Application change management

found one of the best papers on best practices for oracle apps change management ..
www.quest.com/landing/Vertexera_blast051204.asp
enjoy
Joe

Go market somewhere else #$!@#

Similar Messages

A note on Setup Manager - Application Change Management Pack

Hi All,
This is Mugunthan, Development manager for iSetup and Setup Manager. I am happy to begin my note with the launch of Application Change Management Pack 3.1. For those who are not aware of Application Change Management Pack, it is a new product built on top of Oracle Enterprise Manager and comprises of three major modules namely Setup Manager, Customization Manager and Patch Manager. You can find more information about this pack here (LCM: Oracle Application Change Management Pack Setup Manager is enhanced and advanced version of iSetup on Oracle Enterprise Manager. There were good amount of reasons to re-architect iSetup on Oracle Enterprise Manager as Setup Manager.
Why Setup Manager?
Ability to migrate to data over point releases of EBS – EBS comes up with rollup patches on top of major releases periodically. It means that you have to certify the patch before it get deployed on to production which means that setup data are to be certified again. iSetup cannot connect between 12.0.4 to 12.0.6 or 12.0.6 to 12.1.1. We have achieved the data migration for above scenarios in Setup Manager (11i to R12 is not supported in Setup Manager)
Projects – Setup Manager supports grouping of Extracts, Transforms, Loads and Reports as a single entity and can be deployed multiple times to multiple targets. The project consists of one or more tasks (of type Extract/Load/Transform/Report) and can be orchestrated according to your ends. Project execution supports scheduling which means that you can use this feature to sync up setup data between two instances at periodic internal. Projects can be shared with other users which is remarkable difference between iSetup and Setup Manager. You can share your projects with others in a combined development environment. The functional configuration data (Extracts) are stored in Oracle Enterprise Manager. This means that you can refresh EBS without losing Extracts.
Integration with Change Approval mechanism – Execution of projects is integrated with change approval mechanism which means that you can control who executes what. Also, you have fine grain access control where you can control EBS targets assigned to a user.
Offline Transformation – I would say this is the most unique feature of Setup Manager and as an implementer you would welcome this feature very much. iSetup has got very limited capability on Transformation. Here we have gone way ahead and support Transformation on almost all Setup Objects. We present you the extracted data in excel sheets. You can download the excel template and work offline. All the attribute value fields in the excel sheet are editable which means that you supply your own value. For example, you can download Operating Unit data in xls file and change operating unit “OU100” to “OU200” and upload it back to system and load to target instance. Please note that any attribute of Operating Unit setup data can be edited. Also, system has got intelligence and once you upload the excel sheet, it automatically changes all the inventory organization which belongs to “OU100” to “OU200”. This behavior can be controlled using attribute mapping which you can create in Setup Manager. Hold on, this is not the end, also you can add more operating unit in excel, say OU300 and OU400 and load it to target instance. You can delete few Operating Units from extracted data in excel sheet and load the remaining to target instance. This gives you complete flexibility to manage (add/edit/delete) functional configuration data offline. This is fantastic feature and please have a look at how it works.
Advanced Filtering – Filter support in iSetup is not flexible where you cannot use comma separated values and complex sql join conditions. Also you do not know what query is executed behind the scenes to the data. All this problems are addressed in Setup Manager 3.1. We show you the “select clause” (SQL) associated with interface and provide you a text field where you can refer the select clause and provide your own custom where criteria (SQL). This means that filter support is unlimited and you can set filter any database columns. For example, you can extract “Responsibilities/Menu” which are active or created as on yesterday. You can extract all Operating Units excluding “OU100 and OU200”. We support all filter criteria that are supported by SQL.

Hi,
your note very interesting. Is there any other way to extract the configuration using SQL? not using Enterprise Manager? hope this will be fastest way then using GUI base.
Thanks,
Fahmi Fahlevi

