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SAP Solution Manager
SAP Solution Manager
- Centralize and simplify SAP solution maintenance across your system landscape with the
Maintenance Optimizer — an
administrator’s guide
by Martin Rink and Stefan Raffel, SAP AG
Keeping your SAP solutions up-to-date across development, test, and production landscapes is a daunting task, and the growing number of applications, functionalities, and integrated technologies only adds to the challenge. SAP Solution Manager 4.0 introduces the Maintenance Optimizer, a tool that centralizes and simplifies solution maintenance across your entire landscape — it detects and downloads relevant support packages and patches, it guides you through the maintenance process, and, as of April 2007, it is required for maintaining SAP Business Suite 2005 and higher. This article gets you up and running quickly with the Maintenance Optimizer and shows you how to get the most out of it.
- Ensure Customizing Data Consistency and Smooth-Running Business Processes
Across Your SAP System Landscape with Customizing Synchronization
by Doreen Baseler, Technical Product Manager, SAP AG
If your organization is like most, you no longer rely solely on SAP R/3 to support your business activities. To remain competitive, you need adaptive business solutions that provide best-of-breed functionality, scalability, and integration, so most SAP customers are now tapping into mySAP Business Suite solutions, such as mySAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and mySAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) to better manage customer relations and coordinate supply chain networks. With system complexity increasing as a result, it’s essential that you maintain centralized control over your IT landscape, from the implementation of your solutions to their operation, especially when it comes to your SAP customizing settings, which need to be synchronized across all of your components. Otherwise, your business processes might falter, a risk you cannot afford in a highly collaborative business environment.
- Ensure effective system management by configuring the right infrastructure for
SAP Solution Manager using central system landscape maintenance
by Doreen Baseler, Technical Product Manager, SAP AG
Managing a globally distributed, heterogeneous system landscape is one of the biggest challenges project teams face. Fortunately, SAP Solution Manager provides a set of sophisticated tools that enable centralized administration of the systems throughout your landscape. For these tools to run smoothly, however, you need to properly configure the infrastructure upon which they rely. This article introduces you to how the infrastructure works and how it is configured using an SAP Solution Manager component called Solution Manager System Landscape (transaction SMSY), which houses the settings and system connections that enable SAP Solution Manager to access and manage satellite systems.
- Five factors to consider before embarking on custom application development
by Patrick Dixon, Manager, Deloitte Consulting
Managing a globally distributed, heterogeneous system landscape is one of the biggest challenges project teams face. Fortunately, SAP Solution Manager provides a set of sophisticated tools that enable centralized administration of the systems throughout your landscape. For these tools to run smoothly, however, you need to properly configure the infrastructure upon which they rely. This article introduces you to how the infrastructure works and how it is configured using an SAP Solution Manager component called Solution Manager System Landscape (transaction SMSY), which houses the settings and system connections that enable SAP Solution Manager to access and manage satellite systems.
- Provide accurate and consistent language support for your global MDMP systems by converting to Unicode
by Alexander Davidenkoff, Solution Manager, Globalization Services, SAP AG
With the proliferation of global systems, organizations need to be able to handle data in a variety of languages across a range of platforms. To meet this need, all SAP applications based on SAP Web Application Server 6.20 and higher support Unicode, a character-encoding standard that assigns a unique number to every character in a database, ensuring proper representation and processing regardless of the platform, program, or language. With SAP NetWeaver 7.0, support for the old Multi-Display/Multi-Processing (MDMP) solution ends, and Unicode is the only supported character format. This article explains how to convert your MDMP systems to Unicode, including the pre- and post-processing steps you need to take to convert your data.
- SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Upgrades: A Project Manager’s Point of View
by Steve Leone, PMP, Senior SAP Delivery Consultant, COMSYS (May 2009)
Project managers need to make scope decisions, determine resource needs, and define schedules regarding SAP NetWeaver 7.0 upgrades. Learn how to achieve those goals using the information presented here that is based on SAP-recommended Best Practices and the experience of the author.
- SAP Solution Manager — 'Command Central' for Implementing Your mySAP Solutions
… and Much More!
by Matthias Melich, Technical Product Management, SAP AG
By now, most SAP customers are aware that SAP Solution Manager is the new standard environment for operating SAP solutions. What you probably don’t know is that it replaces ValueSAP/AcceleratedSAP as a tool for implementing solutions as well. This article shows you how Solution Manager can serve as “command central” in a multicomponent mySAP implementation project, as well as system consolidation, global rollout, customizing distribution, and BC Set integration projects, by enabling you to describe, define, and document your business processes, and by providing predefined descriptions of business scenarios and configuration guides, all in a single, centralized location.
- Standardize your testing and improve software reliability - Integrate SAP
Solution Manager with SAP Quality Center by HP
by Henrik Zimmermann, Senior Product Manager, SAP AG, and Jürgen Tonhäuser,
Development Architect, SAP AG
SAP Solution Manager is SAP's answer to business' increasing needs to manage systems, promote flexibility, and control and document change. You can integrate SAP Solution Manager and SAP Quality Center by HP to provide a more efficient testing process that improves software quality and reliability, standardizes testing, and consolidates results in a single view. This article surveys the SAP Solution Manager testing tools Test Workbench and extended Computer Aided Test Tool (eCATT) and in particular focuses on the integration of the partner product SAP Quality Center by HP via the SAP Solution Manager adapter for SAP Quality Center by HP.
- Use SAP Solution Manager’s extensive reporting capabilities to ensure consistent performance
across your system
landscape through proactive monitoring
by Henrik Zimmermann, Senior Product Manager, SAP AG
Veit Eska, Senior Developer, SAP AG
Michael Mayer, Senior Support Consultant, SAP AG
The growth of SAP Solution Manager as a tool to
maintain, support, configure, and upgrade SAP landscapes
brings with it the need for increased reporting capabilities,
so you can be proactive in addressing issues before
they become critical. SAP Solution Manager 4.0 includes
a wide range of reporting options for generating
technical and administrative information about your
system landscape, including SAP EarlyWatch Alert
Reporting, Service Reporting, EarlyWatch Alert Reporting
in SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence, Service Level
Reporting, and System Availability Reporting. This
article provides an overview of these new options
and explains how you can use them to ensure consistent
performance across your system landscape.
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