BPM - Business Workflow

What is the difference between NetWeaver BPM and NetWeaver Business Workflow?

Hi
BPM
The new tools from SAP are aimed to provide the business process flexibility needed to enable customers to turn strategic business insight into real-world execution," stated SAP's announcement. "The addition of the planned capabilities will enable business process experts to design, model and immediately execute new or adapted business processes without having to develop code."
Business Workflow
SAP Business Workflow can be used to define business processes that are not yet mapped in the R/3 System. These may be simple release or approval procedures, or more complex business processes such as creating a material master and the associated coordination of the departments involved. SAP Business Workflow is particularly suitable for situations in which work processes have to be run through repeatedly, or situations in which the business process requires the involvement of a large number of agents in a specific sequence.
You can also use SAP Business Workflow to respond to errors and exceptions in other, existing business processes. You can start a workflow when predefined events occur, for example an event can be triggered if particular errors are found during an automatic check
Cheers
Srinivas

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    Check out the following article, which provides a good overview of both solutions and gives guidance when to use what:
    http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/a0bf9a3a-c607-2f10-3f82-cdeff15b7ce4?QuickLink=index&…
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    > 2. Are there any topics related to Workflow and BPM that you think are
    > important for the 'community'?
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    > 3. Looking ahead a year, what do you see as challenges in this area?
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    - GP and UWL. I think the concept of "IT doing the first time and the business managing their rules" would be challenging. I have not yet seen this happen, especially on the logistics side. There is a session this year on the same topic at TechEd and I look forward to this session. Hopefully it will help us get some insight.
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  • NetWeaver BPM and NetWeaver Business Workflow?

    What is the difference between NetWeaver BPM and NetWeaver Business Workflow?

    Hi
    BPM
    The new tools from SAP are aimed to provide the business process flexibility needed to enable customers to turn strategic business insight into real-world execution," stated SAP's announcement. "The addition of the planned capabilities will enable business process experts to design, model and immediately execute new or adapted business processes without having to develop code."
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    Cheers
    Srinivas

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    Hi NS,
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  • Reg : SAP Business Workflow Certification

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