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SAP CPS/BPA by Redwood

“SAP® Business Process Automation by
Redwood (SAP BPA) gives you the power
to connect and automate business and IT
processes across your entire enterprise
landscape.“

www.redwood.com

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Job Scheduling – Idea

• Replace manual scheduling on every system System 1 System 2 System 3

• Central place for scheduling Job A

• One scheduling entity for all system Job L

• Ability to schedule on SAP and non SAP Job E

systems (external scheduling)
Job K
• Build complex scenarios with dependencies
Job Z

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Standard vs. Extended (External) Scheduling – Process View

Standard Scheduling External Scheduling

Solution Manager
Solution Manager

SAP BPA by Redwood

SAP Systems

Any System

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External Scheduling Tool: SAP BPA by Redwood

• External Scheduling Tool

• Real-Time and event based

• Build complex chains

• Automate entire business & IT processes

• Automatically/manually react upon job

issues with operator messages

• SMSE Certified

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Standard vs. Extended (External) Scheduling – Example

ABAP Job with 3 Steps Process Chain with 3 Steps

Step B Job A Job B

Step G Job F

Step L Job L Job M Job N

Job in SAP Job in Non-SAP OS Job

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Standard vs. Extended (External) Scheduling – List View

Standard Scheduling External Scheduling

Solution Manager External Tool: BPA

SAP Jobs Any Job Type

Simple Schedule Complex Schedule

Simple Jobs Cross System Jobs

WebDynPro Modern Java Engine

Limited dependencies Complex dependencies

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OEM vs. Chargeable Version of BPA in comparison

OEM Chargeable
Schedule SAP jobs  
Mono-system process chains in SAP systems  
Business Automation Enabler with SAP Solution Manager  
Basic load balancing (queues only)  
Processes in any system  
OS level processes  
Multisystem process Chains  
Display and monitoring of parent-child-relationships  
Business automation enabler with any scenario  
Complex Load balancing  
Time zone handling  
Dynamic mass activities  
Import/Export  
Scripting  

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Job Management Best Practice with BPA: Request new Job

Job Request: Job Documentation Schedule in SAP BPA by Redwood

Add Job

Job A

Job F

Job L
Monitoring in Solution Manager Reporting

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Scheduling in External Scheduler: SAP BPA by Redwood

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Scheduling in External Scheduler: Process Chains in SAP BPA

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Technical Architecture

NetWeaver JAVA JXBP SAP NetWeaver JAVA

Process SAP Application

Server (As of NW 7.3)
Web UI Process
Server
SAP NetWeaver BW SAP Data Services
SAP BPA Process
Server
BW-
SCH
Process SAPNetWeaver
SAP NetWeaverAS
ABAP
ABAP SAP Business Objects
Server
Process XBP SAP Application
Server (All releases)

non SAP system

Platform
Agent Application

JAVA scheme in DB OS

Platform
BPA Job Repository Agent

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jobmanagement@sap.com
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