Business Level Modelling with ARIS

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Can someone provide me the links or documents related to Business Level Modelling with ARIS..
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Mamta

Check these blogs,
<a href="/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2006/11/27/xipi-bpm-modeling-in-aris-for-sap-netweaver--a-teaser">BPM modeling in Aris for SAP Netweaver - a teaser</a>
<a href="/people/swen.conrad/blog/2006/05/13/business-analyst-133-aris-for-netweaver-133-business-process-expert-133">Business Analyst ARIS for NetWeaver Business Process Expert </a>
<a href="/people/sap.user72/blog/2004/07/02/sap-bpm-and-aris">SAP BPM and ARIS</a>
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HI everybody ,
Please suggest where the bmp-services-client.jar will be available?
I am getting the following error upon deployment of human task forms which are using the ADF data controls for workflow :-
Caused By: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.bpel.services.datacontrol.types.Number
The human task forms are taskflow components of a soa composite containing a bpmn process which stitches these taskflows into an Activity Guide.
Any help will be appreciated.
Regards,
Shailendra Nema.

Another roadblock when trying "Guided Business Process modelling with Activity Guide"
I get the following error when trying to access the AG instance from the AG ADF client --
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     at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.activityguide.query.soap.AGQueryServiceSOAP.queryAGDisplayInfos(AGQueryServiceSOAP.java:57)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
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     at oracle.bpm.services.activityguide.impl.BpmAGQueryService.constructMilestoneDisplayInfo(BpmAGQueryService.java:1060)
     at oracle.bpm.services.activityguide.impl.BpmAGQueryService.constructMilestoneDisplayInfoList(BpmAGQueryService.java:869)
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     at oracle.bpm.services.activityguide.impl.BaseAGQueryService.queryAGDisplayInfos(BaseAGQueryService.java:144)
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     at oracle.bpm.services.activityguide.impl.BpmAGQueryService.constructMilestoneDisplayInfoList(BpmAGQueryService.java:869)
     at oracle.bpm.services.activityguide.impl.BpmAGQueryService.constructAGDisplayInfo(BpmAGQueryService.java:730)
     at oracle.bpm.services.activityguide.impl.BpmAGQueryService.queryAGDisplayInfos(BpmAGQueryService.java:268)
     at oracle.bpm.services.activityguide.impl.CombinedAGQueryService.queryAGDisplayInfos(CombinedAGQueryService.java:58)
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Free ARIS Business Process Modelling tool: ARIS Express

Does anyone have experience with ARIS Express "the First Free Modeling Software" ?
You can download it from the Aris website ( http://www.ariscommunity.com/aris-express ).

Does anyone have experience with ARIS Express "the First Free Modeling Software" ?
You can download it from the Aris website ( http://www.ariscommunity.com/aris-express ).

ESR modeling and Aris

Hi,
In our origination we are using Aris for the modelling of business processes. From what I am lead to believe is that Aris integrates with SAP Solution Manager and Solution manager integrates with the SLD. So landscape, software products and software component information can thus be pulled into Aris for use in models. This will greatly assist in the business process modelling in Aris, I would imagine.
Now once the business process is modelled in Aris, is there a way of importing it, as say a Procomp Model in the ESR?
Would you want to?
Or would you just continue to model in Aris and then pull in the interface logic into the models on the Aris side?
What is then the use of the modelling tool in the ESR?
Would you recommend that one should remodel the Aris Business Process Models in to the Modeling tool in ESR?
As you can see I am looking for some guidance in this regard.
Many Thanks
Willie Hugo

Hi,
The use of Modeling in ESR point of view
is In a service-oriented architecture of business applications, you ideally initially model your application prior to implementation. This means that you can answer fundamental questions such as what components the application comprises of, which services the individual components offer, and how the various different components interact with each other before you begin implementation. A governance process ensures that by using models, all services are always identified and defined in the same way, thus avoiding redundancies.
The models are not system-landscape-specific. Later on, they provide useful information when implementing services, as well as during any configuration that may be required. Furthermore, the models document different aspects of a business process, increase understanding of applications across departments and businesses thereby reducing costs when applications need to be changed or enhanced in a later release.
SAP they integrated ARIS modeling tool to develop Models,but i dont think so its possible to import ARIS models in SAP NetWeaver PI.But whatever models we developing in PI is based ARIS modeling only.
SAP works with this environment to create models for applications in the SAP Business Suite. These models are shipped to customers. You can create your own models in the ES Repository.
Regards,
Raj

