Drive workflows of Alfresco Process Services by SAP meta-data!

Our solution connexas process enables the client to access any SAP business object related meta-data within their current customer related workflows, built with the App-Designer of Alfresco Process Services. Having SAP related meta-data directly available in the current workflow task, empowers the user to manage their tasks faster, reduces the error rate and allows to view the latest available data from SAP to drive a decision. Furthermore, based on SAP meta-data decisions can be made automatically to drive the workflow. Finally, if there is a need to store documents during the workflow (like for a purchase order where the business object in SAP is already available), these files can be uploaded to Alfresco where they can be automatically connected to the related SAP business object (by using our product connexas content). 

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How it works

Because workflow processes are quite different based on customer and industry, even the data that should appear in the workflow process differs. It also depends on the used SAP modules in the company. Therefore, we offer connexas process as a solution and not as a finished product. The solution has to be adapted and additional function calls to SAP must be implemented based on the customer needs. However, our solution comes already with some pre-defined SAP standard calls, that are available in each SAP system. So you can easily start over with a proof of concept.

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Benefits

By choosing connexas process to extend your Alfresco Process Services workflows with SAP meta-data comes around with certain advantages:

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Multimedia Resources

Check our Youtube channel to find all related videos regarding connexas process and even videos related to the other products we offer. There are many recorded sessions and recorded webinars available.

Solution Demonstration - Basic

This video demonstrates how connexas process can integrate SAP related meta-data in Alfresco Process Services (Activiti) workflows. It shows how SAP meta-data can be selected directly within a workflow task and even how this selected SAP data can be used as decision to get other information from SAP in a next workflow task. Finally, it demonstrates, how a SAP workflow can be started from a workflow task in Alfresco Process Services.

Solution Demonstration - Extended

This video demonstrates how connexas process can integrate SAP, Alfresco Process Services and finally even Alfresco Content Services. It shows how SAP meta-data can be selected directly within a workflow task and even how this selected SAP meta-data can be used as a decision to get other information - even from SAP - in a next workflow task. Finally, it shows how a SAP workflow can be started in an Alfresco Process Services workflow task and how our product connexas content can be used in addition to get the most benefit of all worlds for your business.

By choosing connexas process as solution to introduce SAP meta-data in Alfresco Process Services (Activiti) comes with a couple of benefits:

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TECHNICAL INSIGHTS

First of all, the list below provide you some insights about the technical points that are covered by the product:

• Run with Alfresco Process Services

• Run with Activiti

• Run with ACS workflows

• Extended Rest API

• SAP JavaConnector

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FEATURE LIST

The following section lists a couple of functionality and features that are shipped with connexas process. Having this, it's already possible to start over with a proof of concept. 

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Pre-defined Rest services

The solution already includes some pre-defined services that extend the current Rest API of Alfresco Process Services. For example, it is possible to read a list of all SAP company codes or even to get a list of SAP cost centers. This is achieved by using function modules in SAP that are available in each SAP system by default.

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Multiple SAP system support

The solution was designed to connect to an unlimited number of SAP systems. By adapting a configuration file and provide all necessary data required to login to SAP, it is possible to connect to multiple SAP systems just by passing it's name as request path parameter.