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We are excited to announce the general availability of our SAP Signavio May 2024 release.
With the May release we are launching a new product, SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager – your bridge to successful transformations. It is a holistic transformation management toolkit that enables you to collaboratively manage and execute transformation insights and improvement initiatives. Additionally, you can now get access to the value accelerator library for SAP Signavio solutions, your one-stop destination for all pre-built value accelerators that can help you speed up and de-risk your transformation projects and many other exciting new features and updates across our portfolio.
With this release, you are able to:
- Accelerate your transformation projects by leveraging pre-built accelerators from the value accelerators library supporting your most common and high impact use cases.
- Collaboratively manage transformation insights and improvements initiatives with a holistic process transformation management tool that enables you to drive centralized and collaborative improvements, make value-driven decisions, and quantify delivered business value through continuous improvement. This will be generally available starting June 3, 2024.
You will find a summary of the main highlights below.
Value accelerator library for SAP Signavio solutions
For global SAP Signavio customers and partners of all industries who want to speed up and de-risk their transformations, the value accelerator library for SAP Signavio solutions is the “go to destination” to find, import and run a variety of self-installable value accelerators curated and organized by theme that embed the collective knowledge of thousands of projects delivered. The library is your access point to a variety of ready-to-run value accelerators that can help you jump start your projects; transformational or incremental. Efforts for your implementation and delivery teams are reduced as the library delivers pre-built content that can be easily adapted to your own requirements. The value accelerator library is embedded into SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite. Find the library in the side panel of SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub and get started now. For more information, please refer to this article.Value accelerator library – List of ready-to-use accelerators
SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager
We are happy to introduce SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager, the newest solution in our SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite. This new product is a holistic transformation management toolkit and will be generally available starting June 3, 2024. It enables you to collaboratively manage transformation insights and improvement initiatives, fostering value-driven decision-making and establishing performance baselines for measurable success.
It is the bridge that drives successful transformations and empowers transformation managers to:
- Drive centralized and collaborative improvements: drive transformation initiatives from a single place by using pre-defined, problem-centric content, leveraging centrally managed insights, and managing strategic and tactical initiatives collaboratively with stakeholders.
- Make value-driven decisions: identify improvement opportunities and set informed goals by benchmarking against industry standards and optimize the organization's financial impact.
- Quantify delivered value through continuous improvement: measure the delivered value of transformation initiatives, continuously identify improvement areas, implement changes, and monitor outcomes for sustained success.
With this initial release in May, the following capabilities are available for customers.
Centralized insights
With centralized insights, you can find and capture insights from within SAP Signavio and beyond, and surface them in one central place. You will be able to experience a unified solution that eliminates siloed insights, helping you align with stakeholders on the importance, relevance, and priority of your improvement areas.
SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager – Centralized insights
Initiatives
With Initiatives, you can collaborate, prioritize, and manage your process improvement efforts while maintaining a comprehensive view of your initiative landscape and related insights. This capability enables you to collaboratively identify, operationalize, and monitor improvement opportunities, fostering transparency across the organization.
SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager – Initiatives
Benchmarking analytics
With benchmarking analytics, you can gain insights into how your company stacks up against industry peers and companies that are like you. It enables you to easily identify improvement areas and how to get started on opportunities for improvement. These out of the box benchmarks allow you to quickly pinpoint where you stand, identify, and prioritize improvement areas – all within seconds!SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager – Benchmarking analytics
As part of this launch, we will also introduce an Early Adopter Care Program so we can work with you and incorporate your feedback right from the beginning to ensure your success and drive enhanced product experience and capabilities. More details on this will be shared soon!
Process analysis and mining
SAP Signavio Process Insights
With the May 2024 release, SAP Signavio Process Insights is releasing the following:
- Blocker-specific innovation recommendations
- Impact of innovation recommendations on blockers
- Correction recommendations based on usage performance indicators for SAP S/4HANA transformations
- External benchmarks for process flows and additional process performance indicators
- Attribute-based authorization management
- SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager: Insights in SAP Signavio Process Insights
Blocker-specific innovation recommendations
We are pleased to introduce a direct link from a blocker to specific innovation recommendations, allowing process owners and transformation drivers to jump from a process challenge to potential solutions quickly. This update helps you to save time by delivering tailored recommendations for specific process issues, while also enabling other stakeholders with less process expertise to easily and quickly access the same insights.
