SAP® Solution Manager is an environment for managing and monitoring business processes. PowerDesigner provides support for round-trip import and export of Solution Manager v7.1 projects. A Solution Manager project is imported as a BPM model.
PowerDesigner supports the import, creation, modification, and export of
the following types of Solution Manager objects:
- Business scenarios
- Business processes
- Process steps
- Gateways
- Start, intermediate, and end events
- Flows
- Annotations and connections
- Logical components
- Organization units
- Master data
- General and project documentation
- Transactions
A project contains a top-level diagram, which shows the business scenarios it
contains:
The following tools are available in a business project diagram:
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
 |
Business Scenario - See Business Scenarios (Solution Manager). |
Note: Though you should not create logical components, organization units,
master data, or project or general documentation in PowerDesigner, you can add
existing instances of these objects to your diagram by dragging and dropping them
from the Browser.
Projects have the properties of standard BPMs (see BPM Properties) as well as the following additional properties:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Person responsable | Specifies the owner of the project. |
| Language | Specifies the language for the project. |
| Type / Type Name | Specifies the type of the project. |
| Archive Model File Path | Specifies the path to the archive model used for determining model changes when updating Solution Manager. |
In addition, the following tabs are available:
- Business Scenarios - see Business Scenarios (Solution Manager).
- Master Data, General Documentation, and Project Documentation - see Supporting Objects (Solution Manager).