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Functional Overview

Business Process Content Powered by SAP Gateway allows you to:

  • Provide process details (as a business process owner)

    When building an application that operates on end-to-end business processes, application developers might want to use processes or process information from various systems in a standards-based fashion. If you want to provide the process details of your system to the application developers, you can do so using Business Process Content Powered by SAP Gateway.

    For more information, see:

  • Consume process details (as an application developer)

    When building an application that operates on end-to-end business processes, you can use some of the existing processes or process information. Each of these processes that you want to use may exist in different systems. Therefore, you need to access different systems and use the business processes when building your application. Business Process Content Powered by SAP Gateway provides services (see table below), which you can use to send requests to the required systems and use their business processes or process information in a standards-based fashion.

    Service

    Purpose

    Process Service

    To use process definition and instance information:

    • List of process attributes, such as definition ID and status

    • Runtime information, such as instance, step, and log details

    • Process definition in BPMN2.0 representation

    For more information, see Using Process Details.

    Process Context Service

    To use context-related information associated with a process. For more information, see Using Process Context Details.

    For more information, see:

You can use or provide the following types of process information:

  • Definition data

  • Instance data

  • Context data

System Requirements

The provider system is of one of the releases mentioned in the table below:

System

Release

SAP Business Workflow

  • SAP_BASIS 702

  • SAP_BASIS 731

  • SAP_BASIS 740

SAP Business Suite Process Observer

  • SAP_BS_FND 701

  • SAP_BS_FND 702

  • SAP_BS_FND 731

  • SAP_BS_FND 732