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Change Approval: Not Who, But What?

I’d like to take credit for this, but can’t as I just heard it and I’m not even sure where I heard it, but it resonated with me…! The gist of the article/conversation was that with more and more change automation being available to us, the desire for Agile change processes and the overall desire for speed of development, the comment was that going forward we should not be asking who is going to approve the change, but rather what is going to approve the change.
Jun 2017
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Improved Rev-Trac ROI with a process and automation health check

It is quite common for customers to outsource their SAP system support to external partners or a System Integrator (SI). Last week I visited Mumbai, India to train a new System Integrator team (new SI) to support Rev-Trac on behalf of one of our larger customers. When we looked under the covers to identify how Rev-Trac change control automation was being used, we found some disturbing results.
Jun 2017
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The fundamentals of business IT applications

Last week an Infographic landed on my desk illustrating recent RedHat sponsored UBM research around the future of business IT applications. What caught my eye was the way the Gartner Bi-Modal IT concept was used to describe the different kinds of IT applications in play, rather than focussing on the way the different application types were managed – perhaps the area we normally speak into.
Jun 2017
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Why should you upgrade to a new version of Rev-Trac?

One of the primary benefits of your support plan is to receive the latest Rev-Trac version developed by RSC – and you can always download and read about the latest new features and enhancements made to Rev-Trac and the Mobile Web GUI from the Support Portal under downloads. One new feature I found is the Parallel Development Workbench provided in v7 SPS02. I’ll provide you a high-level overview of this new feature in today’s blog.
May 2017
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The path to SAP DevOps and effective change control automation

I recently came across the eBook, “Digital Transformation and the CIO: A point of view prepared by IBM and SAP” which, among other things, highlights the need for SAP IT organizations to develop systems, processes and methodologies to deliver continuous innovation for the business.
May 2017
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Change management automation: a better path to SAP DevOps

Apr 2017
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Achieve agility with Rev‑Trac’s Parallel Development Workbench

The Parallel Development Workbench serves as a platform for future innovation and functional enhancement to allow parallel development controls and capabilities to expand to meet the needs of organizations pursuing agile and DevOps methodologies within ever-increasingly complex SAP environments.
Apr 2017
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How to achieve DevOps success!

It has become apparent that SAP teams are requiring faster build, test and deploy development cycles within traditional robust-controlled SAP change processes. We first began to notice this during 2016 when we were approached by several of the most forward thinking SAP teams in the world looking to boost their DevOps capabilities. Their main driver, the need to keep up with their counterparts who are developing customer facing digital apps. Their method, SAP DevOps and rapid Agile development processes.
Jan 2017
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Two-speed IT: An authentic way to conquer the gap

Time is almost up for the two-speed bimodal solution. We are hearing it is no longer reasonable that business innovation available through digital initiatives must wait because legacy enterprise systems cannot deliver supportive innovation within similar time frames.
Jan 2017
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Introducing peripheral object dependency checking

The POD Check is a feature designed to improve the integrity of changes delivered across SAP landscapes. A streamlined change integrity assurance process will enable SAP development and testing teams to deliver high quality changes consistently to production.
Oct 2016
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Beating the air gap

Beating the air gap

In recent years RSC has been challenged to overcome the air gap scenario, to allow organizations to manage changes between systems, which are incapable of communicating with each other. In some cases organizations had multiple, siloed production instances, which were also unable to communicate with each other.
Sep 2016
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Better manage SAP project and support track synchronization

The Release Management Workbench allows for an organization to group together many changes, synchronize the transports from the changes to a release, and deploy in mass using minimal approvals.
Aug 2016
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