Setup Manager - Application Change Management Pack

Hi All,
This is Mugunthan, Development manager for iSetup and Setup Manager. I am happy to begin my note with the launch of Application Change Management Pack 3.1. For those who are not aware of Application Change Management Pack, it is a new product built on top of Oracle Enterprise Manager and comprises of three major modules namely Setup Manager, Customization Manager and Patch Manager. You can find more information about this pack here (LCM: Oracle Application Change Management Pack Setup Manager is enhanced and advanced version of iSetup on Oracle Enterprise Manager. There were good amount of reasons to re-architect iSetup on Oracle Enterprise Manager as Setup Manager.
Why Setup Manager?
Ability to migrate setup data over point releases of EBS – EBS comes up with roll-up patches on top of major releases periodically. It means that you have to certify the patch before it get deployed on to production which means that setup data are to be certified again. iSetup cannot connect between 12.0.4 to 12.0.6 or 12.0.6 to 12.1.1. We have achieved the data migration for above scenarios in Setup Manager (11i to R12 is not supported in Setup Manager)
Projects – Setup Manager supports grouping of Extracts, Transforms, Loads and Reports as a single entity and can be deployed multiple times to multiple targets. The project consists of one or more tasks (of type Extract/Load/Transform/Report) and can be orchestrated according to your needs. Project execution supports scheduling which means that you can use this feature to sync up setup data between two instances at periodic internal. Projects can be shared with other users which is remarkable difference between iSetup and Setup Manager. You can share your projects with others in a combined development environment. The functional configuration data (Extracts) are stored in Oracle Enterprise Manager. This means that you can refresh EBS without losing Extracts.
Integration with Change Approval mechanism – Execution of projects is integrated with change approval mechanism which means that you can control who executes what. Also, you have fine grain access control where you can control EBS targets assigned to a user.
Offline Transformation – I would say this is the most unique feature of Setup Manager and as an implementer you would welcome this feature very much. iSetup has got very limited capability on Transformation. Here we have gone way ahead and support Transformation on almost all Setup Objects. We present you the extracted data in excel sheets. You can download the excel template and work offline. All the attribute value fields in the excel sheet are editable which means that you supply your own value. For example, you can download Operating Unit data as xls file and change operating unit “OU100” to “OU200” and upload it back to system and load to target instance. Please note that any attribute of Operating Unit setup data can be edited. Also, system has got intelligence and once you upload the excel sheet, it automatically changes all the inventory organization which belongs to “OU100” to “OU200”. This behavior can be controlled using attribute mapping which you can create in Setup Manager. Hold on, this is not the end, also you can add more operating unit in excel, say OU300 and OU400 and load it to target instance. You can delete few Operating Units from extracted data in excel sheet and load the remaining to target instance. This gives you complete flexibility to manage (add/edit/delete) functional configuration data offline. This is fantastic feature and please have a look at how it works.
Advanced Filtering – Filter support in iSetup is not flexible where you cannot use comma separated values and complex sql join conditions. Also you do not know what query is executed behind the scenes to get the data. All this problems are addressed in Setup Manager 3.1. We show you the “select clause” (SQL) associated with interface and provide you a text field where you can refer the select clause and provide your own custom where criteria (SQL). This means that filter support is unlimited and you can set filter on any database columns. For example, you can extract “Responsibilities/Menu” which are active or created as on yesterday. You can extract all Operating Units excluding “OU100 and OU200”. We support all filter criteria that are supported by SQL.

Hi Mugunthan,
Can you provide links to any tutorial or example (screenshots) of using Setup Manager to transfer something between two environments (say Users or DFFs)?
Thanks,
Gareth

Applications Change Management Pack 3.1 is now available

E-Business Suite Applications Technology Group has recently released Application Change Management Pack (ACMP) Release 3.1 and Application Management Pack (AMP) Release 3.1.
As you might be aware, Application Change Management Pack is Oracle's offering for customers to monitor and manage Oracle E-Business Suite changes. Application Change Management Pack provides a centralized view to monitor and orchestrate changes (both functional and technical) across multiple Oracle E-Business Suite systems.
In release 3.1 Application Change Management Pack has been enhanced to provide more control and flexibility in managing Oracle E-Business Suite changes.
Some of the key distinguishing features of the new release include:
* Change Approval Framework: Changes orchestrated through Application Change Management Pack can now be controlled through the new change approval framework in Release 3.1. Users can now be segregated as approvers across Oracle E-Business Suite system(s) and modules (Customization Manager, Patch Manager or Setup Manager). Built in notification capability enables approver(s)/requester to be intimated about the status of relevant change requests. It also provides an implicit audit trail mechanism.
* Integrated Custom Application Management: An integrated custom applications management feature enables users to easily register new custom applications across Oracle E-Business Suite systems and also track and validate existing custom applications in a standard way. This dashboard also helps track custom objects, packages and file meta-data associated with custom applications.
* Pre-requisite Patch Analysis: Oracle E-Business Suite patches can now be analyzed for Pre-requisites prior to deployment in the target system. The analysis also verifies whether the pre-requisites are already available (in the target system) and if not, an option to add them to the patch job.
* Offline Transformation: For the very first time, users have the ability to download Oracle E-Business Suite setup data in Microsoft Excel document. Once downloaded, the Setup Data can be edited or new data can be entered into the worksheets. Data is validated within the Microsoft Excel file and also while uploading into Setup Manager.
* Built-in Intelligence: Release 3.1 has numerous minor enhancements that provide necessary intelligence for a seamless change orchestration. A few examples are:
* Automated file driver meta-data generation for new files and $Header handling
* Customization Package impact analysis report
* Advanced filtering options for setup migration
* Improved Usability: Release 3.1 contains numerous usability and reporting enhancements to ensure better integration with third party systems like source control systems and to foster collaborative development.
Licensing
Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite and Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite are separately licensed products. Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Version 3.1 is a mandatory prerequisite for Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Version 3.1 and should be licensed separately.
Upgrade
This pack supersedes the Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite 3.0. An upgrade path to Release 3.1 is provided from Release 3.0 only. Therefore it is mandatory for the existing installations to be at the AMP-ACMP Release 3.0 level before upgrading to Release 3.1.
Downloads
[Application Management Pack and Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Version 3.1 (Patch 8333939) |http://updates.oracle.com/Orion/PatchDetails/handle_rel_change?release=5623100&plat_lang=46P&patch_file=&file_id=&password_required=&password_required_readme=&merged_trans=&aru=11452056&patch_num=8333939&patch_num_id=1103773&default_release=5623100&default_plat_lang=46P&default_compatible_with=&patch_password=&orderby=&direction=&no_header=0]
References
[Getting Started with Oracle Application Management Pack and Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Version 3.1 (Metalink Note 982302.1)| https://supporthtml.oracle.com/ep/faces/secure/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=982302.1#6 ]
[Getting Started with Oracle Application Management Pack and Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Version 3.0 (Metalink Note 812315.1) |https://supporthtml.oracle.com/ep/faces/secure/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=812315.1#4]
[Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite (PDF, 260K)|http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oem/pdf/ds_appl_chg_mgmt.pdf]
[Oracle Enterprise Manager Documentation|http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oem.html]

