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Implementations and Upgrades
Implementations and Upgrades
- Centralize and Simplify SAP Solution Maintenance Across Your System Landscape with the Maintenance Optimizer — An
Administrator’s Guide
by Martin Rink and Stefan Raffel, SAP AG (January/February 2008)
Keeping your SAP solutions up-to-date across development, test, and production landscapes is a daunting task, and the growing number of applications, functionalities, and integrated technologies only adds to the challenge. SAP Solution Manager 4.0 introduces the Maintenance Optimizer, a tool that centralizes and simplifies solution maintenance across your entire landscape — it detects and downloads relevant support packages and patches, it guides you through the maintenance process, and, as of April 2007, it is required for maintaining SAP Business Suite 2005 and higher. This article gets you up and running quickly with the Maintenance Optimizer and shows you how to get the most out of it.
- Combat Excess Growth in SAP Systems: A Guide to the Custom Development Management Cockpit
by Kay Eidner and Oliver Kapaun, Expert Technical Support Consultants, SAP AG (June 2010)
The Custom Development Management Cockpit (CDMC) helps clean up the system by identifying coding that is no longer in use. Armed with this information, you can apply only necessary changes to the system during processes such as an upgrade.
- Create a Global Deployment Unit Test
by Michael Cheatham, Senior Manager, Deloitte (December 2008)
Learn how to review, plan, organize, and execute unit testing for a global deployment of SAP Supplier Relationship Management 5.0 (SAP SRM) using Solution Manager.
- From Solution Composer Map to Business Blueprint in an Instant
by Venki Krishnamoorthy, SAP (September 2009)
After you create a business map using Solution Composer, you can use it in SAP Solution Manager to quickly generate a blueprinting document.
- Guide Your Implementation Project with SAP Solution Manager
by Gaetano Altavilla, Senior SAP Solutions Architect, Project Manager, Team Leader, and Trainer (May 2009)
Learn how you can best use SAP Solution Manager 7.0 (formerly called SAP Solution Manager 4.0) functionality for an SAP implementation project. Specifically, read about the details of the Implementation Roadmap and the activities that should be performed in each implementation stage using tools found in SAP Solution Manager.
- Manage and Document Your Realization Phase with the Configuration Transaction
by D. Russell Sloan, IBM Global Business Services, Implementation and Governance Specialist — SAP Solution Manager (October 2009)
Learn how SAP Solution Manager can help you manage the Realization phase (otherwise known as the configuration or build phase) of your SAP project. Using tools in configuration transaction SOLAR02 can also prepare you for change management and operational support.
- Manage Key Project Strategy Documents with SAP Solution Manager Roadmaps
by D. Russell Sloan, IBM Global Business Services, Implementation and Governance Specialist – SAP Solution Manager
(January 2009)
Strategic documents and methodologies set the direction and the processes for SAP projects. SAP Solution Manager Roadmaps provide the tools and content repositories you use to tailor a selected methodology and to set the direction for your project. Learn how to use these tools to ensure successful projects and to generate valuable assets for future projects.
- Meeting Resistance to Implementing SAP Solution Manager? Here's What to Do
by Esteban Hartzstein, Director and Founder of Tebyon Consulting (March 2010)
Here are five tips on how to explain why SAP Solution Manager should be considered an advantage to an organization, not a burden or the source of additional project cost. Also, learn how to structure the implementation of SAP Solution Manager once you have received approval.
- New User Interface and Content Enhances Service Level Reporting
by Michael Mayer, Active Global Support – Technology, SAP AG (February 2009)
Learn about the redesigned Service Level Reporting Setup Workbench user interface. Discover the extended reporting capabilities that the enhanced Service Level Report content supplies.
- Quick Tip: Choosing Which SAP Solution Manager Functions to Implement Made Easy
by Dan McGrann, Software Products Manager, REALTECH USA (October 2008)
Explore a methodology to determine which SAP Solution Manager components your organization should implement to realize a return on interest (ROI) as quickly as possible and which components will not immediately help with your current goals.
