DEV163 - Build a Workflow from Scratch with SAP Workflow Management

Description

This repository contains the material for the SAP TechEd 2020 session called DEV163 - Build a Workflow from Scratch with SAP Workflow Management.

Overview

The SAP Workflow Management combines workflow, business rules, and process visibility services into a single unified offering that helps you increase business process automation and efficiency. The service includes the following capabilities.

Workflow : Digitalize workflows, automate and orchestrate structured processes tailored to business needs.
Business Rules: Automate and flexibly adapt decision logic in your processes, independently of application development.
Process Visibility: Provide real-time, event-driven visibility into end-to-end processes.
Process Flexibility: Enable business experts to manage processes, decisions and visibility dashboards using low/no-code approach.
Live Process Content Packages: Flexibly extend standard processes with predefined live process content packages.

This session introduces to workflow, business rules and process visibility capabilities of Workflow Management.

Exercises

You can click to Start the Mission in SAP Discovery Center or download the exercises below.

There are 4 set of exercises. Exercise 0 is a mandatory setup before executing any exercises. You can choose to run one or more exercises 1, 2, and 3 in any order. These exercises are independent of each other and the instructions are mentioned in the respective links below.

Exercise 0 - Setup
- Duration: 15 min. This is a MANDATORY exercise.
- It will help you setup your SAP Cloud Platform Trial account with SAP Workflow Management.
Exercise 1 - Workflow
- Duration: 90 minutes
- In this exercise, you will learn how to:
  - model, build and deploy workflow from SAP Business Application Studio.
  - monitor and execute workflow using standard Monitor Workflow applications.
  - access My Inbox application to approve, reject or rework user task.
Exercise 2.1 - Business Rules
- Duration: 60 minutes
- In this exercise, you will learn how to:
  - create, configure and deploy these business rules models using standard Manage Rules Application.
  - test and consume APIs published in SAP API Business Hub.
Exercise 2.2 - Integrate Business Rules with Workflow
- Duration: 30 minutes
- Prerequisite: Exercise 2.1 has to be executed mandatorily.
- In this exercise, you will learn how to:
  - integrate business rules with workflow.
  - test the integration by running the workflow from standard Monitor Workflow applications.
Exercise 3 - Process Visibility
- Duration: 60 minutes
- In this exercise, you will learn how to:
  - create, configure and activate business scenario.
  - access process workspace to track processes and key business KPIs.
  - configure, view and monitor events and business scenarios.

How to obtain support

Support for the content in this repository is available during the actual time of the online session for which this content has been designed. Otherwise, you may request support via the Issues tab.

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