Transporting SolMan project with Aris integration to new SolMan system

We have a sandbox SolMan that was installed for temporary use, and some people on the team have done some process modeling with Aris. We need to move this to a new SolMan development system that we're about to install. I haven't really found good documentation on doing this, but in SOLAR_PROJECT_ADMIN, I do have the option to transport a complete project. Can I do this, and then manually import that transport request into the new Dev system? What has to be done on the Aris side to insure consistency?

Hi David,
There is not a lot of information about this topic. Just finished a project migration at the customer site. I used the solar_migration transaction, worked very good. But has some downsites, test plans are not migrated anc change documents. Be carefully with content repository this really painful. Even the Aris synchronisation worked because the SAP ids are not replaced.
regards,
Ralph

Best practice business process models

We have been using ARIS for well over a year now for realizing our vision for Business Process Management.
Recently, the management has been looking for ways to benchmark, evaluate and compare our processes with that being practised else where in the world, with a view to ensure requisite process controls, automation, transparency, staffing levels and KPI's.
Having said that, we tried to search for ready-made out-of-the-box ARIS business process models (up to level 4) in areas such as Human Capital Management, Supply Chain (Procurement), Supplier Relationship Management and others, but we were unable to find any source. While we did find purchasable ARIS processes for ITIL, but other than that our search had yield no result.
Are we approaching this right? and is there such a source available from SAP or any third-party vendors?
Regards,
Muhammad Hamdan

Hi Sunita,
The concept of development component are relevent from desing time perspective , at runtime there is no difference whether you create Model + Component + Application in one DC or multiple . The DC concept helps to increase the reusability and guides to have better design of your application . For example if you have model in a DC while your Components + UI in seperate DC . Changes in Model ( Reimport / Delete / ...) could be well abstracted from using DC . More over the same model DC could be re-used at multiple places /DCs.
As far as performance is concerned yes it increases from dc build and application development point of view.
I would suggest to have model in seperate DC as this is better desing approach and offers maintenability.
regards
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Business Process Modelling Language Desirable Features

Hi All,
It will be quite interesting to see what features the BPX community would want to be in the Visual Business Process Modelling *** programming language which on one end use self-contained applications that use Web services as activities that implement business functions and on the other has interactions with other J2EE like web components .
For example I would like to see something developed by SAP where the Business Process mapping can be done with a strict protocol in ARIES so that applications can be built in the Visual composer and the BPX can visually do the one or more of the following
1. On Screen chain End Chain valdiation
2. Loop conditions
3. Branching conditions
4. Variable initialization
5. Web service message preparation
The idea being the BPX can generate a running prototype for pattern based processes through grahhical interfaces and unless something really typical needs to be done, the coding can be eliminated.
Taking an example:
On a simple sales order if the stock is not adequate a purchase order needs to be fired.
The Business process mapping of the same can be done in ARIES where some available components (business objects like sale order) from R3 etc are available for modeling.
If this process is to be web enabled then one can use the business process modeling to develop a quick application in Visual Composer where one can use ESA for Sale Order as a Model and build screens based on that. The screen flow can also be built in Visual Composer to take you to through the various tabs.
The data flow across the various tabs also can be done through the component controller and the BPX should be able to map that visually.
The business event (Stock < Sale order quantity ) can be handled through a branching condition and web service message preparation to either generate a email message or fire a purchase order (handled in XI and exposed in one common place of the Business Process modeling Tool).
Marilyn : thanks for the offer of acting as a interface between the SAP development team and some of us with the wishlist. I would certainly love to be involved in the epochal development

