Variant Management

When organizations start a process initiative, their target audiences have different perspectives, even though it's one initiative with the same goal. Those perspectives could depend on the location, role, department, regulations, and more.

Employee onboarding in Germany, for example, is a little different than in the US. HR personnel, IT staff, the hiring manager, and a new hire could all be involved in this process, and each of them will have a different focus, different needs, and different expectations. Additionally, everyone involved cares about the current state of the process, though not all are as invested in its future development.

In the SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite, process variants represent these different perspectives on a main process. For each variant, you define characteristics that differentiate it from its process template and from other variants. These characteristics are implemented as dimensions (dictionary categories) and values (dictionary entries).

Our variant management tools enable process owners and modelers to identify and model variants, control their relationships, reduce redundancy, track and propagate changes, and support users in consuming the required variant depending on the context and their role.