Modelling Collaborative BPM across Value Chain Evaluation of Approaches

Question: Which approach is easy for modelling Collaborative BPM across value chain A) Centralise, B.) Decentralise, and C) Peer to Peer approach for? What are the pros and cons? What are the other important factors related with each approach?
Explanation of these approaches:
Centralise CBPM: Ownership of Collaborative System is with one Central Organisation and Other Partners Participate in this collaboration through various UI such as portal. Example, Collaboration between the automobile manufacturer and dealer were auto mobile manufacturer provides portal for dealer to place order, manage its customer and handle warranty and recalls.
Decentralise CBPM: In this approach every partner provides communication technology like Web Services for its Business Partner for collaboration. The ownership is decentralise and more flexible.
Peer-to-Peer CBPM: In ideal condition in this approach every Partner should have the same technology which is developed for handling collaborative Business Processes. In this case the same modelling facility is available across the value chain.
I kindly request you to post your views on this topic as this is related with my dissertation topic.
I welcome your views and guidance.
Regards,
Ganesh Sawant

kRISHNA,
-->Send Step to send the file message with system ACK
By system acknowledgement do you mean by acknowledgement type application or transport?
-->After checking the status ,call the RFC synchronously.. i.e Synch Send Step.
can i call rfc synchronously there after if yes then please let me know logic/reason behind...?
-->But where are you planning to have mapping ?
since in first two steps receive and send i am just picking the file and posting it some other place so no mapping is required but after posting the file i am using a graphical mapping program defined in IR only for mapping sync source message with the BAPi/RFC which is going to be triggered.
but i am getting error related to mapping...
Kindly correct me if i am wrong

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Collaborative BPM across Value Chain Evaluation of Approaches

Hi all,
Question: Which approach is easy for modelling Collaborative BPM across value chain A) Centralise, B.) Decentralise, and C) Peer to Peer approach for? What are the pros and cons? What are the other important factors related with each approach?
Explanation of these approaches:
Centralise CBPM: Ownership of Collaborative System is with one Central Organisation and Other Partners Participate in this collaboration through various UI such as portal. Example, Collaboration between the automobile manufacturer and dealer were automobile manufacturer provides portal for dealer to place order, manage its customer and handle warranty and recalls.
Decentralise CBPM: In this approach every partner provides communication technology like Web Services for its Business Partner for collaboration. The ownership is decentralise and more flexible.
Peer-to-Peer CBPM: In ideal condition in this approach every Partner should have the same technology which is developed for handling collaborative Business Processes. In this case the same modelling facility is available across the value chain.
I kindly request you to post your views on this topic as this is related with my dissertation topic.
I welcome your views and guidance.
Regards,
Ganesh Sawant

kRISHNA,
-->Send Step to send the file message with system ACK
By system acknowledgement do you mean by acknowledgement type application or transport?
-->After checking the status ,call the RFC synchronously.. i.e Synch Send Step.
can i call rfc synchronously there after if yes then please let me know logic/reason behind...?
-->But where are you planning to have mapping ?
since in first two steps receive and send i am just picking the file and posting it some other place so no mapping is required but after posting the file i am using a graphical mapping program defined in IR only for mapping sync source message with the BAPi/RFC which is going to be triggered.
but i am getting error related to mapping...
Kindly correct me if i am wrong

Collaborative BPM appraoch evaluation

I am doing Masters dissertation in Collaborative BPM. My research topic is the evaluation of three approached for collaborating BPM across value chain.
Explanation of these approaches:
Centralise CBPM: Ownership of Collaborative System is with one Central Organisation and Other Partners Participate in this collaboration through various UI such as portal. Example, Collaboration between the automobile manufacturer and dealer were automobile manufacturer provides portal for dealer to place order, manage its customer and handle warranty and recalls.
Decentralise CBPM: In this approach every partner provides communication technology like Web Services for its Business Partner for collaboration. The ownership is decentralise and more flexible
Peer-to-Peer CBPM: In ideal condition in this approach every Partner should have the same technology which is developed for handling collaborative Business Processes. In this case the same modelling facility is available across the value chain.
I found below critical aspects for evaluating these three approaches:
1] Autonomy
2] Collaborative process Modelling
3] Monitoring, Controlling, and Analysis
4] u201CPlug and Playu201D based Platform for Collaboration (Includes Security, Web Service and various adapters for communication and Language Support like Java for easy custom enhancement)
5] Governance
I kindly request you all to post your views about pros and cons for evaluating these approaches from the aforementioned critical aspects.
I welcome your questions and appreciate your valuable guidance.
Thank you ,
Regards,
Ganesh Sawant

