Solution Manager offers tremendous value for those operating multi-landscape SAP implementations. A component of NetWeaver and a successor to Run SAP methodology, it is the Technical Manager’s response to optimizing SAP performance while minimizing IT costs. Using industry best practices, SolMan centralizes and guides IT and Basis Administrators in their efforts to manage the existing environment, while considering how to extend SAP’s value further across the enterprise. It consolidates a variety of tools, content, and processes to successfully deploy, manage, and expand a distributed or complex SAP environment. It centralizes technical and administrative support, standardizes configurations and methodologies, insures compliance to corporate and regulatory requirements, and streamlines enhancements/upgrades to an SAP system. Despite being provided free of charge with an SAP purchase, Solution Manager’s often remains in obscurity because customers generally don’t know how to implement it. Thankfully, DataXstream does.
Mining the Rich Tool Set of Solution Manager
The value SolMan delivers is limited only by the extent it is used, and usage can be incrementally increased as new initiatives commence. Among the mechanisms SolMan can provide are:
SAP Business Suite implementation and upgrades – Providing configuration information, a process-driven approach, and project management capabilities to speed blueprint, configuration, and rollout across multi-component implementations.
Change control Requests and Management (ChaRM): Controlling the initiation, approval, documentation, and tracking of all changes to the SAP environment over its lifecycle.
Testing – Guiding testing preparation, centralizing test script and results storage, and controlling access for testing purposes.
IT and application support/services – Centralizing support messages, providing automated service recommendations, facilitating incident tracking and service level reporting, and interfacing with SAP to resolve issues.
Root cause analysis – Providing diagnostic functions to identify, analyze, and help resolve problems even in heterogeneous environments.
Solution monitoring and administration – Centralizing real-time monitoring across the SAP environment, including systems, processes and interfaces.
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To learn how DataXstream can help you get the greatest value out of SolMan, read on.
