Application Lifecycle Management: Sap Teched 2010 Live Clip
Application Lifecycle Management: Sap Teched 2010 Live Clip
Application Lifecycle Management: Sap Teched 2010 Live Clip
Best Practice Processes SAP Solution Manager and Tools Best Practices and Methodologies Services
SAP Solution Manager Overview for Dummies This blog provides an overview of SAP Solution Manager in laymen's language and provides pointers to additioinal introductory content written by other community members. SAP AND THIRD-PARTY TOOLS Besides SAP Solution Manager, SAP offers other tools to complement the ALM offerings. And it is possible to integrate third-party ALM tools via available interfaces, as well.
SAP Quality Center by HP SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood SAP Productivity Pak by RWD SAP Extended Diagnostics by CA Wily SAP Test Data Migration Server SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization - See related SAP TechEd '08 session, Demystifying SAP TAO SAP IT Service Management SAP Resource and Portfolio Management SAP Landscape Transformation
SERVICES
To support you in implementing ALM in your organization, SAP provides various services. SAP customers can get further information regarding these offerings on the ALM Services page (SMP login required). Expert Guided Implementation (SMP login required) is a new optimized, short-term setup service to configure basic settings of SAP Solution Manager without long-term, in-house consulting. This service balances the combination of training, practical experience and expertise on demand and allows customers to create baseline functionality for implementation of end-to-end solution operations, ready-to-use. In mostly 5 days. Examples of activities are: Doing an update, building a customizing, or executing a service. With the Consulting Services for SAP Solution Manager, SAP Consulting is covering your needs for SAP Solution Manager expertise. The various Services will help to plan the deployment of SAP Solution Manager, install the system, configure the mandatory and desired functions, and train users and administrators on how to handle SAP Solution Manager.
SAP offers several training courses and empowering workshops to facilitate knowledge transfer to your support organization. The training and certification of Run SAP provides companies, partners, and SAP consultants with the methodology to implement ALM.
BUSINESS VALUE
APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
In the current economic environment, CIOs and IT managers are challenged more than ever to cut IT costs and enable business process excellence and timely innovation adoption - at the same time.
Accelerated Innovation through value discovery and realization; innovation without upgrade; and near-zero downtime. Operation at lower cost through standardized, unified and automated operations; managed complexity; and manage SLAs. Superior Quality of SAP solutions, customer enhancements and partner deployments in terms of functionality, performance, availability and security.
Watch the video replay of the SAP TechEd LIVE 2009 interview between Ulrich Scholl, Global Enterprise Solution Marketing Vice President, and Marc Thier, head of ALM Solution Management.
CUSTOMER SUCCESS
Several customers have achieved very individual results and benefits. Here are some examples. Surgutneftegas - Application Lifecycle Management Customer Success Story Find out how Surgutneftegas, one of the top three integrated oil companies in Russia, increased operational efficiency by 30% and improved system stability by leveraging SAP MaxAttention services to support Application Lifecycle Management best practices. Surgutneftegas establsihed ALM processes like change and incident management based on ITIL(IT Infrastructure Library) with SAP Solution Manager to manage SAP and non-SAP related IT landscape. City of Nuremberg - Application Lifecycle Management pays Dividends See how this German municipal government reduced the number of failed changes by 70% and cut operations costs by 20% by using SAP Solution Manager to manage the application lifecycle. Deutsche Postbank Find out how Germany's largest retail bank Deutsche Postbank improved the quality of monitoring and how application lifecycle management provided by SAP Solution Manager helped staff solve problems and made the monitoring of transactional processes a lot more comfortable. The centralized accountability offered through automation also enables better opportunities for capacity management and planning. Australia Post Testimonial Video See how Australia Post takes advantage of SAP's approach to Application Lifecycle Management and how they use the SAP Solution Manager as their central point of command and control for their implementation projects. P&G Testimonial Video Learn how P&G accelerated speed, reduced cost, and improved quality by using SAP Solution Manager from a build and run perspective. Koehler Paper Group Leverages SAP's Approach to Application Lifecycle Management With a turnover of 540 million and sales of 429,000 tons of paper, Papierfabrik August Koehler AG is one of the few independent German companies in the paper industry. As a market leader in thermal papers, it runs production 24x7, posing stiff challenges for its IT staff. Find out why it chose SAP Enterprise Support services and leverage SAP Solution Manager as the single, central, integrated application lifecycle management solution. Coca-Cola FEMSA Manages Application Lifecycle for Business Continuity and Innovation See how Coca-Cola FEMSA efficiently manages the application lifecycle by leveraging SAP Solution Manager, SAP Solution Extensions and SAP MaxAttention support. How Solution Manager RCA Change Reporting Saved the Day In this blog, SAP Mentor Tony de Thomasis of Australia Post describes how Solution Manager RCA Change Reporting saved the day. Tony goes on to write a series of blogs about ALM functionality: Part 0 (Prequel)