Why leaving the tool? Why ARIS and VC and CAF and many more different tools?
I would prefer a tool that gives me - depending from the user - different flavors and views of my model. A tool that in one flavor allows me to define the process on a higher level, then in another flavor allows me to implement the application(s) of the process in a non-coding approach and then a flavor that allows me to pimp the application(s) with a coding approach.
All three flavors are working on the very same model. The different flavors immediately see the changes done by other flavors. A kind of realtime modelling.
The tool itself is not necessarily a single-environment approach, but can have one flavor running in the browser, the other one in a locally installed IDE. But still all of them use the same terminology. A data service here ,is a data service there, Business Object here is a Business Object there (and not a bean or a class or entity service etc.). That also would allow to have the different modeling users naturally move between the flavors, with a hard core programmer also being able to move to the Business Process Modeling tool, and the BPX also being able to write a small conversion routine.
Perhaps the proper term is "BP & App Suite", which serves all types of modelers involved: Business Process Modelers, Business Process Experts, Developers.
In the SAP world these tools could be: ARIS, Visual Composer, DevStudio/ABAP Workbench/.NET.
Today this is not the case: we have more than 200 tools (and we say we are not a tools company) and not really an exchange of models between those tools. Not to mention the different terminology...

Replacing Business Objects - Modelling Issue

I'm working on a large 'BI' project that is replacing Business Objects with OBIEE ( actually its not really a BI project its more of a give us what we've got now using OBIEE project ) - which is proving challenging in some areas.
One example is with the Data Model that BO provides in its Universe, the model I'm replacing is pretty much 3NF (even though it uses DIM and FACT in the table names) they're joined pretty much all over the place, which enables the users to select from tables which can be 4,5,6 steps away from the original - including via M:M relationships!
Anyway one specific issue is based around the old question of multiple fact tables where not all dimensions are conformed.
Dim - Business Manager ---< Fact - Forecast >----- Dim - Product -----< Fact - Actuals >------ Dim Salesman
I've setup the Dimensions for each Dimension Logical Table.
I've created a single logical table containing a Forecast and Actual Amount from the 2 fact tables and set the logical levels appropriately at Table Level. For the Forecast measure I have a logical level set to 'Total - Salesman' and for the Actuals measure I have logical level set to 'Total - Business Manager'.
This works great when I select an Attribute from Business Manager, and Salesman and both of the measures in the Answer.
However the users want to be able to select from Business Manager, and Salesman dimensions without selecting the measures, is this possible - do I need to add a bridging table to resolve the relationships between a Business Manager and Salesman explicitly rather than implicitly via the facts?
I have set Implict Fact at the Presentation Model, however this doesn't work (it misses off Total Level aggregation in the OBI Server SQL).
Thanks in advance for any suggestions/answers.

Thanks for the helpful reply Turribeach, along with the interesting and informative link.
This is my first foray into the world of BO and I think some of the points you make in the link are right on the money. I've spent many years working with Oracle Tools (Dataquery,Data Browser, Discoverer and then OBIEE when Oracle acquired the tool ). There are difficulties in the modeling with OBIEE, certainly when it comes to trying to replicate a 'fairly' complex BO universe they become apparent.
Many hoops to jump through to give the user a like for like, which I'm not convinced will be possible - maybe some negotiation is required :-)

Business Process Modeling in SAP Solution Manager

Hi.
Even ther an Solution Manager space, i wish to get some opinion related to Business process Modeling.
We are working in an upgrade project. R/3 4.6 C to ECC 6.0. The customer decide to use Solution manager to map their process, based on the transactions of the new version.
Company Business Process:
1.Based on ISO standards.
2.By product line
3.The process are defined using an structure with 4 Levels: Macro Process, Business scenarios, Business Process and Steps/activities.
There are 2 possibilities to map the process into the Sap Solution Manager:
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- Single Project
-It means to make a list of all sap components with their process without mattering the business process.
-Each product line can be a variant for an specific process. e.g: Sales by line
2. Map the process as ISO Standards
- Several projects : For each product line
Which cold be the better option in order to:
- Easy configuration activities
- Easy design of Unit and integration test
- Easy activities of Process enhancement and optimization
Theres another option?
Thanks
Alvaro Hernán Rojas R

Hi Alvaro Hernán Rojas R ,
The product line is the hierarchy of the finished goods.
It is pertinent that the finished goods has emerged due to some process(es) carried on the raw material.
Thus logically you should map in solution manager based on the process only.
The macro process while depicts the processes at the highest level.The Business scenarios, Business Process gives a good idea about how you should go about configuring.The Steps/activities helps you to map in to SAP thro' T/Codes.
From the point of view of all of the below three,namely,
Easy configuration activities
Easy design of Unit and integration test
Easy activities of Process enhancement and optimization,
the option Map the process as ISO Standards
- Several projects : For each product line,will be most ideal.
It is the processes that drives the activities.The control activities like internal control etc are all process based.Given these,divorcing the business process from the configuration -as in -is certainly not a good practice.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Ramesh

