SAP CPS/BPA by Redwood

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“SAP® Business Process Automation by

Redwood (SAP BPA) gives you the power

to connect and automate business and IT

processes across your entire enterprise

landscape.“

www.redwood.com

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Job Scheduling – Idea

• Replace manual scheduling on every system

• Central place for scheduling

• One scheduling entity for all system

• Ability to schedule on SAP and non SAP

systems (external scheduling)

• Build complex scenarios with dependencies

System 2System 1 System 3

Job A

Job E

Job K

Job L

Job Z

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Standard vs. Extended (External) Scheduling – Process View

SAP BPA by Redwood

Solution Manager

SAP Systems

Any System

Solution Manager

Standard Scheduling External Scheduling

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External Scheduling Tool: SAP BPA by Redwood

• External Scheduling Tool

• Real-Time and event based

• Build complex chains

• Automate entire business & IT processes

• Automatically/manually react upon job

issues with operator messages

• SMSE Certified

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Standard vs. Extended (External) Scheduling – Example

ABAP Job with 3 Steps Process Chain with 3 Steps

Step B

Step G

Step L

Job A Job B

Job F

Job NJob L Job M

Job in SAP Job in Non-SAP OS Job

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Standard vs. Extended (External) Scheduling – List View

Solution Manager External Tool: BPA

SAP Jobs Any Job Type

Simple Schedule Complex Schedule

Simple Jobs Cross System Jobs

WebDynPro Modern Java Engine

Limited dependencies Complex dependencies

Standard Scheduling External Scheduling

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OEM vs. Chargeable Version of BPA in comparison

OEM Chargeable

Schedule SAP jobs

Mono-system process chains in SAP systems

Business Automation Enabler with SAP Solution Manager

Basic load balancing (queues only)

Processes in any system

OS level processes

Multisystem process Chains

Display and monitoring of parent-child-relationships

Business automation enabler with any scenario

Complex Load balancing

Time zone handling

Dynamic mass activities

Import/Export

Scripting

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Job Management Best Practice with BPA: Request new Job

Job Request:

Add Job

Job Documentation Schedule in SAP BPA by Redwood

Monitoring in Solution Manager

Job A

Job F

Job LReporting

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Scheduling in External Scheduler: SAP BPA by Redwood

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Scheduling in External Scheduler: Process Chains in SAP BPA

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Technical Architecture

SAP BPA

Process

Server

BPA Job Repository

OS

Platform

Agent

Application

non SAP system

Platform

Agent

NetWeaver JAVA

JAVA scheme in DB

Process

Server

Process

Server

Process

Server

Process

Server

SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP

SAP NetWeaver JAVA

SAP Application

(As of NW 7.3)

JXBP

SAP Application

(All releases)

XBP

BW-

SCH

SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP NetWeaver ABAP

Web UI

SAP Data Services

SAP Business Objects

Contact information:

jobmanagement@sap.com

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