SAP Signavio Process Insights – Innovation recommendations for the blocker “Supplier invoices parked”
Impact of innovation recommendations on blockers
Closely related to the above update is the impact of innovation recommendations on blockers. This update allows you to start your process challenge investigations by looking at innovation recommendations, and going back to see which blockers are impacted. With this update, process owners, and transformation drivers will see the impact of a specific recommendation on their blockers, helping them to understand which solution can solve multiple process challenges at the same time. This update helps you to quickly leverage the innovation recommendations and accelerates your time to analysis.
SAP Signavio Process Insights – Innovation recommendations and their impact on the blockers
Correction recommendations based on usage performance indicators for SAP S/4HANA transformations
The over 40 new correction recommendations based on usage performance indicators for SAP S/4HANA transformations. These recommendations are designed to help you with many aspects of data management and faster, value-led transformations. You can now determine which master or configuration data was never used, and should be eliminated, and which data is rarely or no longer used. The advantages of analyzing your data using this update are several fold, including a reduction in data management costs, compliance with data legislation, high quality data helping to achieve a clean core, and most importantly preparing for faster and more valuable transformations.
SAP Signavio Process Insights – Correction recommendation based on the unused general ledger accounts for SAP S/4HANA transformation
External benchmarks for process flows and additional process performance indicators
Quickly evaluating your process and business performance from the thousands of metrics available can be challenging, especially for stakeholders without a high level of process expertise. External benchmarks, which allow you to compare your performance against your industry peers, enable you to get a clear picture of your performance in the market, and show you where you need to improve and where you are doing well. With this update, we are extending external benchmarks to more process flows and process performance indicators, helping you to prioritize areas for improvement, and better understand your performance. (Please note that this update will be from the 18th of June 2024.)
SAP Signavio Process Insights – External Benchmarking for the “FI-AR items created” process flow
Attribute-based authorization management
For a company-wide rollout, complex organizations typically need to limit access to the data in SAP Signavio Process Insights for several reasons. With the new attribute-based authorization management update, administrators will now be able to limit access for individuals or groups, helping you to better comply with company data policies. This also helps users to focus specifically on the data most relevant for them. (Please note that this update will be from the 18th of June 2024.)SAP Signavio Process Insights – Attribute-based authorization management
SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager: Insights in SAP Signavio Process Insights
Lack of visibility of insights can impact business performance and adversely affect necessary collaboration between teams. While there is already a high degree of collaboration within the SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite, the introduction of SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager: insights in SAP Signavio Process Insights, further increases collaboration. This update enables you to save, share and comment on findings discovered in SAP Signavio Process Insights. This promotes collaboration as observations can be shared and clustered on an organizational level, driving common initiatives forward. Please note that other licenses are required. (Also note that functionality is gradually rolled out until June 18th.) SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager: Insights in SAP Signavio Process Insights
SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
With the May 2024 release for SAP Signavio Process Intelligence, we are releasing the following highlights (see the release notes for a complete overview):
- Health indicator for process data pipelines
- Creating custom variables for metrics
- Flexibility in scheduling actions
- Streamlining Navigation to actions within processes
Health indicator for process data pipelines
Introducing our latest release, "health indicator for process data pipelines," which supports users in identifying errors in data transformation logic through validation checks at design time. This feature automates the detection of potential inconsistencies, eliminating the need for manual checks. Data engineers can proactively address errors in query definitions, ensuring the successful execution of process data pipelines. This not only increases confidence in the accuracy of the data but also accelerates the production of consistent data for analysis.
SAP Signavio Process Intelligence – Health indicators
Creating custom variables for metrics
Within this release, we have replaced hard-coded conditions with flexible, custom-defined variables. This allows users to leverage a single variable across multiple metrics, providing them with the ability to adjust their calculations based on the value of the variable. This update enhances metrics customization in a more efficient and streamlined manner.SAP Signavio Process Intelligence – Interface for new variable creation
Flexibility in scheduling actions
With flexibility in scheduling actions, users can now customize the frequency at which the actions are run, allowing for a more granular configuration. This means there is increased flexibility in scheduling actions and expanded use cases. Whether the preference is for daily, weekly, or monthly cadences, this feature allows for easy configuration of the frequency to meet specific needs.
