webinars for sap user groups

Sept. 27, 2016 Wolf Hengevoss | Product Manager CLM | Area System & Landscape Planning

Pedro Arrontes | Business Dev Mgr. Global User Groups Organization

Webinar: Innovation Guide & Landscape Management

Adopting Innovations – the Big Picture

Webinars for SAP User Groups

This presentation and SAP‘s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change

and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is

provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to,

the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

© 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 2Customer

Disclaimer

This presentation outlines our general product direction and should not be relied on in making a

purchase decision. This presentation is not subject to your license agreement or any other agreement

with SAP. SAP has no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this presentation or to

develop or release any functionality mentioned in this presentation. This presentation and SAP's

strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any

time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind, either

express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a

particular purpose, or non-infringement. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this

document, except if such damages were caused by SAP intentionally or grossly negligent.


Agenda – a new approach to landscape management

Innovation Guide – a continuous process requiring landscape management

Landscape Management with SAP Solution Manager – Overview

Tools in Landscape Management

Maintenance Planner and SAP Solution Manager 7.2 in Detail

Improved Integration of Landscape Management in SAP Solution Manager 7.2

Prerequisite Tools for Landscape Management

Summary & Further Information

See details session

later in this series…


Innovation Guide – a continuous process…… requiring landscape management

Customer Software Lifecycle

Customer

SAP Release Strategy

SAP Road Maps

SAP Maintenance Planner

SAP Innovation Discovery

Business Scenario

Recommendation

SAP Product

Availability Matrix

Adopting innovations is to be planned for integration with the existing IT landscape and implemented

on a technical level

Innovation Adoption

Landscape Management with SAP Solution Manager –

Overview


SAP

Support Portal

Simplify landscape management – motivation & goalWhy change the approach – again?

Solution Browser

Innovation Discovery

Service

Product Availability Matrix

Maintenance Optimizer

Upgrade Roadmap

Business Function Prediction

Landscape Verification

System Landscape

DirectoryLMDB/

SEA/….

Find Innovation

Solution Explorer

Software Logistics ToolsUpdate/Upgrade/Installation

The problem – from consolidated customer quotes:

"Planning of maintenance/upd/upg is error-prone, not

being intuitive but costly in both time and money…"

… reasons being:

Abundance of involved tools and data models

Missing user guidance on the process in UIs

Sync processes for data at SAP & customers

The solution: Simplify the process by…

… reduction of the number of involved tools

… using 1 data model & 1 calculation on demand

… central integration by clear hand-over steps in the tools

Technical System Data

LMDB Product System Editor

EHP Info Center Improvement Finder

Landscape Planner

Maintenance Planner

Upgrade Dependency Analyzer

This presentation and SAP‘s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason

without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of

merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

Lab Preview*

* UDA is planned to be integrated with the Maintenance Planner


“Landscape Management” – what is it about?Details on roles and tools

• Planning changes on a functional level

• Evolving current business processes with new functions and capabilities finding new functions

• Communicating them to IT Architects: Innovation Discovery and Fiori Apps Ref Lib, …

• Planning changes on a technical level:

• Defining how to implement requested functions: Innovation Discovery, PAM, Maintenance Planner

• Checking test effort and compatibility of changes: SEA and UDA, …

• Handling the existing landscape on a system level:

• Providing information on the current landscape: SLD/LMDB

• Implementing updates, upgrades and new installations: SUM / SWPM / SPAM, SAINT…

LINE OF

BUSINESS

IT

ARCHITECT

BASIS

ADMIN


LMDBSLD

MOpzSWPM

/

SUM

Support

Backbone

Landscape planning and maintenance – the big pictureSAP Solution Manager 7.1 to 7.2

Upgrade

Dependency

Analyzer

Product

Availability

Matrix

Innovation Discovery Maintenance Planner

Software

1) Define the business case 2) Map business request to the existing landscape, check impact

3) Provide

landscape data

& implement changesCUSTOMER

Product Definition Layer

SAP Support

Portal

Technical Landscape Layer

LINE OF BUSINESS IT ARCHITECT

PPMS (Software Catalog)

Landscape

Recommendations

(SCN)

BASIS ADMIN

Tools in Landscape Management


Innovation Discovery and Product Availability Matrix (PAM)

Innovation Discovery & Product Availability Matrix (PAM) keep their roles in describing SAP

software products: Functional detail – see Innovation Discovery; technical detail – see PAM.

