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In collaboration with the PHW Business School, Zurich, Switzerland we are conducting  a study in the IT Change Impact Management area.
We are analyzing a specific challenges of international corporations using SAP as their corporate software globally and specifically the challenges of their IT development organization because of impacts given by system consolidaton centralization efforts.
Fundamentally we will [...]

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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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In order to handle the various problems resulting from changes to a SAP landscape, it is common use to spend of lot of money on experts rushing to fix them. But there is a better alternative: Focussing on a tool-supported, automated SAP change and transport management environment, including measures to ensure consistency, can eliminate the [...]

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Nothing is more constant than change – this is also true for SAP systems. At least once a week, numerous changes of support or project organizations are moved into system landscapes and more or less automatically transported to production servers. And the more complex the solution landscape is, the higher the risk that something goes [...]

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The new SAP Change Control Miniguide below has just been posted on our beteo website. Additions and feedback are welcome!
SAP Change and Transport Management Tools

Product
Vendor
Modules

Conigma Suite
Galileo Group
Change and Transport Management

Newmerix Automate!
newmerix
Change and Transport Management

PPM
HP
Change and Transport Management

Rev-Trac
Revelation
Change and Transport Management

SAP Solution Manager
SAP
Change and Transport Management

TransportManager
REALTECH
Change and Transport Management

Additional ALM information

SAP Transport Management Discipline
Protecting [...]

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Continuously growing system complexity
Nowadays, existing IT systems cover more or less the complete business processes. In most cases, strategic decisions to buy commercial software  - instead of making software - are in place. New developments of complete business systems are the exception to the rule. Against the background of this situation, a new concept of [...]

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Typical Situation
Installing SAP support packs is always quite a challenge. Which parts of the SAP-supported business processes are really affected? What exactly should be tested? Are there any own developments affected? What is the amount of resources required for testing and interventions? These are just some of the possible questions. Unfortunately, they normally can not [...]

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Template Protection across System Landscapes
In large SAP system landscapes, there will always be inconsistency between the systems through local changes in the course of the lifecycle of SAP applications. This may stir up a lot of trouble for SAP users. SAP Solution Manager, applied professionally, can avoid this. It reduces costs and time expended [...]

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For testing SAP solutions, we used to depend on experts with specialized ABAP or JAVA know-how. Consistent testing of processes beyond SAP systems was quite a challenge.
Now SAP offers SAP Quality Center by HP. It enables the customer to integrate SAP testing into a comprehensive Quality Management and testing of his IT organisation. This [...]

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In the context of large commercial software installations, the opportunity to reduce costs in the long run – all through the life cycle of the systems – is tremendous. Four fields of Application Management, pragmatically introduced and applied, are able to substantially contribute to this potential benefit.
Project Portfolio Management
A consistent Project Portfolio Management (PPM) which [...]

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