Where do I find the BPX Community?

[tilmanul]

I cannot find the Business Process Expert Community in the new navigation ribbon - where has it gone to?

[audreystevenson · Accepted solution]

Hello Tilman,

When we launched the new SCN, the SAP Developer Network, the BPX Community, and the Business Analytics Community were all merged into a single community: SAP Community Network (SCN), which is centered around topics of interest. As such, there is only one homepage now, which covers the whole SCN: http://scn.sap.com/welcome

If you’re looking for content on BPX-type topics, you’ll find the relevant spaces around those topics in the global navigation at the top, mostly concentrated in the Solutions > Business Process section, the Industries section, and the Lines of Business section.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Audrey

[tilmanul · Accepted solution]

Hi Audrey,

Thank you for your quick reply.

For me it means to have torn BPM as a management discipline apart. In a way I understand it as long as you can associate BPM specifics to specific SAP Solutions, Industries or LoBs.

To name an entry "Business Process and Applications" is for me awkward as you describe here business capabilities at best and more often IT capabilities and solution areas SAP offers solutions for.

Your approach basically confirms that SCN does not see BPM as one of SAP main competencies - IMHO a huge misunderstanding as with BPM the whole discussion around which value does SAP Solutions offer to our customers start with.

Best Regards, Tilman

[audreystevenson · Accepted solution]

Sorry Tilman,

I managed to leave out of my reply a description of where you can find all of the business process management spaces. The BPM-related spaces are currently housed under Solutions > Technology > Application Foundation/Integration > NetWeaver > Process Orchestration.

You'll find several relevant spaces listed there, among them the BPM space itself (direct link here: http://scn.sap.com/community/bpm).

This area is currently undergoing improvements and restructuring, so you can look forward to a better reflection of the fact that BPM is indeed one of SAP's main competencies when the improved structure is put into place.

Regards,

Audrey

[tilmanul · Accepted solution]

Hi Audrey,

ah that really helps. And PI (together with NW BPM and NW BRM) plays their important roles in the BPM story. However: other major tools such as Solution Manager, PowerDesigner, Process Observer, SAP Strategy Management, Value Management Center, Solution Browser all have their stake in BPM - and here I just talk about the tooling dimension.

Not to speak about the Business Process Transformation Framework as such, containing BPM governance as an OCM discipline, value-driven process improvement methodology, common semantics/content & tool architecture as well beside the tools themselves (this even is not complete).

Yes I know it is quite a complex issue, just want to bring my experience into it. Addressing all this issues need somehow an own space avoiding to be lost in space.

Best, Tilman