Business Process Expert Community Contribution

IMPORTING SOLUTION MANAGER CONTENT INTO ARIS FOR NETWEAVER

Introduction
The SAP Solution Manager provides support throughout the entire lifecycle of customers solutions, from the Business Blueprint through configuration to production operation. It provides central access to tools, methods and preconfigured content that can be used during the evaluation, implementation, and productive operation of your systems. In this article, we will see how the content from Solution Manager can be imported into ARIS. Created on: 24th April 2006

Author Bio
Sukumar Natarajan is a Platinum consultant with the Regional Implementation Group specializing in Exchange Infrastructure and works for SAP Labs.

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Table of Contents

Solution Manager............................................................................................................................. 3 ARIS for NetWeaver ........................................................................................................................ 3 Content in Solution Manager ........................................................................................................... 3 Summary:......................................................................................................................................... 8 Copyright.......................................................................................................................................... 9

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Solution Manager The SAP Solution Manager supports you throughout the entire lifecycle of your solutions, from the Business Blueprint thru configuration to production operation. It provides central access to tools methods and preconfigured content, that you can use during the evaluation, implementation, and productive operation of your systems. All phases of the implementation project (Business Blueprint, Configuration) are performed centrally in the Solution-Manager system. Central project documentation repository in the Solution Manager Integrated Project Administration allows you to manage planning schedules, human resources and other project data.

ARIS for NetWeaver Using ARIS Business Architect for SAP NetWeaver, you can: maintain the contents of your company business processes in the ARIS databases Synchronize ARIS with SAP Solution Manager projects and the other way round (from ARIS to Solution Manager is not covered in this document Edit both company as well as Solution Manager Processes to your company reality. Create extensive, yet customizable reports of your process repository. Display the relationships between objects in a table Administer ARIS databases (define user accounts and access, establish modeling standards via method filters This article focuses on synchronization capabilities of data between SAP and ARIS systems. When you synchronize data via SAP Solution Manager, all documents that are maintained in the SAP Solution Manager project on the General documentation and Project documentation tabs are automatically transferred, updated or deleted. You can open these documents from within ARIS.

Content in Solution Manager Log in to Solution Manager and execute transaction code SOLAR01. Open your project. (In the example shown here, we are using a project titled, Process for ARIS (SOLMAN - ARIS - XI).

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Under the Graphic tab, we can see the business process diagram for the selected business processes.

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Importing Solution Manager Content into ARIS: Start the ARIS Business Architect for SAP NetWeaver. (The ARIS server has to be started & running). Right click on a Network node and select New Database and provide a name to the Database (SolManContentImport). It is also possible to import the content into an existing Model. For the sake of simplicity, a new database is created here.

Goto View

Options.

Choose SAP Options

Select Server.

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Here, select the Solution Manager system (from SAPLogon) and also make it a Default Server. Expand the database SolmanContentImport and select the Main Group node. Right click on Main Group and select SAP Transfer Project.

Provide the login information for the Solution Manager system.

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Press Enter if you get a warning message about different SAP environment. Select the Project from the Solution Manager system.

After the synchronization is complete, the following message is displayed.

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All the content from Solution Manager related to this project is now available in ARIS.

This content can be edited in ARIS. It is also possible to update the Solution Manager with Content from ARIS.

Summary:
In this document we discussed how to take your SAP Solution Manager Implementation project and move the process content into ARIS. Within the ARIS framework, you are able to extend the SAP models as it applies to your company. This step may either be done together with your business experts for your high level business models (value added chain diagrams for example) or with your more technical people - the Business Process Expert or the Developer - on the level of Solution Manager component models.

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