Solution Documentation

Once you have completed a project successfully, one of the challenges posed during operations is how to preserve the knowledge built up during the project and keep it up-to-date. In SAP Solution Manager, the solution concept helps you to do this. During the deployment into productive use, all the information accumulated in your project is transferred into a solution. (Note that a solution in SAP Solution Manager contains information about systems, software components, and business processes, also called scenarios.) This information is needed in the operation and continuous optimization of your applications.

A solution in SAP Solution Manager gives you a means of ensuring that all information remains accessible and can be consolidated once a project is over. A solution covers a longer period of time than the project, providing all the information needed for the entire operations and preparation of optimization projects. Therefore, the integrity of your solution is the key to successful application life-cycle management.

You manage SAP Solution Manager solutions in the solution directory. Features include the following:

All assignments in the SAP Solution Manager project:

• Transfer of scenario and business process structures to the solution
• Availability of configuration object assignments
• Use of test cases in the structure in order to test effectively when changes have been made
• Reuse of e-learning materials from projects in the solution
• Same system landscape concept for solution and the project, which means that you can reuse the structure when you upgrade

• Enhanced display of graphics and diagrams
• Option of exporting graphics to Microsoft Office or HTML

This presentation  provides an overview on Solution Documentation.