Software Maintenance 

To keep your system landscape up-to-date and running smoothly, you need to apply updates regularly. Sometimes, the need for new functionality makes it necessary to upgrade complete scenarios realized in your system landscape to a new release. Due to the complexity of today’s landscapes and the interdependencies between single software components, tool support for landscape-relevant patch and upgrade tasks is a must and provided by the Software Maintenance IT scenario variant.

Required Usage Types of SAP NetWeaver

For this IT scenario variant, no actual usage type is required. This IT scenario variant provides functionality for the maintenance of systems with any usage type, or for the upgrade of existing systems to systems with any usage type.

IT Processes of the Scenario Variant

This scenario variant comprises the following IT processes:

Process	What You Need to Know…
Maintenance	Keeps your installed systems up and running and solves application problems by importing the latest Support Packages and corrections
Release Upgrade	Upgrades the relevant SAP systems to update your scenario to a new release