Accelerate Your Test Automation Journey with Process Mining for SAP
Transcript of Accelerate Your Test Automation Journey with Process Mining for SAP
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Accelerate Your Test Automation Journey with Process Mining for SAP
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Automation is a necessity, your users are the key, and they have already provided you the content.
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SAP… Change Is a Constant
• When a new process becomes available, how quickly can I integrate the
process into my business and begin realizing its benefits?
• How can I decrease the time required to implement system changes and
events?
• How do I improve implementation performance, mitigate risks, leverage
accelerators, and measure adoption?
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ONGOING
CHANGE
EVENTS
DISCRETE
CHANGE
EVENTS
…establish a quality platform to minimize time/cost of change event efforts
Consolid.
New Implementation
Upgrades
New Processes
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Hot Packs
Support Pack Support Pack
CHANGE EVENTS
Business drivers Changed business processes,
M&A re-organizations & new
products, vendors…
Compliance drivers Governance, risk management &
compliance
Technology drivers New functionality & Upgrades
Transforming software change control into business change control – company-
wide, across SAP and non-SAP landscapes
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Digital Business ProcessesComplex
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Melinda Ballou, IDC
Companies are exposed to significant risk of business disruption if critical processes aren’t tested frequently.
Public software failures are becoming more and more commonplace, and it’s not merely about security. It is simply not possible to achieve the needed speed and accuracy with non-automated approaches.”
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Digital Risk
It’s not just about security, hackers, and data theft
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Risk is Inherent (and Expensive)!
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Defect Correction Cost (5 Project Sample)
Defects Cost to correct per defect
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The Pain! Manual Process Documentation
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One user, one process, one
document, one test at a time…
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Understanding this...
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…without resorting to this?
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INTERACTIVE
CAPTURE
Business Analysts, Subject
Matter Experts, Process
Owners
PASSIVE
CAPTURE
Individual contributors,
task experts, regular users
PROCESS
MINING
for SAP
IT Implementation
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TranslationSynthesisMining
Discovers business
process flow, history and
details
Recreates an accurate
human performance
record
Automatically consolidates
processes and activities
into a multi-variant
representation
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Discovery
Automation
Yields Full Documentation and Automation
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Rethink Change Management.
START with Automation!
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Transferable Automation
1 + 1 = 4!
Automated Discovery Used to Capture a
End-to-End Business Process
Operations• Documentation
• Scripts for robotic
process automation
QA• Documentation
• Test Scripts
Application Team (IT)• Documented requirements
• Work sized, resources allocated
• Stories created for sprints
• Integration with ALM & defect tracking
Business• Visualization of process
• Detailed documentation
generated for training, IT, QA
and Ops
Reduction in manual hours
vs. test automation alone30%
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What if You Could Discover All Your SAP Business Process at Once?
Discover Synthesize Prioritize
• Resource
Requirements
• Documentation
• Test Automation
Distribution
Chile Warehouse
Returns
Inventory
Sales
Deliver
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Change Impact
Analysis
Test Automation
Test Execution
Go Live
Run
How Agile Are You? What are You Automating? What Could You Be Automating?
Prepare Discover Realize Go Live Run
Major update, Consolidation, Use Case Expansion
Major Change
Small Change
Business
Driven Testing
How do you
create test
automation?
What is your
process for
capturing and
documenting
business
processes?
How do you
keep up with
ongoing small
changes?
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Process Mining is a zero touch solution that enables
orgs to auto-discover as-is SAP business processes
at scale and create end-to-end visualizations and test
automation libraries.
Worksoft Process Mining for SAP OverviewAvailable for:
SAP’s Sales & Distribution, Materials Management and Warehouse Management Modules
Discover at Scale PrioritizeAccelerate
Automation
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Automated Generation of SAP Business Blueprints
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Automated Business Process Analysis
See ALL variations in a process in a single view.
Quickly identify the happy path.
Auto-generate supporting documentation.
THINK TIME
How long does it take to perform a business activity?
PERFORMANCE
How do application performance problems impact your critical business processes?
COVERAGE
How well do your current tests cover your critical business processes?
USAGE
How often do end users traverse a particular path through a business process?
CUSTOM CODE
Where is custom code located in the context of a business process?
COSTS
What are the most expensive activities that should be optimized first?
ERRORS
Where in your business process execution do errors most often occur?
TEST HISTORY
Are your business process tests effective? Do they find any errors?
PROCESS VARIANTS
How many variants does a particular business process have and why?
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Process Mining for SAP® Summary
Fast track process automation for SAP: SD, WM & MM
Automatically discover workflows, generate test assets
Identify process knowledge and testing coverage gaps quickly.
Works perfectly along side Worksoft Capture
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Thank You!