It’s SAP Upgrade Time! Do You Know Where Your Customizations Are? Part 2.

In my last post on this topic, I discussed two negative effects of customizations in an upgrade project – risk and cost.  I also discussed an obvious reason to eliminate unnecessary customization – the mitigation of risk and cost.

In this post, we will look at some of the customization areas which add risk and the cost to an upgrade project.

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What’s in a Namespace?

Introduction

DataXstream, an SAP Solution Partner, builds, packages, and distributes custom solutions for our clients.  We have built and packaged these solutions both in our own SAP landscape and in our client’s SAP landscape.  In doing so, we must be careful about how we manage our namespaces, their associated development and repair license keys, and packages.  It is not surprising, then, that I have received several inquiries asking about our namespace strategy for the development, packaging, and distribution of add-on products.

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