SAP Solution Manager - Application Lifecycle Management

Application Lifecycle Management: Requirements Phase

During the requirements phase, you will gather and document requirements, which are typically structured into Functional, Manageability, Usability, Architectural, Interface and Service Level :

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Application Lifecycle Management: Design Phase

During the design phase, the requirements are translated into design specifications :

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The SAP Solution Manager offers as tool the ASAP Roadmap (similar to Project Plan), the Business Blueprint structure, enhanced modelling capabilities based on BPMN (Business Process Management Notation) as well as the SAP Solution Composer and also SAP Enterprise Modelling by IDS Dr. Scheer.

Application Lifecycle Management: Build & Test Phase

During the build and test phase, the application and the operational Model are built, tested and readied for deployment :

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The SAP Solution Manager offers as tool the ASAP Roadmap (similar to Project Plan), the Configuration and Implementation structure, the Business Process Change Analyzer (BPCA) to analyse an eventual impact on existing functionality and of course the Test Management Workbench and related enhanced functionality like eCatt, Quality Centre, etc..

Application Lifecycle Management: Deploy Phase

During the deploy phase, the application and the operational Model are incorporated into the existing IT environment :

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The SAP Solution Manager offers as tool the ASAP Roadmap (similar to Project Plan), Quality Gates, central Transport Management and the Change Request Management.

Application Lifecycle Management: Operate Phase

During the operate phase, the service is delivered and the performance of the application is monitored and measured against established service level and key performance indicators. :

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The SAP Solution Manager offers as tool the Business Process Monitoring and Analytics, System Monitoring, End-to-End Root Cause Analysis, Technical Administration, Service Desk, Problem and Solution Management and Change management.

Application Lifecycle Management: Optimize Phase

During the optimize phase, the findings and results from monitoring and evaluations are reviewed and decisions are being made as to consider and implement improvements and enhancements :

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The SAP Solution Manager offers as tool the SAP Best Practices.