Process Observer Discussion

[JChristophNolte]

This thread is dedicated to questions and discussions around the Process Observer component that is part of Business Suite.

Process Observer is used in different scenarios, including and prominently with Operational Process Intelligence.

For details on what Process observer is see here.

[bryandevaney]

Hi Jens Christoph,

Is it possible to Implement PO on a Java stack or is ABAP stack the only method supported?

if Java can be supported would you have a link on how to implement it?

Best wishes,

Bryan

[Jocelyn_Dart]

Hi Bryan

Suggest you post a new discussion in the BPM forum - this one  is over two years old.

Also you need to be careful with your terminology.  PO is generally used for Process Orchestration - the Java based PI+BPM+BRM combination that supersedes PI (Process Integration).

Process Observer is part of ABAP - think of it as a module - I've never seen it referred to as PO.

The information exposed by Process Observer can be used by calling applications- in fact that is core to the Operation Process Intelligence (powered by SAP HANA) solution - which derives underlying process information from ABAP via Process Observer, BPM, and other sources.

Rgds,

Jocelyn

[JChristophNolte]

Hi Bryan,

little to add to Jocelyn.

Maybe: We're trying to use "POB" for Process Observer, but in your question it is quite clear.

And, right: We are very tightly integrated into the applications, so running it on Java is not an option. One thing we do see happening occasionally is that you can have your Java-Application throw the events into a running POB installation, so you can do all the processing available in POB; there is a blog entry ("Direct API") about this - the Java system would be treated like a non-SAP-system in that case. You have to be very careful with that approach concerning volume/performance. This would be for low-volume events, see there for details.

Generally Operational Process Intelligence is the default option when you have events from a non-ABAP-based source that you want to consolidate as a process log, which also integrates POB data - even across different sources within one process chain

Christoph