S/4HANA transition – the first steps!
Read this blog to discover what you need to know to kick-start your transition to SAP S/4HANA and learn how SAP change automation technology can simplify the process.
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How to keep your S/4 HANA transition on track!
Whether greenfield, brownfield or bluefield, transitioning to S/4 HANA can be difficult. This is widely known. There are hundreds of blogs, articles, whitepapers and even books identifying the process and expected challenges.
What is your transition plan to S/4 HANA?
The clock is ticking for SAP customers to transition to S/4 HANA. Yet, we haven’t seen a stampede toward S/4 HANA. Indeed some organizations are still undecided or don’t have comprehensive migration plans. So, what is the current situation? Recently, several reports on SAP customer transition plans to S/4 HANA have been published. Among these…
Why should you automate SAP change management?
I recently read a Gartner article, “Create a Strategic Roadmap for Infrastructure and Operations Automation”. It included an excellent roadmap for organizations who are trying to justify internal IT automation projects. The roadmap accurately shows how to move from today’s mainly manual “As Is” state of operations to a highly automated “To Be” future. While…
Announcing subscription pricing for Rev-Trac
We have just announced new subscription pricing for Rev-Trac Platinum to offer greater flexibility to our customers. For significantly reduced upfront costs, SAP IT teams can have access to our premium automated SAP change management platform – Rev-Trac 8.1 platinum.
Rev-Trac 8.1 Platinum: get on the fast track to DevOps success
The benefits of SAP DevOps initiatives are well documented. Top of the list is massive improvements in speed and volume of SAP change with substantially reduced risk.Yet, pursuing an SAP DevOps strategy can be difficult for companies and SAP IT teams. Traditional SAP application development processes relied heavily on slow, old-fashioned manual tasks – many still in use today – and suffered from costly production outages.This is why we developed Rev-Trac – to eliminate error-prone manual tasks and replace them with automated and consistent processes to accelerate SAP application development without breaking production.
How inefficient change processes drive up SAP costs
Our research indicates that more than 80 per cent of all SAP enterprise application change is managed using five or fewer unique processes. The number of processes your team develops, and how many steps in each determines the cost of managing change.
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How much does managing SAP change cost you?
The million dollar question for organizations when it comes to SAP change management is: “How much does it cost to manage our SAP technical changes?” For many SAP customers, it typically costs approximately a million dollars per year to manage SAP changes. Hard data from our customers and prospects indicates the cost to manage SAP change is usually $150-$300 per change. What does it cost you?
What are the hidden costs of managing SAP change?
Maintaining and enhancing SAP enterprise applications is costly. Some costs are known such as time and resources to do the work. There are also a variety of hidden or uncalculated costs that can quickly spiral out of control. Managing transport lists and migration activities, change controls control board meeting time, process approval efforts, governance and policing, documentation, reapplication tasks and production system issues. All, if overlooked, can derail the development, enhancement and maintenance of SAP applications.
Is your organization considering managing SAP change across an N and N+1 landscape?
By automating your SAP change management processes and adopting tightly controlled automation and uniform governance to your N and N+1 environment you can deliver more change, more frequently with less risk. Meaning you can respond quickly to changes in the market, eliminate conflicts between transport and maintain production stability. The results; your SAP IT team is now free to spend more time on innovation and less on fixing problems resulting from incorrect transports being migrated to production.
How to significantly improve SAP change management outcomes
To massively improve your SAP change management outcomes, automation is critical. Rev-Trac automates the entire SAP change management process, enabling an end-to-end SAP DevOps toolchain.
Customers have been using Rev-Trac – a Revelation Software Concepts solution – for more than 20 years – to safely and efficiently deliver SAP changes for better business outcomes.
How to avoid an SAP systems disaster
It is essential that SAP IT teams maintain systems stability to minimise losses – in both time and money – and to satisfy constantly changing business demands. Rev-Trac Insights can help SAP IT teams to maximise systems uptime and reduce the risk of project and release delivery incidents. In this blog, I will discuss how you can better manage your SAP systems using the Landscape Management applications Matrix, WIP Window and Cold Case.
Master SAP change management with Rev-Trac’s workbenches
Today, SAP IT teams are under increasing pressure to deliver more change, more frequently without breaking production. As a result, the need for transparency and accuracy across all aspects of SAP change has never been more important. The latest version of Rev-Trac – Platinum 8.0 – integrates new features and enhancements that enable you to react quickly to changes in business demand.