Hosted on SAP Support Portal, these functions are independent of SAP Solution Manager versions.

www.sap.com/innovationdiscovery https://apps.support.sap.com/sap/support/pam

http://service.sap.com/bfp

http://www.sap.com/innovationdiscovery

https://apps.support.sap.com/sap/support/pam


Integrated Functionality Best or Mandatory for…

Operational EaseSimplified Maintenance Process

Maintenance Planner

Maintenance

Planner

SID

T

https://apps.support.sap.com/sap/support/mp

The Maintenance Planner is a service of SAP

Solution Manager offered on the SAP Support

Portal and the strategic tool that enables easy

and efficient planning of all changes in your IT

landscape.

The Maintenance Planner supports SAP Solution

Manager 7.1 and is mandatory for SAP Solution

Manager 7.2, and for all calculations regarding

SAP S/4HANA and SAP NetWeaver 7.5+.

Central, integrated end-to-end

planning tool

Simplified modelling & visualization

of maintenance dependencies

Streamlined new system

installations

Hosted on SAP Support

Portal, accessible via URL

Leverage infrastructure

enhancements instantly

Access based on S-user

authentication

Integrated correction of

erroneous system information

Consolidated planning of all

related systems including tracks

Easy installation of SAP Fiori

apps (backend + front-end)

Maintenance Planner…

• … unifies tasks from Maintenance Optimizer and

LMDB Product System Editor in one tool

• … delivers maintenance artifacts for SWPM,

SUM, & SEA (SAP Solution Manager 7.2)

• … offers integrated processes for installation of

SAP Fiori Apps and SAP S/4HANA conversion

Learn more on SCN Maintenance Planner

SAP Fiori

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is

in ramp-up – no general availability

Maintenance Optimizer is planned for sunset on Jan 9, 2017.

In SAP Solution Manager 7.1, MOpz will continue to support SEA

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-65243


Scope & Effort Analyzer with SAP Solution Manager 7.2Features, data flow, involved tools – MOpz is replaced with the Maintenance Planner

Scope & Effort Analyzer in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 uses Maintenance Transactions to calculate…

1. … change impact of EHP deployments before physical installation

2. … reliable effort estimation for major development adjustments & test activities

3. … tailored impact analysis and test plan for custom code and modifications

SAP Solution

Manager 7.2*

Maintenance

Transaction

LMDB

technical system

UPL/CC data/TBOM

Scope & Effort

Analyzer

BW Infrastructure

SLD

Support Portal




Testing is an essential part of all projects of planning landscape changes

SID

T

Test effort

estimation

* In SAP Solution Manager 7.1, MOpz will continue to support the SEA


Upgrade Dependency Analyzer (UDA)Example: Dependencies check – EHP7 for SAP ERP 6.0 and SAP CRM 7.0/NW 7.01

Upgrade Dependency Analyzer

runs in the SAP Support Portal

Check the impact of an upgrade

across systems to see if your

business scenario is affected

Choose

– target component you wish to upgrade to

– existing component, connected to the

component you want to upgrade

Check the result

http://service.sap.com/uda

http://service.sap.com/uda

Improved Integration of Landscape Management in

SAP Solution Manager 7.2





Landscape management integration – in the UITransaction SM_WORKCENTER in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP01




Many services of SAP Solution Manager run in the cloud – nevertheless, you’ll find all integrated in the launch pad:

* Delivery of the tile via SAP Note


Integration of Scope & Effort Analyzer with Maintenance PlannerSAP Solution Manager 7.2




• Open Scope & Effort Analyzer,

in SAP Solution Manager 7.2…

• … simply select a system and

assigned Maintenance Plan you

need to know the test scope and

effort for…

• … and follow the guided

procedure


Landscape management integration – in SAP Help PortalLandscape Management in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Help Portal




Also, documentation

of services required

in landscape

management has

been moved into

Help Portal node of

SAP Solution

Manager 7.2:

http://help.sap.com/solutionman

ager72 Application Help

http://help.sap.com/solutionmanager72


Landscape management integration – in the SCNRoles and tools – sequence of steps: Best Practices Guide

Diagram of roles, tools and

the sequence of steps:

See Landscape Management

• E2E process description with all

key tools involved @ the SCN:

• Links to info on related tools like

• Landscape Virtualization Mgmt.