SAP Signavio Process Intelligence – Actions scheduling
Streamlining navigation to actions within processes
With our latest update, users can effortlessly create actions within a process, enhancing their ability to manage and monitor outcomes. This eliminates the need to navigate to a separate section of the application, saving valuable time and effort. By harnessing the process context, users can streamline their workflow and maintain consistency with other essential components such as dashboards and metrics.
SAP Signavio Process Intelligence – Navigation to actions within processes
Process and Journey Modeling
SAP Signavio Process Manager
With the May 2024 release for SAP Signavio Process Manager, we are releasing the following:
- SAP Signavio Labs
- Business process model connector covering consistent deletion and selective model synchronization
- Variant management: reconvert a template to a normal diagram
- Process model dashboards - enhanced capabilities
- Read-only custom attributes
SAP Signavio Labs
SAP Signavio Lab Space offers a dedicated platform for testing and validating new prototypes and prototype features, empowering customers to shape our future innovations. By providing early access to cutting-edge capabilities, users can influence product direction and improve features from the outset by collaborating with the SAP Signavio team.
SAP Signavio Lab Space
Business process model connector covering consistent deletion and selective model synchronization
The enhanced business process model connector for SAP Signavio solutions now helps ensure data consistency through the setting of deletion flags for process step references and allows selective synchronization of certain process model revisions.
Business process model connector for SAP Signavio solutions
Variant management: reconvert a template to a normal diagram
The variant management feature now provides the ability for process modelers and owners to assign and unassign process models as templates, detaching variants from templates upon conversion to a normal diagram for an enhanced user experience, as well as quickly assign and modify templates and simplify variant structure management.
SAP Signavio Process Manager – Variant Management
Process model dashboards - enhanced capabilities
Enhance organizational transparency and streamline process optimization with brand new features for process model dashboards, which enable admins to easily share predefined model dashboards and receive more frequent, detailed updates. This allows the tool to provide deeper insights and fosters a proactive approach to process management.
SAP Signavio Process Manager – process model dashboard
Read-only custom attributes
Read-only custom attributes enhance both control and visibility by allowing process professionals to add essential, non-editable custom attributes to their processes. These attributes, like unique IDs, approval dates, approver names, and more based on your company's needs are readable within the user interface but can only be modified via APIs. This functionality ensures the integrity and traceability of critical process information while facilitating updates from authorized external systems. It supports the synchronization of key process data with target systems, maintaining accuracy and compliance without direct user intervention.
SAP Signavio Process Manager – Read-only custom attributes
SAP Signavio Value Accelerators
We are pleased to announce that the following new value accelerators are now available for you to speed up your business process modeling and transformation initiatives.
SAP Signavio Process Manager
New value accelerator: Process design and standardization for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private and public edition
This value accelerator provides value chain diagrams, process models, dictionary entries. It was built upon best practices to kick-start process design and to help you to accelerate the transition to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition 2024 and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition 2023.
SAP Signavio Process Manager – Process model from a value accelerator
SAP Signavio Process Intelligence
With the May 2024 release for SAP Signavio Process Intelligence, we are releasing the following:
New value accelerator: invoice excellence for invoice to pay supported by OpenText in SAP ERP Central Component and SAP S/4HANA
The value accelerator, designed for the invoice-to-pay process supported by OpenText in SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA, plays a crucial role in enhancing efficiency. This entire process, from order placement to payment, is of utmost importance and, if executed correctly, ensures accurate and timely bill payment. The accelerator is specifically built to kickstart process mining project on the invoice-to-pay process, helping consultants and data engineers in harvesting the benefits of process mining with relative ease by providing prebuilt data transformation templates, dashboards, and a metric template. The unlocked actionable insights can help to identify bottlenecks, streamline invoicing workflows, and ultimately boost operational efficiency.
SAP Signavio Process Intelligence – Invoice health
New value accelerator: manage warehouse and inventory (outbound) in SAP Extended Warehouse Management
Similarly to the previous value accelerator, this one helps you to jump start your process mining initiatives focused on warehouse and inventory management in SAP Extended Warehouse Management. Leveraging this accelerator customers can accelerate the benefits of process mining: identify bottlenecks, areas for improvement and optimize inventory management, ensuring – as a result - the efficient distribution and timely delivery of goods. The accelerator provides prebuilt data transformation templates, dashboards and metrics.
