Business Process Management: The SAP Roadmap

This book finally sheds light on Business Process Management (BPM) in the SAP environment. It explains what BPM is, why it is important in today's business world to manage your processes, and how to implement BPM in your company, both from the business and the IT perspective.

Readers learn everything about SAP's BPM roadmap, a four-step approach to plan, prepare, execute, and monitor your BPM implementation. Once this generic roadmap has been explained, the decisive question is: How can SAP software be used more effectively to provide a company with business innovation? Extensive case studies from various large SAP customers and SAP itself illustrate how the concepts of BPM, Enterprise SOA, and the Business Process Platform go together and equip you for your next business challenges. Here, the capabilities of the new NetWeaver component SAP NetWeaver BPM are explained, and you get detailed advice on how to prepare your IT department for the transition.

Highlights:

• Business Process Management the Generic Concept
• Enterprise Architecture and Business Strategy
• The BPM Roadmap
• BPM and Enterprise SOA
• IT Challenges
• SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management

Jim Hagemann Snabe is member of the Executive Board of SAP AG. He leads the Business Solutions & Technology organization, responsible for product development for large enterprises. As a Global Practice Owner for Business Process Management in SAP Business Consulting, Ann Rosenberg is responsible for the BPM blended with SOA approach. Charles Møller is Danfoss Professor in Business Process Innovation at the Center for Industrial Production, Aalborg University, Denmark. As Head of Process Governance in SAP's Business Process Organization, Mark Scavillo is responsible for the company's internal Business Process Management framework and methodology worldwide.