Explore & Analyze your processes

with SAP Signavio Solutions

Amine Mabrouk,
SAP BTP Solution Architects
SAP Partner Ecosystem Success

November, 2022

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Agenda

Day1: Explore and Analyse Day 2: Automate Day 3: Trigger

SAP Signavio Transformation Suite SAP Build Process Automation SAP Graph
• Overview • Overview • Overview
• Setup • Operations/Administrator View
SAP Signavio Process Intelligence • SAP Build Process Automation • Developer View
• Process Mining Development • Security
• Signavio Data Management • Automations (iRPA)
Components • Visibility Scenarios SAP Build Apps
• Process Investigation: SIGNAL • Migration • The App Builder
• Deploy and Publish
• User Interface creation
• App Logic
• Data

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SAP Signavio Process
Transformation Suite

• SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite

• Process analysis and mining
• Process and Journey modeling
• Workflow and automation execution

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SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite

Collaboration
Stakeholder alignment and active collaboration across
departments

Process analysis and mining

Complete process analysis for enterprise
transformations and operational excellence programs

Process and journey modeling

Build
Standardized process and journey management,
simulation, and modeling

Process governance and automated execution

Maintaining organizational and regulatory compliance
of all documented processes

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Process analysis and mining

Challenges
• Visibility into actual operations
• Inefficiencies in business processes (delays, long lead times)
• Process compliance
• Understanding where in the process the root cause
problem is
• Visibility into areas of improvement

Build
Benefits
• Gain visibility into the real process execution and process
inefficiencies
• Get recommendations for improvements
• Pinpoint improvement potential and drive
transformative changes
• Gain visibility into process paths that lead to
cumbersome experiences

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Process and journey modeling

Challenges
• Potential improvements to existing processes to be more efficient and
achieve broader alignment across the organization
• Need for transparency into various stages of a customer journey and
processes that are involved in the steps with least satisfaction
• Impact of change to the process landscape
• Confidence that processes are being adhered to in a compliant way

Benefits
Build
• Understand who does what, when and how within a process
• Identify the inputs and outputs of individual processes
• Standardize process practice, help ensure high quality of modeling
standards, and educate your organization
• Leverage the wisdom of the crowd and involve key stakeholders in the
transformation process
• Conform to your governance standards with process approval workflows
• Visualize the journeys your customers, suppliers, and employees take and
the impact your business processes have on their experience
• Understand how changes will impact process outcomes using process
simulation

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Process governance and
automated execution

Challenges
• Definition of overall guidelines of the process management
and process control model
• Compliance with internal and external governance
requirements and regulatory needs
• Transparency into the maturity of a documented business
process and the associated risks
• Error-prone and repetitive manually executed processes

Benefits Build
• Maintain organizational and regulatory compliance of all
documented processes
• Get approvals from key stakeholders on all documented
processes
• Maintain process relevance and maturity with regular
process reviews

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 Process collaboration

Challenges:

• Lack of visibility into and understanding of company-wide and locally

defined processes and best practices

• Misalignment on crucial transformation activities in the organization

• Disjointed analysis and identification of local inefficiencies

SAP Signavio
Benefits: Process
• Utilize published processes to inform and train employees on process Collaboration
execution Hub

• Align with key stakeholders by sharing process changes and

improvements.

• Curate process-related content for specific audiences – such as functions

and departments.

• Have full visibility on your entire process landscape.

• Single source of truth for process knowledge

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Agenda

Day1: Explore and Analyse Day 2: Automate Day 3: Trigger

SAP Signavio Transformation Suite SAP Build Process Automation SAP Graph
• Overview • Overview • Overview
• Setup • Operations/Administrator View
SAP Signavio Process Intelligence • SAP Build Process Automation • Developer View
• Process Mining Development • Security
• Signavio Data Management • Automations (iRPA)
Components • Visibility Scenarios SAP Build Apps
• Process Investigation: SIGNAL • Migration • The App Builder
• Deploy and Publish
• User Interface creation
• App Logic
• Data

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence

• SAP Signavio Process Intelligence

• Main capabilities
• Process Mining
• Typical pain points

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
within SAP Signavio solutions

SAP Signavio Process Intelligence is the process

mining solution within SAP Signavio solutions.

