SAP Engagement and Service Delivery 
SAP Solution Manager has a range of support offerings. Services with predefined contents are the fundamental elements of all support offerings. These services cover the entire lifecycle of the software, from implementation to operation and optimization to upgrade.
These services have the following objectives:
Risk minimization
Optimization of SAP solutions
Knowledge transfer
These services enable you to proactively detect and solve technical problems (issues) before they can have a negative effect on business operations. The issues can be recorded and documented for a subsequent service.
The SAP Engagement and Service Delivery in SAP Solution Manager comprises the following components:
SAP Engagement and Service Delivery Work Center
This Work Center is the central point of access for performing a service in a service session. It contains all important information about the overall situation of the customer solution: All already performed and planned services, issues that have occurred and top issues, the scope, and the current state of the systems.
Issue Management tracks problems. It is the interface between your support organization and SAP Support. You can use this function to track issues that have been detected in a business process or solution and must be solved.
Irrespective of the work center, you can still perform the following tasks directly in SAP Solution Manager, as before: Update solution master data at SAP, get service plan from SAP and self-service.
Work Center SAP Engagement and Service Delivery
This work center offers the following functions:
Display and edit issues and top issues for solutions and business processes
Display and edit services performed by SAP
Display and edit self-services
Display and edit tasks for performing issues and top issues
Display and edit SAP EarlyWatch sessions
Create reports for issues, top issues, TQM and expertise on demand
Issue Management
Issue Management offers the following functions:
Create issues/top issues
Create tasks
Request SAP expert
Display issues and tasks across solutions
Service Delivery
In this area of SAP Solution Manager, you can perform the following functions:
Update solution master data at SAP
Get service plan from SAP
Perform self-service
Note
Some functions, such as the self-service or the creation of tasks and issues, are available in several functional areas. The customer can choose to perform the operation either in the work center, or in SAP Solution Manager.