Jan 17, 2025
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SAP DevOps
SAP DevOps: Accelerating SAP Change Through Automation and Continuous Delivery
SAP DevOps applies continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) principles to SAP change management, enabling development, quality assurance, operations and business teams to work in a unified, automated pipeline rather than in isolated silos.
SAPinsider research on change management and testing in SAP found that while the traditional waterfall model still dominates for SAP ECC deployments — favored by 37% of organizations versus 28% for agile — 43% of organizations plan to roll out agile and DevOps methodologies and 38% plan to adopt DevOps orchestration tools. As SAP landscapes migrate to S/4HANA and cloud environments, DevOps practices are becoming foundational to managing change at scale.
What Is SAP DevOps?
SAP DevOps is a methodology that combines agile development, automated testing, release orchestration and continuous delivery to manage change across SAP landscapes, including SAP ECC, S/4HANA, SAP BTP, Integration Suite and SAP Analytics Cloud.
By eliminating barriers between development, QA, operations and business teams, SAP DevOps enables organizations to move away from rigid release cycles toward iterative, sprint-based delivery. Tools such as Rev-Trac, ReleaseOwl, Jenkins, GitLab, Microsoft Azure DevOps and ServiceNow support pipeline integration, agile backlog management, automated testing and audit-ready change governance across complex SAP environments.
What Use Cases Are Referenced?
Transitioning SAP Operations to a Site Reliability Engineering Model
As SAP organizations migrate to S/4HANA and cloud infrastructure, the traditional reactive Basis support model is giving way to proactive Site Reliability Engineering. SAPinsider contributor Joe Perez examines how SAP SREs apply DevOps principles — including shared responsibility, automation and defined service level objectives — to improve system resilience and deliver measurable business value across complex, dynamic landscapes.
Automating SAP Change Management for Audit Compliance
Speed and audit compliance are often treated as competing priorities in SAP change management. SAPinsider outlines how Rev-Trac Platinum automates SAP change orchestration, enabling organizations to deliver changes at business speed while maintaining the audit trail and governance controls required for regulatory compliance across SAP landscapes.
Integrating DevSecOps into the SAP Development Lifecycle
In response to vulnerabilities such as Log4j, IT executives are embedding security earlier in the SAP development cycle. SAPinsider explores how a partnership between Rev-Trac and Onapsis delivers integrated DevSecOps capabilities, automating security checks and change control to reduce risk and strengthen compliance before production releases.
Lean-Agile SAP Change Management at Target
Target transitioned from a traditional waterfall SAP development process to a lean-agile model built around autonomous, product-focused teams. This SAPinsider case study describes how Target used Rev-Trac to orchestrate an end-to-end DevOps toolchain, eliminate cross-team silos and manage SAP changes through the full lifecycle in rapid sprint cycles.
CI/CD for SAP ECC, S/4HANA and BTP with ReleaseOwl
ReleaseOwl is a native DevOps platform for SAP that enables CI/CD pipelines across SAP ECC, S/4HANA, SAP BTP, Integration Suite and SAP Analytics Cloud. SAPinsider demonstrates how ReleaseOwl accelerates SAP adoption and application releases with reduced risk and greater reliability by standardizing deployment pipelines across heterogeneous SAP landscapes.
SAFe DevOps for Cross-Functional SAP Teams
The Scaled Agile Framework DevOps course equips cross-functional SAP teams to optimize the full development value stream from concept to delivery. This SAPinsider overview covers how teams design a tailored Continuous Delivery Pipeline using SAFe DevOps, build collaboration skills for distributed environments and align development and operations around a shared delivery cadence.
What SAPinsider Research Supports This Topic?
SAPinsider SAP BTP Data, Integration and AppDev 2025: DevOps and CI/CD Adoption
The SAPinsider SAP BTP Data, Integration and AppDev 2025 report found that 33% of respondents are adopting agile and DevOps methodologies to accelerate platform development and improve collaboration. An additional 36% already use DevOps and CI/CD tools, with 23% actively implementing them and 34% currently in evaluation.
SAPinsider SAP BTP Data, Integration and AppDev 2025: Change Management Investment
The same SAPinsider report found that planned use of consultants or systems integrators for change management rose from 29% in 2024 to 35% in 2025, reflecting growing organizational investment in structured change governance as SAP landscapes grow more complex and cloud migration timelines compress.
SAPinsider RISE with SAP 2025 Benchmark Research
The SAPinsider RISE with SAP 2025 benchmark report, based on a survey of 122 community members conducted in late 2025, found that cloud ERP adoption is accelerating sharply as the 2027 end-of-maintenance deadline approaches, increasing pressure on SAP organizations to adopt DevOps practices that support continuous delivery and faster upgrade cadences.
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Join this webinar to learn how:
DevOps automation provides a fast, low-risk way to execute key steps in the S/4HANA journey
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Dec 15, 2022
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An SAP Team’s Guide to Agile DevelopmentWith SAP teams under pressure to become more responsive to changing business needs, agile development provides a way to deliver functionality, gather feedback and iterate more quickly than is possible using a traditional waterfall approach. But agile means more than just deploying to Production more frequently – it covers a range of different frameworks and […]
Nov 10, 2021
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An SAP Team’s Guide to Agile DevelopmentWith SAP teams under pressure to become more responsive to changing business needs, agile development provides a way to deliver functionality, gather feedback and iterate more quickly than is possible using a traditional waterfall approach. But agile means more than just deploying to Production more frequently - it covers a range of different frameworks and practices that add up to a new way of working.
View this webinar to learn about different agile frameworks and the organizational impact of agile development. Learn about effective techniques, tools and metrics that help to make agile development a reality for SAP teams, and how you might get started.
After viewing this webinar, you will have a better understanding of:
The origins of agile development and why it came about
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The benefits of agile for SAP, including a real-world example
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