First impression -- #SAP #NetWeaver #BPM tool

SAP NetWeaver BPM 7.2  looks (after the 4-days TZBPM training course) rather good:

• Eclipse-based design environment or "composition environment"
• Good naming conventions by default
• Business view and technical view
• Explicit definition of events in addition to several other artefacts
• One pool is one process
• Direct interpretation of BPMN without compiling it into BPEL
• A small and reasonable subset of BPMN shapes
• Three ways to implement UI (and SAP work on another one)
• Integration with the existing run-time environment (not easy to handle but doable)

Potential improvements:

1. Inter-process communication - no explicit way to say that this event is consumes by that process 
2. More comprehensive environment for human tasks (e.g. for processing of escalations without BPMN)
3. Active and non-active pools
4. Link the events to SAP PI

Thanks,
AS