SAP Solution Manager - Implementation/Upgrade Projects
- Overview
- Project Roadmap
- Process Design / Blueprint
- Process Configuration
- Test Workbench
- eLearning & Publishing
- External Integration
Related Topics
- + Dashboards & Analytics
on the iPad - + Fixed Price Packages
- + SAP Re-Engineering
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+ Application Lifecycle
Management (ALM) - + Business Processes
- + Implementation Projects
- + Incident Management
- + Problem Management
- + Change Management
- + Business Process Monitoring
- + Business Process Analytics
- + System Monitoring
News & Blogs
- Service Desk: BMC Remedy Integration
- Strategy and Concept: SAP Solution Manager Strategy and Concept for a global enterprise
- Change Management: SCM Change Management - about 3 days total duration
- Strategy and Concept: Release of Dashboards for iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android and other Touch- or Kiosk-Devices
- Service Desk: Implementation of Problem Management and Solution Database
- Change Management: Training delivery of E2E060 RunSAP Customer center of excellence
- Change Management: Training delivery of E2E040 - RunSAP - End-to-End Solution Operations
- Change Management: Training delivery for course E2E100 - Root Cause Analysis
- Strategy and Concept: Development of a SAP Solution Manager Stratey, concept and roadmap
- Strategy and Concept: Workshop and Solution Manager Implementation in UK
Publications
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SAP GRC and IdM: Governance, Risk and Compliance for Security and Authorizations
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Your Easy-to-Understand Guide to the Major Areas of SAP Solution Manager
Understanding the key areas of SAP Solution Manager allows you to set up a fully documented system. In turn, this enables you to have complete management and governance over implementation projects, service operations, change management, and system and process monitoring.
Project Management is the art of making projects successful and with very few exceptions, any SAP or other ERP project will require process design, implementation of the designed processes and validation by through testing.
The Project Management in SAP Solution Manager offers not only the Roadmap with the Best Practice, Templates, Accelerators and detailed description of the Tasks and Activities typically to be undertaken as part of an SAP Implementation or Upgrade Project. The focus in any of such projects will of course always be on the business processes and Solution Manager offers with Design / Blueprint and Realization / Configuration and Developments the best tools for such.
The details items included in the project management are shown in below overview, where items bordered in pink colour can be based on SAP Best Practices / SAP Standard Business Processes from the SAP Business Process Repository :
Of course SAP Solution Manager can be integrated with external systems and services:
Project Roadmap
The Project Roadmap is utilised as a guideline, and often as a base for the project plan of an SAP project.
It contains in an standard implementation project the standard ASAP project phases "Preparation", "Business Blueprint", "Realization", "Final Preparation and "Go-Live and Support".
Below pictures shows an overview on these phases with the so-called "Deliverable Groups". Within deliverable groups, there are more detailed activities and tasks, described:
Process Design / Blueprint
The process design / business blueprint definition in transaction SOLAR01 is one of the most important, if not the most important, place in Solution Manager, where you define, design and maintain your business processes. At this point, this includes:
- + Business Scenarios, Processes and Steps
- + Organizational Units
- + Master Data
- + General documentation as provided by SAP or any Template / Global Rollout Project
- + Project Documentation like Business Blueprint documents etc.
- + Issues, which can be managed utilising the central issue management
- + Transactions, URL's, Programs, Reports, etc., which are used to perform the business scenario / process / step
- + Management of Status, Keywords and assigned Project Members
- + End User Roles, which are very useful for training preparation and scheduling, test management and authorization management
The screen looks similar to below:
Business Process Configuration
On finalisation of the Business Blueprint, you will want to implement the processes as per the design. The transaction SOLAR02 offers you here additional tools and areas :
- + Configuration
- + Developments
- + Test Cases
- + Training Materials
Test Workbench
With defining and assigning test cases during the realization / configuration phase, you are starting already the design of the later tests - no matter if it be unit tests, development tests, integration tests, regression tests or user acceptance test , the Test Workbench is a very helpful tool for Test Management. Please find below an overview on the structure of the Test Workbench:
eLearning & Publishing
The Learning Maps in SAP Solution Manager are a great way to publish training documentation to users with no need to access Solution manager directly, but also to publish any other kind of document within the project and consist of the Learning Map header, chapters, unit and individual documents :
Users also can give feedback in a Pop-Up windows:
External Integration
The SAP Solution Manager is a exquisite tool to manage your SAP projects, to monitor all systems of your landscape and to process Service Desk and Change Management activities. And you can win even more benefits from a fully integrated "Enterprise Project Management" architecture, integrating the SAP Solution Manager directly with cProjects and BI and therefore enabling additional functionality from HCM, SRM and ERP/ECC:
Integration overview
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Integration details
The detailed advantages of the integration is shown in below picture:
The integration from SAP Solution Roadmap, which can also be implemented for business processes, configuration structure, master data, organizational units, developments, transactions, documentations etc. gives project managers and members the ability to maintain all elements in cProjects. This way, you will win via cProjects the ability to track time in CATS, use ECC PS module for project management and budgeting and costing and/or track costs on internal orders. The SRM gives you purchasing integration and from HCM the workforce deployment ability and with cFolders you can use the available collaboration functionalities to share documents internally and externally. And of course MS-Project server or clients can be integrated with cProjects.
The RPM (former xRPM) enables the strategic project management, with project portfolios and buckets, what-if scenarios, cockpit and monitoring, enterprise finance, resource and capacity management.
In addition to above SAP integration, we can offer a range of tools and services to complement and add even more value to your SAP Solution Manager:
- + Reverse business reengineering (RBE) to automatically analyse your current ECC / R/3 processes and import process structures, transactions etc. in you Solution Manager project
- + Business process hub to enable business process design and management with MS-Visio and other tools
- + Configuration and Development analysis and documentation tool to fully automated document your configuration and developments and to keep SAP Solution Manager configuration status updated
- + And finally our SAP Solution Manager toolbox - with dashboards (for project management, roadmap, business processes, configuration, service desk, change management) and directory synchronization (to maintain, edit and store documents on a network drive with full Solution Manager synchronization):
Products & Services
Dashboards & Analytics on iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Android
Solution Manager Dashoards &Analytics on the iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Android
Fixed-Price Packages
Fixed Price Packages for guaranteed success
SAP Re-Engineering
Re-Engineer to protect the value of your investments
Training & Knowledge
Training, Knowledge, Workshops & Seminars
Project Management
Business Processes
Business Process Monitoring & Analytics
Service Management
SAP Touch, Mobile & Kiosk (Dedicated Site)
NE SAP Touch, Mobile & Kiosk Solutions
NE-PM SAP Practice (Dedicated Site)
Industry Know-How and Experience
Business Processes Know-How and Experience
SAP Applications: ECC/ERP, CRM, SCM, SRM, PLM, etc.
Implementation and Upgrade Porject Services
Application Lifecycle Operations Services
SAP Mobile Solution Manager Dashboards Video Clip
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Project References
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