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Business Partner records with large numbers of addresses -- Move-in issue

Friends,
Our recent CCS implementation (ECC6.0ehp3 & CRM2007) included the creation of some Business Partner records with large numbers of addresses. Most of these are associated with housing authorities, large developers and large apartment complex owners. Some of the Business Partners have over 1000 address records and one particular BP has over 6000 addresses that were migrated from our Legacy System. We are experiencing very long run times to try to execute move in's and move out's due to the system reading the volume of addresses attached to the Business Partner. In many cases, the system simply times out before it can execute the transaction. SAP's suggestion is that we run a BAPI to cleanse the addresses and also to implement a BADI to prevent the creation of excess addresses.
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Note 1249787 - Performance problem during move-in with huge addresses
**applied this ....did not help
Note 861528 - Performance in move-in for partner w/ large no of addresses
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Directly from our SAP message:
use the function module
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Use BAdI ISU_MOVEIN_CUSTOMIZE to avoid the creation of unnecessary
business partner addresses (cf. note 706686) in the future for that
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Note 706686 - Move-in: Avoid unnecessary business partner addresses
Does anyone have any suggestions and have you used above notes/FMs to resolve something like this?
Thanks,
Nick

Nick:
One thing to understand is that the badi and bapi are just the tools or mechanisms that will enable you to fix this situation. You or your development team will need to define the rules under which these tools are used. Lets take them one at a time.
BAPI - the bapi for business partner address maintenance. It would seem that you need to create a program which first read the partners and the addresses assigned to them and then compares these addresses to each other to find duplicate addresses. These duplicates then can be removed provided they are not used elsewhere in the system (i.e. contract account).
BADI - the badi for business partner address maintenance. Here you would need to identify the particular scenarios where addresses should not be copied. I would expect that most move-ins would meet the criteria of adding the address and changing the standard address. But for some, i.e. landlords or housing complexes, you might not add an address because it already exists for the business partner, and you might not change the standard address because those accounts do not fall under that scenario. This will take some thinking and design to ensure that the address add/change functions are executed under the right circumstances.
regards,
bill.

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I'm new to CE and currently trying to figure out what can I do with it?
Assume that I'm planning to create an application to follow activities that our consultants doing.
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When I checked, "Business Object Modeler" is a tool which helps to create business objects and generates tables behind and access services automatically.
Then generating a Web Service for this BO and then using the WS with VC and WD4J is a great asset for us.
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In th application service operations you have to call the business object operations.
For architechturel guidelines you can go [through thii doc|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/00caf8bd-487a-2a10-36a9-93d840309310].
answer to second question:
You can't change the code in the BO operations. What ever you want, you have to do it in the application servcies only.
Create an application service operation say:
operation(). Create a input/output data structures.
Exapmle: OperationResponce operation(OperationRequest).
Yuor lists add to the OperationRequest datatype. Similarly for OperationResponce also. In this case you don,t have any issues.Actually this is the standered for Web Services.
[This document|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f0d97ec6-5de0-2a10-a5b3-b5926075566c], you can use as an example
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Sampath

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But in the Report, I m getting all the Business Group Ids,
Plz advice if I m doing something wrong.
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I'd suggest sourcing a vanilla OBIA rpd to see how it is implemented out of the box.

Business Event Imparts with Skills (GAP UPDATE)

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If the Business Event Imparts with Skill; does skill gets automatically updated once course attended by an employee?
If YES please explain what is required to be done to achieve this.
Thanks in advance for all your efforts & I will assure you appropriate points will be given to all helpful solutions & information.
Best Regards,
Aslam
--- Dear Experts it's important for us to implement this in few days; please pass me the steps to achieve this... thanks a lot.
Message was edited by:
Aslam Riaz

Dear Professionals,
I did the following;
Created a Skill
Assigned to Employee with Minimum Level
Assigned to Position as required skill with expert level
When I running GAP analysis it's showing as GAP
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Book Employees and Firmly Booked
But still Skill is not reflecting in employees qualification...
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