Realisable value creation plan
All SAP solution landscape and deployment scenarios
Many renowned customers have already made the switch. It is one of the most successful applications in the history of SAP. It enables customers to transform into a smart business. We support our customers both in the preparation and execution as well as in the operation. SAP Solution Manager is central to agile SAP S/4HANA implementations. SAP Activate Best Practice Content is delivered to all customers through SAP Solution Manager. With Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager, SAP supports agile deployment. From 2020, Focused Build and Focused Insights will be available to all customers under their maintenance agreement - without any additional licencing costs. On the support side, we prepared early and trained our employees - both for on-premise and cloud, with dedicated global teams. It is precisely with these solutions that our real-time channels are often used.
SAP Support supports all types of dependencies, whether on-premise, cloud or hybrid. The requirements of our customers are constantly changing - especially with regard to the end-to-end support experience. We recognised this early on and reinvented SAP Support. As already stated: With this "next-generation support" we are enabling our customers to gain greater access to our knowledge pool via self-services. Customers can ask their questions with us in real time, in direct interaction with our support experts. We also work to integrate support into our solutions. And to shorten the time from question to answer using artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Advisory services
All backbone connections to SAP will be switched from January 1, 2020, as SAP has announced on its support page. Afterwards, communication between ABAP System and SAP will only take place via secure HTTPS connections, for which a dedicated user must also be requested in the Support Portal. In all ABAP systems, SAP hints can no longer be obtained via SNOTE via the old OSS RFC connection. The shipment of Early Watch Alerts to SAP is also affected by this change. Here the shipping route must also be changed to the new HTTPS standard. There is also a great need for action for all SAP customers without a current SAP Solution Manager. In the future, SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS08 (SPS07 only with additional information) will be required here. For all older releases, communication with SAP will also be impossible from January 2020. This primarily affects the data in the Maintenance Planner, which are then no longer synchronised. This then indirectly affects all future maintenance projects where the use of the Maintenance Planner is indispensable. Especially with regard to upcoming S/4 HANA migrations, this represents a risk to be avoided.
In addition to the standard service, we carry out a thorough analysis and evaluation of all SAP products that are not measured via USMM and also offer the possibility to examine interfaces that are not derived from SAP and that are specifically developed for the customer. The result is a holistic view of the environment, with all the licencing risks and opportunities, with a focus on the various licencing options for Indirect Access.
"Shortcut for SAP Systems" is a PC application that simplifies or even enables many SAP support activities.
Austria deviates here with a significantly stronger use of Enterprise Support.
Other sites added: in June 2018 the plant in Bergisch Gladbach, and at the end of 2018 the site in China.