Software Change Management

Software change management standardizes and automates software distribution, maintenance, and testing procedures for complex software landscapes and multiple software development platforms. These functions support your project teams, development teams, and application support teams.

The goal of software change management is to establish consistent solution-wide change management that allows specific procedures, global rollouts, and open integration with third-party products.

This section provides additional information about the most important software components. The following topics are covered:

• Transport and Change Management

  Enables and secures the distribution of software changes from the development environment to the quality assurance and production environment.

• Development Requests and Development Release Management

  Enables customer-specific maintenance procedures and open integration with third-party products.

• Support Packages and SAP Patch Implementation

  Provides standardized software distribution and maintenance procedures.