Designing Business Scenarios 

Purpose

A Business Scenario enables you to define the message exchange and process flow for collaborative business processes. These processes do not need to be controlled centrally and only require simple routings and mappings to function. Normally, these are collaborative business processes between various business partners that are generally loosely coupled and synchronized.

The Business Scenario provides you with a central point of access for all integration objects such as interfaces, mappings, software components and so on, which you require for semantic and technical integration.

Note the following about the information compiled during the design phase of a Business Scenario:

·        It is used during the configuration phase to map the collaborative process to the current productive system landscape.

In this phase you specify the business systems of the business partners on which the application components are installed. In this phase the Business Scenario provides you with the central point of entry for the definition of routing relations. These routing relations define the flow of messages in the productive system landscape.
For more information, see the configuration section of this documentation.

·        It is used in productive operation to ease the execution and administration of collaborative processes.

Business Scenarios make the dependencies between the business partners and the separation of concerns transparent and gather information that can be used for the purposes of monitoring, for example. As a result, the entire collaborative process is easier to maintain, more reliable and more stabile.

Features

The Integration Builder constitutes the development environment for the design of Business Scenarios. You can do the following with the Integration Builder:

·        Define the business partners involved in the Business Scenario and their application components

·        Model all interactions for which messages are exchanged between different application components

·        Specify each individual message exchange by assigning them interfaces and mappings

The development environment for Business Scenarios comprises two editors:

·        Business Scenario Editor

The Business Scenario Editor provides an interactive graphical work area that enables you to visualize the Business Scenario process and how the objects used are related to each other. From the context within this editor you can navigate to the design environment of all objects used.The top down and bottom up design of Business Scenarios is supported.

·        Action Editor

The action editor enables you display and edit actions. Actions are activities within the Business Scenario process that are not subdivided further.

 

This section is structured around the following questions:

·        What is a Business Scenario and how do the various components work together?  For more information, see the Business Scenario section.

·        How do I develop a Business Scenario with the Integration Builder? For more information, see the Business Scenario Design Environment section.

·        How do I model a Business Scenario? For more information, see the Modeling Business Scenarios section.