The Process Governance module is designed as a central hub for managing the lifecycle of process models. It focuses on version control, collaboration, approval workflows, and ensuring that process documentation is standardized and aligned with compliance requirements, which is distinct from execution automation or real-time analytics.

Lifecycle Management in Process Governance allows users to move process artifacts through predefined statuses (e.g., Draft, In Review, Approved, Released). It enables the configuration of approval workflows, ensuring that changes are formally reviewed and sanctioned by responsible stakeholders before being released for use.

An Event Sub-Process, particularly one triggered by an Error Intermediate Event, is the BPMN 2.0 standard way to handle exceptions and boundary events. It allows you to model the alternate exception flow in a self-contained, reusable way that is visually attached to the main process but doesn’t clutter its primary sequence.

The Process Collaboration Hub (often accessed via the ‘Collaboration Hub’ tile) acts as the central repository. Its main interface provides a list or tile view of all processes, folders, and related artifacts. Users can filter, sort, and customize columns to see metadata like status, owner, last modified date, and version, fulfilling the governance requirement.

A User Task represents work performed by a human actor. Its assignment properties can be set to a specific role or user. Placing an Exclusive Gateway immediately after the User Task allows the process flow to branch based on the outcome of that human decision (e.g., ‘Approved’ or ‘Rejected’), which is a standard pattern for approval steps.

Process Insights is the component within the SAP Signavio suite that is powered by process mining. It connects directly to source system event logs (like SAP S/4HANA) to visually discover the as-is process, measure performance metrics (cycle time, wait time), and pinpoint bottlenecks, rework loops, and compliance deviations based on real data.

In BPMN, a Pool represents a major participant in a process, often another organization, department, or a separate system. It defines a boundary. Lanes exist within a Pool and are used to organize and categorize activities within that participant, typically by role (e.g., ‘Manager’, ‘Clerk’), department, or system component.

The Process Publisher is designed to take a process model created in the Process Modeler and publish it as an interactive, HTML-based process guide. These guides are user-friendly, can include additional documentation and links, and are meant for broad consumption by employees who need to understand or execute the process, not just model it.

The Process Modeler includes simulation features that allow you to define parameters (like processing times, resource costs, probabilities at gateways) for elements in your model. You can then run simulations to analyze process performance, identify bottlenecks, and test the potential impact of changes (like adding automation or resources) before implementing them in reality.

The Process Governance module is designed as a central hub for managing the lifecycle of process models. It focuses on version control, collaboration, approval workflows, and ensuring that process documentation is standardized and aligned with compliance requirements, which is distinct from execution automation or real-time analytics.0