• Perform process mining, analysis, simulation, modeling, and

collaboration on the same collaborative environment.
• Embed your insights and analyses from SAP Signavio Process
Intelligence into your process models and journeys.
• Connect your journey models with process mining and
experience data.

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
Unleash the power in your process data

Get full visibility into your Uncover opportunities with

process reality process mining
Support internal transformations and Leverage ready-to-consume insights,
efficiency programs. Leverage standard powerful data querying capabilities and
connectors and integration options and standard metrics and templates to uncover
improve the way you operate by getting a and monitor process inefficiencies,
clear understanding of your actual reducing your time to insights.
process execution.

Create a process-first, Blend process and

data-driven mind-set experience analytics
Empower your teams with insights. Create Spot inefficiencies and problems hitting top
a process-first, data-driven mindset in your and bottom lines by blending process
organization, democratizing process and experience analytics in one single
analytics and fostering collaboration. framework.

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What’s Process Mining

“Process mining is a family of techniques relating the fields of data science and process
management to support the analysis of operational processes based on event logs.
The goal of process mining is to turn event data into insights and actions. Process mining
is an integral part of data science, fueled by the availability of event data and the desire to
improve processes.”

Source: Wikipedia

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What is Process Mining (PM)?
Difference between PM and Data Mining

Where does the “Mining” come from?

It's derived from the field of Data Mining as it uses similar technology to mine processes instead of
“mining for relations or patterns”.

In comparison to Data Mining, Process

Mining focuses on business processes and
its transactional data in systems of record,
e.g. ERP systems.

Data Process Business The idea of Process Mining is to discover,

Mining Mining Process improve and monitor business processes.
Mgt
Discover Improve Monitor

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What is Process Mining?
How does Process Mining work?

• Most IT systems record many details of what happens in a process in the form of event / change logs

• These traces people leave behind moving through the process are called ‘digital footprints’

• Process mining captures these digital footprints, allowing you to analyse the business processes involved

From Event Logs to real-life Process Models and Insights

Humans
Event Logs Process Insights

IT Systems

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Process Mining
Expectation vs Reality

• “Our process is straight forward • Planned effort: 3h

and mature”
Expectation

• Planned throughput time: 1d

• “Maybe only a few outliers” • Expected response time: 1h
• “Documented process, so • Expected process cost: € 10
everyone knows what to do” • Expected # of staff: 4
• “The process is executed in the • Planned # of steps: 7
system which ensures a correct • …
task completion”

• missing / skipped approvals • Actual effort: 6h

• non-conforming tasks • Actual throughput time: 3d
• Real response time: 5h
Reality

• task rework(s)
• long cycle times • Real process cost: € 20
• high costs • Real # involved staff: 5
• firefighting / insecurity • Real # of steps: 12
• missing transparency • …

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Order-to-Cash example
Ideal Process Real Process

Create Create
Sales Order Sales Order
High number of
errors in order taking
Create Create
Outbound Sales Order Outbound
Delivery Changed Delivery

High volume of
Late Delivery manual entries
Post Goods Post Goods
Issue Poor Customer Issue
Satisfaction

Invoice Sales Order

Invoice Changed Canceled
Customer

Invoice
Customer Receive
Receive Payment
Payment

Low automation of
invoice processing Long Order-to-Cash
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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
Main capabilities

Process data Analytics and Process analysis Insights management

management (ETL) visualizations engine and collaboration
Integrate and prepare data from Perform business and analyst Query process and experience Share your insights with your
different sources. investigations. data at scale. peers and increase collaboration

Get visibility into your real Reduce your time to insight and Embed your analysis results in
process execution. get automatically generated process and journeys models.
insights, quickly discovering
Analyze and monitor your data, existing correlations and
performance and compliance. anomalies.

