Cognizant Technology Solutions is recognized for deploying PeopleSoft’s new Business Process Weaver capability

Background

A business process might have various processes (both ad hoc and scheduled) that have to be triggered from different modules by the users manually (E.g. Account Payables, Financial Gateway and General Ledger) which increases the user clicks and frequent navigation to different pages across the modules.

There is no unified approach to handle this. Specifically during month end close, finance users have to wait for a particular process/job to finish and initiate the subsequent process. This increases monitoring effort and manual scheduling of subsequent process by the users.

External tools (Autosys/Tivoli/ControlM) for automation which are available in market will result in high cost, will require frequent maintenance of hardware and software which will increase the operating cost and creates dependencies on an external system. It increases training cost of the new system as well for the user. A unified solution would suffice the user to solve the above inefficiency and reduce the cost that is involved as part of user efforts.

The solution

Oracle PeopleSoft have provided a unified framework to support and manage the structured business processes for an effective Batch processing. PeopleSoft’s Business Process Weaver (BPW) is a new framework that enables you to model, manage and support stringing together Scheduled Processes (Delivered and Custom), PeopleSoft Jobs and User Interactions.

Key benefits

• Single page transaction setup job execution.
• Pictorial representation of the job execution sequence
• A full process definition can be put into hold or cancel or a restart can be enabled with the help of process action.
• Enhance migration feature from development instance to Production instance can be done with the help of Application Data Sets (ADS) without much intervention of technical team.
• Process actions such as pause before, pause after, skip step, continuous on warning, continuous on error can be enabled for an individual process/job. For each of the actions, notification can be enabled.
• A single start/stop action for all processes and subsequent processes.
• Dynamic passing of parameters to subsequent processes to the respective run controls can be performed.
• BPW provides server selection for multiple run control ids without canceling the process during maintenance/downtime.
• Colored representation of statuses for the process.
• Creates a notification channel for user about process status notification, which helps the user in changing the distribution list dependent on the user requirement.
• With its modular design, PS BPW framework eliminates human errors and wait for scheduled process and provides end to end transaction with its prompt action with up to date entries.

Why it's great

• Delivered within PeopleSoft, neglects the cost of implementing newer automation tool.
• Reduces execution time and helps in quicker business reporting.
• Accessibility to transactional pages to review the results and take action accordingly.
• Efforts involved in process scheduling is minimized.
• Colored representation of process statuses for easy identification.
• Overall control and visibility on flow of data.
• Single page initiation and process monitoring for full transactional flow.
• Single output report distribution for a process with multiple run controls.
• Reduces user clicks and navigation to various pages.
• Reduces recursive efforts done by the user.