Benefiting Signavio AI for Plug & Gain

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to examine how to benefit from Signavio AI for Plug and Gain.

Explore the New Process AI for SAP Signavio Solutions

In this lesson, you will learn how Generative AI is reshaping the world of process management and business transformation. You will also have a look at SAP Signavio portfolio’s long- and short-term direction when it comes to AI.

But first let's take a look at our user's needs and wants, and how AI can help them perform to the best of their potential.

Path to Leverage Generative AI

The figure shows diagram illustrating product direction driven by Generative AI, encompassing process modeling, process mining and intelligence, enterprise observability, and AI-enabled business transformation.

SAP Signavio began with process modeling and evolved to encompass broader business insights, integrating experience, systems, people, and risk for enterprise observability. Now, with generative AI, SAP Signavio is entering a new phase, enabling seamless data integration and automated recommendations to drive AI-powered business transformation solutions.

Watch the video to get an overview of process AI for SAP Signavio solutions.

While Process AI focuses on optimizing individual workflows, SAP Business AI takes this further by integrating intelligent capabilities across the entire organization, driving comprehensive business transformation.

Next, let’s take a brief look at the overall approach of SAP Business AI.

SAP Business AI Approach

The figure shows overall SAP Business AI approach.

SAP Business AI goes beyond basic automation by embedding AI throughout the organization. With Joule, its AI copilot, employees can orchestrate intelligent agents across departments, removing silos and enabling real-time, organization-wide optimization.

AI-Enabled Capabilities in SAP Signavio

SAP is developing generative AI-enabled capabilities for SAP Signavio solutions that are tailored for process management and business transformation. The SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite utilizes technology and initiatives based on SAP Business AI to enhance key areas such as AI-assisted modeling and repository creation, AI-assisted process analysis and mining, and AI-assisted collaboration and transformation.

The figure shows different capabilities of the three focus areas of SAP Business AI

Note

* Roadmap item for 2025​

** Part of SAP Signavio Lab Space, a dedicated platform for testing and validating new capabilities, proof-of-concepts or prototypes and contribute to SAP Signavio future developments​

*** Currently supported for Supplier payment from purchasing (KPPURCH460) process.

Let's try to understand how AI is enhancing the key areas.

  • AI-assisted Modeling and Repository Creation: Generative AI can facilitate the rapid creation of process assets by leveraging external knowledge, documents, images, diagrams, and textual prompts. It can also provide instant recommendations in response to your questions in a contextualized and on-demand manner.

    For example: "How should I start modeling my order-to-cash process?" or "Which metrics should I monitor?"

  • AI-assisted Process Analysis and Mining: Generative AI can be leveraged to analyze data and derive business and technical insights with minimal effort and time investment. By democratizing process mining, generative AI empowers users across skill levels to access valuable information and make informed decisions through an intuitive, conversational interface.

  • AI-assisted Collaboration and Transformation: AI-generated insights can be leveraged to trigger transformation and collaborative improvement initiatives and drive change. By providing deeper, more actionable insights, AI helps organizations identify areas for investment and effectively drive meaningful change.

AI capabilities for SAP Signavio solutions that can help you transform to the best of your potential are:

  1. AI Process Recommender presents the Process Execution Models that form the foundation of plug and gain.
  2. AI based KPI and PPI Recommender adds value to plug and gain customers in the Process Insights (PINS) area and therefore the searches are directed to Process Performance Indicator (PPI) available within Process Insights.
  3. AI features powered by SAP SIGNAVIO Process Intelligence enable plug and gain to leverage the following advanced capabilities:
    • Text to Widget: Creates individual widgets.
    • Text to Insight: Generates automated insights based on specific metrics.

      * Roadmap item for 2025

    • Automated Root Cause Analysis: Enables process analysts and owners to quickly identify performance drivers and improve processes within seconds.
  4. AI based Transformation Advisor directs the client directly to Process Flows in PINS & PPIs in PINS

Watch the video to get a brief look at some AI-assisted capabilities of SAP Signavio solutions.

Now that you had a quick look at generative AI-enabled capabilities for SAP Signavio solutions, let’s go into more detail on these capabilities.

