How to manage SAP change without risking production
There is no doubt businesses with SAP back-end systems are under increasing pressure to deliver higher volumes of change at faster rates with lower costs, higher quality and fewer risks.
In other words, they need to figure out how to become proficient at SAP change management.
Many are transforming their business and adopting agile or DevOps for SAP to meet the challenges.
In fact, in a recent blog I mentioned that around 40 per cent of IT organizations are either adopting agile or DevOps now (27 per cent) or are planning to within the next 12 months (27 per cent).
Meaning more than half of businesses (60 per cent) need to investigate alternative methods for managing SAP change for competitive advantage in today’s digital world.
SAP change control at the crossroads
So, how can organizations achieve this objective without the kinds of changes an agile or DevOps culture brings?
Particularly in an SAP IT environment where projects are often complex and debate continues to rage whether agile or DevOps can truly work in SAP.
I have been involved in the SAP world for almost 20 years and from what I have seen a major roadblock to meeting the demands are poor SAP change management practices.
Businesses relying on out-dated, highly risky and expensive manual processes are not maximizing business value from their SAP solutions.
Automate to manage SAP change better
No matter how well organised, streamlined and managed your manual SAP change management practices and processes are, they still limit the ability to respond quickly to business demands.
Relying on traditional, manual intensive SAP change management makes it difficult to deliver faster, better and safer SAP applications and enhancements.
It also means there are less resources and time to focus on innovation which is crucial for survival in the digital age, and here is why:
- Manual transport deployment is time consuming and risky
- It’s difficult to enforce multiple change processes
- Human error is inevitable
- Lag time and human activity delays delivery
To truly manage SAP change effectively, organizations need to consider automating their largely manual change control practices and processes.
Automation allows SAP IT teams to make more SAP changes, more quickly while significantly reducing the risk of system downtime.
Simultaneously, resources are freed up to innovate faster.
Automation as a starting point
With an SAP change automation platform, businesses can achieve acceleration, volume and quality goals for competitive advantage.
Rev-Trac helps to make SAP change more manageable through automation and enforcing process workflows.
The fully integrated software solution cuts out the potential for human error and eliminates unnecessary lag time.
This enables businesses to update and improve SAP applications faster and more efficiently.
For more information on how Rev-Trac can help you to manage SAP change and innovate faster feel free to reach out to one of our experts.