- Quick Tip: Create Customer Attributes to Facilitate Decision-Making
by Lori Sanders, SAP Solution Manager Practice Lead, Enowa Consulting (October 2009)
Discover how the customer attributes functionality can help you make sense of large projects during an implementation or upgrade. In particular, the focus is on setting priority attributes.
- Quick Tip: Important Considerations for Business Process Hierarchies
by D. Russell Sloan, IBM Global Business Services, Implementation, and Governance Specialist — SAP Solution Manager (May 2009)
Discover a shortcut to represent the shared processes in the Business Process Hierarchy (BPH) so you don’t have multiple definitions of the same process, which can confuse your process and support teams. Learn a few tips about what you should consider when building your BPH.
- Quick Tip: Reduce Administration Overhead in Change Request Management
by John Osburn, Principal Technical Consultant, SAP Consulting Services – Midwest, SAP America, Inc. (December 2008)
Learn a few simple tricks to reduce your administrative overhead and work.
- Quick Tip: Save Time During Your Service Desk Implementation
by D. Russell Sloan, IBM Global Business Services, Implementation and Governance Specialist — SAP Solution Manager (March 2009)
Learn some of the initial shortcuts you can use during an SAP Solution Manager Service Desk implementation to save time and effort for your organization.
- Quick Tip: Streamline 5 Core Center of Excellence Functions with SAP Solution Manager
by Kehinde Eseyin, Systems Support Manager, TOTAL Nigeria PLC (August 2009)
Find out how you can use SAP Solution Manager with the SAP Center of Excellence to optimize performance, testing, support, and business processes in your SAP system.
- Quick Tip: Yes — Smaller Companies Can Streamline Operations with SAP Solution Manager
by Lori Sanders, SAP Solution Manager Practice Lead, Enowa Consulting (March 2009)
Discover how SAP Solution Manager can work in smaller organizations.
- Roadmaps and Methodology:
Get the Most Out of Your Implementations, Upgrades, and SAP Systems
by Brad Saxon, Managing Principal, SAP America, Inc. (October 2008)
Ensure a successful SAP implementation, upgrade, or smooth-running operation: Learn about the available SAP Roadmaps, the options for accessing them, and the benefits of using them.
- SAP Enterprise Support: Make Sure SAP Solution Manager Meets Your New Support Requirements
by Lori Sanders, SAP Solution Manager Practice Lead, Enowa Consulting (October 2008)
Learn about requirements from SAP for SAP Solution Manager systems based on the new SAP Enterprise Support offering and about the specific areas where SAP Enterprise Support services requires activation of SAP Solution Manager functionality.
- SAP Solution Manager — “Command Central” for Implementing Your mySAP Solutions … and Much More!
by Matthias Melich, SAP AG (September/October 2003)
Learn how to describe, define, and document your business processes, and provide predefined descriptions of business scenarios and configuration guides in a single, centralized location using Solution Manager.
- The Issue Resolution Process: An Essential Prerequisite for Implementing Service Desk
by Sundar Chandrasekaran, Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting, LLP (February 2009)
By documenting the issue resolution process that best reflects your existing organizational support structure, you can configure the Service Desk to minimize negative impacts on your organization.
- Use Business Blueprints to Their Highest Potential for a Successful Implementation
by D. Russell Sloan, IBM Global Business Services, Implementation and Governance Specialist — SAP Solution Manager (June 2009)
Learn how proper use of the Business Process Repository and Business Blueprint can help set your organization on the course for a successful implementation and establish a foundation for effective support. Explore how to set your project scope and create relationships between scope items and objects to support traceability and transparency in change management.
- Use SAP Solution Manager Change Request Management (ChaRM) to Support Your Implementation Project
by John Osburn, Principal Technical Consultant, SAP Consulting Services – Midwest, SAP America, Inc. (November 2008)
Learn how to deploy and manage change requests within an implementation project by using Change Request Management.
- Use the Upgrade Functionality for a Well-Documented and Smooth Transition
by Brad P. Saxon, Managing Principal, SAP America, Inc. (December 2008)
Learn about the tools and methodologies in the SAP Solution Manager Upgrade Project for planning, executing, and documenting the most important aspects and phases of your functional upgrade projects.
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