SAP Signavio Solutions, AI-assisted Process Recommender

The AI-assisted process recommender capability lets process and domain owners obtain preconfigured process models that are a best match to their needs based on a database of 5,000 best practices from SAP.

The figure shows a SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub interface showing a Procure to Pay process diagram with a description, comments, view options, overlays, and legends, alongside a Process AI panel suggesting best practice process models.

SAP Signavio Solutions, AI-assisted Performance Indicators Recommender

The AI-assisted performance indicators recommender capability provides process owners and analysts with instant, curated recommendations on the process performance indicators to be monitored, helping you redefine the way you measure. This capability facilitates an easier transition from problem identification to measurement, leveraging a repository of thousands of KPIs and PPIs.  Instead of manually scanning libraries of metrics, you can use recommendations that can be instantly applied.

The figure shows the screenshot of Accounts Payable page in SAP Signavio showing a diagram for detecting cash discount situations and various steps in the accounts payable process, along with a Process AI chat suggesting metrics for tracking late payment rate and missed discounts.

SAP Signavio Solutions, AI-assisted Process Modeler, Text to Process

The AI-assisted process modeler, text to process capability allows customers to not "start from scratch": it focuses on accelerating the initial creation of process diagrams, allowing organizations to quickly tailor and implement processes through text prompting, quickly transforming textual descriptions into BPMN diagrams.

Non-technical users can also contribute to process modeling and improvement by describing processes in plain language. The process modeler capability allows translating these descriptions into technical process models, making process modeling ever more accessible and inclusive.

The figure shows the screenshot of SAP Signavio interface displaying a BPMN diagram for Process Modeling Training and a description of a process on the right.

SAP Signavio Solutions, AI-assisted Process Analyzer, Text to Widget

With the text to widget feature of process analyzer, users can describe their queries using natural language and immediately generate new dashboard widgets (such as value charts and bar charts) that they can add to their workspace for continuous monitoring.

The figure shows SAP Signavio Process Intelligence dashboard displaying average cycle time by priority and process with bar charts.

SAP Signavio Solutions, AI-assisted Process Analyzer, Text to Insights

The AI-assisted process analyzer capability uses generative AI to improve how users interact with process data, enabling them to derive valuable insights with minimal effort.

In particular, with the text to insights feature of process analyzer, users with diverse skill sets, regardless of their technical expertise, can describe their inquiries in natural language to obtain immediate answers to their process questions. ​ Different stakeholders can obtain valuable knowledge that can inform decisions by using a conversational approach. 

The figure shows the screenshot of SAP Signavio Process Intelligence interface showing Record-to-report process insights with cycle time graphs and a prompt for generating new insights.

What's the difference between text to insights and text to widget?

When you use Text to Insights, you can quickly generate automated insights about specific attributes and metrics by simply typing a prompt.

On the other hand, Text to Widget allows you to create new visualizations — such as charts or values — directly in your dashboard using natural language. By describing what you want to see in text to widget, you can instantly get answers to your specific analytical question.

Automated Root Cause Analysis

 Automated Root Cause Analysis helps process analysts and owners to improve process performance by understanding drivers in seconds.

 Automated Root Cause Analysis surfaces drivers for process performance indicators so that process owners can strive for operational excellence. It tests every plausible hypothesis in the data so that process analysts won't miss any opportunity.

Note that this capability is currently available for the Supplier payment from purchasing (KPPURCH460) process.

Key benefits include:

  • Democratises advanced process analysis by finding root causes automatically

  • Reduces time to insight by finding drivers in seconds, continuously

  • Prioritises initiatives according to their value

Capabilities are as follows:

  • Finds reasons for target performance deviations for process performance indicators

  • Surfaces opportunities and contributors that is causes which positively as well negatively impact process performance indicators

  • Ranks every root cause according to its precise impact

*Currently available for the Supplier payment from purchasing (KPPURCH460) process.

Related Information

Summary

  • Generative AI is transforming process management and business transformation.
  • SAP Signavio is leveraging AI to enhance process modeling, mining, and analysis.
  • AI-Powered features include process recommendations, KPI/PPI recommendations, and text-to-insights.
  • AI helps identify key performance indicators and assists in process analysis for better decisions.
  • AI fosters self-service analytics, democratizing process mining and enhancing collaboration.