Hi there,
I am certainly not an expert, only started last month but lets hope I can be useful.
2/ Install feature pack. Very easy to do that. You just select "exclude previous participant" and he wont be assigned the task.
7/ When you generate the task form there is an "ACTIONS" menu. Amongst the choices there is "Escalate"
Someone with more experience will have to help you through the rest.
Regards,
Yanis

Preaggregation across value based hierarchy dimension in 11g

Hi All,
I have created a cube with 6 dimensions in olap 11g. One of those six dimensions has only one hierarchy which is value based hierarchy. I have chosen level based aggregation as I know at what levels exactly users are going to query. When I was going through the dimensions to choose levels to preaggregate I noticed there were no options available for my value based hierarchy dimension ( I could see "all" option for the same case in 10g) then I tried to look for definitions of underlying objects just to make sure it will preaggregate data across my value based hierarchy dimension.
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AWM version: 11.2.0.1
Thanks

Even if you know exactly which levels your users will query, percent based precompute (e.g. 30%) may still be faster in practice because queries are returned using 'sparse looping' instead of 'dense looping'. This was the single biggest performance advantage of 11g over 10g.
But if you still want to use level based precompute, then you should look at the XML template for the cube (as saved by AWM, for example). In it you should find something called PrecomputeCondition. This defines the set of members that are precomputed. Here is an example I just created using the GLOBAL schema
<PrecomputeCondition>
<![CDATA[
"TIME" LEVELS ("TIME"."MONTH", "TIME".CALENDAR_QUARTER, "TIME".CALENDAR_YEAR),
CHANNEL LEVELS (CHANNEL.TOTAL_CHANNEL, CHANNEL.CHANNEL),
CUSTOMER LEVELS (CUSTOMER.MARKET_SEGMENT, CUSTOMER.REGION, CUSTOMER.SHIP_TO),
PRODUCT LEVELS (PRODUCT.CLASS, PRODUCT.FAMILY, PRODUCT.ITEM)]]>
</PrecomputeCondition>The PrecomputeCondition is also visible through the USER_CUBES view.
SELECT PRECOMPUTE_CONDITION
FROM USER_CUBES
WHERE CUBE_NAME = 'MY_CUBE';You can hand modify this condition in the XML to specify an alternative 'non level based' precompute condition for any dimension. For example, if you define an attribute named 'SHOULD_PRECOMPUTE' on your PRODUCT dimension that is 1 for members to be precomputed and 0 for all others, then you can change the condition as follows.
<PrecomputeCondition>
<![CDATA[
"TIME" LEVELS ("TIME"."MONTH", "TIME".CALENDAR_QUARTER, "TIME".CALENDAR_YEAR),
CHANNEL LEVELS (CHANNEL.TOTAL_CHANNEL, CHANNEL.CHANNEL),
CUSTOMER LEVELS (CUSTOMER.MARKET_SEGMENT, CUSTOMER.REGION, CUSTOMER.SHIP_TO),
PRODUCT WHERE PRODUCT.SHOULD_PRECOMPUTE = 1]]>
</PrecomputeCondition>If you recreate the cube from the XML with this condition, then the PVSET valueset you discovered should contain all dimension members for which the attribute value is 1.   This gives you complete control over what is precomputed.   Note that AWM doesn't support this form of condition, so it won't show up if you go to the Precompute tab, but it is valid for the server. The PL/SQL below will modify the PrecomputeCondition (for the cube named MYCUBE) without going through AWM.
begin
dbms_cube.import_xml(q'!
<Metadata
Version="1.3"
MinimumDatabaseVersion="11.2.0.2">
<Cube Name="MY_CUBE">
    <Organization>
      <AWCubeOrganization>
        <PrecomputeCondition>
          <![CDATA[
           "TIME" LEVELS ("TIME"."MONTH","TIME".CALENDAR_QUARTER, "TIME".CALENDAR_YEAR),
           CHANNEL LEVELS (CHANNEL.TOTAL_CHANNEL,CHANNEL.CHANNEL),
           CUSTOMER LEVELS (CUSTOMER.MARKET_SEGMENT,CUSTOMER.REGION,CUSTOMER.SHIP_TO),
           PRODUCT WHERE PRODUCT.SHOULD_PRECOMPUTE = 1]]>
        </PrecomputeCondition>
      </AWCubeOrganization>
    </Organization>
</Cube>
</Metadata>
end;
/

Mapping in BPM - set value of collection item

Hello,
is it possible to set value to exact item of collection in mapping step in netweaver BPM?
I need something like set(<collection_variable>,<item_index>,<item_value>) - so exact opposite of GET generic function, which gets specific item from collection.
Is it possible in NW BPM?

