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In my role at Revelation Software Concepts I regularly brief the relevant analyst community on our SAP change control automation software roadmap. Quite often, due to our specialized knowledge I get asked my thoughts on SAP’s strategic directions and on various SAP Applications. During my most recent series of analyst briefings I faced numerous questions around the topic of SAP HANA, S/4 HANA and SAP Cloud. What I learned this time is that analysts are very keen to understand SAP customer attitudes to S/4 HANA and what their plans are to transition. So, what are we seeing SAP customer’s doing in transitioning from SAP ERP to S/4 and how can a change control automation software like Rev-Trac help?
Jul 2017
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One of the great criticisms underpinning the move away from Enterprise Core type software applications to more agile cloud based applications is the slow and frustrating rate of change that is unsuited to the rapid response era in which we now operate – with robust change control procedures often seen as the culprit. But does a change control procedure need to necessarily slow down the rate of change to an SAP Enterprise Application and work against agile development goals?
Jul 2017
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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