built-in SAP workflow
promentaWebflow™ is a solution which includes ‘built-in’ workflow for SAP automation. Business teams can submit process and data requests which are automatically routed to one or more appropriate teams for quality checks, further data enrichment or approval.
Each workflow controlled process is audited every step of the way. Process stakeholders spend much less time dealing with process orientated tasks. Our workflow for SAP automation, underpins the whole process, ensuring a smooth and consistent end-to-end flow. All parties are automatically notified when actions need to be taken and full process transparency is in place so that compliance and continuous improvement objectives can be met.
Our product workflow is built upon standard SAP workflow technology and workflow engine, which forms part of your existing SAP system.
This is an important feature of the promentaWebflow™ product and is a big advantage in comparison to other solutions, which attempt to automate SAP business processes, using non-SAP workflow tools in ‘external’ non-SAP systems.
If the process is SAP based, then a workflow solution which is deeply embedded within your existing SAP system, ensures tight integration and seamless inheritance of existing business rules, configuration and security model. Its a lower TCO because everything is in the same place. This same level of integration is not possible in external workflow based products.
Our workflow is versatile and can be used to automate any SAP master data or transaction based process. The workflow runs out-the-box and is used across our range of ready-to-deploy solutions, as well as custom solutions that we build for our customers. Automation solutions that your own teams create will also inherit all workflow functionality enabling solution realisation in half the time.
Finally, the workflow layer of promentaWebflow™ is comprehensive and versatile but is not complex to understand and own because its focus is on process routing, automation, audit and control. Our workflow is clean and flexible because it is well constructed in the sense that we do not mix it with business logic.
user experience – simplify how users interact with SAP
promentaWebflow™ provides business and professional SAP users with an engaging web user interface. It’s flexible, allowing your own corporate branding and look and feel to be applied at implementation time. This product feature is beneficial to all users but especially management and occasional users, who lightly touch SAP processes from time to time, making requests, reviewing and approving processes before SAP is updated. Guided procedures and road-map driven processes make the user experience more intuitive and efficient. Users are only exposed to fields and data that are relevant to them, at each phase of the process. Overall, a leaner, simplified and well structured solution, through which users can interact with complex SAP processes.
tight SAP integration – high quality validation and accuracy
promentaWebflow™ deploys and runs exclusively within your existing SAP system. This means that the product is perfectly placed to seamlessly integrate with your existing SAP business rules, configuration and security model.
This is a central and highly important feature of the product delivering depth and substance to the lean user friendly interface that users are exposed to. The user experience is enhanced further because strict alignment with existing SAP rules ensures that errors are immediately visible to users saving time and driving lean process benefits. SAP authorization checks are fully in place, to prevent accidental changes. Overall, users build trust in consistent, optimized, high integrity processes.
Our promentaWebflow™ Decision Tree works alongside each webflow solution (e.g. Material Master Automation) and enables business users to set rules such as field defaults, which are either changeable or non-changeable for end users. This a powerful aspect of the product which empowers non-IT users to apply business rules and consistency to any process of choice.
When it to comes to applying rules and business logic, that aspect is abstracted out of the workflow layer into a light and highly accessible business logic layer. This provides full flexibility to our customers to tune solutions to their own specific needs.
The workflow and business logic layers of the product interact closely, but have distinct functions and jobs to do within the solution platform. This is a key feature of our solution architecture and in practice greatly simplifies solution realisation and reduces cost of ownership for IT teams. The design time for the product resides in SAP itself and is accessible using SAP GUI. So although web applications are produced you do not need any complex web based skills to use the product (e.g. .NET or Java).
Our remote technical workshop gives your IT teams all the answers they need on how our product is positioned at design time to save time and create process solutions in half the time.
mobile integration
With all SAP based mobile processes the critical and dominant part of the overall process is still happening in SAP. promentaWebflow™ provides a solid foundation for your underlying SAP mobility processes, delivering close integration to compliment the thin front end mobile application layer.
promentaWebflow™ works in synergy with our promentaMobile™ product, which uses a single mobile application to handle any SAP process – its great for your mobile users because they only have to download a single application to their mobile device. Our promentaCloud™ service allows you to take a process by process approach to SAP mobility, only switching on those processes where there is business benefit and value to do so. Importantly, it removes the need to implement and own an expensive in house middleware.
Any mobile application process can be run through promentaCloud™.
