Sparkle of SAP Solution Manager 7.1

SAP Solution Manager 7.1 is planned to be available in unrestricted shipment in August 2011.
I wanted to know what the highlights are.

To get some early insights into what highlights are in store of SAP Solution Manager 7.1 I watched the video of Uwe Hommel, Executive Vice President, SAP Active Global Support, discussing SAP Solution Manager 7.1.

And I visited the Value Center for SAP Solution Manager.

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Some of the Highlights are:

End-to-End
Supporting the end-to-end Customer Solution

• Open modeling of non SAP applications in new Landscape Management Database
• Open CTS to integrate non SAP, Open Diagnostics and Monitoring/Alerting Infrastructure
• From “Application Incident Management” to a complete ITIL V3 compliant ITSM for the customer solution
• Enhanced integration with 3^rd party IT management: HP QC, IBM Rational, Worksoft, Cisco Tidal
• Upcoming: Integration into Infrastructure Management (CMDB)
  
  

Ease of Use & Dashboards
Simplified User Interface and Management Dashboards

• 100% transparency into IT and business with Management Dashboards
• Fully Work Center Enabled
• Change and Incident Management : Complete web-based user interface
• Test Management : New intuitive user interface for Tester work list
• Enhanced Business Blueprinting: Easily blueprint your solution with one BPMN compliant tool
  
  

Efficiency
Run SAP like a Factory with 2 FTEs per shift

• New Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure to automate repetitive tasks and avoid alert flooding with one central infrastructure and correlation / aggregation of alerts
• Operation Control Center for central control of mission critical operations support
  
  

Relevance to Business
Business Process Modeling, Reverse Engineering & Usage Analysis

• Enhanced Business Blueprinting: Central visibility into your business processes in BPMN notation
• Reverse engineering of business processes with IBIS content fully integrated in Solution Documentation Assistant
• Business Analytics: optimize execution of business processes with throughput and Backlog analysis
  

Scope
Extended Usage Rights

• A complete solution for the midmarket CIO to run IT like a business
• Included in the SAP MaxAttention and  SAP Enterprise Support contract

For documentation and training materials on new or changed functionality provided with SAP Solution Manager 7.1, see the

• SAP Library: Changes and New Features in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP01 
• SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SAP Online Knowledge Product (OKP) and select
  your Learning Map