Describing SAP Signavio within Business Transformation.

SAP Signavio is a paid software-as-a-service subscription. It enables businesses to effectively select and streamline their processes in the most efficient manner.

Business transformation programs require the following components:

• Solutions (the right software).
• Methodology (a structured approach to transformation).
• Value accelerators (sets of content and best practices) that can help organizations start easily, identify the innovation paths that are open to them, avoid errors and reworking and ultimately accelerate time to value.

SAP Signavio provides organizations with everything they need to succeed in their business transformation programs, including:

• A complete suite to support business transformation: SAP Signavio Transformation Suite.
• Transformation methodology.
• A collection of ready to use value accelerators that will guide them all along the transformation journey.

The SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite is an end-to-end process management solution that gives companies the ability to understand, improve, and transform all their business processes – fast and at scale.

SAP Signavio solutions reduce the time taken to deliver value from your intelligent process mining initiatives,allowing you to find improvement areas faster, act based on recommendations while speeding up your time to adapt to process changes with an end-to-end process orientation.

In addition, SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite allows you to model processes and journeys based on common standards, driving collaborative efforts, customer excellence strategies and more! 

Changing the way everyone thinks within the organization about processes is the key to a resilient and sustainable businesses.

Complete process analysis and mining for enterprise transformations and operational excellence programs.

​Process and journey modeling

Standardized process and journey management, simulation and modeling.

Maintain organizational and regulatory compliance of all documented processes.

​Process transformation management and collaboration

Collaborative planning, management and execution of transformations.

Speed up time to value and increase the quality of output with pre-built sets of content and generative AI.

SAP Signavio solutions reduce the time taken to deliver value from your process mining initiatives, allowing you to find improvement areas faster, act based on recommendations while speeding up your time to adapt to process changes with an end-to-end process orientation.

The SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite offers process analysis and mining solutions for enterprise transformations and operational excellence programs.

SAP Process Insights: Allows you to quickly locate and prioritize process improvement potential for specific SAP solutions.

SAP Signavio Process Intelligence: This solution can fully embrace a data-driven approach to discover, analyze, and mine your end-to-end processes.

Challenges: ​

• Visibility into actual operations.
• Inefficiencies in business processes (delays, long lead times).​​
• Process compliance.
• Understanding the root cause of an issue.
• Visibility into areas of improvement​.

• Gain visibility into the real process execution and process inefficiencies​​.
• Get recommendations for improvements.​​
• Pinpoint improvement potential and decide upon transformative changes​​.
• Gain visibility into process paths that lead to cumbersome experiences.

Leverage data: Make data-driven decisions about which business areas to prioritize for improvement.

Get insights fast: Updates happen daily.

Process flows: The number of available process flows increases with every release.

For all customers on ECC or S/4 HANA systems, SAP Process Insights is the starting point in accordance with a transformation project or continuous improvement projects.

With SAP Process Insights you "reduce time to insights" and make data-driven decisions about which business areas to prioritize for improvement.

• Process flows.
• Performance indicators.
• Powerful drill-down functionality.
• Correction recommendations.
• Innovation recommendations.
• External and internal benchmarks.

For all customers on ECC or S/4HANA systems SAP Process Insights is the starting point in accordance with a transformation project or continuous improvement projects.

With SAP Signavio Process Insights you reduce time to insights and make data-driven decisions about which business areas to prioritize for improvement.

With SAP Signavio Process Intelligence you can uncover process inefficiencies for improved operations and identify opportunities to change and innovate by running process mining investigations.

Get full visibility into your process reality: Support internal transformations and efficiency programs, and improve the way you operate.

Uncover opportunities with process mining: Leverage ready-to-use insights, standard metrics, and powerful data querying capabilities to uncover process inefficiencies, reducing your time to insights.

Blend process and experience analytics: Spot inefficiencies and problems hitting top and bottom lines by blending process and experience analytics in one single framework.

Understand the process variants that exist in your organization: Validating your gut feelings with data and helping you understand process dynamics in your organization, comparing different ways your processes are executed.

Run conformance checks:  To compare the real process execution to your designed process models.

Measure and monitor your performance with visualization widgets and metrics:  Leverage standard metrics or define new  metrics that matter for your business (number of open invoices, cycle times, customer satisfaction scores or certain SLAs you must meet), create dashboards and monitor your performance, measuring it against your objectives at any time.

To optimize your business processes, you need a clear picture of how your processes run.   SAP Signavio Process Intelligence provides you with full visibility on what is currently happening in your processes. Directly generated from your event log data, process discovery  provides you with a graphical representation of your process, exactly as it was executed, making it easy for you to identify long cycle times, most common process paths, main activities, stakeholders and their behaviors.

SAP Signavio solutions visualize the input and out of individual processes based on a standardized process practice. You can visualize and share process and journey models throughout the entire organization improving alignment and early buy-in, which on the long run ensures the success of any transformation or innovation project.

The SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite offers process and journey modeling for enterprise transformations and operational excellence programs.

SAP Signavio Process Manager: Capture, document, compare, and simulate your process portfolio.

SAP Signavio Journey Modeler: Design customer journeys and connect with processes.

• Potential improvements to existing processes to be more efficient and achieve broader alignment across the organization​.
• Need for transparency into various stages of a customer journey and processes that are involved in the steps with least satisfaction​.
• Confidence that processes are being adhered to in a compliant way.

• Understand who does what, when and how within a process.
• Identify the inputs and outputs of individual processes.
• Standardize process practice, help ensure high quality of modeling standards, and educate your organization​.
• Leverage the wisdom of the crowd and involve key stakeholders.
• Conform to your governance standards with process approval workflows.
• Visualize the journeys of your customers, suppliers, and employees.

• Definition of overall guidelines of the process management.
• Compliance with internal and external governance requirements.
• Transparency into the maturity of a documented business process.
• Error-prone and repetitive manually executed processes.

• Maintain organizational and regulatory compliance of all documented processes.
• Get approvals from key stakeholders on all documented processes.
• Maintain process relevance and maturity with regular process reviews.
• Scale up your workflows as your business grows – no code needed with SAP Build Process Automation.

Govern the lifecycle of processes, risks, and controls while building workflows quickly and at scale with SAP Signavio process governance and workflow execution.

Establish 360-degree process governance with approvals

• Intuitively configure and trigger workflows for collaborative improvement.
• Scale up your workflows as your business grows – no code needed.
• Schedule process maturity assessment for process owners and help ensure compliance.
• Use simple drag and drop form builders for accelerated user experience.

Lower the cost of change for regulatory requirements.

Process review: Review the critical processes for auditing and compliance

Maturity assessment: Assess the maturity of the processes to find potential for improvement and prepare for auditing.

Process release management: Maintain a compliant and approved process content repository.

SAP Signavio Process Governance is used in combination with SAP Signavio Process Manager.

With SAP Signavio Process Govenance start automating your process approvals and publishing processes.

You can set up process owners, risk owners, and quality managers and their respective tasks by choosing process attributes.

You can then map and notify these users through attributes for process approval, risk and controls assessments, and maturity assessments.

Automate more simply, more quickly, and more confidently.

• Lack of visibility into and understanding of company-wide and locally defined processes and best practices​.
• Misalignment on crucial transformation activities in the organization​.
• Disjointed analysis and identification of local inefficiencies.
• Difficulty in identifying where to start in complex systems and process landscapes.

• Utilize published processes to inform and train employees on process execution.
• Align with key stakeholders by sharing process changes and improvements​.
• Curate process-related content for specific audiences – such as functions and departments.
• Have full visibility on your entire process landscape.
• Single source of truth for process knowledge.

Benefit from a 360-degree view of your process landscape, from documentation to analysis and key metrics.

• Align the entire organization on published procesess.
• Bring process owners and business users together in one interface.
• Curate process content for specific audiences helping them to focus on what matters to them.

With SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub, you can provide access to all SAP Signavio solutions for process experts and professionals from one single location.

SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager can

Drive centralized and collaborative improvements: Effortlessly find and capture insights within SAP Signavio and surface them in one central place.

Make value-driven decisions: Collaboratively manage and prioritize transformation initiatives with a complete overview of your initiative landscape with the associated insights.

Quantify delivered value through continuous improvement: Identify how to get started and realize the need to improve by comparing against industry and peers and set the performance baseline for your transformation.

Here’s an overview of SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager capabilities and how they empower you to bridge the gap between insights and action effectively.

• Quickly identify opportunities within your organization using ready-made improvement initiatives.
• Address business problems based on your business context with standardized content.

• Capture insights from SAP Signavio, including Process Insights and Process Intelligence, and soon from external sources.
• Centralize insights in one place to identify improvement areas and create initiatives.
• Define key details such as what actions to take, start dates, and who is involved.

• After identifying opportunities and insights, utilize benchmarking analytics to compare performance against leading industry peers.
• Set performance baselines for your transformation and estimate the financial impact of improvements through value analysis.

• As a transformation manager, collaborate and align with stakeholders across the organization using lightweight task management tools.
• Continuously monitor, measure, and evaluate the progress and impact of your transformation initiatives.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by regularly assessing outcomes.

The SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub supports

Collaboration: Achieve a detailed 360-degree view of your process landscape, complete with analytics and key metrics.

Sharing & communication: Review, publish, and share your process documentation with key stakeholders.

Monitoring: Provide feedback and propose improvements to relevant processes.

Benefit from a 360-degree view of your process landscape, from documentation to analysis and key metrics.

You can publish diagrams to inform your organization about important processes, increasing alignment between process owners and the rest of the company.

By creating and sharing navigation maps, you can guide employees through key process-related information and metrics.

With SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub, you can provide access to all SAP Signavio solutions for process experts and professionals from one single location.

Benefit from a 360-degree view of your entire process landscape– documentation, analysis, and key metrics. Publish diagrams to inform the entire organization about important processes. Create and share navigation maps to guide employees through key process-related information and metrics. Provide access to all SAP Signavio solutions or process experts and professionals from one single location.

• Defining the starting point of your transformation.
• Delays due to lack of alignment or understanding of current situation.
• High customizations, errors, reworking and lack of understanding of what best practices look like.

• Avoid the complexity of starting from scratch by leveraging pre-built content based on expert knowledge.
• Speed up every phase of transformation with dedicated content for enterprise architecture design, process design and modelling, analysis, mining and deployment.
• Act confidently, by adopting best practices and solutions that are proven by domain experts.

Comprehensive support to transformation: SAP Signavio Value Accelerators serve you throughout your transformation, from strategy to operations. For example:

• You can more easily scope your project with strategic objectives, goals, business capability and solution maps and reference architectures
• You can accelerate your time to analysis with data extractions and transformation templates, process flows, metrics, performance indicators, dashboards
• Preconfigured process models can help you design your processes better and faster
• You can accelerate time to action and deployments by applying product best practices and innovation recommendations as well as solution processes with links to executables, configurations, test scripts, set up instructions and more

Designed for your processes and industry Lead to cash, idea to market, plan to fulfill, source to pay, finance, and much more: SAP Signavio Value Accelerators are designed to support your core processes and highest-impact use cases. Industry-specific versions are also available that serve the needs of your specific sector such as Retail, Utilities, Oil and Gas, and Energy.

Collective knowledge from SAP and partners SAP Signavio Value Accelerators embed the collective knowledge from thousands projects delivered by SAP and partners. To be elevated to the dimension of "accelerator", any asset is tested and enriched by domain experts, meaning that adopting SAP Signavio Value Accelerators you can act confidently, and you are always exposed to the latest and greatest practices.  Implementation times and costs are more predictable as you apply proven best practices that are a best match to your solutions.

​SAP Signavio Value Accelerators are sets of content that are specific for a theme – such as a business objective, process, product, industry and can be consumed/integrated with SAP Signavio solutions.

• Capability maps and reference architectures.
• Business process models.​
• Ready to use metrics​, dashboards and data transformation templates.
• Innovation and correction recommendations.
• Best practices, deployment details and localization requirements for SAP products.​
• Connectors, integrations, other technical enablers and more…

SAP Signavio offers an open program for partner collaboration, meaning that value accelerators can also be delivered by partners who are innovators in their specific domain. Together with our partner ecosystem, we represent a world-class community of process, technology, and industry experts who work side by side with our customers, share best practices, and continuously shape new ideas and solutions that respond to your evolving needs.

• Access best practices from SAP and SAP partners that are innovators in their domains.
• Leverage SAP partner accelerators linked to knowledge from SAP experts.
• Benefit from a simplified, seamless experience that addresses your needs in one centralized place via SAP Signavio Process Explorer.

SAP Signavio Process Explorer references SAP’s partners value accelerators and best practices, providing indications on how to get them.

SAP deliver value accelerators and best practices supporting each phase of the transformation or improvement journey

• You can speed up your discovery phase and more easily scope your project with strategic objectives, goals, business capability and solution maps and reference architectures.
• You can accelerate your time to analysis with data extractions and transformation templates, process flows, metrics, performance indicators, dashboards.
• Preconfigured process models can help you design your processes better and faster.
• And finally, you can accelerate time to action and deployments by applying product best practices and innovation recommendations as well as solution processes with links to executables, configurations, test scripts, set up instructions, enablement.

A value accelerator can contain one or more of the content assets.

Generating recommended process models.

SAP Signavio, AI-assisted Process Recommender  

​ Obtain preconfigured process models based on a database of 5,000 best practices from SAP.  Move fast from initial exploration to process design and narrow down hundreds of options to those that best match your business.

Key benefits include: ​

• Instant recommendations based on best practices.​
• Accelerated process model design.
• No need for consulting-heavy services to define the first process draft to start the modeling activity.

Generating recommended process performance indicators

Obtain instant recommendations on process performance indicators (PPIs) that are relevant to your business process and problems.  Move from problem space to a measurement approach with no effort by leveraging a repository of thousands KPIs and PPIs.

Key benefits include: 

• Instant recommendations based on best practices:
• Simple connection between business problem, affected process and relevant metric to be measured:
• Self-service approach to define initial process monitoring framework:

Natural language to obtain immediate insights.

SAP Signavio, AI-assisted Process Analyzer (Text to Insights)  

​ Empower users with any skillset to ask questions in natural language and receive immediate insights that can inform business decisions.

Key benefits include:

• Correlation and anomaly detection consumable by business users.
• Democratized approach to process mining.
• Increased accuracy and relevance of the analysis output based on business user prompts.