Part 1 (Maintenance Certificates) Part 2 (Landscape Reporting) Part 3 (Earlywatch Alert Reports) Part 4 (Central System Administration) Part 5 (IT Performance Reporting) Part 6 (Check and Apply SAP HotNews) Part 7 (SAP Central Service Connections) Part 8 (Wily Introscope) Part 9 (Maintenance Optimizer) Part 10 (Top 10 Solution Manager Tips) E.ON UK: Implementation Shines with the Help of SAP Solution Manager (PDF 179 KB) E.ON UK can now provide centralized repository for all solution information and documentation, and simplified methods for guiding and checking the documentation processes of third-party users. Hindustan Unilever SAP Solution Manager Speeds up Software Change Management by 70% (PDF 164 KB) India-based Hindustan Unilever managed to achieve 70% speedier transports for non-ABAP software, almost complete elimination of disruptions and mistakes in ABAP and non-ABAP change transports, and total compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. Arla Foods: Optimizing Business Continuity by Monitoring Business Processes Danish-based Arla Foods amba optimized business continuity and performance by proactively monitoring business processes using a single dashboard. SAP Business Transformation Study: DuPont DuPont reduced annual operations costs by over US$ 11 million via central monitoring of systems and business processes
GETTING STARTED
APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
SAP provides a large portfolio for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). In most cases, it makes no sense to implement all possibilities in a big bang. So how to start? This depends on different influence factors such as the maturity of your IT processes, your IT projects and project pipeline, and your cost pressure and cost structure compared with peers. Select those parts of the ALM portfolio first that bring the highest value to your company.
Explore the Value Define Your Roadmap Implement SAP Solution Manager Optimize Your IT Processes Empower Your IT Organization
Reduced Total Cost of Operations - Today's economy requires a greater focus on lowering costs within your organization. Business Continuity - Maintaining business continuity is the key to success. As landscapes become larger and more complex, there is a greater need for integration and mission-critical support. Business Process Improvement - The business environment today requires transparency of business process exceptions and KPIs. Improving business processes is critical to your organization's success. Protection of Investment and Accelerated Innovation - Protecting IT investment while introducing innovations is critical in today's economy. You have to be able to adapt to new requirements without business disruptions.
Consider the priority of these values as well as the current situation of your organization to find out the direction that would bring the highest value for you.
As central application management platform, SAP Solution Manager is key for the success of your ALM journey. If you don't have SAP Solution Manager yet, you should implement it as soon as possible to reap all the benefits. And even if you have an installation, it might be worth to update it to the latest support package version! What do you have to configure in SAP Solution Manager after the technical installation? Basically, you should start the SAP Solution Manager Basic Configuration Assistant. This is a guided procedure that takes you through the initial setup, the basis configuration, and the connection of managed systems. After this has been done, you can already start using many functions like maintenance of SAP software, collaboration with SAP, root cause analysis, implementation/change/upgrade projects, test management, administration, or service level reporting. Other functions need some additional configuration, like the definition of thresholds or definition of workflows. Also, documentation of business processes is required for some functions. E.g., you need to document your core business processes to analyze the impact of changes on them. Expert Guided Implementation (SMP login required) is a new optimized, short-term setup service to configure basic settings for SAP Solution Manager without long-term, in-house consulting. This service balances the combination of training, practical experience and expertise on demand and allows customers to create baseline functionality for implementation of end-to-end solution operations, ready-to-use. In mostly 5 days.
SAP offers several training courses or empowering workshops to facilitate knowledge transfer to your support organization. The training and certification of Run SAP provides companies, partners, and SAP consultants with the methodology to implement ALM. The organizational model of the Customer Center of Expertise (Customer COE) drives integrated quality management, enabling transparency across business and IT units to critical challenges in SAP solution operations: ensuring business continuity, reducing costs and accelerating innovation. Establishing a Customer COE to manage quality and collaboration between all parties involved empowers an organization to manage its mission-critical operations effectively and efficiently.
TECHNICAL ENABLEMENT
APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
SAP Solution Manager and SAP NetWeaver deliver software and services to help IT organizations efficiently operate mission-critical business applications and leverage investments in existing SAP solutions. SAP Solution Manager offers a management platform and methodology that support all Application Lifecycle Management specific tasks in a comprehensive fashion - starting from blueprint and system landscape design to testing, deployment, successful operations, and change. That way IT organizations can manage SAP solutions efficiently, improve the availability of applications, and optimize daily operations to reduce the total cost of ownership across their IT landscape. Before diving into the ALM core processes below, get the complete overview of ALM technical enablement.
