... Preface ... 17

... Objective of This Book ... 17

... Target Audience ... 18

... Structure of the Book ... 19

... Acknowledgements ... 22

1 ... Introduction to Enterprise Automation ... 25

1.1 ... What Is Enterprise Automation? ... 26

1.2 ... Why Enterprise Automation Is Needed and How It Has Evolved ... 27

1.3 ... How SAP Accelerates Enterprise Automation ... 29

1.4 ... Summary ... 37

2 ... SAP Business Technology Platform ... 39

2.1 ... Introduction ... 39

2.2 ... Architecture ... 41

2.3 ... SAP Build ... 49

2.4 ... Summary ... 54

3 ... Overview of SAP Build Process Automation ... 57

3.1 ... Introduction ... 57

3.2 ... Architecture ... 60

3.3 ... Applications ... 62

3.4 ... Artifact Definitions ... 78

3.5 ... Lifecycle Phases ... 96

3.6 ... Summary ... 98

4 ... Creating a Business Process Project ... 99

4.1 ... What Is a Business Process Project? ... 99

4.2 ... Create a Project ... 100

4.3 ... Components of the Business Process Project Overview Page ... 104

4.4 ... Summary ... 110

5 ... The Process and Its Artifacts ... 111

5.1 ... Benefits of Low-Code Designer Tools ... 111

5.2 ... Process Editor ... 112

5.3 ... Processes and Artifacts ... 113

5.4 ... Events ... 135

5.5 ... Branches ... 143

5.6 ... Mappings ... 147

5.7 ... Forms ... 148

5.8 ... Variant Templates ... 161

5.9 ... Other Activities ... 165

5.10 ... Summary ... 171

6 ... Action Artifacts ... 173

6.1 ... What Is an Action, and How Does It Differ from an Application Programming Interface? ... 173

6.2 ... Connectivity Options ... 174

6.3 ... Create, Configure, and Test Action Projects ... 180

6.4 ... Release and Publish Actions ... 191

6.5 ... Connecting to External Systems using Actions ... 192

6.6 ... Summary ... 195

7 ... Automation Artifacts ... 197

7.1 ... Automation Editor ... 198

7.2 ... Screens: Piloting Applications ... 206

7.3 ... Activities: Making Use of Software Development Kits ... 235

7.4 ... Controls: Complex Automation Flows and Error Handling ... 269

7.5 ... Data: Creating and Managing Data Types ... 282

7.6 ... Automations, Actions, and Processes: Using Existing Artifacts ... 284

7.7 ... Desktop Agent ... 285

7.8 ... Environments ... 290

7.9 ... Summary ... 295

8 ... Decision Artifacts ... 297

8.1 ... Selecting the Correct Decision Solution for SAP Scenarios ... 298

8.2 ... Types of Decision Deployment ... 308

8.3 ... Decision Models ... 312

8.4 ... Working with Decisions ... 329

8.5 ... Summary ... 354

9 ... Business Project Lifecycle Management ... 355

9.1 ... Lifecycle Phases of a Business Process Project ... 355

9.2 ... Technical Monitoring ... 380

9.3 ... Business Monitoring ... 387

9.4 ... Summary ... 390

10 ... Executing Processes, Automations, and Decisions ... 391

10.1 ... Understanding Runtime Environments ... 391

10.2 ... SAP Build Process Automation Application Programming Interfaces ... 398

10.3 ... Running a Process, an Automation, and a Decision ... 412

10.4 ... Summary ... 420

11 ... Monitoring ... 421

11.1 ... Benefits of Monitoring ... 421

11.2 ... Types of Monitoring ... 422

11.3 ... Business Monitoring ... 424

11.4 ... Technical Monitoring ... 458

11.5 ... Summary ... 470

12 ... Governance ... 473

12.1 ... Establishing Governance in Business Processes ... 474

12.2 ... Business Process Access Management ... 475

12.3 ... Environments ... 478

12.4 ... Transport Management ... 490

12.5 ... Approval Flow for Controlling the Project Lifecycle ... 497

12.6 ... Maintaining Business Projects ... 502

12.7 ... Summary ... 503

13 ... Authentication, Authorization, and Audit Logging ... 507

13.1 ... Approach to Authentication and Authorization ... 507

13.2 ... Securely Connect to Cloud and On-Premise Systems ... 509

13.3 ... Audit Logs ... 510

13.4 ... Summary ... 514

14 ... Working with Store Content ... 515

14.1 ... What Is a Store? ... 515

14.2 ... Types of Content ... 519

14.3 ... Discovering and Working with Content ... 524

14.4 ... Creating and Publishing Content to the Store ... 533

14.5 ... Summary ... 535

15 ... Extending Standard Processes ... 537

15.1 ... Standard SAP Processes and the Need for Process Extensions ... 538

15.2 ... Different SAP Process Extension Possibilities ... 543

15.3 ... Using Process Variants ... 548

15.4 ... SAP S/4HANA Extensibility and Creating a Process Extension for SAP S/4HANA Cloud ... 559

15.5 ... Example Extension Scenarios ... 567

15.6 ... Summary ... 571

16 ... Scaling Process Automation ... 573

16.1 ... SAP Task Center ... 574

16.2 ... Enabling Fusion Development for Professional and Citizen Developers ... 588

16.3 ... Summary ... 593

17 ... Conclusion ... 595

1 ... The Authors ... 603

... Index ... 605