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SAP Change Management
The demand of business for rapid innovation to support digital transformation has increased across all organizations. Non-SAP applications, especially those on the cloud, are often deployed within months. In an SAPInsider survey on Change Management and Testing for SAP Change Management and Testing in SAP, 40% of respondents said their goal was rapid deployment of updates and upgrades with 61% wanting to reduce business risk and 42% wanting negligible disruption.
SAP Change Management
The demand of business for rapid innovation to support digital transformation has increased across all organizations. Non-SAP applications, especially those on the cloud, are often deployed within months. In an SAPInsider survey on Change Management and Testing for SAP Change Management and Testing in SAP, 40% of respondents said their goal was rapid deployment of updates and upgrades with 61% wanting to reduce business risk and 42% wanting negligible disruption.
Change management is critical is such scenarios to make sure developers know what is changing, what the impact of changes are and plan for seamless rollouts that minimize business downtime. Change management is the process of managing, planning, scheduling, and controlling a software build through testing and deploying in the production environment. The end goal is successful deployment of all planned changes into the production environment.
Like a well-orchestrated supply chain, change management ensures the rollout of series of changes (called release cycle) to achieve the product rollout. There can be major releases which are long projects taking from 1-3 years and minor releases which may take days or weeks.
SAP provides change management capabilities to plan and execute change execution. Some of the benefits of the capabilities are:
- Reduced risk through extensive testing
- Less business risks
- Better test system environment through better planning
- Increased productivity due to standardization, schedules and roles
- Better planning and tracking of implementation activities
The release process involves several stages of the release cycle
- Scoping – documenting the requirements and developing the IT requirements
- Building – developing the software changes for a certain release cycle
- Testing – testing the changes through various tests such as user acceptance, regression and integration testing
- Deploying – implements the technical cutover of the release by importing all transports into production, which is managed using SAP Solution Manager.
System integrators and consultants such as Cognizant, Microexcel, TechMahindra,
SAP Solution Manager has long been used to plan, create packages for deployment, and assign requirements and changes to a release. SAP ChaRM is an SAP Solution Manager tool to manage processes that occur in a transition from concept to testing until final advertising and Production. We can track changes and transport requests for change management systems throughout the entire business system. SAP Solution Manager Project will keep track of which requests for transport are linked to which projects and in what order they have for import.
Many specialized vendors have rolled out innovative products to manage change such as Panaya, Rev-Trac, and ServiceNow. As more and more customers move to a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) or Agile/DevOps approaches, there is significant effort to plan and track all the changes. Strong collaboration, planning and automation of processes including testing and rollover are required.
Read this case study to learn how a Government Organization Improved Its ChaRM Release Strategy and Release Management Process.
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Leveraging Automation for Optimized SAP Change Management – SA Power Network’s Journey
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For SA Power Networks, the journey with Rev-Trac has been transformative, particularly in overcoming the myriad challenges associated with traditional SAP change management. Prior to Rev-Trac, SA Power Networks faced the common pitfalls of the manual change management process – prolonged downtimes, sequence inefficiencies, vulnerability to errors, and conflicts amongst various changes. These issues often…
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How to Enable End to End Change Management in SAP Systems
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Despite the availability of SAP ALM automation technology, its adoption is limited and often siloed within organizations, but integrating solutions like Rev-Trac Platinum can enhance change management processes and accelerate application delivery.
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3 Approaches to Managing SAP Change
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The article explores different approaches organizations use to manage business change requests, application enhancements, bug fixes, and project work, highlighting the pros and cons of agile, waterfall, and hybrid methodologies while emphasizing the importance of integrating Rev-Trac with various tools for effective change management and synchronization.
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How to Ensure Safe SAP Change!
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Organizations don’t just demand higher volumes of SAP change. They also expect reliable and safe SAP change that won’t break in production. Our last blog highlighted that you could move large volumes of change with Rev-Trac’s Release Management Workbench (RMW). However, if the quality of SAP changes is poor, the possibility of interruptions to your business is…
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Demo Video | Flexible and Dynamic Approval Process
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ITIL approval process This video shows some of the options available for implementation on any approval process at any organisation. This scenario follows an ITIL process, but can also be adapted for organization looking to adopt CICD, Agile, DevOps or completely customized approach to automatically managing SAP changes. Runtime: 16:27 Watch the Demo
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Hawaiian Electric powers up SAP change management with Rev-Trac
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Hawaiian Electric improved its SAP change management efficiency and reduced costs by implementing the Rev-Trac automated platform, which minimized manual efforts, mitigated errors, increased change delivery rates, and provided a clear audit trail. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here
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Unlock seamless SAP change management with Rev-Trac’s Enhanced References
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Rev-Trac’s Enhanced References feature streamlines SAP change management by automating the linking of multiple Jira subtasks and ServiceNow records to a single change request, improving tracking, governance, and testing efficiency.
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What is an SAP carve-out?
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Another New Normal: Is your company currently or in the future-facing a divestment? The world has been faced with a long list of “new normals” recently, and divestment is no different for your business. Don’t let a good business decision turn into a messy mix-up of data and information. Executing SAP carve-out smoothly and effectively…
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Delivering New Savings in Robin Hood Country
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Local government plays a vital community role at all times, but especially in times like the pandemic. The United Kingdom’s Nottinghamshire county council serves over 70,000 citizens and uses technology to help meet the community’s shifting needs. Since 2011 SAP has served as the core platform for Nottinghamshire County Council’s finance management, an essential piece…
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There are many benefits to an SAP S/4HANA transformation, but without employee adoption, the implementation could fail. Organizations looking to reduce risk need to understand how to address, plan for, monitor, and drive employee adoption through organizational change management, communication, and training – areas in which some organizations don’t have a strong competency. So how…
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