the killer practice for all sap changes

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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 ShafirYour Moderator

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Kenny SahrERP Director

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Haim RozowFormer 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 changesCreate a copy server of the production serverand 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 QASUpgrade 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-liveLess downtimeMinimum interference to business

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Avoid the SAP changes blues

Focus on thorough testingInvolve key users ahead of timeLocate the high impact transactions and ensure they are properly testedDocument everything

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System Consolidation

Functional Releases

Rollouts

Vendor Enhancements

Upgrades

Patches

The Challenge:ERP Change

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ERPChange

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The Solution:

Create ERPChange

RunAccelerated

Tests

Optimized Scoping

PanayaCloudQuality

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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Panaya CloudQuality Suite™ Analyzes standard ERP

code and behavior

Panaya CloudQuality Suite™

performs optimized scope + accelerated test

scripts and creates:

PanayaCloudQuality 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 completedless 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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