08/07/2008 by Andreas Schegg
Today´s IT in its role as service provider for the enterprise requires an immediate rethinking with regard to resources and configurations data management.
If the datastore is not flexible enough, requirements resulting from service lifecycle management (SLM) might not be met to a satifactory degree and the provisioning of the CMDB services might not be as [...]
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07/24/2008 by Peter Helfenstein
HP offers a number of BTO Centers. These software packages support in the context of a BTO strategy specific phases of the application lifecycle. The following overview is meant to shed light on the HP BTO jungle.
IT STRATEGY
Project and Portfolio Management Center (CIO Office)
The IT management solution enables control and documentation of the enterprise [...]
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06/30/2008 by Fritz Mosonyi
16th century. The eyes of an archeologist are scanning a field. He is asking himself where he should start digging. In his life, he still has a few years left. Which area would, from his experience, hold a chance for him to make a discovery? Then he notices a tree. For growing, it would need [...]
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06/27/2008 by Dieter Steiger
A comprehensive configuration management is the most important basis of SAP Change and Transport Management. For ABAP code, this is accepted as general practice and supported by suitable tools. But how about configuration management for SAP customizing?
From our experience, the major part of changes transported across a SAP system landscape are customizing changes. Not surprisingly, [...]
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06/25/2008 by Dieter Steiger
Business Technology Optimization as a Challenge
Business Technology Optimization (BTO) targets at a closer collaboration of IT and business – nothing really new, just a daily challenge to the CIO. To support SAP IT organizations in reaching this target, beteo has designed the beteo Impact Hourglass.
With the beteo Impact Hourglass, principally all objects of the business [...]
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06/24/2008 by Dieter Steiger
Successful IT Planning & Control must include not only IT Service Management and Project & Portfolio Management, but also Application Lifecycle Management in order to be of lasting benefit. The following illustration by Gartner clearly demonstrates this.
Considering the support of the various areas and, above all, of the interfaces between them, it is obvious that [...]
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06/19/2008 by Markus von der Heiden
Nowadays, software is used in virtually all enterprises. Software is continuously extended, changed or deactivated – as a result of changing business requirements, enhanced functionality of commercial software releases, or subsequent to bug-fixing. Over the years, typical phases, methods and techniques of the development cycle have established: project portfolio management techniques, software development methods and [...]
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11/12/2007 by Dieter Steiger
This article shows how Application Lifecycle Management can be implemented for large SAP installations. A description of the respective software components can be found on HP’s BTO website.
Complex SAP systems landscape
The subsequent chart illustrates how complex a comprehensive SAP Business Suite can be, with its various systems landscapes that can consist of development, quality assurance [...]
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Can a Classic CMDB Cope With Business Service Management?
