The document discusses new features in SAP Solution Manager SP12 including: 1. Dashboard Factory - Provides graphical dashboards based on SAP best practices templates. 2. UI5 Roadmaps - Allows viewing and building roadmaps in a mobile-friendly UI5 app. 3. Portfolio and Project Management integration - Generates projects in PPM directly from roadmaps. 4. EEMon/Voyager - Records end user activity and analyzes performance across systems using robots. 5. Scope and Effort analyzer - Provides project estimations and calculates testing and custom code effort.

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Tony de Thomasis
SAPWORKS
SAP Solution Manager SP12 -
Just the lekker bits

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1. Dashboard Factory
2. UI5 Roadmaps
3. Portfolio and Project Management integration
4. EEMon/Voyager
5. E2E Trace
6. Scope and Effort analyzer
What we will cover

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• Rich graphical content based on SAP Best Practices
• Simple and easy customisation model
• SAP to provide continuous enhancement to content
• First release based on Max Attention co-innovation project
– Strategic Dashboard
– Tactical dashboard
– Service Level Dashboard
– Operational Dashboard
• Released Q1 2015
• SAP Note 2080080
• http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/UDC/Unified+Dashboard+Center+Home
Dashboard Factory

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Dashboard Factory

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• New UI5 App to display roadmap content
• Suitable for all browsers or mobile devices
• Activate Gateway services (AI_ROADMAP*)
• Role SAP_RMMAIN_DIS required
• Build your own roadmaps
• Download latest deployment content
– service.sap.com/dbp4hana
UI5 Roadmaps

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UI5 Roadmaps

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• Generate a PPM Project directly from a Roadmap
• Manage resources, time and project phases
• Record times and changes for reporting back to PMO
• Supports Agile Development Methodology
• RMMAIN  Create PPM Project
• RAI_SMCP_RM_XML_DOWNLOAD
Portfolio and Project Management

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Portfolio and Project Management

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• Record end user activity
• Collect Trace
• Understand request flow
• Analyse trace in detail
• UI5 Screens For increased readability
• Trace across ERP-SLT-HANA-BOBJ-LUMIRA
• ABAP Based t-code to activate trace /$gui_e2e_trace
End to End trace analysis

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End to End trace analysis

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End to End trace analysis

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• Measure end user experience across different Store Locations
• Verifying response time after project changes
• Important business process scripted for remote playback
• Robots rolled out to key sites to facilitate playback
• “Control” Robot deployed in Data Centre
• Direct access to SAP Solution Manager E2E Trace Analysis
• Reliable synthetic load using EEMon Scripting Engine
• Low cost Voyager EEMon robots
– Low profile Linux based
– Wired or wireless
– Small footprint, less heat
– 32x or 64x Diagnostic Agent
– Locally assembled and supported by BluePencil
EEMon Voyager

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EEMon Voyager

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• Provides reliable project estimation for adjustment and testing
• Only test what matters – reduced test scope and effort
• Visibility into the impact on custom code and business process
• Reliably calculate testing effort
• Calculate ABAP remediation effort required
• What custom code and modifications are being used
• service.sap.com/sea
• SAP Note 2061626 – set up ACH Blueprint
• SAP Note 1955847 –activate UPL
Scope and Effort Analyzer

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Scope and Effort Analyzer

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Bonus Slide – Get me to SP12
• Before the upgrade
– Update SPAM to version 53 or higher
– Update ST-ICC to version 200
– Update SLD CR Content as per SAP Note1625376
– Clear all SNOTE, SPAU, SPAU_ENH and SPDD conflicts
– Release all open transports
– Switch off CUA
– Ensure sufficient space at database /sapmnt and /usr/sap/trans
– Read the “What’s New In Solution Manager SP12”
– https://support.sap.com/content/dam/library/SAP%20Support%20Portal/support-programs-services/solution-manager/WhatsNewinSAPSolutionManager-SP12.pdf
– http://scn.sap.com/community/it-management/alm/solution-manager
• After the upgrade
– Apply central Note 1952282
– Update UISAPUI5 100 and UI_INFRA 100 to version 8 or higher
– Update ST-A/PI to latest version
– Apply latest SNOTE update as per SAP Note 875986
– Apply SAP Note 195740 and 2055455 to prevent EWA errors
– Update SAPUI5 to latest version SAP Note 1994413
– Patches for SOLMAN_SETUP 2025584
– Solution Manager Basic Functions SAP Note 1969109
– Solution Manager SP12 recommended corrections SAP Note 2020219
– Subscribe to Solution Manager Top KBA - http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-61348
– http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/SM/How+to+create+an+Ad+Hoc+EWA+report+in+Solution+Manager+7.1
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Bonus Slide – Get me to 7.2
• Solution Manager 7.1 has maintenance until 2017
• Solution Manager 7.2 Ramp Up June 2015
• Solution Manager 7.2 Generally Available December 2015
• Highlights of the new release
– Less IT and more Business
– Simplified Business UX
– Business Process Management
– Cloud Adoption (hybrid landscape support)
– In Memory Technology (included in Enterprise Support entitlements)
– PowerDesigner integration
– Public Cloud performance management
– Reports from HANA Live (not BI/BW)
– No new CRM version, but J2EE stack is still required
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Bonus Slide – Solution Manager 7.2 first impression
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