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

Panaya

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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


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


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


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


DEV QAS PRD

New DEV

Create a New QAS By copying the new Dev

New QAS


DEV QAS PRD

New DEV

Conduct all the needed tests on the QAS server

New QAS


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


Aware of challenges before go-liveLess downtimeMinimum interference to business


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


System Consolidation

Functional Releases

Rollouts

Vendor Enhancements

Upgrades

Patches

The Challenge:ERP Change

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ERPChange


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:

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Scope & Test Acceleration for EHP, Rollout, Functional

Release, Patch..


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


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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