SAP Solution Manager
Product Information
Product | SAP Solution Manager |
Release | 7.2 Support Package Stack 2 |
Based on | SAP NetWeaver 7.4 Support Package Stack 12 |
Documentation published | April 2016 |
SAP Solution Manager supports you throughout the entire lifecycle of your solutions, from the business blueprint through configuration, to production processing. It provides central access to tools, methods and preconfigured content, which you can use during evaluation, implementation and operational processing of your systems.
Features
SAP Solution Manager Operations
The SAP Solution Manager Administration work center provides central access to all functions for administrative tasks.
Requirements Management
Handling change processes for software innovations throughout your business, including SAP and non-SAP products.
Projects
Managing projects and tasks that result from IT requirements and requests for change.
Solution Documentation
Managing your complete solution as the single, central point of access for all solution documentation content, including elements like end-to-end business processes and their steps, executables, test cases, the system landscape, and logical component groups.
Custom Code Management
Keeping an overview of your custom developments, detect any changes, and identify redundant custom code for decommissioning.
Test Management
Central test management, from test planning, to test case creation, test execution, and test evaluation
Business Process Change Analyzer
Analyzing the impact of changes in business processes.
Analyzing the scope of activities and effort, before you deploy enhancement packages and support packages.
Change Control Management
Phase-based change control.
Establishing a central change management process which is integrated into SAP transport management.
Change Control Management Using Central CTS
You can use the central Change and Transport System (central CTS) with Change Control Management. For each new change cycle, you can decide whether you want to use CTS or central CTS.
Central Change and Transport System
Distributing software changes of ABAP and non-ABAP objects (for example, Java archives). SAP Solution Manager is the central CTS server that is responsible for the central management of the transport landscape. You can control transports into the managed systems from the central CTS server.
IT Service Management
Solution support, with integrated workflow to centrally manage and process messages about all IT solutions in your company, which can include an external help desk, setting up service connections, and access to SAP Service & Support.
Application Operations
System and Application Monitoring
Monitoring of complex system landscapes, using an integrated monitoring and alerting infrastructure
Technical Administration and Guided Procedures
Managing and documenting system work modes, including downtimes, notifying recipients about IT-related events, managing IT-related tasks, and central access to administration tools for managed systems.
Root Cause Analysis and Exception Management
Analyzing the causes of incidents, and searching for solutions
Business Processes Operations
Business Process and Interface Monitoring
Monitoring of business-critical processes and interfaces in your solution
Maximizing the value of your existing SAP solution, and analyzing critical process milestones.
Monitoring of the data consistency, for example, during mass updates or customizing changes
Automation of business processes
Data Volume Management
Monitoring the volume of data in your system landscape. In the Data Volume Management work center, you can reduce the size of databases, and the amount of data in your landscape, significantly lowering total operating costs.
Landscape Management
Overview of the tools which describe, plan and implement landscape changes, from innovation discovery, to maintenance planner and software update manager.
SAP Engagement and Service Delivery
SAP Engagement and Service Delivery applications
Access point for all of the SAP Engagement and Service Delivery functions.
Using SAP services (these features can be accessed in the SAP Engagement and Service Delivery work center.)