Leverage accelerators as a starting set of data transformations

and metrics to speed up your data analysis and your time to value.

*Through partnership with FortressIQ Analyze your data at a deeper level with task mining*
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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
Process Data Management (aka ETL)

• ETL Overview
• Main Components

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
ETL and data modelling in SAP Signavio
An ETL process has three steps
(extract, transform & load) that are
used to blend data from multiple
sources.

Process Data Management (ETL) ETL is needed for SAP Signavio

Cloud Process Intelligence to enable:
Cloud Connectors
Sources - Extracting process-relevant
data from various sources
- Transforming it to create a
On-prem Sources On-prem Connectors
Process Data Modeling process event log which is
connected to business context
data
CSV, XES, other
files
CSV Table Drop Zone - Loading it in order for it to be
processed

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
Main components and benefits

Flexibility

Agility
Data source Extraction Transformation and data
management management model management

Benefit from comprehensive connectivity Define what data to extract and how and Create process data pipelines that
options and management of data when to extract it describe how to transform raw data into
sources. including pseudoanonymization and event logs from connected sources and
partitioning schemas as well as data
pipeline scheduling and management.
defined extractions, leveraging SQL
editors for transformations and live
Collaboration
previews of transformed data.

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Explore and Analyse – Architecture Overview
Use Case Demo: SA Repair Purchasing Process analysis
Business Process Source System SAP Signavio PI
Expert Data Expert Analyst

SAP Signavio Process Intelligence

Process Investigation

Process Data Management

Data Source Data Integration Data Model

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Demo
Overview SAP Signavio PI

Extract Transform Load Investigate

- Create Connection - Create Process data - Assign process - Create Investigation

model
- Configure Data Source - Execute T&L - Create widgets
Integration - Configure Business
Objects - Create Widget with
- Extract SIGNAL
- Create event logs via
SQL Scripts
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Extract

Extract Transform Load Investigate

• Data Integration options

• Standard connectors
• Data Connection
• Data Extraction
• Advanced Mode/ Filtering
• Data Ingestion APIs

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
Flexible data integration options
SAP Signavio process data management1

Process data transformation templates / Accelerators

Event log data builder

Standard connectors2 Ingestion API File drop zone3

Process
analysis
and mining
Standard connectors Data integration Bring your own
to enterprise applications powered by SAP Data Intelligence Cloud data integration
Data Replication Data Access Data Integration with
external tools via API
Data Transformation
Standard Connectors to
Data Quality analytical DBs, DLs, DWs

File Upload

SAP ERP SAP applications APIs

SAP SuccessFactors Non-SAP Applications
ServiceNow DBs, DLs and DWs Other data sources
Jira Software Messaging systems

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
When to use which approach – option 1 of 3
SAP Signavio process data management

Process data transformation templates / Accelerators

Event log data builder

Standard connectors Ingestion API File drop zone

Process
analysis
and mining
Standard connectors
to enterprise applications

Data Replication IF source application is supported & reachable via a standard connector
AND no complex transformations required besides standard content
AND dataset size is within threshold for standard connector*
THEN this is the advised and simplest option

SAP ERP
SAP SuccessFactors
ServiceNow
Jira Software

*With the threshold for the single biggest table at around 100mio records
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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
When to use which approach – option 2 of 3
SAP Signavio process data management

Process data transformation templates / Accelerators

Event log data builder

Standard connectors Ingestion API File drop zone

Process
analysis
and mining
Data integration
powered by SAP Data Intelligence Cloud

Data Access

Data Transformation IF option 1 is not applicable

AND SAP Data Intelligence Cloud can
Data Quality
solve the target scenario
THEN it is SAP’s advised option
SAP applications APIs
Non-SAP Applications
DBs, DLs and DWs
Messaging systems

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
When to use which approach – option 3 of 3
SAP Signavio process data management