Landscape Design and Infrastructure Initial Setup Solution Documentation Solution Implementation Template Management Test Management Change Management Application Incident Management Technical Operations Business Process Operations Maintenance Management Landscape Transformation Upgrade and Update Management Cockpit for Delta Information regarding SAP Solution Manager
Landscape design and infrastructure capabilities offer you methods, tools, and best practices for planning and modeling your landscape. This starts with the design of the solution landscape layout, and continues with adopting SAP NetWeaver distribution models, evaluating virtualization concepts, and continues with identifying technical infrastructure prerequisites, while considering all internationalization aspects. Landscape Design and Infrastructure
INITIAL SETUP
Get details on installation and configuration of SAP Solution Manager. Initial Setup
SOLUTION DOCUMENTATION
Solution Documentation centrally documents and relates the business processes and technical information from SAP and non-SAP solutions to ensure transparency, efficient maintenance, and collaboration. Solution Documentation
SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION
Solution Implementation involves the identification, adaptation, and implementation of new and enhanced future-proof business and technical scenarios. It is designed to decouple technical installation from business innovation, and uses SAP Solution Manager to implement innovation within the system landscape. Solution Implementation
TEMPLATE MANAGEMENT
Template Management allows customers with multi-site SAP installations to efficiently manage their business processes across geographical distances, such as part of a global rollout approach: from initial template definition to template implementation, and template optimization. This can help you to harmonize and synchronize your business processes while minimizing implementation efforts through centralizing template design, build and test. Template Management
TEST MANAGEMENT
Test Management defines the integration testing requirements and test scope based on a change impact analysis. It is used to develop automatic and manual test cases, manage the testers, and report on the test progress and test results. Test Management
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Workflow-based management of business- and technology-driven solution improvement changes with integrated project management, quality management, and synchronized deployment capabilities to best manage the risks associated with the implementation of the solution, therefore ensuring technical and functional robustness. Change Management
Application Incident Management enables centralized and common incident and issue message processing on multiple organization levels, and offers a communication channel with all relevant stakeholders of an incident. The process includes business user, SAP experts at the customer site, SAP Service and Support and Partner Support employees. It is integrated in all ALM processes of SAP Solution Manager and in any SAP Business suite solution. It can be connected to a non-SAP help desk application. Includes follow-up activities such as knowledge research, root cause analysis, or change management. Application Incident Management
TECHNICAL OPERATIONS
Technical Operations in Application Lifecycle Management represents all capabilities for monitoring, alerting, analysis, and administration of SAP solutions, and allows customers to reduce TCO by predefined content and centralized tools for all aspects of SAP Solution Manager operations. It provides end-to-end reporting functionality either out-of-the-box, or individually created by customers. Technical Operations Jump to: Administration | Job Management | Monitoring | Operations | Output Management | Performance, Sizing, and Benchmarks | Reporting | System Landscape Directory | Virtualization and Adaptive Computing | Work Centers in SAP Solution Manager
MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
Maintenance Management covers software correction packages: from discovery and retrieval to test scope optimization, including optional automatic deployment into the production environment. Maintenance Management
LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION
SAP Landscape Transformation (SAP LT) enables customers and partners to realize the harmonization, migration, and consolidation of existing SAP data. SAP Landscape Transformation software uses SAP Solution Manager as a platform to tackle transformation requirements and manage all projects through an automated and integrated approach to adapt organizational structures to changing business requirements - including mergers and acquisitions (M&As), divesting business units, and optimizing existing business processes. Landscape Transformation
EXPLORING SOFTWARE POSSIBILITIES ON THE NEXT RELEASE OF THE DISCOVERY SYSTEM VERSION 5.0NEW!
The SAP Discovery system bundles hardware, software, and content to enable you to evaluate and demonstrate the benefits of the newest SAP applications and technologies. It offers a preconfigured and preinstalled SAP software landscape to support innovation and exploration, serving as an ideal tool for evaluating SAP applications within the context of your own enterprise and the challenges you face. Just some of the applications you can evaluate include the SAP ERP application, the unified SAP NetWeaver technology platform, the SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management component, the SAP NetWeaver TM Composition Environment (SAP NetWeaver CE) offering, SAP BusinessObjects tools, mobile applications from TM SAP, and the SAP Customer Relationship Management application. Built-in components for the SAP HANA platform* simplify the integration to a customer's SAP HANA appliance software, which is sold separately. Also new with the latest release of the SAP Discovery system is the addition of built-in and integrated add-on solutions as virtual machines. These add-ons expand the functionality and capability of the core SAP Discovery system. Currently offered as an add-on to release 5 of the SAP Discovery system is the SAP BusinessObjects Sustainability Performance Management application. Offered as a separate virtual machine, this application is made available after the SAP Discovery system has been purchased and license keys activated. The Discovery System v5 will be released and available for ordering from our hardware partners in Q4 of 2011. * SAP HANA is not included with the SAP Discovery system, release 5, and must be purchased separately. Click here for a preview of the Discovery system V5. Take a sneak peak at the demos and exercises included in V5. The new Solution Brief coming soon.