Overall Satisfaction with SAP NetWeaver BPM
We use it for SAP projects and it works well with SAP products and use it mainly to automate procedures and avoid manual process/procedure where possible and can be integrated with ERP/CRM. It helps orchestrate the business processes very well and integrate them.
- Integrated well with SAP ERP/CRM
- Comes with adequate tools that help define business rules/processes and also monitoring them and managing exceptions
- Strong dependency with SAP portal is a drawback as it means that one needs to have SAP portal implemented
- When there are certain workflows that run for a lengthy period of time, running more workflows can become slower
- Strong SAP skills required
- Helped us harness integrated benefit from having SAP ERP/CRM by leveraging NetWeaver to define business processes/rules and monitor exceptions
- Did not have any negative experience except for the fact that at times when multiple rules run, it can be somewhat slow
I found the initial setup of NetWeaver is much simpler than other products especially in an SAP environment where we have SAP ERP/HRM/CRM as it can be well integrated with other SAP products. The only drawback is the need/dependency on SAP Portal. It is better suited in an environment where SAP ERP is running.