Revelation Software Concepts: SAP Change Management and Reporting Software

Low cost of ownership - high ROI

With a fast install time, easy learning curve and many advanced cost-saving features, Rev-Trac provides an easily demonstrable return on investment.

Because Rev-Trac lives inside the SAP environment, there are no hidden extras and no additional network, security, disaster recovery plan, DBA or desktop rollout requirements.

Rev-Trac’s place in the change management picture

Rev-Trac is installed in all systems within your SAP landscape and manages all changes as that landscape evolves. It does not replace the change management or help desk system you now use to manage changes across your whole organization.

System requirements

Rev-Trac 6 is compatible with all SAP solution-based systems from SAP 4.0 onwards.

Installation

Most sites install Rev-Trac, load system histories and begin full system monitoring in one day. Implementing actual change management processes can take one or two weeks, as the organization finalizes decisions regarding workflow, approvers, etc. End user training time is typically one to two hours in the classroom, or 30 minutes of training one-to-one.

Technical specifics

• SAP certified as an ABAP add-on for NetWeaver 7
• Can manage mixed SAP versions from 4.0 onwards within a single installation
• Fully integrates with CTS, CTS+, and TMS, deploying ABAP, non-ABAP, and mixed transports
• Employs standard SAP security model, with SAP passwords, authorizations and profiles
• Provides complete flexibility in the definition of approval processes, organizational models and migration strategies
• Allows the creation of rules specifying what information (e.g. budgets, specifications) must be associated with change requests at different points in their lifecycle
• Provides fully flexible migration scheduling, and automatically promotes change requests through their lifecycle after successful auto-migration
• Automatically notifies users via email when work is ready for approval, has reached a certain stage, or when a migration failure requires investigation
• Extends the SAP locking concept beyond the time of release to reduce the risk of inadvertent parallel developments within a single system, or across multiple development systems
• Inbuilt features to simplify complex (5 system) system landscape ‘retrofit’ requirements
• Ensures quality management of concurrent, simultaneous changes across multiple landscapes and multiple technologies
• Automatically detects potential transport sequencing errors (overtaking and overwriting) for both configuration and workbench objects before migration
• Reports discrepancies between the planned and actual locations of changes within a landscape, and analyses differences between specific systems and clients using either current or historical data
• Can be integrated into other third-party Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools to increase cost savings through the integrated automation of ALM activities

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