SAP Signavio Process Intelligence – Optimization of warehouse operations
New value accelerator: operate manufacturing in SAP Digital Manufacturing
How can process owners and analysts get insights into their manufacturing execution faster and with less effort? This new value accelerator for SAP Signavio Process Intelligence helps customers improve the overall manufacturing process in SAP Digital Manufacturing by providing a quick start to process mining. More specifically, the accelerator provides prebuilt data transformation templates, metrics template and dashboard templates allowing users to analyze their manufacturing process execution faster and with less effort.
With SAP Signavio Process Intelligence and a fast, accurate analysis of their manufacturing operations, customers can uncover process deviations, ensuring strict process compliance while eliminating errors. Also, they can optimize key performance indicators such as manufacturing cycle times and costs. SAP Signavio Process Intelligence – Operate manufacturing
New value accelerator: identify value cases (dashboards)
With the May 2024 release several pre-built dashboards will be available in the Value Accelerator Library for different processes for SAP S/4HANA and SAP ERP Central Component: procure-to-pay, operate-to-maintain, invoice-to-cash, order-to-cash. These value accelerators will help you to identify opportunities for automation, efficiency, cash flow optimization, compliance improvements and focus on value driving activities.
SAP Signavio Process Insights
New value accelerator for SAP Ariba Supplier Management
In the February release, we showcased new accelerators for SAP Ariba Sourcing and Procurement, now with the May release new content is available for SAP Ariba Supplier Management. This accelerator provides Process flows and process performance indicators that help customers gain better insights and deeper understanding of their process performance with growing coverage of available metrics and recommendations. Ultimately, thanks to these newfound insights, they can improve efficiency in supplier management.
SAP Signavio Process Insights – Performance indicator “Supplier registrations pending approval for more than 1 month”
SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite (plug and gain approach)
With the May 2024 release, customers who have activated plug and gain can access new value accelerators that enable the analysis of dedicated processes in a focused manner. Also, with this release, we support the analysis of utilities specific processes in SAP ERP leveraging the plug and gain approach. Now, the process house includes utilities -specific process execution models, execution analysis, variant analysis, transaction analysis.
The following new value accelerators are available for you:
- analysis of Source to Pay, SAP ERP (plug and gain approach)
- analysis of Plan to Fulfil in SAP ERP (plug and gain approach)
- analysis of Lead to Cash in SAP ERP (plug and gain approach)
- analysis of Source to Pay in SAP ERP and SAP Ariba (plug and gain approach)
The following value accelerator was updated:
- for SAP ERP process landscape analysis: utility processes (plug and gain approach)
Analyst relations
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Process Mining Platforms
We are thrilled to share that SAP Signavio was evaluated for the SAP Signavio Process Intelligence and SAP Signavio Process Insights solutions, components of the SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite. Gartner assessed 18 vendors and named SAP Signavio a Leader based on the Ability to execute and completeness of vision. Process mining platforms give technology innovation leaders visibility and insights that enable them to make smart decisions and help them to fulfill their organization’s critical priorities. We feel this is a statement to our continued commitment to delivering innovative and AI-powered process mining solutions. To learn more, download the report here, and read our latest blog.
Quadrant - Spark Matrix report for Digital Twin of an Organisation Solution, 2024
We are also pleased to announce that SAP® Signavio® solutions for business process transformation have been named a Leader in the 2024 SPARK Matrix™ Report for Digital Twin of an Organization (DTO) Solution, receiving the highest rating for Customer Impact and Technology Excellence. To learn more, download the report here, and read our latest blog.
Summary
The SAP Signavio May 2024 release includes:
- New product: SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager, a comprehensive toolkit for managing and executing transformation projects.
- Introduction of a value accelerator library with pre-built accelerators to expedite and secure process transformations.
- Capability enhancements and a range of additional features across different SAP Signavio solutions.
This blog post only provides an overview of the latest features and enhancements of SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite with our May 2024 release. For more details, please read our release notes.
Please feel free to share your questions around the release or feedback in the comments with us. You can also reach out to us via the SAP Signavio Community.
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