Process data transformation templates / Accelerators

Event log data builder

Standard connectors Ingestion API File drop zone

Process
analysis
and mining
Bring your own
data integration

IF neither option 1 nor option 2 are applicable or are enough to Data Integration with
external tools via API
solve the target scenario
Standard Connectors to
THEN opt for external data integration tool via API analytical DBs, DLs, DWs
OR read already extracted data from an analytical database,
File Upload
data lake or data warehouse
OR use file upload
Other data sources

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
Standard connectors
Reduced time to analysis through
Applications: Analytical databases, ready-to-use standard connectors*
for the most common source systems
SAP ERP datalakes or Data Warehouses: and transformation templates and the
SAP SuccessFactors SAP HANA most common processes

ServiceNow Google BigQuery

Jira Software ElasticSearch
S/4HANA AWS S3
AWS Athena
Custom integration: Microsoft SQL Server
OData Snowflake
Manual CSV upload ElasticSearch
PostgreSQL
MySQL

*also known as ETL connectors

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Data Extraction

Extract Transform Load Investigate

- Create Connection - Create Process data - Assign process - Create Investigation

model
- Configure Data Source - Execute T&L - Create widgets
Integration - Configure Business
Objects - Create Widget with
- Extract SIGNAL
- Create event logs via
SQL Scripts
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Data Ingestion APIs
SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
Flexible data integration options
SAP Signavio process data management

Process data transformation templates / Accelerators

Event log data builder

Standard connectors Ingestion API File drop zone

Process
analysis
and mining
Standard connectors Data integration Bring your own
to enterprise applications powered by SAP Data Intelligence Cloud data integration
Data Replication Data Access Data Integration with
external tools via API
Data Transformation
Standard Connectors to
Data Quality analytical DBs, DLs, DWs

File Upload

SAP ERP SAP applications APIs

SAP SuccessFactors Non-SAP Applications
ServiceNow DBs, DLs and DWs Other data sources
Jira Software Messaging systems

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Ingestion API

• URL : https://baseURL/ingestion/data

• Access Token generated

• Example:
{
"type": "record",
"name": "tableName",
"fields" : [ {"name": "id",
"type": "long"},
{"name": "title",
"type": "string"} ]
}

Ingestion API Documentation

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence with SAP Data Intelligence Cloud
What’s the added value?

Solve all data transformation and data quality needs in SAP Data Intelligence pipelines
Focus on process mining-specific modelling in SAP Signavio, based on already clean and ready-to-go data

Widen connectivity and reach to all major enterprise sources

Out-of-the-box connectivity to the most common enterprise sources, including facilitated connectivity to on premise
data centers via SAP Cloud Connector

Scale to enterprise volumes

Scalable data integration service, that can cover mass replication scenarios on large enterprise volumes

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
Connectivity overview
+ SAP Open Connectors
Complex Data
(pre)processing
Build Your Own
+ SAP Data Connector
Complex Data Microsoft Microsoft
Transformations OneDrive Sharepoint
Intelligence Cloud SAP Cloud
Connector support

SAP Signavio Data Quality

Monitoring
Process Intelligence

OData Workday

SAP ABAP BW Slack

(advanced)
SAP HANA &
RFC HANA Cloud SLT
[…]
(advanced)
Event
Mesh Data
HANA IQ Services […] Link: SAP Open
(DB only)
Connectors Catalog
Link: Data Intelligence connection types
Link: Signavio connectors
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Consume Ingestion API with POSTMAN
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Transform

Extract Transform Load Investigate

• Data Transformation
• Data Load
• Pipeline Logs
• Accelerators

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Data Transformation
What is an Event?

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Data Transformation
What is a case attribute?

Employee
Role
Materials

Approver

Net
Amount

Supplier

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Data Transformation
What is a case?

Requesting Procurement Logistics & Finance

Department Warehouse

Ø Represents a series of real

business transactions
Ø Each step (Event) of a business
transaction (Case) is related to
such through a Case ID
Ø Consolidation of different data
sources to one Event Log

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Data Transformation
What is Data Transformation?

