Big News About SAP Solution Manager: Announcing Focused Solutions

With the mass shipment of SAP Solution Manager in the close future, the roll-out for our new release is in full sway. As part of the roll-out, we also introduce the concept of Focused Solutions. Focused solutions are turnkey solutions based on SAP Solution Manager – made for immediate consumption. They are ready-to-run, highly integrated, preconfigured, and automated. Focused solutions deliver what all our customers need: tools, best-practice methodologies, training material, etc. The good news is that focused solutions are available to all customers. You can find the latest details at http://support.sap.com/focused.

• With focused solutions for SAP Solution Manager your customers get the solution they need. If they do not need it, they do not have to buy it.
• Focused solutions are ready-to-run.
• They offer all the benefits of a personal consulting solution without the cost involved.
• Your customers get complete maintenance and support.
• Your customers only pay what they use. No hidden costs. No shelf ware.
• Everybody can get it easily and instantly through SAP Store.
• Customers can test drive the solutions risk-free, anywhere, anytime.

And you can leverage focused solutions starting at only € 250. Watch the newly released video on focused solutions. Currently, there are two focused solutions available:

• Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager provides a ready-to-run, and integrated, tool-supported methodology to manage requirements and software development in large, agile projects. This focused solution provides:
  – Automated visibility of solution readiness against due dates, with integrated risk management
  – Management of distributed development teams
  – Agile release and software engineering with JIRA integration
  – Automated test planning, change & release management to support continuous delivery & integration and DevOps
  – Full integration of demand, project, process, change, release and test management
  – Watch Focused Build in action!
  

• Focused Insights enables customers to build and distribute powerful customer-specific dashboards in minutes using state-of-the-art user experience. In a nutshell, Focused Insights offers:
  – Build custom-specific, easy-to-use dashboards in minutes
  – Pre-packaged content with simplified configuration models, no programming needed
  – Monitor 800+ best-practice KPIs, pre-selected for standard use cases
  – Mix real-time or historic metrics from across all SAP Solution Manager use cases
  – Ideal to build your ICC and OCC
  – Enable top-level, strategic, KPI-driven management for the business solution for IT and Business
  – Watch Focused Insights in action!

Further Focused Solutions are planned, so stay tuned.

For customers, partners, and colleagues, we offer Meet-the-Expert sessions on focused solutions. Please use the links below to register:

Meet the Expert: Focused Solutions for SAP Solution Manager – Introduction

Speaker: Marc Oliver Schäfer

Session 1: August 30, 2016, 10:00am CET (duration 60 min)

Session 2: August 30, 2016, 5:00pm CET (duration 60 min)

Meet the Expert: SAP Solution Manager: Focused Insights Overview

Speaker: Xavier Dupeyrat

Session 1: August 31, 2016, 10:00am CET (duration 60 min)

Session 2: August 31, 2016, 5:00pm CET (duration 60 min)

Meet the Expert: SAP Solution Manager: Focused Build Overview

Speaker: Michael Kloeffer, Marc Oliver Schäfer

Session 1: Sept 1, 2016, 10:00am CET (duration 60 min)

Session 2: Sept 1, 2016, 5:00pm CET (duration 60 min)

Also see http://support.sap.com/focused for more information.

Should you have questions or comments, please send your feedback to focused.solutions@sap.com.

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