You can display information about the degree of modification of selected systems in your solution landscape. This helps you to identify potential conflicts that may arise during software updates between SAP standard software and customer modifications.

Using the number of modifications and customer objects as an indicator for the complexity of your software updates enables you to evaluate and to reduce the potential efforts of your upgrade projects.

A high number of modifications and customer objects causes high costs for continuous software maintenance and an increased effort for adjustment during solution transition events, like upgrades or Support Package implementation. Therefore, the number should be limited. Analyze the existing objects and check if they are still in use. Especially during the solution transition event, analysis should take place to see whether modifications or customer objects can be replaced by SAP standard functionality. In some cases, modifications can be avoided by using SAP's standard enhancement technology. New modifications or customer objects should only be allowed in unavoidable cases and after a stringent approval process.

Customer Objects and SMODILGO delivers its business content in a pre-built InfoCube called Modified and Customer Objects.