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Use

Process Orchestration provides a tool infrastructure to model and design business processes - from the overall process flow and the sequence of activities up to the interfaces and data types that are needed to integrate SAP systems and external systems.

It combines the integration capabilities of SAP Process Integration Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX) with the process modeling, operation, and monitoring capabilities of SAP Business Process Management (BPM). Like AEX, Process Orchestration is based on AS Java only.

The package is based on the following components:

  • Advanced Adapter Engine Extended

    AEX provides the connectivity capabilities of the Advanced Adapter Engine (AAE) as well as design and configuration tools (ES Repository and the Integration Directory) to set up integration scenarios.

    More information: Advanced Adapter Engine Extended

  • Business Process Management and Business Rules Management

    BPM and Business Rules Management allow you to design, execute, and monitor business processes.

    More information: Business Process Management

Deployment

You can obtain Process Orchestration by installation or by adding the corresponding usage types to an existing SAP NetWeaver system. For latter, both are supported, deployment of BPM on an existing AEX system and deployment of an AEX on an existing BPM system.

Process Orchestration runs on one system. Deployment on more than one system is not supported.

For more information about features and constraints for the AEX and BPM runtime integration, see AEX and BPM Runtime Integration