The document discusses the importance of implementing DevOps for SAP in a competitive business environment, emphasizing its role in delivering value and facilitating agile enterprise software solutions. It highlights the need for specialized tooling for continuous delivery, quality assurance in development, and efficient testing processes to mitigate risks during SAP deployments. Additionally, it notes the positive impact on company culture and employee roles, promoting faster and more resilient innovation while minimizing errors and downtime.

1. DevOps for SAP: A
Detailed Overview
In today’s competitive business landscape, leaders are constantly striving to innovate to deliver
value andincrease effectiveness.Thiscallsforthe need for agile enterprise software solutions that
can help businessestosupportthese goalsbyadaptingandresponding safely to rapid and frequent
change. So, if you wish to deliver value to your customers while being a part of a revved-up
organization that prospers in a fast-paced digital economy then embracing DevOps for SAP makes
sense.
DevOps for SAP – Innovation-
SYNNOVE Systems
Let’s explore the pragmatism of implementing DevOps for
SAP system and the impact it has on different stages of
change delivery:
SAP Development Lifecycle: Though, DevOps for SAP doesn’t
provide the necessary means to provide support to it due to its generic tools and architecture. To
ensure continuousdeliverychange, specialized tooling is required. While DevOps in SAP
translates to different things for different companies but all the
processes including the development process, pre-production,
QA, and production are affected.

2. Quality Development: Delivery of quality development requires a robust
processthat includesregular feedback, clearly defined business requirements with quality rooted
from the very beginning of the process. In other words, the entire development should be quality
checked to minimize costs and errors. The quality check includes enforcement of code quality,
automated unit testing, security checks, and reviews.
Efficient Testing: Deployment of changes for testing can be done after
continuousintegrationwithoutanyrisk.A goodrhythmof delivery requirements requires choosing
whatis requiredtobe deployedbasis business priorities rather than long release cycles. Many SAP
delivery issues are removed when checking for risks, sequencing, completeness, and impact. The
deliveryof functionalitycanbe acceleratedbythisagile approachandchangescan be deployedwith
confidence instead of waiting for full delivery release.
Take Care of Your Current System: When the features are
deployed, it’s important to ensure that the current system doesn’t break down. Constant testing
confirmsthatchanges are regularly tested through regression testing that is robust, recurrent, and
has the essential functionalcoverage.So,whenchangesare deployed, unnecessary side effects get
decreased, which in turn offers risk mitigation.
Reduce Impact on Production: The live system operation can be
disrupted during an SAP deployment. Through continuous deployment and rigorous controls, the
riskof systemoutagescanbe reducedsignificantly.However, even if disaster strikes, the impact of
downtime due to change is minimized while ensuring business continuity.
Impact on Employees: Just the way tooling and
processes are being impacted by DevOps, the role of
employees and staff is also being impacted. Due to the
presence of multi-skilledandcross-functional teams, the company culture becomes more dynamic.
The Outcome
The integration of SAP and DevOps promotes innovation with processes becoming
 faster,
 resilient, and
 better.

3. Apart from this, the integration helps in making the systems more user-friendly as per business
needs.Consequently,newfeatures canbe addedbydevelopersinthe applicationtherebydelivering
more value to customers. Such integration helps in automating functionalities that minimize risks
and probabilities of committing errors.