Process Observer

Check out the Class-room training for Process Observeroffered in September, October and November in Walldorf and Hamburg, Germany!

Process Observer (POB) allows customers to monitor and optimize core processes based on SAP Business Suite’s built-in processes and supports insight to actions. It closes a major gap from process management lifecycle perspective.

Important Documents about Process Observer:

• An introduction to Process Observer is given in the following presentation: Monitoring and Analyzing Business Suite Processes using Process Observer
• Detailed usage and configuration information about Process Observer is given in:Process Observer In-Depth Workshop

Upcoming Events on Process Observer: 

• 27 February 2013: DSAG Technologietage in track Business Process Management at 15:30Prozesssichtbarkeit für Suite Prozesse covering Process Observer
• 13 May 2012: At ASUG/Sapphire our lecture sessions featuring Process Observer are “Process Orchestration - An Outlook” and “An Overview to Process Observer Capabilities and Use-Cases.”
• 26 April 2012: CubeServ Webinar on Process Observer

News:

SAP Operational Process Intelligence Powered by SAP HANA Is Now out of Ramp-Up and Generally Available: SAP Operational Process Intelligence Powered by SAP HANA is a new application that provides real-time, actionable intelligence about your company's business processes, spanning SAP Business Suite leveraging Process Observer, SAP Business Workflow, and SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration. The application is now in ramp-up. Find out more in this blog post by Peter McNulty and this document by Stephan Schluchter, and watch the overview video.

View TechED 2011 Recordings on Process Observer:

View the recording of PMC212 "Big Picture Process Orchestration from an Application Point of View" from TechED Las Vegas. The presentation is a bit more general, but still has a focus on Process Observer.

View our SDN Blog on Process Observer:

• Introducing New Component: Process Observer for Built-In Processes (POB)
• Business value being addressed by Process Monitoring & Analytics (POB) for the SAP Business Suite
• Architecture of Process Observer for Built-In Processes (POB)
• Setup of Component Process Observer for Built-In Processes (POB)
• Create Process Definition for Business Process Monitoring & Analytics for Business Suite Processes (POB)
• Create KPI Definitions for Business Process Monitoring & Analytics for Business Suite Processes (POB)
• Using Thresholds, SLAs and Alerting in Process Observer (POB)
• Process Observer (POB) Direct Event API for Logging Processes from SAP and Non-SAP Systems
• Tracking Field Changes Using the Process Observer (POB) Direct Event API
• Monitoring of cross system workflows with SAP Process Observer
• Using BAdIs to Anonymize User Information in Process Observer (POB)
• Monitor Sales Order Processing with Process Observer for Built-In Processes (POB)
• Instrumentation for Procure-to-pay process on item level in Process Observer
• Applying Process Mining Techniques to Process Observer Data using the ProM Toolkit

Process Observer Discussion:

• For Q&A feel free to post in our Process Observer Discussion. And of course you're free to start a new discussion or add comments to any of our articles, too.

External Content on Process Observer:

• Sebastian Zick from CubeServ writes about first experiences working with Process Observer:Process Observer – a new SAP approach to analyze Business Suite processes! He further published a first success story implementing Cycle Times in an Order-to-Cash Process in a Mid-Size Company using Process Observer (article in German).
• Steffen Ulmer describes how he setup Monitoring of cross system workflows with SAP Process Observer in the context of Master Data creation and enrichment in SAP MDG.
• The New SAP RDS called SAP MDG Content Accelerator uses Process Observer to monitor the master data process end-to-end across systems.

Related SAP Content

• SeeSAP Operational Process Intelligence powered by SAP HANA, which utilizes Process Observer and also other data sources to provide process intelligence and transparency into business operations.
• Find information how to access Process Observer content via ODATA: Business Process Content powered by SAP Netweaver Gateway

Online Documentation on Process Observer:

• Documentation of the Process Observer core application.
• Documentation of BI Content for Process Observer.