What is SAP’s offering for BPM today?
Separately sellable products to analyze and manage business processes are SAP NetWeaver components and SAP Enterprise Modeling applications by IDS Scheer (ARIS). The ARIS tools are focusing exclusively on understanding, documenting and analyzing stable business processes, most probably implemented in SAP Business Suite. A technical link between ARIS and SAP Business Suite via SAP Solution Manager enables integration of SAP reference processes with the business architecture of the company. To address the execution of volatile, frequently changing business processes, mostly specific to an individual organization, SAP offers a growing set of SAP NW process management capabilities. For processes focusing on the integration of data exchange between applications and with business partners, SAP NW PI 7.1 offers standards-based process orchestration of message flows (ccBPM). For processes focusing on human interaction, heavily leveraging process components of the SAP Business Suite SAP NW CE 7