You dont have to apologize. I didnt meant that as offend.
I appreciate the possibility to discuss that topic with somebody, because discussion itself sometimes shows other perspective to the problem, which can lead to solution
Of course I wrote EJB function to solve that - but I cant believe that it isnt standard solution to that pretty common use case.
I think, that problem lays in very limited implementation of XPath into Netweaver BPM. I will bet my left hand, that in some future SP of BPM will SAP introduce something like this:
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BPM payload value reading problem

Hi all,
In a bpm scenario, I have a switch that checks an element's attribute and another that checks an element's value. In the former case, the TRUE branch gets executed when the condition is satisfied. However, in the latter the condition is NEVER satisfied (even when it should be). Here's an example message. In my BPM, I have one switch that uses <user action="xxxx"> and another that uses <jobCode>.
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Hi James,
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Model attribute binding to value attribute.

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I have problem that i have used a model in my view. First i will me executing that model. Then i need to use the ouput parameter of that model to assign it to the value attribute present in the same view. And make it to be visible in the field to which that value attribute is assigned. Please help me out.

Hi Selvakumar,
Is it that, Your value attribute , say 'var' (which is bound to the view field) is
the child of a value node(say this value node be 'MyNode')??
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Smitha
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BPA model to BPM conversion

Hi,
I am building a small prototype for a internal demo to showcase the BPA - BPM conversion capabilities. I have a BPA model in 11g R1 that i want to execute in BPM 10g environment... note i am not building any BPEL processes. The exercise is to take what a business analyst modelled in BPA 11gR1 and port it to BPM 10g environment and write some code to make it work. The audience are interested in understanding the effort reuired by IT to execute a business model.
any help insite is appreciated.
Thanks
- vishu

Hi.
It is technically possible but practically useless.
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Then you can import it to OBPM (right click on Process in Process navigator).
Please take in mind that BPA model is a use case so you have to refurbish it totally if you need a process model.
Some time we use BPA models as a blueprint but we never convert them to BPM - loose of time.
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Igor

Migrate BPM 7.11 process modells to BPM 7.2

Hi,
last week we have CE7.2 installed. Now there is a problem in migrating existing BPM 7.11 models to 7.2.
Do anybody have already some experience in doing so?
Regards

Hello Martin.
We have such experience. At first you have to change all dependencies of your SC from 7.11 to 7.20 (if you use NWDI import new SCs in your track and resync it in NWDS). Then build your DC with process model, and after this look for warnings. There you can find which advise you to convert process model from 7.11 to 7.20, apply quick fix and you model will be converted in right format. Remember about max size of warnng pool in your NWDS, not all of them may be shown.
If this information doesn't help you, please provide more info about your project infrastructure and etc.
Regards, Alexander.

Dimensional modeling and year ago values

Hi,
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MV as core table
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>
I decided to do them in ETL, it worked for me now, but yes it is not scalable to get previous-previous years data and has redundant data. I wonder how generally this is achieved in warehouses? I know we can do an attempt to calculate on the fly using an full-outer joint, but it can be result null values in the time dimension column of fact table.
>
I'm not sure I understand what your question is.
Are you talking about needing to provide groups for dates or ranges that you do not actually have data for. For example to show 1st quarter data and show 'something' for February even if you have no data for February?
If so the term for that is Data Densification and there is a discussion of it with examples in the Oracle Data Warehousing Guide
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14072_01/server.112/e10810/analysis.htm#i1014934
>
Data Densification for Reporting
Data is normally stored in sparse form. That is, if no value exists for a given combination of dimension values, no row exists in the fact table. However, you may want to view the data in dense form, with rows for all combination of dimension values displayed even when no fact data exist for them. For example, if a product did not sell during a particular time period, you may still want to see the product for that time period with zero sales value next to it. Moreover, time series calculations can be performed most easily when data is dense along the time dimension.
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>
Also see my reply in this recent thread.
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i add a Reporting Activity to my current BPM Process. My purpose is to show the report in Visual composer.
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Could anybody help me with a how-to-guide or a detailed description?
Best regards,
Sid

Hi,
Helpful information on this topic:
The whole subtree: Performing Process Analytics
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David

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Dear all,
I have the data coming in the following format:
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Reporting:
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Hi Aborgeld,
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Fred
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Hi everybody,
is this possible via UDF?
Regards Mario

Hi Mario,
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Not very nice, I know, but maybe helpful. But you will need a message mapping to set the variable.
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