The document discusses the practice of managing SAP changes efficiently, emphasizing the importance of maintaining a balance between too frequent and too infrequent upgrades. It outlines a structured approach for planning SAP changes, including the creation of server copies for testing purposes and thorough testing to minimize business disruption. Additionally, the document highlights the benefits of using Panaya's tools for accelerated testing and improved change management.

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The Killer Practice for
All SAP Changes
Haim Rozow - Former VP IT, Given Imaging
November 2015
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Today’s Speakers
Ofira Shafir
Your Moderator
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Kenny Sahr
ERP Director
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Haim Rozow
Former VP IT
Given Imaging
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A balance between over and under upgrading
Too many upgrades is too expensive
Too few upgrades is bad for the business
The Killer Practice for All SAP Changes
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When is it time to perform changes on your SAP?
The rule of thumb = upgrade every 3 years to the most recent EHP

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How to plan your SAP changes
Create a copy server of the production server
and prepare the upgrade “behind the scenes”.
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Traditional landscape
DEV QAS PRD

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Create a Sand Box copy of PRD
DEV QAS PRD
Sandbox

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Create a new DEV copy of PRD
DEV QAS PRD
Sandbox
New DEV

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DEV QAS PRD
Move all needed outstanding
CR’s to the new Dev
Create a new DEV copy of PRD
New DEV

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DEV QAS PRD
Move all needed outstanding
CR’s to the new Dev
Perform a Sanity Check
This can easily done with Panaya
New DEV

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DEV QAS PRD
New DEV
Create a New QAS By copying the new Dev
New QAS

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DEV QAS PRD
New DEV
Conduct all the needed tests on the QAS server
New QAS

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DEV QAS PRD
New DEV
Actual upgrade
New QAS
Upgrade the PRD server
and move to it all the CR’s
from the New Dev server

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Aware of challenges
before go-live
Less downtime
Minimum interference
to business

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Avoid the SAP changes blues
Focus on thorough testing
Involve key users ahead of time
Locate the high impact transactions and
ensure they are properly tested
Document everything

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System Consolidation
Functional Releases
Rollouts
Vendor Enhancements
Upgrades
Patches
The Challenge:
ERP Change
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ERP
Change

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The Solution:
Create ERP
Change
Run
Accelerated
Tests
Optimized Scoping
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CloudQuality
Suite™
Real-Time Reports
Dashboard: Measure your
ERP state & ALL change quality
Assets: Up-to-date ERP test
library & change-decision history
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How it works
Vanilla
Versions & Updates
Vanilla Scoping & Test
Acceleration Rules
Vanilla ERP
Baseline
Customer Test Acceleration
& Test Scenarios Rules
Customer Specific
ERP Baseline
Customer
Specific ERP
(Code, Tests, Raw
Usage, Interfaces)
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CloudQuality Suite™
Analyzes standard ERP
code and behavior
Panaya
CloudQuality Suite™
performs optimized
scope + accelerated
test scripts
and creates:
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CloudQuality Suite™
Scope & Test Acceleration
for EHP, Rollout, Functional
Release, Patch..

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The business
widens its moatBusiness demands
new capabilities
CIO receives request
The Panaya
Change Cycle
Application team leverages
Panaya to accelerate changes
Changes completed
less time | less cost | high quality

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Listen to What the Man Said
“Eighty to ninety percent of our potential problems
were taken care of by Panaya” Mercedes-Benz
“Aibel has standardized on Panaya CloudQuality
Suite™” Aibel
“Panaya took Eaton from manual testing to the
achievable reality of attended automated testing” Eaton
“Thanks to Panaya, we all of a sudden have the
visibility of what we need to test” Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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