We are currently using ARIS as a stand alone tool, however, have plans in the close future for utilizing with SOLMAN. My question is this... we have no solid direction or best practices on "how" and "why" these attributes are needed on SAP functions, or even regular functions, for that matter.
I'm asking as we've been managing a project of a team of about 13 to create over 1400 ARIS BPM's, and did not specify the need for utilizing SAP functions, or specifying attributes for that matter. Our challenge is that we did not know enough to instruct them to use SAP functions in the first place, and now, requesting them to re-do their already completed models might prove to cause a mutiny, if you will.
Can you provide you POV on the following? What attributes are "required" in SOLMAN? Is the first interface from ARIS to SOLMAN, or vice versa, SOLMAN to ARIS?
What's the risk if we do not require the functions to be converted to SAP functions?
Thanks! Any knowledge helps us!
Hello Martha,
did you already contact Olaf Geyer? He might be albe to help you directly. However, there are many ways to make processes "synchronizable" with SAP Solution Manager. You can redo the process models or add certain required attributes manually, but as you mentioned before this is NOT a user-friendly approach. We have also better ways to automate this by using pre-defined reports that can go through the database and maintain these attributes.
The synchronization with SAP solution Manager works both ways. From SAP Solution Manager to ARIS to import standard BPRcontent that can then be included in your process models. Then from ARIS to SAP solMan to transfer the synchronization relevant objects from your processes into SAP Solution Manager and later in the project if information (like documentation, transactions, etc.) was added to the blueprint structure in SAP solution Manager you can take this information back into ARIS for documentation, publication, trainings, etc..
You can also reuse these process models lateron to create your integration tests - and then do the testing in SAP Solution Manager, HP QC or whatever you need. For more information please also ask Olaf or contact me directly: sinje.seidler@ids-scheer.com.
Best regards,
Sinje
