#1 most frequent
United States of America
66.7%10 installations of 15
What is SAP BPM?
SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management is a business process management offering and application infrastructure. It supports joint modeling of processes, central process execution via a Java-based engine, provision of interfaces for users, and integration of business rules into processes.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Dashboards
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
Category average: 8.4
Standard reports
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
Category average: 8.3
Custom reports
Users can create custom reports.
Category average: 8
Areas for Improvement
Support for modeling languages
Support for modeling languages like BPML, BPEL, and BMMN.
Category average: 8.1
Form builder
Integrated form design tool
Category average: 8.8
Model execution
Ability to execute model and build code without programming skills
Category average: 7.3
Who Buys & Uses SAP NetWeaver BPM
#2 most frequent
Denmark
6.7%1 installation of 15
#3 most frequent
France
6.7%1 installation of 15
COOL SYSTEM TO HAVE
Pros
- Accurate
- Up to date
- Current
Cons
- Live readings would be nice.
- Easier to maneuver
- Work with all systems with the press of one keystroke
Return on Investment
- I don't handle ROI so I cannot tell you that.
- It's definitely helpful for our business.
- Works across the organization.
SAP NetWeaver BPM integrates well with SAP environment
Pros
- Integrated well with SAP ERP/CRM
- Comes with adequate tools that help define business rules/processes and also monitoring them and managing exceptions
Cons
- Strong dependency with SAP portal is a drawback as it means that one needs to have SAP portal implemented
- When there are certain workflows that run for a lengthy period of time, running more workflows can become slower
- Strong SAP skills required
Return on Investment
- Helped us harness integrated benefit from having SAP ERP/CRM by leveraging NetWeaver to define business processes/rules and monitor exceptions
- Did not have any negative experience except for the fact that at times when multiple rules run, it can be somewhat slow
Alternatives Considered
IBM Business Process Manager
Other Software Used
IBM API Management, camunda BPM
BPM - Another wonderful SAP hammer
Pros
- Virtual paper trail. Iterations of process and current documentation are all stored as "artifacts", leaving a great trail.
- Configuration of users. BPM somewhat magically determines which users will be impacted and automates rules.
- A pro (that is also a con) is the design interface. If you know what you are doing, it is incredibly powerful and malleable.
Cons
- A con (which was also a pro) is the design interfac.e. It will require someone with heavy technical knowledge of SAP to train others on the tool.
- The built-in rigidity of SAP systems in general. Yes, SAP is meant to be a rigid ERP tool, but some flexibility it user role assignments would be nice.
Return on Investment
- Definitely has increased efficiency between product line business analysts, since we all can see what the others are doing and how
- Resulted in much cleaner pass-through from the technical documentation to the end-user documentation.
