Source Systems and System Landscape

This section of the course is relevant for: All Administrators

As Source System Administrator you need to understand what source systems you can connect to SAP Signavio Process Insights.

The following source systems are supported:

• SAP ECC - SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) 6.0
• SAP S/4HANA - SAP S/4HANA all releases
• SAP CRM - SAP Customer Relationship Management
• SAP EWM - SAP Extended Warehouse Management running on SAP Supply Chain Management
• SAP SRM - SAP Supplier Relationship Managemen
• SAP TM - SAP Transportation Management (on the roadmap)

SAP Ariba - SAP Ariba

Depending on your available licenses, you can connect one or more source systems to SAP Signavio Process Insights. The „SAP Signavio Process Insights, base package" includes one source system connection. Additional source systems can be licensed via „SAP Signavio Process Insights, additional connections". SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA are the most common source systems.

• Define which source systems you want to connect to SAP Signavio Process Insgihts.
• Make a note of the technical names of the systems that you want to connect, including the client.

This section of the course is relevant for: SAP Source System Administrators

After you have become familiar with the supported source systems and have made a selection for your organisation, in this section we will look at how these systems can be connected to SAP Signavio Process Insights.

To connect source systems to SAP Signavio Process Insights we differenciate three cases. For source systems, a distinction is made between cloud and on-premise systems. For on-premise systems, there is also a difference between a direct and an indirect system connection.

A direct source system connection is always possible if the source system meets the necessary prerequisites. (You check this in a later section of this e-learning.) If the source system does not meet the necessary prerequisites, the system can be connected using a intermediate system. If several source systems are connected, they can also be connected together using an intermediate system. Cloud systems have their own connection.

Let´s take a closer look at on-premise systems because here we have to check if your selected source systems fulfill the requirements and if they can be connected directly.

This section gives you an overview of what you need to know depending on the type of source system you want to connect.

There are two ways of connecting a on-premise source system to SAP Signavio Process Insights. You connect your SAP on-premise source system directly or you use an intermediate system. Which option you choose depends on various factors.

You use the direct system connection in the following cases:

• Your source system meets all the prerequisites for your use case or can easily be upgraded to meet them.
• You can upgrade your source system any time and in case new features come with new or updated prerequisites.

You use the intermediate system connection in the following cases:

• Your source system doesn't meet all the prerequisites for your usecase or can't easily be upgraded to meet them (but you can do this for the intermediate system).
• You can't upgrade your source system at any time and in case new features come with new or updated prerequisites (but you can do this for the intermediate system).
• You plan to connect other SAP on-premise systems to SAP Signavio Process Insights soon. You can easily connect multiple SAP on-premise source systems to SAP Signavio Process Insights using one intermediate system that meets the prerequisites. You can connect all source systems directly to SAP Signavio Process Insights, but than they all need to meet the prerequisites.

Could source systems always have their own type of connection. Since cloud systems are always up-to-date by definition, the connection is not differentiated here.

Based on the available licenses and the existing source systems, you decide on the appropriate source system connection option for your company.

• direct system connection
• intermediate system connection

cloud connection

You will check the source system and intermediate system requirements to validate your decission in the next chapters.

If you connect source systems using an intermediate system, the tasks are distributed to different systems. The overview shows which steps need to be performed on which system. In the case of a direct source system connection, all steps are executed on the source system.

Many source systems meet the technical requirements (separate lesson) and can be connected directly as a source to SAP Signavio Process Insgihts. The diagram outlines the system landscape and what SAP systems, applications, and components are involved when you connect SAP on-premise systems. The individual steps to get the system connected will be explained in the following sections.

If the source system does not meet all the necessary prerequisites and cannot be upgraded to the required release and plug-ins, it is possible to set up an indirect connection. For source systems that are connected using an intermediate system, the system landscape is slightly different as the above diagram shows.

Cloud systems are always up to date and are directly connected to SAP Signavio Process Insights. For cloud systems, there is a separate system landscape that is dependent on the respective cloud solution. The following diagram outlines the system landscape and what SAP systems, applications, and components are involved when you connect SAP Ariba systems.

As an administrator, you should understand the significance of the plug-ins and on which systems they must be installed for the possible scenarios. The two plug-ins provide the following services:

The add-on ST-PI and the corresponding support packages contain the Service Data Control Center (SDCCN), which controls the collection and transfer of data analyzed during a service session. They also contain various function modules needed for data collection. Additionally, they contain reports which are executed by function modules during data collection.

SAP Signavio Process Insights uses the ST-PI plug-in to connect your SAP on-premise source system to your cloud tenant. The required ST-PI plug-in version must be installed in your source / intermediate system. The ST-PI plug-in requires an encrypted HTTPS outbound connection to SAP BTP to be set up. Using the plug-in and the HTTPS connection allows you to trigger the data transfer yourself from your SAP on-premise system. Data from your SAP on-premise system is sent directly to SAP Signavio Process Insights.

The add-on ST-A/PI contains application-specific data collectors which contribute to data collections with SDCCN, to business process monitoring or change management in SAP Solution Manager. It contains analysis tools like application analysis ST14 and trace tools like ST12. This add-on is used in SAP Signavio Process Insights to extract the needed data. To make sure that all relevant data will be collected from your source system for new content in SAP Signavio Process Insights this add-on needs to be up-to-date.

Tasks are usually waiting for you at this point. This unit provides an overview. You check the prerequisites of the source systems and therefore also the existing versions of the plug-ins in the following chapters.

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