PO PR Invoice

Extract Transform
EBELN: Purchasing Doc BANFN : Purchase req. EBELN: Purchasing Doc
EBELP: Ariba item number BNFPO : Requisn Item BUKRS: Company code
BANF : Purchase req. MATNR : Material LIFNR : Vendor
BNFPO : Requisn Item MENGE : Quantity in base unit of EKORG : Purchasing Org.
BSTYP : Doc. category measure EKGRP : Purch. group
AEDAT : Changed on MEINS : Base unit WAERS : Currency
NETPR : Net price KONNR : Agreement ERNAM : Created by
ABSKZ : Updated information in WERKS : Plant BSTYP : Doc. category
related user data field RLWRT : Total value at time of
UEBTO : Overdeliv. Tol. release
UNTTO : Underdev. Tol. LIFNR : vendor
LGORT : Stor. Location BADAT : Requisition date of
material order
ERNAM: Created by

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SAP Signavio process data management - Data Transformation

Business Objects oriented Transformation

§ Facilitate business understanding by associating

Business and Objects (documents)

§ Group events and attribute collectors by Business

Objects, simplifying their development and
maintenance

§ Clean SQL editor that allows query preview in one

single place

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SAP Signavio process data management - Data Transformation

There are different scripts based on whether a case attribute or an event log is created

Case Attribute
A Case Attribute Log requires at least
one Case ID and CAN contain more
attributes to a case.

Event Log
An Event Log requires at least one Case
ID, Event Name & Timestamp and CAN
contain more attributes to an event.

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
Load

Extract Transform Load Investigate

• Data Transformation
• Data Load
• Pipeline Logs
• Accelerators

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 SAP Signavio process data management - Data Load

Integration with SAP Signavio Process Intelligence

§ Connect data models to Process Intelligence Investigations

§ Manually load data into Process Intelligence with one single click

§ Schedule data extractions to automatic data upload into Process Intelligence

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SAP Signavio process data management - Pipeline Logs

Visibility of the ETL pipeline

§ Understand the status of the ETL pipeline

§ Troubleshoot faster by easily spotting error messages

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Accelerators
Use SAP Signavio Process
Inteligence accelerators as a starting
set of data transformations and
metrics to speed up your data
analysis and your time to value.

• SAP Signavio Process Intelligence accelerators

• Transformation templates
• Standard metrics

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
Accelerators: Quickly jump-start your analysis

SAP Signavio Process Intelligence accelerators are Accelerators available for:

process and system specific content packages that provide
• Order-to-cash process for SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA
a fast start to process analysis for all users, accelerating
time to insights and time to value. • IT service management incident-to-resolution
process for ServiceNow
These packages contain:
• … and many more
• Process data transformation templates
• Standard metrics

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Data Transformation & Load

Extract Transform Load Investigate

- Create Connection - Create Process data - Assign process - Create Investigation

model
- Configure Data Source - Execute T&L - Create widgets
Integration - Configure Business
Objects - Create Widget with
- Extract SIGNAL
- Create event logs via
SQL Scripts
Agenda

Day1: Explore and Analyse Day 2: Automate Day 3: Trigger

SAP Signavio Transformation Suite SAP Build Process Automation SAP Graph
• Overview • Overview • Overview
• Setup • Operations/Administrator View
SAP Signavio Process Intelligence • SAP Build Process Automation • Developer View
• Process Mining Development • Security
• Signavio Data Management • Automations (iRPA)
Components • Visibility Scenarios SAP Build Apps
• Process Investigation: SIGNAL • Migration • The App Builder
• Deploy and Publish
• User Interface creation
• App Logic
• Data

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Analytics and visualizations
Perform business and analyst
investigations. Get visibility into your
process reality.

Extract Transform Load Investigate

• Investigations
§ Process discovery
§ Process variants analysis
§ Process conformance
§ Visualization widgets
• Metrics library

*General Availability from Q2/2022

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Investigations: Start your analysis in one single analytics environment
Manage all your process
investigations in one single
analytics environment.

