Practical Workflow for SAP: The Comprehensive Guide to SAP Business Workflow (3rd Edition) (SAP PRESS)

One resource. All of your SAP Business Workflow needs.

Now there’s no need to consult online resources or call your workflow friends―this book is your answer! Reorganized and fine-tuned, the third edition of this guide is packed with information and better than ever.

Familiar with some aspects of managing Workflow, but not with others? Pick the sections or chapters that are most relevant to you; focus on the provided conceptual explanations, technical instructions, or both. You’ll find important topics such as configuration, administration and troubleshooting, design, and enhancement. If you know the basics, you’ll find value in the coverage provided for SAP’s changing landscape such as SAPUI5, SAP Fiori, Operational Process Intelligence for SAP HANA, and much more.

Highlights:

• Configuration
• Work item delivery
• Agents
• UWL and POWL
• Administration
• UI enhancement
• ABAP classes
• Custom programs
• User interfaces
• SAP Fiori
• BRF+
• SAP GRC
• SAP HANA
• SAP Master Data Governance

Jocelyn Dart is a long-time SAP employee who currently majors in solutions in the SAP Intelligent Business Operations Powered by HANA bundle, and minors in user experience technologies and design thinking. She has been involved with SAP products as a customer since 1990, and since joining SAP Australia in 1994, she has worked directly with more than 70 organizations in Australia, New Zealand, and internationally, across a diverse range of industries. She is currently a Platinum Consultant, Design Thinking coach, and was recently appointed as an SAP Mentor by the SAP Community Network, where she blogs on a number of topics, workflow included. She is acknowledged as a global expert in SAP Business Workflow, SAP Business Process Management, and SAP Decision Service Management. Jocelyn has co-authored on all three versions of this book.

Susan Keohan is a senior application developer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. She has worked with SAP since 1995, when MIT began its implementation. She has been designing and implementing processes with SAP Business Workflow since 1997, starting with SAP R/3 release 3.1C. She was instrumental in founding the ASUG Workflow and BPM Special Interest Group as well as the SAP-WUG mailing list. In 2002, Susan transferred to MIT Lincoln Laboratory to begin a new SAP implementation there―with many workflow applications to develop and maintain. She has presented various workflow-related topics at ASUG conferences and continues to serve as the Program Chair for the Workflow and BPM SIG. In 2008, Susan achieved one of her highest professional honors―to be named an SAP Mentor.

Alan Rickayzen is senior product manager in HANA SAP BPM development. H has been with SAP since 1992 and in data processing since 1988. In 1995, he joined the SAP Business Workflow group performing development work as well as consulting for various blue-chip U.S. customers. During this time, he amassed a good technical knowledge of the product before moving to product management, where he was the principal liaison for the SAP Business Workflow user groups. He has written regularly for SAP journals and was a principle author of the first edition of Practical Workflow for SAP. In his pursuit of interoperability, he became one of the principle authors of the Web standards BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask, and he was instrumental in the integration between SAP Business Workflow and IBM Notes. Alan Rickayzen graduated from Kings College London with a bachelor of science degree in physics and can be contacted on twitter or BBO as alanrick.

DJ Adams is a principal at Bluefin Solutions and has been working with SAP enterprise software since 1987, specializing in integration, and has a strong connection to the Open Source community. He’s contributed to the SAP, Perl, XMPP, and Google developer communities, and most recently has been sharing knowledge and code on SAP’s UI5 toolkit. He was made an SAP Mentor in recognition of his contributions to the SAP Developer Network and community. He’s written two books for O’Reilly (Programming Jabber and Google Pocket Guide) and has contributed articles to sites as diverse as O’Reilly’s OpenP2P, the SAP Community Network, Bluefin Solutions, and his own blog, in which he’s been writing since 2002. He’s spoken at conferences such as OSCON, JabberConf, FOSDEM, SAP Inside Track, SAP TechEd, SAP DKOM, SAP UK & Ireland User Group Conference, the Manchester Digital Laboratory, and TEDx. He teaches kids and teachers to code. He runs a CodeClub in his local village school in the UK, is a volunteer and organizer at Manchester CoderDojo, a STEMnet Ambassador, and in 2013 ran a center in Manchester for Young Rewired State. He’s married to his theoretical childhood sweetheart, Michelle, and has a son, Joseph, of whom he’s very proud.

Konstantin Anikeev is an independent senior SRM application developer with more than eight years of SAP experience, mainly in workflow and user interface technologies such as Web Dynpro ABAP and SAPUI5. He graduated from Voronezh State University with a master’s degree in applied mathematics in 2006 and started his SAP career at Siemens IT Solutions and Services with Logistics Solutions LE/MM/SD, later moving on to the area of SRM with a focus on workflow and technical architecture. He has been involved in a variety of international SAP Implementation and Application Maintenance projects as functional/technical consultant and developer. He is well known in the SAP Community Network for his publications and contributions to the SRM, Workflow, and Developer Center areas.