Solution Manager - May Update - New EGI's and ALM Agenda for Sapphire

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New EGI’s:

SAP has introduced the below EGI’s:

• The Transport Execution Analysis (TEA+TEAP)
  • Identifies transport related issues like import or sequence errors proactively before the import starts
  • Provides best practice recommendations how these errors can be avoided
• SQL Statement Tuning (SQL)
  • Reduces the database load and improves the response times of the affected transactions and therefore the overall system performance
  • Planned for HANA DB as well
• Data Volume Management (DVM
  • Provides full control of the costs associated with storage and related system management
  • Ensures long-term scalability and business continuity of critical business transactions

Sapphire Orlando Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Agenda

With SAP’s main event of the year looming in Orlando below are all the featured ALM sessions. This is a great chance to see how other people are utilizing Solution Manager to improve their bottom line. See SapphireALM (File->Download) for the agenda with all the session details.

• Fast Track to Innovation and Operation Better with SAP Solution Manager 7.1
• SAP Solution Manager and SAP HANA
• How Colgate Increased Productivity Through Rapid Development Testing to Speed SAP Change to the Business
• Instituting SAP Solution Manager 7.1 IT Service Management and Change Management at Johnson & Johnson
• Heineken’s Testing Journey: A True Passion for Quality ! Lessons Learned on a Global Testing Center of Excellence Roll Out
• Interactive Discussion Forum with ASUG Solution Manager SIG Leadership: Capitalizing on SAP Solution Manager for Your Business and IT Initiatives
• Mastering SAP HANA with SAP Solution Manager
• SAP Solution Manager Goes Mobile at the Coca-Cola Company
• Amerisource Bergen Implements SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Change Request Management (ChaRM) Functionality to Streamline and Improve Processes
• Value Realization Leveraging Solution Manager 7.1
• ASUG SAP Solution Manager Influence Council Meeting - Update on Planned 7.1 Enhancements for 2013
• Coca-Cola Refreshments Shares Tested Best Practices for IT Operations with SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP 6
• How to Utilize Templates and Functionality Available in SAP Solution Manager to Ensure Project Governance
• How ATB Financial Uses SAP Solution Manager 7.1 to Safeguard its Banking Operations
• SAP Test Data Migration Server Software – ASUG Influence Council
• Standardization Of Project Lifecycle By Streamlining SAP Implementation Protocols With Real-Time Snapshot To Comply With SAP Best-Practices On ChARM
• Single View of the Truth: How a Canadian Federal Government Agency Optimized Their SAP and non-SAP Deployment with IBM Rational Solutions

Solution Manager Maintenance:

• Support Pack 08 has been released with minor enhancements (see link for more information)
• Support Pack 9/10 is scheduled for release in Sep/Oct. This will see a number of functional improvements (more information in next month’s update)
• Support Pack 11 target date is Q1 2013
• Solman 7.0 Mainstream Maintenance ends Q4 2013 (7.1 will be supported for 6 years)

Free EGI’s - Schedule for May:

• Online schedule for Expert Guided Implementation sessions
• Online schedule for Meet the Expert sessions

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Setup & Upgrade your SAP Solution Manager

• Solution Manager Basic Configuration 7.1 – 13^th to 17^th May
• Basic Configuration and EarlyWatch Alert for SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence 4.0/Solution Manager 7.1 – 20^th to 24^th May
• Enablement for SAP Enterprise Mobility - 20^th to 24^th May

Tool & Process Setup on SAP Solution Manager 7.1

• Incident, Problem and Request Management (ITSM) – 27^th to 31^st May
• Test Management I: SAP Test Workbench – 21^st to 24^th May
• Transport Execution Analysis (TEA+TEAP) – 14^th to 17^th May
• Custom Code Quality and Clones – 20^th to 22^nd May
• Job Scheduling Management – 20^th to 24^th May
• Roles and Authorization Concept – 27^th to 30^th May

Implement Run SAP like a Factory on Your SAP Solution Manager 7.1

• Business Process Analytics and Improvement (BPAI) – 27^th to 31^st May
• Data Volume Management (DVM) – 20^th to 24^th May
• Performance Optimization – 27^th to 31^st May
• SQL Statement Tuning (SQL) - 27^th to 31^st May

Meet the Experts (1 hour presentations with Q&A)

• The SAP Support Portal Demo – 14th May
• New features of the SAP Enterprise Support Academy Learning – 3rd May