Saturday, March 24, 2012

SAP BI Process Chains-Part 1

Process chains are a robust graphical scheduling & monitoring tool to maintain automation, visualization & monitoring of tasks/processes. These chained processes are designed to carry specific tasks. Process chains are integrated into CCMS, which is in turn integrated into portal based BI administration cockpit.
What Process Chains does is simply automate complex tasks/process scheduling, visualization of these processes plus central controlling of these tasks (either in same or linked process chains). If a process chain isn’t available for a specific task.
 SAP provides customers with an easy way to create custom process types, wherein one can still run customer programs using Business Content “ABAP process types”. A process chain consists of a start process, individual application processes and the so-called collection processes. The application processes are the actual processes. SAP BI supports process types like load process and post processing processes, Data target administration processes and other processes

Let us understand the  same from conceptual wise.
A. Typical life cycle of Data Load in BI.

















B. Process Chain Concept.















C.Process Functionality

















D.Basic Principles.


E.Process Chain Maintenance.

F. Process Flow.


G.Process Types.

 H. Process Variant.Maintenance.



 I.Variant Example.














J.Process Types.
















K.Application Level Process Types.






























L. Building Process Chain.











Cont.. Part 2.