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Signavio Process Manager
and SAP® Solution Manager:
The Perfect Marriage
Signavio Process Manager casts its eagle eye over
all processes needed to run a company, from finance
and HR to manufacturing and sales. It smoothly
integrates them into one coherent landscape that
crosses IT system boundaries. This makes Signavio
Process Manager the optimal business/user inter-
face for facilitating Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) implementations. The interface provides analy-
sis and ensures efficiency across all departments
within an organization.
When implementing ERP systems, it’s important to
align business and technical requirements to en-
sure domain experts and IT stakeholders are on the
same page. Signavio Process Manager makes pro-
cesses accessible to the whole organization via an
intuitive user interface. It is a modern solution
designed to leverage the devices and working prac-
tices of today, with the future of your business in
mind. But Signavio Process Manager is not only a
usability leader—its powerful toolbox is a busi-
ness analyst’s best friend for all aspects of process
design.
Taking our leading technology one step further,
Signavio Process Manager offers integration with
SAP Solution Manager 7.2, empowering even sim-
pler collaboration between business and IT. This helps
streamline business processes and proactively
addresses improvement options, increasing both
efficiency within organizations and customer
experience.
With Signavio Process Manager and Collaboration
Hub, processes are no longer buried within a
complex system. Processes are brought into the light
making it far simpler to get all stakeholders in-
volved and communicating.
Simplification
Signavio Process Manager is the tool of choice for
business analysts, process owners, and applica-
tion architects. By systematically responding to all
Business Process Management needs it allows
for an easy and process-driven approach to SAP
implementation projects. This puts business
requirements first.
Signavio Process Manager simplifies the whole
SAP implementation process, improving business/
user engagement and bettering the handover
and communication between business and IT. The
collaborative capabilities of Signavio Process
Manager make next stage delivery more user-
friendly, and closes the gap between business and
IT when introducing SAP.
Signavio Process Manager:
five steps to better SAP integration
1. Identify your process: Adopt either a ‘process-
by-process’ or ‘big bang’ approach. Select one
of your processes and implement it, before moving
on to the next. Or, go gung-ho and take one or
several SAP modules and migrate all of your pro-
cesses at once.
2. Document your process: After you have identi-
fied the process to implement, either document
the ‘current state’ process and its intricacies or
leave your legacy process behind (greenfield
approach).
3. Define your new process: Define a process
definition that puts business requirements and
user needs first, and derive a technical process
specification.
Business Business SAP ERP
users Analysts IT Experts
SAP ERP
System
Landscape
Seamlessly
integrates
with Manages
Signavio Process Manager SAP Solution Manager
BPM-oriented Requirements Specification System Configuration and Monitoring
Business requirements
Technical details: logical components, executables, ...
4. Implementation: After you have defined your bles your organization to translate smoothly
new process, trigger the automatic synchroniza- between business and IT requirements. Signavio
tion with SAP Solution Manager. This allows your becomes your process modeling single source
implementation team to work with your business of truth and empowers continuous and controlled
requirements when implementing the process improvement.
in SAP.
5. Continuous improvement and maintenance: Join the revolution
Quickly make alterations to your processes to meet
changing needs and customer demands. Combining technical depth with an easy-to-use
interface, Signavio Process Manager puts your or-
ganization on the path to business excellence.
Laying the foundation for successful As part of Signavio Business Transformation Suite,
ERP implementation try it for yourself by registering now for a free
30-day trial.
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