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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Proactive Impact Management - the basis for BTO