G'day Phil,<br><br>Also think about how you will deliver the work to the agents. How would you know their details and would you need a SAP licence for all of them (if you don't already use something pervasive within the org like ESS or maybe SRM).
<br><br>What would be the interface?<br><br>SAP Workflow's advantage is in tight easy intergration with the standard applicaton through data dictionary and easy resuse through SAP & your custom code being based in ABAP. Developing for external apps will have it's own costs over normal internal SAP devts.
<br><br>Have fun,<br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Philip Kisloff</b> <<a href="mailto:pkisloff@tiscali.co.uk">pkisloff@tiscali.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks Paul,<br><br>I agree there is the development track, and building up a workflow from<br>scratch is the way to do that.<br>But, and there is a but, our support model doesn't scale up to make this<br>a corporate standard. Say 200
<br>applications would be using SAP, I would imagine that would be a big SAP<br>workflow team needed in place<br>for all the custom developments, something perhaps tricky to source.<br><br>Now, if we could leverage a packaged solution's customising approach to
<br>implementation, after the initial<br>implementation costs might support could be cheaper and more feasible ?<br>Anything dealing with this<br>constraint in the new NetWeaver suite ?<br><br>Phil<br><br>> Phil,<br>>
<br>> Nice question! I haven't done this myself, but can imagine how you might<br>> approach it.<br>><br>> SAP workflow is designed to work with business objects. For your purpose, a<br>> custom business object would have to be defined in SAP (as a BOR object or
<br>> a class), while the methods of that object would manipulate an external<br>> entity via RFC calls.<br>><br>> You could think of this business object as a simple 'proxy' for the<br>> external entity. You just need to define the object, its key, and any
<br>> methods that you need for the workflow (esp Constructor and Display).<br>><br>> For example, a 'Change' method might read the external object via an RFC<br>> call, present a dialog screen for editing, and save the results via a
<br>> second RFC call.<br>><br>> I was recently on a job where we built a workflow around a custom<br>> application inside SAP (with its own Z tables, dialog screens etc), using<br>> the same principles. It was surprisingly easy, and works a treat!
<br>><br>> hope this helps<br>> Paul<br>><br>><br>><br>> |---------+----------------------------><br>> | | Philip Kisloff |<br>> | | <pkisloff@tiscali
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<br>> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> Has anyone had any experience, ideas or knowledge of SAP Business
<br>> Workflow being used for generic workflow tasks that are not specific to<br>> a data object in SAP?<br>><br>> I'm asking because I'm evaluating a successor to Domino, which serves as<br>> the company standard workflow engine. In the frame is Microsoft Office
<br>> 2007, which will have in the next year or so a reasonable workflow<br>> engine, or so I'm told.<br>><br>> Personally, I'm very comfortable with the SAP workflow engine and<br>> development environment, but in our company there are many business
<br>> functions that don't reside in SAP (the majority, in fact). Can SAP's<br>> workflow compete in this area? Obviously, we will install a fresh<br>> installation of NetWeaver 04, but not configure any of the applications.
<br>><br>> Any thoughts, pros and cons would be welcome.<br>><br>> Many thanks<br>><br>> Phil<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> SAP-WUG mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:SAP-WUG@mit.edu">
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