Solution Manager Update – Meet the Expert Sessions & Sapphire ALM Agenda

As Sapphire is upon us next week included below is the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Agenda for those attending along with June and July’s Expert Guided Implementation schedules.

Meet the Expert Sessions (One hour)

SAP have added a number of the sessions to the June schedule. This is a great way to gain an overview of specific functionality and talk to an expert. For managers and anyone wanting to get an understanding of Solution Manager’s new functionality below are a few recommended sessions:

• SAP Solution Manager 7.1: Scope and Effort Analyzer – 6^th Jun
• Introduction to DVM Work Center in Solution Manager 7.1 – 11^th of Jun
• Management Dashboards with SAP Solution Manager – 26^th of Jun
• What a Customer COE Should Know About SAP Innovation Discovery Service – 1^st Jul

If you miss a Meet the Expert Session or would like to browse past sessions there is a Replay Library available via the SAP Enterprise Support Academy – Learning Studio.

Solution Manager News

• See Barbara Buchholz post: Featured Content for Application Lifecycle Management – Round-up of ALM information with useful link to Planning Landscape Changes
• How Does SAP Solution Manager Support SAP HANA? – Lecture of the week from TechEd
• Finding Kernel Information for Technical Systems – Simplified approach for reporting Patch Levels across SAP Landscape
• For Support Pack 11 information see Changes and New Features in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP11
• Feature Pack Two has been live since December 2013

Free EGI’s – North America Schedule for June 2014:

• Online schedule for Expert Guided Implementation sessions

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Tool & Process Setup on SAP Solution Manager 7.1

• Tool & Process Setup: Basic Configuration of SAP Solution Manager 7.1 – 9^th to 13^th Jun
• Tool & Process Setup: Change Control Management II: Quality Gate Management – 10^th to 13^th Jun
• Tool & Process Setup: Change Control Management III: Change Request Mgmt – 23^rd to 27^th Jun
• Tool & Process Setup: Custom Code Quality and Clones – 9^th to 11^th Jun
• Tool & Process Setup: Custom Development Management Cockpit – 16^th to 19^th Jun
• Tool & Process Setup: Data Volume Management: Methodology and Infrastructure – 16^th to 20^th Jun
• Tool & Process Setup: Technical Upgrade of SAP Solution Manager to 7.1 – 9^th to 13^th Jun
• Tool & Process Setup: Test Management I: SAP Test Workbench – 16^th to 18^th Jun
• Tool & Process Setup: SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Roadmap – 11^th to 12^th Jun and 23^rd to 24^th Jun
• Tools & Process Setup: Business Intelligence Monitoring & Troubleshooting – 9^th to 11^th Jun

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

• Data Volume Management (DVM) – 2^nd to 6^th Jun and 23^rd to 27^th Jun
• SAP HANA (3 of 6) – Advanced Database Monitoring – 9^th to 13^th Jun
• SAP Mobile (5 of 5): System Operations –  9^th to 12^th Jun
• Performance Optimization (PERF) – 16^th to 20^th Jun
• Transport Execution Analysis (TEA and TEAP) – 17^th to 19^th Jun
• Business Process Analytics and Improvement (BPAI) – 23^rd to 27^th of Jun
• Data Consistency Management (DCM) – 23^rd to 27^th Jun
• Security Optimization Service (SOS) – 30^th Jun to 4^th Jul
• SQL Statement Tuning (SQL) – 30^th Jun to 4^th Jul

Meet the Expert:

• SAP Solution Manager 7.1: Scope and Effort Analyzer – 6^th Jun
• Overview on the Data Federation Administration Tool – 9^th of Jun
• SAP® Afaria® iOS Management Training – 10^th Jun
• Introduction to DVM Work Center in Solution Manager 7.1 – 11^th of Jun
• BI4.1 Explorer with HANA – 17^th of Jun
• Top 10+ Things Not To Do When Implementing BI4.1 – 18^th Jun and 23^rd Jun
• From Loblaw‘s Center of Expertise (COE) to an Efficient Operations Control Cente (Customer Panel) – 18^th Jun
• SAP Solution Manager Upgrade 7.1 – 24^th of Jun
• LMS Integration & SCORM with SAP WPB – 25^th of Jun
• Management Dashboards with SAP Solution Manager – 26^th of Jun

North America Schedule for July 2014:

Tool & Process Setup on SAP Solution Manager 7.1

• Tool & Process Setup: Basic Configuration of SAP Solution Manager 7.1 – 7^th to 11^th Jul and 28^th to 1^st Aug
• Tool & Process Setup: Change Control Management I: CTS+ – 22^nd to 24^th Jul
• Tool & Process Setup: Change Control Management III: Change Request Mgmt – 28^th Jul to 1^st Aug
• Tool & Process Setup: Custom Code Quality and Clones – 21^st to 23^rd Jul
• Tool & Process Setup: Custom Development Management Cockpit – 28^th to 31^st Jul
• Tool & Process Setup: Data Volume Management: Methodology and Infrastructure – 7^th to 11^th Jul
• Tool & Process Setup: Technical Upgrade of SAP Solution Manager to 7.1 – 14^th to 18^th Jul
• Tool & Process Setup: System Monitoring & Reporting – 14^th to 17^th Jul
• Tool & Process Setup: Test Management I: SAP Test Workbench – 14^th to 16^th Jul
• Tools & Process Setup: Business Intelligence Monitoring & Troubleshooting – 14^th to 16^th Jul
• Tool & Process Setup: SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Roadmap – 9^th to 10^th Jul and 25^th Jul

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

• Security Optimization Service (SOS) – 30^th Jun to 4^th Jul
• SAP Solution Manager 7.1 configuration SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 – 21^st to 25 Jul
• Data Volume Management (DVM) – 21^st to 25^th Jul
• SAP HANA (4 of 6) – Make your Custom Code Ready – 7^th to 9^th Jul
• SAP HANA (5 of 6) – Data Modelling – 21^st to 25^th Jul
• SAP Mobile (2 of 5): SAP Fiori – 7^th to 10^th Jul
• SAP Mobile (3 of 5): Enterprise Mobility Management – 21^st to 24^th Jul
• SQL Statement Tuning (SQL) – 30^th Jun to 4^th Jul

Meet the Expert:

• What a Customer COE Should Know About SAP Innovation Discovery Service – 1^st Jul
• Introduction to SAP® SQL Anywhere® 16 – 2^nd Jul
• Introduction to MobiLink in SAP® SQL Anywhere® 16 – 3^rd Jul
• Offline SAP HANA: Synchronizing SAP HANA and SAP SQL Anywhere 16 using MobiLink – 4^th Jul
• BI41 WebIntelligence & Java Runtime Best Practices – 9^th of Jul
• Support Essentials – What a Customer COE Should Know About Message Processing – 15^th Jul
• Workforce Performance Builder & Solution Manager Integration – 23^rd Jul

Sapphire Orlando Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Agenda

With SAP’s main event of the year looming in Orlando below are all the featured ALM sessions. This is a great chance to see how other people are utilizing Solution Manager to improve their bottom line. Attached is the detailed agenda with all the session details.