– Create new or copy

existing investigations

– Monitor your process reality with

process mining widgets

– Measure and monitor your

performance against business
outcomes

– Group widgets in chapters, as

sections in your investigations

– Filter down your investigation

results, tailored to your needs

– Manage the access, providing

users with view or edit rights

– Share investigations with other

SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
users SAP Signavio Collaboration
Hub users

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
Process discovery: Discover your process reality
Get full visibility on how your
processes are executed

– Visualize and understand your

process reality with a process
diagram directly generated from your
event log data

– Rapidly identify most common

process paths and how often each
path occurs

–Identify main activities and

behaviors in your organization

– Identify long cycle times, loops,

issues and main inefficiencies for
Process discovery
each path, including a metric overlay

– Observe differences in your

organization by placing two widgets
next to each other and compare
different ways your process is
executed

Compare process paths from different areas in your organization

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
Process variant analysis: Rapidly identify issues in your processes
Rapidly identify issues and get a
deep analysis of your process
variants.

– Validate gut feelings with real

data points and understand your
process dynamics

– Visualize all paths of process

variants and see how often these
occur

– Identify cases with potential

cycle time issues by ranking them
by cycle time

– Identify cases leading to low

customer experience by ranking
them by Net Promoter Score (NPS)
scores or other experience metrics

– Select the best variant and

generate a BPMN* model in SAP
Signavio Process Manager: auto-
generate BPMN models out of one of
multiple process variants
*BPMN: business process modeling notation

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Process conformance: Identify non-compliant processes
Identify potential process
compliance issues by comparing
process variants against your
designed process models.

– Check process conformance by

linking your investigation to a BPMN
model and mapping it against your
real process execution

– Visualize individual process

paths

– Get a better understanding if the

behaviors are compliant with
guidelines in your organization or
legal regulations in your industry.

– Sort variants by cases, duration

Process conformance check
or other attributes

– Group process instances and

understand differences in different
teams your organization.

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
Metrics library: Define your main performance indicators
Monitor your performance with
defined metrics.

– Define metrics and add them to the

metrics library

– The values of metrics are

determined with preconfigured
queries

– Assign metrics to a process

– Copy to different processes

and workspaces

– Use the metrics to create easy-to-

consume widgets such as
dashboards or tables for your
process analyst and business users

Save time by using and reusing

metrics from a central repository.

– Even without SQL knowledge

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Visualization widgets: Analyze and monitor your process improvement efforts
Visualize your experience and
process reality with an extensive
set of dynamic analytical
components.

– Ready-to-use analytics and

visualization widgets for process
and experience data

• Activity list
• Breakdown
• Case Table
• Diagrams
• Distribution
• Funnel view
• Over time
• Sentiment widget
• Tables
• …

(see full list in documentation)

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Investigation

Extract Transform Load Investigate

- Create Connection - Create Process data - Assign process - Create Investigation

model
- Configure Data Source - Execute T&L - Create widgets
Integration - Configure Business
Objects - Create Widget with
- Extract SIGNAL
- Create event logs via
SQL Scripts
Process analysis engine
Query data and perform deep-dive
analysis. Save time and quickly
uncover correlations and anomalies
in your data.

• SIGNAL (SAP Signavio analytics language)

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What is SiGNAL?

SIGNAL
SiGNAL is our dedicated query language
for process analytics.

Signavio Analytics Language

It provides an “editable backend” to

• create more in-depth process queries

• retrieve data and perform calculations, independent of the “clickable” interface
• visualize result in more meaningful charts

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SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
SIGNAL: Query process and experience data at scale
Perform detailed process data
analysis with a specialized query
language for process mining.

– Investigate and query data

with SIGNAL (SAP Signavio
analytics language), a language
based on SQL, but specific for
querying process data

– Use traditional SQL operators

and process mining specific
functions

– Optimized for process mining,

e.g. to determine conformance,
cycle times or rework

– Tailored to your own needs

– Define metrics in SIGNAL and

add them to the metrics library

– Personalize your
visualizations based on your
queries results

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SIGNAL
What’s the syntax?