• SAP Infrastructure Mgmt.

• SL-Tools

Planning Landscape Changes (incl. Maintenance

Planner) – http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-63420




Prerequisite tools for landscape management


System Landscape Directory (SLD) /

SAPSolutionManager Landscape Management Database (LMDB)

SLD and LMDB with SAP Solution

Manager have the role of the key

applications to gather data from

the system landscape

• SLD being the target for technical

system data sent by data suppliers

• LMDB adding information (manual

and from agents) replication into the

Customer Profile

• Maintenance Planner is available for

planning updates or upgrades of the

system landscape in the SAP

Support Portal

IT LandscapeIT LandscapeIT Landscape

(AS Java)(AS ABAP) (HANA)

LMDB

Customer

Profile

upload

read

SPS/EHP

Update

Upgrade

Installation

incl. SAP Fiori

SAP S/4HANA

Conversion

SL ToolsSWPM / SUM

SPAM/SAINT

& SEA

CUSTOMER

Support

Portal

SLD

Define system

dependencies

& calculate…

registermonitor

run

Stack.xml +

Download Basket

consume, install,

update/upgrade

download

SWDC

Monitoring

SEA

…


IT

landscape

SLD/LMDB: Topology recommendations for the Customer ProfileDefault scenario – no topology changes caused by Solution Manager 7.2

systems

managing

systems

landscape area PRDlandscape area DEV landscape area QA

SAP Solution Manager

role = test

Systems (DEV)NWDI (DEV)

SLD

(DEV)

PI (DEV)

SLD (PRD)

centralSLD (QA)

Systems (QA)PI (QA)

Systems (PRD)PI (PRD)

VIPA

SAP

Support

Portal

Customer Profile

SAP Solution Manager

role = productive

1 SAP Solution Manager

in role = prod., one = test:

Only prod uploads via

landscape fetch or via

manual direct upload to

SAP Support Portal

Content Sync

(uni- or bi-directional)

Forwarding of data on

Technical Systems

Manual export/ import

optionally using CTS+

Data Supplier data of

Technical Systems

V IPAVirtual IP Address

(optional; assigned to

only one SLD at a time)

Landscape fetch of

Techn. Systems' data

Direct upload of

Techn. Systems' data

read

For the source SLD for CIM/

CR data, see SAP Note

2175739 – Required SAP

NW version of SLD for LMDB

in SAP Solution Manager 7.2

SI

D

T

Summary & Further Information


Summary & further information

Innovation adoption touches the areas of functionality, landscape architecture, and systems:

• Finding required enhancements

• Finding the best way to implement them

• Checking compatibility, test effort and defining implementation

SAP provides the tools to handle all questions in the innovation adoption process, but it requires line of

business, IT architecture, and administrators to know the process and continuously work hand-in hand

For further information, see Landscape Management @ the SCN – information on all involved tools &

Best Practice Guide Planning Landscape Changes


© 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Thank you…

Contact information:

Wolf Hengevoss | PM CLM

Area System & Landscape Planning

SAP SE

69190 Walldorf, Germany

[email protected]

… any questions?

Pedro Arrontes

Business Dev Mgr. Global User Groups Organization

SAP SE

69190 Walldorf, Germany

[email protected]


© 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purpose without the express permission of SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company.

SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate

company) in Germany and other countries. Please see http://global12.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx for additional trademark information and notices.

Some software products marketed by SAP SE and its distributors contain proprietary software components of other software vendors.

National product specifications may vary.

These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or warranty of any kind, and SAP SE or its

affiliated companies shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials. The only warranties for SAP SE or SAP affiliate company products and

services are those that are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as

constituting an additional warranty.

In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or any related presentation, or to develop

or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation, and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future

developments, products, and/or platform directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time

for any reason without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. All forward-

looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place

undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates, and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

http://global12.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx

webinars for sap user groups

Documents