. Anbazhagan Sam Venkatesan in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Rules Management, Sustainability [Oct. 28, 2009 07:33 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

The BPX Process Design Slam 2009
Short recap of a fun evening with great results at the BPX Process Design Slam 2009. tbroek in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Community Projects, SAP TechEd, Sustainability [Oct. 28, 2009 12:18 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Supply Chain Event Management, EDI and Cloud Computing
This article explores how SAP Event Management (SAP EM), RFID, EDI and cloud computing all work together to make extended multi-enterprise supply chains successful. Kevin Benedict in Aerospace and Defense, Travel and Logistics Services, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Business Workflow, RFID, Retail, Procurement and SRM, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Industrial Machinery and Components, ERP, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Automotive, Wholesale Distribution [Oct. 26, 2009 12:48 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Calling All Students and Recent Graduates!
New video on University Alliance and the Career Center on SCN Claudine Lagerholm in Beginner, Business Objects, ERP, Business Solutions, Business Process Management, University Alliances Message Board, Careers [Oct. 25, 2009 05:31 AM | 1 Comments | Download Media | Permalink]

BPM/BRM on an empty stomach
My views on BPM/BRM. And hey BPX, did you use java.lang.string as the java type in your Enumeration type when you were creating business rules? Vijay Vijayasankar in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Business Solutions, CRM, ERP, Professional Services, SAP Business Workflow [Oct. 22, 2009 08:31 PM | 13 Comments | Permalink]

Process Design Slam 2009 on the way to Vienna
Summary of Process Design Slam 2009 Phoenix edition Krishna Moorthy P in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Community Projects, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd, Sustainability, Utilities Industry [Oct. 22, 2009 05:04 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Usability tests for SAP's technology tools
SAP Usability Test Center, SAP User Experience, usability, SAP TechEd, SAP TechEd Vienna, UI design Martin Hofmann in Analytics, Universal Worklist, SAP TechEd, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Business Workflow, Product Lifecycle Management, Java Programming, Interoperability, Integration and Certification, Enterprise Portal (EP), Eclipse, Composition Environment (CE), Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Business Intelligence (BI), Beginner, Web Dynpro [Oct. 22, 2009 10:23 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Community-focused BPM: Lessons Learned from SAP’s Enterprise Services Community
This blog continues my exploration of Social BPM and focuses on the problems associated with BPM communities as well as suggests a possible basis for successful BPM work in this context based on the experience gained in the SAP's Enterprise Services Community. Richard Hirsch in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Service Community, Ranting, SAP Research, Standards [Oct. 22, 2009 08:33 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Video Shoot: Ann Rosenberg on SAP BPM's Impact on Skills and Consulting
To get to the bottom of the impact of BPM on SAP's tools, skills, and consulting approaches, I managed to get the "Goddess of BPM," Ann Rosenberg, otherwise known as the Global Practice Owner for Business Process Management at SAP, to sit down for a live video shoot at SAP TechEd Phoenix. Jon Reed in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Integration and Certification, Organizational Change Management, SAP TechEd [Oct. 21, 2009 12:12 PM | 2 Comments | Download Media | Permalink]

Key messages of TechEd 2009
This year my company decided to visit the TechEd in the USA (again), which gives me the chance now to write about the key messages of the TechEd still before the European and Asian versions. I would like to share our impressions. If you don’t have the chance to visit TechEd this year, this blog should give some starting points for further reading, if you are going to visit Vienna, Shanghai or Bangalore, then this short summary can orientate you and help not to miss something really important. Tamas Szirtes in Business Intelligence (BI), Visual Composer, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP TechEd, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, Interoperability, Enterprise Portal (EP), Business Rules Management, Business Process Management, Business Objects, Web Dynpro [Oct. 20, 2009 02:50 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

How to use UWL API for NetWeaver BPM Tasks
This blog is talking about the tips of how to use UWL API for NetWeaver BPM task. Kenichi Unnai in Business Process Management, Composition Environment (CE), Universal Worklist, Enterprise Portal (EP) [Oct. 19, 2009 11:36 PM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Process Design Slam SAP TechEd Phoenix- First Iteration
The first Process Design slam in the US launched in Phoenix. Participants worked with Google Wave and BPM in the cloud. All activities documented with video, wiki content and notes. Marilyn Pratt in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Community Projects, Composition Environment (CE), SAP TechEd [Oct. 19, 2009 11:26 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Café Innovation – SAP customers seek new ways to improve return on their SAP investment
Innovation in how organizations support their SAP investment is in many ways just as important as how they innovate with SAP at the center of their technology investments. The role of a community-based approach should be considered as also the importance of the BPXer. Organizations are beginning to look at new models emerging within the SAP ecosystem that rely on a community-based approach and look to lower the TCO (financial and environmental) for their technology investments. Puneet K. Suppal in Business Process Expert, SAP TechEd, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Developer Network, Professional Services, ERP, Business Suite 7, Business Solutions, Business Process Management, Sustainability [Oct. 19, 2009 08:07 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Part 7: Enterprise BPM framework; Will the CIO be replaced by the Chief Processing Officer ?
At the 14th of October the second BPM theme day for the SAP user group was organized in the Netherlands. The theme of the day was: ----------- Will the CIO be replaced by the Chief Processing Officer? --- During the forum discussion the future role of BPM within the SAP environment was discussed. Frank Luyckx in Business Process Expert, Organizational Change Management, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Enterprise Service Community, Enterprise Performance Management, Crystal Reports, Composition Environment (CE), Community Day, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, SAP Business Workflow [Oct. 19, 2009 10:00 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Event Based Intelligence
My view on the convergence of business intelligence, rules engines and process management. Dan Everett in Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Business Process Management, Business Rules Management, Enterprise Performance Management [Oct. 19, 2009 09:36 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Typical BPM Workflow HOWTO on NW CE 7.1 Ehp1: Scenario 3 - Live workflow status view
This blog explains common pieces of typical workflow scenario in the real life. We will discuss how to implement these common workflow design by NW BPM of SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 Ehp1. This contents require beginner level knowledge of NW BPM on 7.1 Ehp1. Kenichi Unnai in Business Process Management, Composition Environment (CE), Business Process Modeling [Oct. 19, 2009 05:38 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Closing the Loop for BPXSlam09 Phoenix
Lessons We Should Learn from in First Iteration of #BPXSlam09 Thinking back to the BPX Process Design Slam event at SAP TechEd 2009 in Phoenix, I immediately start envisioning overused clichés for high tech projects. (Maybe there should be similar visuals for conducting one’s own project post-mortem as well, but I digress…) Let me add to the list of clichés by suggesting: just like a golf swing, the follow through for a scrum is as important as the rest of the project. As a team lead and one of the event organizers working with Marilyn Pratt, here are my own observations about how we should improve the next iteration of BPXSlam09 at SAP TechEd 2009 in Vienna. Greg Chase in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Community Projects, SAP TechEd [Oct. 18, 2009 11:30 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

