POP261

SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration

Build a Complete Integration Scenario
Satish Bihari, Ronald Fischer, Christian Loos, Preethi Reddy, Volker Stiehl
October/November/December, 2013
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Agenda

SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration – What’s new?

Multiple interfaces for starting a process
Introducing the exercise: Interfaces, Mappings, Integration Flows
Explaining “Conditional Start” behavior
Introducing the exercise: Integration-centric process
Running the exercise process

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SAP NetWeaver Process
Orchestration – What’s new?
Recap: SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration

BPM, BRM and PI on a single Java instance

 Java-only installation option for BPM, BRM and PI
 Reliable message exchange using the XI 3.0 protocol
 Call PI mappings from BPM process
 Use business rules in PI
 End-to-end monitoring of processes and related
messages
 Handling of large messages

Advantages
 Reduced development and operations cost
 Improved performance

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SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration
Support of enterprise integration patterns

Providing best practices and guidelines on how to

implement common integration and business requirements on
SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration
Enterprise integration patterns
 Do help in solving recurring problems faced in the
integration of enterprise applications
 See Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building,
and Deploying Messaging Solutions
by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf

Enterprise integration patterns on Process

Orchestration
 Blog on SCN describing how to best implement enterprise
integration patterns on PI/PO
 See SAP Process Orchestration patterns on SCN

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SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration
Integrated monitoring between PI and BPM

Improve TCO by monitoring

scenarios across PI and BPM
Context sensitive navigation
 For a given BPM process instance,
show details of all associated PI
messages
 For a given PI message, show
details of the associated BPM
process

Prerequisites
 Mark the communication component
as integration-centric process
 PI and BPM have to communicate
with each other using XI 3.0
message protocol
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SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration
Referenced channels in Integration Flows

Reduce TCO via re-use of channels

Inline Channels versus Referenced Channels Referenced Channel
 Inline Channels are part of Integration Flows
 Referenced Channels are independent objects with
own lifecycle

Lifecycle
 Create, edit, and delete channels within SAP Process
Integration Designer perspective
 On activation, channels get deployed on runtime
 Assign/unassign channels to Integration Flows
 Activation of incompatible changes is prevented,
requires undeployment of Integration Flow Inline Channel

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SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration
Migration of directory content

Migrate classical PI scenarios to Using the new directory content migration tool, you
integrated configuration objects (ICOs) could considerably reduce the migration effort
 Supporting both Java-only and dual-stack
target systems
 Source PI system as of XI 3.0 and newer
 Tool runs in target system
 Automatic directory objects matching and
migration checks
 Renaming of objects via renaming rules
 Mass change support for communication
channels
Check out TechEd hands-on session
POP262: Migration Tool from Double
Stack to Single Stack Integration
Scenarios

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SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration
Integration visibility
Central, end-to-end integration visibility into the correct closure of business transactions.
Measure business SLAs, such as end-to-end processing times, error ratio, volumes, etc.
Integration discovery
 Discover integration flows in your landscape including processing
within SAP NetWeaver PI, SAP backend system layers such as
ALE, tRFC

Message Flow Monitor in SAP Solution Manager*

 Targeting IT & application support and business power users
 Monitoring along integration layers of message exchange
 Show relevant payload data, e.g., EDI number, order number, etc.
 Provide information of most common B2B related issues, e.g.,
flows with highest error ratio, overdue acknowledgements, etc.

Integration with SAP Operational Process Intelligence**

 Visibility and decision-support tool targeting line of business users,
providing real-time information of operations and processes
including message exchange * planned with SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP10
 Events for message sent / received / in error / cancelled ** planned with SAP Operational Process Intelligence 1.1

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Multiple interfaces for
starting a process
Multiple interfaces for starting a process

• Challenges
• Several different interfaces
• Order of appearance not predictable
• Mixture of cardinalities possible
(e.g. 1..1 or 1..n)
• Receiver expects aggregated message
comprising all interfaces

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process
Standard BPMN options

• Solution 1
• Using several start events
• Assumption: Order Header contains
number of expected items

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process
Standard BPMN options

• Solution 1
• Using several start events
• Assumption: Order Header contains
number of expected items

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process
Standard BPMN options

• Solution 2
• Using instantiating parallel
event-based gateway
• Assumption: Order Header contains
number of expected items

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process
Solution using “Super Interface”

Incoming Messages

1..1
1..1
Outgoing Message
1..n

0..1 “Super Interface” combining all incoming messages

0..1
0..1

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process
Solution using “Super Interface” and “Conditional Start”

Same
Interface/Trigger
=
„Conditional Start“

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Interfaces, Mappings,
Integration Flows
Multiple interfaces for starting a process

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process
Messages to BPM

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process
Aggregated message from BPM

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Explaining “Conditional Start”
behavior
Multiple interfaces for starting a process
”Conditional Start” behavior

Non-conditional start process definition Non-conditional start process definition Conditional start process definition

Message for Trigger A arrives 1

2 2

Message for Trigger A arrives 2

1 3 3

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process
”Conditional Start” behavior

Non-conditional start process definition Non-conditional start process definition Conditional start process definition

Message for Trigger A arrives 2

3 1 3 3

Message for Trigger A arrives 2

3 1 3

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process
”Conditional Start” behavior

Non-conditional start process definition Non-conditional start process definition Conditional start process definition

Message for Trigger A arrives 2

1 1 3 1 3

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process
”Conditional Start” behavior
Process Instances

4711
Conditional start process definition

Message Sequence
1. Message for Trigger A arrives with ID = 4711 4712
2. Message for Trigger A arrives with ID = 4712
3. Message for Trigger A arrives with ID = 4712
4. Message for Trigger A arrives with ID = 4713
5. Message for Trigger A arrives with ID = 4711 4713
6. Message for Trigger A arrives with ID = 4713

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SCN Blog series on „Conditional Start“ scenarios
Overview, examples and technical details

http://scn.sap.com/community/bpm/blog/2013/03/25/boost-your-correlation-scenarios-with-conditional-start
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Integration-centric process
Multiple interfaces for starting a process

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process

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Multiple interfaces for starting a process

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Running the exercise process
Demo
Starting a process with multiple interfaces
Further information

SAP Public Web

http://scn.sap.com/community/process-orchestration
http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/components/process-orchestration
http://scn.sap.com/community/process-orchestration/blog/2013/07/31/how-to-collect-and-aggregate-messages-with-different-interfaces

SAP Education and Certification Opportunities

Course BIT800
www.sap.com/education and search for BIT800 “SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration –
Introduction”
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