Understanding Administrative Key Terms

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Understand the key terms and administration
  • Understand the administrator's role

Key Terms Understanding

Key Terms

Here are the key terms that you will come across during this course. It is important that you are familiar with them so take a few minutes to review them.

SaaS
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software licensing and delivery model.
SSO
Single Sign-On (SSO) is an authentication method. After set up, users can access different applications by logging in with only one account.
SAML
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties.
Notation
A notation is a collection of related symbols that are each given an arbitrary meaning, created to facilitate structured communication.
Attributes
In the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) context, attributes can be seen as an additional information level.
Overlays
Overlays can show the actual value or icon of an attribute that was filled by modelers as part of the process documentation. You can show or hide overlays.
Modeling Conventions
Ensure diagrams stick to certain rules regarding notation (BPMN-language), labeling, process structure, and diagram layout.

Administrator Introduction

Introduction for Administrators.

Get to Know the Product

The SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite is a powerful all-in-one platform to optimize business processes and drive intelligent business transformation with live insights. It offers you an integrated solution that allows you to mine, model, analyze, optimize, and run your processes - all at the accelerated speed of insights.

SAP Signavio Solutions run on different servers. Based on the URL, your workspace belongs to a specific region:

For the latest information about cloud service status, please refer to the following webpage.

Let's now look at some of solutions that are included in the SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite. If you are an administrator of multiple solutions for managing processes, the following can support your understanding of the relevant administrative features in a larger context.

Graphic representing the SAP Signavio Process transformation Suite. The suite is explained in the following text.

SAP Signavio Process Manager

Design processes collaboratively, understand the As-Is and the To-Be models, and outline their interconnection to create a shared understanding with increased performance at scale.

Administrative features include:

  • Manage user groups and access rights.
  • Define workspace settings and modeling conventions.
  • Create and manage custom attributes.
  • Manage governance and security settings.

SAP Signavio Collaboration Hub

Drive collaboration, harness the wisdom of the crowd, and transform the way of work by providing a single source of truth to the process world.

Administrative features include:

  • Manage user accounts and groups.
  • Provide licenses (also for other SAP Signavio solutions).
  • Manage attribute visualization.
  • Manage audiences.
  • Enable process governance.
  • Customize the appearance.
  • Provide details to stakeholders on process consumption and system usage.
  • Manage value accelerators.

SAP Signavio Journey Modeler

Blend customer-centric imperatives with operational excellence, delivering a solid connection between journeys, processes, and data to make continuous experience improvements.

Administrative features include:

  • Create journey model templates.
  • Handle other administrative tasks via SAP Signavio Process Manager and Process Collaboration Hub.

SAP Signavio Process Governance

Govern the life cycle of processes, risks, and controls by building governance workflows quickly and at scale.

Administrative features include:

  • Manage workflow users, groups, and labels.
  • Integrate SAP Signavio Process Manager dictionary categories.
  • Manage data connectors and access of third party systems.
  • Manage approval workflows via SAP Signavio Process Manager set-up.
  • Enable read confirmations and process rating via SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub set-up.
  • Enable of Java script tasks.
  • Enable the model guideline check for workflows in SAP Signavio Process Governance.

Administrator's Role

Where there is great power, there is great responsibility. Winston Churchill.

Administrators manage workspace settings and user access. They make sure that the workspace remains well-structured and organized regardless of the number of users.

The first user registering for a workspace is by default an administrator. They are known as "Tenant Owner" and cannot be deleted.

We recommend this role for IT-skilled users who are familiar with the software and BPMN to manage the administrative tasks as they have extensive rights to the workspace. It is recommended to communicate and document changes to your administrative team, so all administrators are up-to-date.

Key Takeaways - Administrator´s Role

1 - Servers: The software runs on three different servers, depending on the region. 2 - Tenant Owner: This person is the first user registering for a workspace. By default, this user is an administrator and cannot be deleted. 3 - Administrators: Administrators make sure that the workspace remains well-structured and clean.

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