TechEd - Wednesday through Process Slam
#sapteched09 through BPX Process Slam 2009. It was an awesome though thoroughly tiring day. Here's my session by session chronology, along with only a few editorial comments on the state of SAP, ASUG and the business software world. Jim Spath in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Business Server Pages, Community Projects, SAP TechEd [Oct. 15, 2009 08:12 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SAP BPM - a discussion
A discussion about SAP Netweaver BPM 7.2 James Taylor in Business Process Management, Business Rules Management [Oct. 14, 2009 04:15 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Business Process Operations topics on SAP TechEd 2009
This blog points to SAP TechEd lectures and hands-on sessions providing insights especially on the topics of Business Process Monitoring and Job Management. Volker von Gloeden in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Suite 7, ERP, Run SAP, SAP Solution Manager, SAP TechEd [Oct. 14, 2009 12:36 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Process-centric Composite Applications with SAP Netweaver
Quick notes from a hands on session with CE James Taylor in Business Process Management, Business Rules Management, Composition Environment (CE) [Oct. 13, 2009 04:45 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP TechEd - Executive Q&A
Some notes from the executive Q&A at SAP Tech Ed 2009. James Taylor in Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Process Management, Business Rules Management, Business Suite 7 [Oct. 13, 2009 01:29 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Project Management Courses Come to Learning on Demand by SAP
Learning on Demand by SAP extends course offerings with Project Management and Business Analysis courses via ESI International. Gavin Heaton in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, ERP, Organizational Change Management, Professional Services, SAP Developer Network [Oct. 13, 2009 02:02 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

The SOA Restaurant
The following weblog is an attempt to explain SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) in a lighter vein, using an anology between SOA and a restaurent. This blog can be useful to understand the rather absract nature of the concept SOA. Ravi Kanth Talagana in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Process Management, Service-Oriented Architecture [Oct. 12, 2009 03:25 PM | 11 Comments | Permalink]

How EDI and B2B Connections Can Destroy Your Company
This article identifies the dangers of upgrading or changing your ERP without first considering the implications to your EDI integrations. Kevin Benedict in Aerospace and Defense, Integration and Certification, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Master Data Management (MDM), Mining and Metal, Oil and Gas, Procurement and SRM, Retail, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Travel and Logistics Services, Utilities Industry, Insurance, Industrial Machinery and Components, Healthcare, Automotive, Banking, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Suite 7, Chemicals, Consumer Products, CRM, EcoHub, ERP, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Wholesale Distribution [Oct. 12, 2009 02:41 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Idea for EcoHub: 'Try Me' Functionality for Processes
This blog discusses the possibility of 'test-driving' EcoHub-offered processes and describes a few other existing examples of such functionality in other cloud-based environments. Richard Hirsch in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, EcoHub, Ranting, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd [Oct. 11, 2009 08:06 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

BPM and TOGAF part 2: Business Architecture Phase
In this second blog on BPM and TOGAF the use of the Business Architecture phase in Enterprise BPM is discussed hans diepstraten in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management [Oct. 09, 2009 10:14 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Gartner MDM Excellence Award 2009 Goes to Kraft Foods Inc.
SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management customer Kraft Foods Inc. won the Gartner MDM Award for Excellence in MDM 2009 Markus Ganser in Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Business Process Management, Consumer Products, Master Data Management (MDM), SAP TechEd [Oct. 09, 2009 03:41 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Business Rules Framework plus - NetWeaver 7.0 EHP2 Teaser
The blogs introduces to some of the new BRFplus features which are delivered with NetWeaver 7.0 EHP2. BRFplus is a business rules management system developed in ABAP. With BRFplus business experts can search, find, change and test business logic modeled in BRFplus. BRFplus is an enabler for highly flexible and easy to extend business applications. Carsten Ziegler in ABAP, SAP Business Workflow, Public Sector, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Business Suite 7, Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, SAP TechEd [Oct. 09, 2009 02:56 AM | 10 Comments | Permalink]