James Pearce

December 5, 2013 2 minute read

Solution Manager Update – What’s in Feature Pack Two?

Support Pack 9 and 10 for Solution Manager 7.1 (Feature Pack Two) has just been released. This release builds on the dual theme of Run/Build SAP like a factory and provides improvements in efficiency, quality and usability. Below is a summary of the key features.

Run SAP like a Factory (RSLaF)

Build SAP Like a Factory (BSLaF)

Application Operations:

Manage by Exception:

Job Monitoring integrated into Monitoring and Alert Infrastructure (MAI), Guided Procedures and Tasks, IT Calendar

IT Portfolio and Project Management Integration with SAP Solution Manager:

Integration of cProjects with SAP Solution Manager Projects for Task and Resource Management

Business Process Operations

Improved Business Process Management:

Business Process Improvement enabled via extended Process Analytics and Partial Integration with MAI (full integration in SP14)

Test Management

Reduction of Testing Effort:

Faster Test Case Creation and Execution with Component-Based Test Automation (CBTA), Test Scope Optimization

Service Availability Management

Improved Transparency of Outages:

Defined Change Windows, Manage Outage Activities and Communication, Granular SLA

Change Control Management

Improved Flexibility, Validation and Compliance:

New central CTS infrastructure (cCTS) fully integrated with Quality Gate Management

Solution Manager Configuration

Simplification of Set-up:

Automated Managed System Configuration and Support for Mass Changes

Custom Code Management

Better Custom Code Management:

Integration of Usage and Procedure Logging (UPL) with ABAP Test Cockpit

IT Service Management

Improved Service Management (better ITIL alignment):

Service Catalog integrated with Service Request Guided Procedures and Tasks

Dashboards

Better Measurement of IT Performance

New Management Dashboards for Run/Build SAP Life a Factory with ability to customize,

Executive Scorecard, Mobile Dashboards

See What’s new in SP10 for detailed information (requires SAP Service Marketplace logon)

EGI’s – North America Schedule for December 2013:

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Tool & Process Setup on SAP Solution Manager 7.1

Solution Manager Basic Configuration 7.1 – 9^th to 13^th Dec
Technical Upgrade of SAP Solution Manager to 7.1 – 2^nd to 6^th Dec
Change Control Management III: Change Request Mgmt – 2^nd to 6^th Dec
Job Scheduling Management – 2^nd to 6^th Dec
Roles and Authorization Concept – 2^nd to 6^th Dec
SAP HANA Profitability Analysis – 16^th to 20^th Dec
SAP Mobile Enterprise Mobility Management – 2^nd to 5^th Dec

Guided Self Service Execution (Also run as an EGI on below dates):

Business Process Analytics and Improvement (BPAI) – 2^nd to 6^th Dec
Data Volume Management (DVM) – 9^th to 13^th Dec
SQL Statement Tuning (SQL) – 16^th to 20^th Dec

Meet the Experts (1 hour presentations with Q&A)

The SAP Support Portal Demo – 10^th Dec
Custom Code Management Campaign – Software Quality – 5^th Dec
Custom Code Management Campaign – Retirement of Custom Code – 11^th Dec

SAP Solution Manager 7.1 configuration SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 – 2^nd to 6^th Dec

Schedule for January 2014:

Tool & Process Setup on SAP Solution Manager 7.1

Custom Code Quality and Clones – 27^th to 30^th Jan
Incident, Problem and Request Management (ITSM) – 27^th to 31^st Jan
Technical Upgrade of SAP Solution Manager to 7.1 – 27^th to 31^st Jan

Guided Self Service Execution (Also run as an EGI on below dates):

Business Process Analytics and Improvement (BPAI) – 6^th to 10^th Jan
Data Volume Management (DVM) – 20^th to 24^th Jan
Performance Optimization (PERF) – 21^st to 31^st Jan

BI and Mobile

Solution Manager 7.1 configuration SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
SAP Mobile (4 of 5): App Development – 13^thto 17^th Jan
SAP Mobile (5 of 5): System Operations – 20^thto 24^th Jan

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Wolfgang Mayer

February 21, 2014 at 1:45 pm

Hello James,

today I've learnedPPM it is necessary that PPM is installed on the same System as Solman.

Can you confirm this? If this would be true, this solution would be applicable to a lot of our customers since PPM (5.0 or 6.0) and Solman are always installed on different SAP instances.

Thanks & regards

Wolfgang

James Pearce

Blog Post Author

February 21, 2014 at 7:20 pm

Hi Wolfgang, in order to integrate to Change Management this is correct.

https://websmp208.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_SCENARIO=01100035870000000202&_SHORTKEY=01100035870000742729&_OBJECT=011000358…

Wolfgang Mayer

February 24, 2014 at 11:23 am

Hello James, any chance that this will change in future and will work if the PPM addon has been installed on another server than Solman? As mentioned, our customers have separate PPM- and Solman system since PPM is mainly not used for IT but business Projects. Thanks & regards Wolfgang

James Pearce

Blog Post Author

March 1, 2014 at 1:20 am

Hi Wolfgang, not sure how this will evolve in the future but my guess is as Solman becomes more integrated into the ALM processes for managing the SAP environment PPM integration will remain as it is. I suggest you log a OSS note with SAP to see if this is the case or there is a workaround. Long term you could look at using Solman server for PPM.

Solution Manager Update – What’s in Feature Pack Two?

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