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Learn how to take benefit from ALM new

features in the newest SAP Solution

Manager support packs

Sigrid De Smet

Expertum

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Oliver Buyssens

Expertum

SAPience.be TECHday’13

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Expertum presentation

Scope of this presentation

Solution Manager offering

ALM with SAP Solution Manager

Benefits of the Solution

Future Roadmap

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History

• Founded in April 2006 by 2 ex-SAP BeLux employees

• Partnerships

Today

• Team of 50+ SAP Experts and Project Managers

Mission

• Exceed client expectations by providing top-quality expertise

• Provide our people a safe environment for personal and professional growth

Strength

• Highly skilled & experienced SAP consultants in all SAP areas, combined with a

wide industry knowledge in several domains


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Focus ALM team

• Full ALM implementations

• Business Process Mngt

• Run SAP Like a Factory

• ITSM

• PPM for IT

• SAP Solution Manager


Knowledge Management

- Product & Service

Development

Project Management

(PM)

Supply Chain Management

(SCM)

Product Lifecycle

Management (PLM)

Application Lifecycle

Management (SolMan

+NW)

Governance, Risk, and

Compliance (GRC)

Business Intelligence (BI:BW/BO +

HANA)

Finance & Controlling

(FI/CO)

Questions:

What is Business Process Management ?

How to build a Business Process Model ?

How accurate is my documentation ?

How to jump-start a BPML ?

How to control changes to the BPML ?

How to keep the BPML up-to-date ?

How to detect defects as early as possible ?

What is the impact of a change on your business processes ?

How is everything integrated ?


Scope

Explain how SolMan can be used for Application Lifecycle

Management (ALM)

Where to start ?

What are the different tools ?

What are the latest features ?

What are the integration points with other functions ?


Solution Manager offering


ALM with SAP SolMan


Incidents

BPML

Test Workbench RBPD

ChaRM BPCA

CDMC

BPMon

BPML - what ?

Business Process Master List

Basis function for running ALM

Central structure for your documentation

• Enterprise structure

• Master data

• Business scenarios/process/process step

• Interfaces scenarios

Extended to Test Management

BPML must be understandable for everybody, both business and IT

Refer to

• Reference case of Balta (2012)

• Reference case of CRH (2013)


Incidents

BPML

Test Workbench RBPD

ChaRM

BPCA

CDMC

BPML Content

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Documentation

Transactions

Roles

Customizing

Testscenarios

Developments

BPML

BPML governance


BPML - Value

One uniform view on Business Processes (3-levels)

Both for SAP and non-SAP

One source of truth for documentation

Good basis to run further functions in SAP SolMan

Re-useability

Enables optimized support later on

Identify your processes before you can monitor them


Incidents

BPML

Test Workbench RBPD

ChaRM

BPCA

CDMC

RBPD - what?

Jump-Start your Business Process Model

Based on the standard delivered Business Process

Repository

Based on a pre-determined analysis concept

Can be used as input to define own BPML


Incidents

BPML

Test Workbench RBPD

ChaRM

BPCA

CDMC

RBPD – what?


RBDP - value

Technical analysis reveals all used standard objects in your

SAP Solution

Understand what was implemented

Serves as basis for building your own Business Process

Model

Can be done periodically, for ex. before an upgrade project


Incidents

BPML

Test Workbench RBPD

ChaRM

BPCA

CDMC

RBPD/BPML - Demo

Run RBPD on a (copy of) Productive ERP system

Create customer specific project based on RBPD analysis


SAP SolMan XP1 SAP Suite on HANA HD1

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CDMC - what ?

Custom Code Management Cockpit

Functional gaps can lead to custom code

Custom code is OK as long as it is done in a controlled way !

Analysis of your Custom Code in order to complete the BPML

Get an indepth view on custom code:

• How many custom code do we have?

• Is all custom code still used?

• What is the quality of the custom code?

• What type of custom code do we have in our solution?

• What does custom code cost me?

• What custom code is riskful?


Incidents

BPML

Test Workbench RBPD

ChaRM

BPCA

CDMC

CDMC – why?


CDMC - value

Full view on customer objects

Used to complement the customer BPML

Reduced number of customer developments

Reduced maintenance costs

Reduced costs for upgrades


Incidents

BPML

Test Workbench RBPD

ChaRM

BPCA

CDMC

CDMC - Demo

CDMC workcenter

Clone Finder

SAP Modification overview

T-Code similarity

Build your own BPML


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Test Workbench – what?

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BPML

Test Workbench RBPD

ChaRM

BPCA

CDMC

Test Workbench – what?


Test Workbench - Value

Central tool to store all test documents

Central tool to access and execute test plans

Ability to perform risk based testing

Defect management integrated with service desk and change

management


Test Workbench - Demo

Test Plan

Test Packages, assigned to testers

Testers Worklist


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ITSM - Changes

Application need to follow changing business requirements

• Different type of change exists

Changes are registered via ITSM

Changes can be linked to BPML

Changes can be linked to test cases


Incidents

BPML

Test Workbench RBPD

ChaRM

BPCA

CDMC

ITSM+ChaRM - Demo

Start from an approved Change Request

Release to create a Change Document

Create a TR and Release


Backup

BPCA – what?

Risk based testing.

Based on technical impact analysis.


Incidents

BPML

Test Workbench RBPD

ChaRM

BPCA

CDMC

BPCA - value

What is the impact and risk of every change done in the

system

Automatic determination of impacted business processes

Easy creation of test plan and packages


Incidents

BPML

Test Workbench RBPD

ChaRM

BPCA

CDMC

BPCA - Demo

Start from your Change Request or Transport request

Run BPCA analysis

Generate a new Test Plan


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Summary : Take Aways

SolMan is a tight integrated application

Easier identification of critical business processes

Alignment on used business processes

Improved quality of documentation

Less test effort

ChaRM in integrated with:

• Bussiness Processes

• Test Managment

• Actual transport requests

Get full view and control on the impact and risk of changes

done to your applications

Improved support


Future Roadmap


New Technologies


PPM for IT


EhP Effort Analyzer


WebChannel integration


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Sigrid De Smet Senior Consultant ALM Expertum

+32 496 438 893 [email protected] www.expertum.net

Oliver Buyssens Competence Lead ALM Expertum

+32 471 609 500 [email protected] www.expertum.net

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All Objects still to be assigned to BPML



SAP Clone Finder



SAP Interface Analysis



SAP Modification Overview

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Your logo Demo TestWB


Screenshots to be added as backup

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