The syntax of SIGNAL is SQL oriented (but includes extensions)

SELECT expressions
FROM table / process
WHERE conditions

ATTRIBUTES are written in " "

VALUES are written in ' '

CTRL + SPACE provides a selection of available data

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The Data Model for SIGNAL Queries

Case Attributes Event Attributes

case_id Order Amount in City event_name end_time system user

EUR

0001 450,00 Boston Receive 2021-03-08 Peter Parker

customer order 09:26:00

0001 450,00 Boston Ship Goods 2021-03-15 Bruce Banner

10:35:00

0001 450,00 Boston Receive 2021-03-30 Diana Prince

Payment 14:21:00

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Functions & Expressions

SIGNAL supports the following aggregating functions:

AVG() - returns an average value

COUNT() - returns the number of rows
SUM() - returns the sum of all values

COUNT (DISTINCT) -
returns the number of unique rows
(no duplicates / no NULL values)

MIN() - returns the minimum value

MAX() - returns the maximum value
FIRST() - returns the first element of a list / array
LAST() - returns last element of a list / array
BOOL_OR - returns TRUE if ANY condition is true
BOOL_AND - returns TRUE if ALL conditions are true

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Matches Functions

Matches allow to filter cases based on a specific task sequence, indicated by the term
MATCHES. SiGNAL supports the following matching operators

A -> B "A" directly followed by "B" (can be omitted) A NULL "A" value is NULL
A ~> B "A" indirectly or directly followed by "B" NOT A All values that are not "A"
^A Sequence starts with "A" in any specific case A NOT B "A" directly followed by a value that is not "B"
B$ Sequence ends with "B" in any specific case A NOT (B | C) "A" followed by a value that is not "B" or "C"
A ANY "A" occurs anywhere in the case (A | B) “A” or “B”

Matching Operators

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SIGNAL

Extract Transform Load Investigate

- Create Connection - Create Process data - Assign process - Create Investigation

model
- Configure Data Source - Execute T&L - Create widgets
Integration - Configure Business
Objects - Create Widget with
- Extract SIGNAL
- Create event logs via
SQL Scripts
Summary - takeaways

• What’s SAP Signavio Transformation Suite

• What’s SAP Signavio Process Intelligence

• How to manage process data and create event logs

• How to explore and analyse your processes via Investigations

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 SA Repair Purchasing Process – Pain points

Main pain points:

• Long cycle time

• Long approval process Time

• Many rejected/canceled Purchase documents

• Many Changes on PRs

• Invoices without GR

Impact:

- Less employee availability for intevention

- Lower quality intervention

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Possible Improvements:
- Automatic creation of PR
- Prepared equipment list for new employees based on their role
- Simple Web UI for employees to choose right product and avoid
wrong communication with Procurement team.

- Auto-Approval of PR and POs based on predefined rules:

- Equipment whitelisted for the employee role
- Price limit
- …

- Automate GR and Invoice creation based on employee

confirmation

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Further information

Documentation: ETL Connector Overview

https://documentation.signavio.com/suite/en-us/Content/process-intelligence/etl-connectors.htm

Documentation: ETL Requirements (e.g. feature sets & roles to access ETL)
https://documentation.signavio.com/suite/en-us/Content/process-intelligence/etl-requirements.htm

Documentation: SIGNAL
https://documentation.signavio.com/suite/en-us/Content/process-intelligence/signal.htm

Documentation: Ingestion API

https://documentation.signavio.com/suite/en-us/Content/process-intelligence/ingestion-api.htm

Documentation: SAP Signavio PI and SAP Data Intelligence Integration

https://blogs.sap.com/2022/07/20/integrating-sap-signavio-process-intelligence-and-sap-data-
intelligence-cloud-a-concrete-example-with-the-new-ingestion-api/

Documentation: ETL On-Premise Connector Requirements

https://documentation.signavio.com/suite/en-us/Content/process-intelligence/etl-on-premises-connector-
requirements.htm

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Thank you.
Contact information:

Amine Mabrouk

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