SAP Solution Manager

SAP® Solution Manager is an environment for managing and monitoring business processes. PowerDesigner supports round-trip importing and exporting of SAP® Solution Manager v7.1 SP07 and SP08 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
Project documentation of type URL
Annotations and connections

PowerDesigner supports the import of the following objects and their attachment to scenarios and processes, but does not support their creation or the export of modifications to them:

Logical components
Organization units
Master data
General and non-URL project documentation
Transactions

A Solution Manager project is imported as a BPM model. It contains a top-level diagram, which shows the business scenarios it contains:
Solution Manager - Project Diagram

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 general or non-URL project 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) and also specify the person responsable for the project, as well as its language and type, and the path to the archive model used for determining model changes when updating Solution Manager.

The following additional tabs are also available:

General Documentation, and Project Documentation - List the documentation (see General and Project Documentation (Solution Manager)) associated with the project.

Business Scenarios (Solution Manager)
A Solution Manager business scenario contains a set of processes that define a business task in a comprehensive and self-contained manner. A business scenario is imported as a package with the BusinessScenario stereotype
Business Processes (Solution Manager)
A Solution Manager business process contains a set of logically related activities (process steps) performed to achieve a business outcome. A process step is an elementary activity performed to accomplish a process, which is carried out by a user or a system and runs in only one software component (logical component). Both business processes and process steps are based on standard BPM processes.
Logical Components (Solution Manager)
Logical components are software systems identified by their product, version, and instance name, and are displayed as swimlanes in business process diagrams. When you select scenarios and processes for import, PowerDesigner automatically imports the logical components that they use.
General and Project Documentation (Solution Manager)
When you select scenarios and processes for import, PowerDesigner automatically imports the SAP general reference documentation or the project-specific documentation that they reference, generally including a link to the represented document.
Organization Units, Transactions, and Master Data (Solution Manager)
PowerDesigner can import organization units, master data, and transactions to provide context for your processes. You cannot export changes to or new instances of these objects created in PowerDesigner, but you can associate existing instances with your processes and scenarios.
Importing Business Processes from Solution Manager
PowerDesigner provides a wizard to allow you to import your projects, scenarios, and processes from Solution Manager v7.1 for editing in a BPM.
Exporting Business Processes to Solution Manager
PowerDesigner provides a wizard to allow you to export changes made to your projects, scenarios, and processes for testing and implementation in Solution Manager v7.1.