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As its name suggests, the SAP Solution Manager is designed to provide support for the management of SAP customer implementations. Does it perform this task? Or is it just one of SAP´s marketing instruments?
Missing Functions for Complex System Landscapes
When discussing the pros and cons of SAP Solution Manager, we must first of all give SAP [...]

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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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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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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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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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Theory says that in order for effective business process testing to be done, testing requirements should already be deduced in the requirement’s phase of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). But do SAP users consistently test all the processes that are impacted by changes? Despite obvious consequences, this is hardly ever done.
Process models are not up-to-date
Many [...]

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Searching the right information in the SAP information jungle can be quite time consuming. This guide is  intended to help to SAP professionals to quickly find answers to typical questions on the internet. For each proposed search starting point prerequisites as well as an estimate for the time needed to find the solution are listed.This [...]

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Inconsistent customization settings - a typical issue of decentral SAP systems
Large SAP installations with multiple decentral system landscapes struggle to keep SAP customization settings consistent across the company. Conventional approaches , e.g. SAP Template Customization, to distribute templates lead inevitably to inconsistencies. Maintaining a consistent system requires extraodinary effort.
Conventional SAP company template roll-out
In most SAP [...]

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