Learn how to set up and optimize SAP Signavio - SAP Cloud ALM integration with best practices for mapping and synchronization.
Introduction
This guide offers high-level guidance to integrate SAP Signavio and SAP Cloud ALM, along with best practices in the context of RISE with SAP transformation. The main benefit is that process diagrams are synchronized, making them accessible as processes in SAP Cloud ALM. This ensures that ongoing implementation and change management stay aligned with the initial design created and managed in SAP Signavio.
For detailed guides to set up the integration, see the following:
- For integration setup, see SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation.
- As administrators, for onboarding information on synchronizing Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN) diagrams from SAP Signavio Process Manager to SAP Cloud ALM, see SAP Note 3554476.
- To manually synchronize the latest available revision of BPMN diagrams from SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite to SAP Cloud ALM, see Synchronizing BPMN Diagrams to SAP Cloud ALM
End-to-End Process and Project Management
SAP Signavio lays the foundation for designing reusable process structures by defining process hierarchies, libraries, and custom workflows. These processes are linked with SAP LeanIX, which connects business initiatives with transformation project plans, provides business-level insights, and offers actionable insights such as status tracking and cross-project reporting.
SAP Cloud ALM then drives the implementation using the SAP Activate road map, guiding teams from discover to deploy. It facilitates scope management, requirements capture, testing, and deployment. Together, these tools enable efficient collaboration, providing end-to-end visibility and control over processes, applications, and configurations for implementation and future maintenance.
Best Practices
- SAP Signavio should remain the single source of truth for process design. Once integrated with SAP Cloud ALM, process modeling should continue to happen only in SAP Signavio and not in SAP Cloud ALM.
- After drafting target solution processes in SAP Signavio, synchronize them early to SAP Cloud ALM. This allows teams to immediately attach requirements, documents, user stories, and test cases directly to the linked process diagram, ensuring alignment from the start.
- When working with synchronized diagrams, it’s essential to understand the different process levels in SAP Cloud ALM / SAP Signavio:
- Solution process / "My Diagram" level
- Solution process flow / "Default Flow" level
- Solution activity / "My Task" level
On each level, you can create and document requirements, features, user stories, and other artifacts. Document all implementation work at the solution process / "My Diagram" level. This ensures that updates to the process diagram in SAP Signavio can be synchronized to SAP Cloud ALM without losing any attached requirements or other objects.
Process Hierarchy and Mapping
Lesson Summary
- Establish SAP Signavio as the primary tool for process design and modeling to maintain a single source of truth.
- Synchronize processes early to enable immediate linking of requirements and documentation.
- Utilize SAP Cloud ALM to drive implementation using the SAP Activate methodology.
- Understand and use process levels to ensure correct documentation and synchronization.
- Integrate SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX to connect business initiatives with transformation project plans.