Sapna Modi shows how to use Customizing Scout, which is part of SAP Solution Manager’s Customizing Synchronization suite. This functionality enables you to compare functional IMG configuration between two systems. These systems must be connected in Solution Manager and should be configured with the necessary authorizations. It is useful especially when manual activity is involved in a comparison of the synchronization, distribution of configuration, and master data differences between two systems.

Vessy Panayotova shows how the new Solution Documentation in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 affects the configuration and administration of Change Request Management (ChaRM) and what to address when upgrading existing ChaRM functionality.

Ali Sbai’s case study takes you through the International Telecommunication Union’s upgrade of its SAP ERP 6.0 system to enhancement package 7. The project was done to enable deployment of a new United Nations compensation package.

System connections, authorizations, and a detailed description of the Solution Landscape are key to taking advantage of the Solution Documentation Assistant (SDA). D. Russell Sloan explains how to confirm that the solution landscape is properly described in the Landscape Management Database (LMDB), that communications between Solution Manager and managed systems are properly set up, and that the key authorizations are in place for both the Solution Manager and the managed systems.

D. Russell Sloan shows how to use a Solution Manager implementation project to create transaction analysis rules for your analysis projects. This process saves time compared with creating individual rules in the rules database.

Vessy Panayotova shares her experience with streamlining the release management process by using a little-known, out-of-the-box Change Request Management (ChaRM) functionality that requires very little customizing. The main benefits are a clear auditing trace and ease of release planning.

Marcus Wefers describes a new ABAP program provided by SAP Solution Manager that requires a very low effort to build an SAP module-oriented Business Blueprint. The program can be used for initial Business Blueprint creation as well as for regular delta updates. The application component hierarchy (ACH)-oriented Business Blueprint can be manually extended to include end-to-end processes using the generated entries as building blocks, thus acting as an executable or process step library (PSL).

Solution Manager 7.1 allows you to monitor almost anything in an SAP landscape. When an alert fails to generate an email alert, what tools do you have to find the root cause of an error? Jereme Swoboda reviews the tools that are provided by SAP to analyze the back-end processes of Technical Monitoring. See how to manage and use the monitoring infrastructure to its fullest potential.

D. Russell Sloan explores different techniques for managing requirements and creating traceability of requirements to test cases. Learn how to create a traceability matrix using document links as well as a technique using customer attributes.

SAP projects have a tendency to be quite large, covering a vast array of business processes in a delivered solution. While building a project solution, project teams must navigate a Business Process Hierarchy (BPH) that could contain thousands of hierarchy nodes. D. Russell Sloan shows how to use customer attributes and filters so that teams can work with only the nodes they are charged with building.

A lot of time and effort go into creating solution documentation. D. Russell Sloan explains how Solution Manager stores this information so that you can be better prepared to take advantage of other capabilities of information management to provide end users and support teams with better control, visibility, and access to your solution documentation.

In this video, John Krakowski of SAP America explains how to utilize a pace-layered strategy in conjunction with SAP Solution Manager to support the end-to-end project life cycle, from performing fit or gap analysis and managing business requirements to implementing functionality and managing tests.