Solution Manager Update - What's in Feature Pack Two?

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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:

• Online schedule for Expert Guided Implementation sessions
• Online schedule for Meet the Expert sessions

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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^th to 17^th Jan
• SAP Mobile (5 of 5): System Operations – 20^th to 24^th Jan