SAP Change Management

Solutions

theGuard! SmartChange gives you maximum efficiency in your SAP change management and allows you to drastically improve the availability of your production systems. It maps, manages, and monitors all of your SAP change management processes and automatically captures your changes all the way down to the object level, adding a new dimension of quality and security to your SAP change management.

theGuard! SmartChange is a modular solution that provides support for all disciplines of modern SAP change management. It can be implemented and used productively whithin days. theGuard! SmartChange is an SAP add-on application that integrates with your SAP system. The software was also designed to easily integrate with existing tool environments such as the SAP Solution Manager Service Desk, giving you consistent processes throughout the enterprise.

theGuard! SmartChange gives you intelligent SAP change management. The solution follows a modular design and includes all the features you need for your different requirements:

• Change process management
• Manage all SAP change management processes from a single point of control
• Transport management
• Automate and secure the import of ABAP and non-ABAP transports
• Synchronization management
• Synchronize parallel SAP development systems in a simple and reliable manner
• ABAP code profiling
• Identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities in your ABAP code in an effective and efficient manner

The solution is built on a common data foundation to make sure that the people involved in a process can find the information they need where they need it. Opt for SAP change management with REALTECH’s theGuard! SmartChange!

• Efficient management of all SAP releases and change requests in a central management dashboard
• Better system availability through automatic risk identification such as overtakes or incomplete transports
• Complete audit trails for your SAP change and transport management
• Minimal effort in the synchronization of parallel SAP development environments
• Better performance and security through the optimization of your ABAP code

Key Features

*Change Management *

REALTECH’s theGuard! SmartChange is a modular software solution that gives you maximum automation in your change and release management. With its pre-configured standard process templates you are only a few clicks away from laying the foundation for enterprise-wide process standards, minimizing the time spent on coordination activities.

Built-in workflows ensure that you are notified when pre-defined events or escalations occur. It also allows you to track the activities of your users – both on the change request and release level. This in turn enables you to allocate your resources based on their abilities and availability.

It links the change level to the release level, giving you end-to-end release management in compliance with ITIL. Conveniently track and monitor the progress of individual subprojects from within your release calendar and receive automated alerts in case of acceptance tests, feature freezes or escalations.

• Reduce workloads through automation
• Plan your resources more efficiently
• Achieve ITIL-compliant change and release management

Transport Management

REALTECH’s theGuard! SmartChange gives you proven solution for the simple, secure, and automated execution of ABAP and non-ABAP transports – even in the most complex and dynamic SAP landscapes. It integrates reliable checks into the workflow to make sure that incorrectly transmitted or erroneously overwritten data objects will never pose a threat to your production systems again.

The integration of a comprehensive authorization concept allows business users to be automatically notified of changes to SAP applications. They can then approve the changes from the convenience of their own desk – or from within a mobile application while on the go – with a single click. This will help you minimize the time that business users and the IT department have to spend coordinating their activities and comply with audit and regulatory requirements such as SOX.

Both the object distribution and the quality assurance processes are based on standardized workflows. theGuard! SmartChange gives you maximum automation in your transport management, taking a tremendous load off your development staff.

• Go live without worries
• Assure quality by segregating duties
• Reduce workloads through automation

Synchronisation Management

REALTECH’s theGuard! SmartChange puts an end to the tedious process of manual Excel-based synchronisation. If a transport request is exported from the development system of the production environment, the software will automatically analyse the associated object list and classify the individual objects as “critical” or “non-critical”. Once the analysis is completed, all objects that were classified as non-critical will be made available for the fast and easy synchronisation by means of transport.

The manual synchronisation process is streamlined by providing users with direct access to the familiar delta displays of the object versions. When dealing with highly complex objects such as maintenance views, area menus, or function groups, it will not only check the object itself, but also all of its dependencies with other objects. That way you can be sure that your transport request are always complete.

• Maximise efficiency in the parallel processing of maintenance activities and development projects
• Reduce workloads through automation
• Avoid errors in production systems

ABAP Code Profiling

• Maximise efficiency in the parallel processing of maintenance activities and development projects
• Reduce workloads through automation
• Avoid errors in production systems

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REALTECH provides support for all sub-disciplines of modern SAP change management.

Change process management
Manage all SAP change management processes from a single point of control

Transport management
Automate and secure the import of ABAP and non-ABAP transports

Synchronization management
Synchronize parallel SAP development systems in a simple and reliable manner

ABAP code profiling
Identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities in your ABAP code in an effective and efficient manner