Business workflow is a cross-application tool within
the SAP application that enables you to integrate business tasks
between applications. This tool supplements the existing business
functions of the SAP application. The standard functions of SAP can
be adapted using Business Workflow to meet the specific
requirements of the desired business function. Business Workflow
uses the Business Object Repository (BOR), which stores the
definitions for each SAP object in the application.
- Provides synchronous event detection
- Makes use of SAP's object-oriented business object capability
to link the detection of events to ABAP function modules
- Is easy to implement
- An SAP object does not exist in the SAP BOR for every business
process.
- The SAP event (such as created or deleted) may not exist for
the SAP object.
- It may not detect all changes in a business process.
- It does not always provide the flexibility for detecting events
at the proper time.
- It depends on SAP-provided functionality, which may change
between versions of SAP.