Srinivas:
AMP/ACP 3.1 is certified and tested on OEM 10.2.0.5 with Linux.
We would like to understand how you were trying to install the pack. Please note that AMP/ACP 3.0 installation is a prerequisite before installing AMP/ACP 3.1. So, did you check that the AMP/ACP 3.0 installation completed without errors.
For details, please refer to the Metalink document ID 982302.1 for more details regarding the same. I would strongly recommend you to follow the 'Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Installation Guide (PDF)' .
If the issues still persists, please log a SR for the same and let us know the SR#.
Thanks,
Lokesh

Applications Change Management Pack 3.0 now available

E-Business Suite Applications Technology Group recently released a new product, the Application Change Management Pack (ACMP), and a new version of their Application Management Pack (AMP).
The Application Change Management Pack is noteworthy because it provides three new tools for automating updates to multiple E-Business Suite instances:
Customization Manager automates the packaging of your customizations into AD-compliant packages that can be deployed across multiple E-Business Suite instances. Before packaging, the Customization Manager validates your customizations against Oracle's software coding best practices.
Patch Manager integrates with Oracle Metalink and automatically downloads and deploys different types of patches across multiple (single or multi-node) E-Business Suite instances.
Setup Manager helps manage functional setups that need to be duplicated across multiple E-Business Suite instances.
Licencing
Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite and Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite are separately licensed products. Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Version 3.0 is a mandatory prerequisite for Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Version 3.0 and should be licenced separately.
Downloads
The Application Management Pack and Application Change Management Pack are available as a single install using Oracle Universal Installer. They can be downloaded via:
[Application Management Pack and Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Version 3.0 (Patch 8333939)|http://updates.oracle.com/ARULink/PatchSearch/process_form?bug=8333939#uage=0&process=Submit]
References
[Getting Started with Oracle Application Management Pack and Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Version 3.0 (Metalink Note 812315.1)|https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/showdoc?db=NOT&id=812315.1]
[Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite (PDF, 260K)|http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oem/pdf/ds_appl_chg_mgmt.pdf]
[Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Data Sheet (PDF, 80K)|http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/2009/06/www.oracle.com/technology/products/oem/pdf/apps_mgmt_ebiz.pdf]
Related Articles
[Comparing OEM Data Masking and AMP Data Scrambling Features|http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/2008/04/comparing_oem_data_masking_and.html]
[Certified Oracle RAC Scenarios for Oracle E-Business Suite Cloning|http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/2009/03/certified_rac_scenarios_for_ebs_cloning.html]

There are many enhancements in Setup Manager compared to iSetup. To list a few:
1) ability to create a project which groups extracts, loads and reports and orchestrate these tasks as per your requirements.
2) Ability to migrate data between point releases of EBS. Example, you can move data from 12.0.4 to 12.0.6 or 12.1.1.
3) Ability to share the projects with other users.
4) You can do extraction and loading to multiple instances in a single execution.

Applications Management and Change Management Packs Certified with EM 10gR5

Applications Management and Change Management Packs Certified with Enterprise Manager Grid Control Release 5
For more details about the new features, documentation, and patches for the latest Application Management Pack and Application Change Management Pack releases, see:
[Applications Change Management Pack 3.0 and Applications Management Pack 3.0 Now Available|http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=935145&tstart=0]
Oracle E-Business Suite Prerequisites
11.5.10 with ATG_PF.H RUP5 and higher
Release 12.0.4 and higher
Release 12.1
Certified Platforms
Linux x86
Linux x86-64
Sun Solaris SPARC
HP-UX Itanium
HP-UX PA-RISC
IBM AIX Based Systems
Certification on Windows platforms is in progress.

It takes me a lof of time to comprehend the sentence you write. Cause I am a Chinese. My poor English.
I have to say "you are genius". I used to use the indesign CS2. There is no GREP function in CS2. When I get the new script, I do not know how to use it. Just when I saw the
'grep {findWhat:" +"} {changeTo:" "} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all double spaces and replace with single spaces.'
Being confused.
Thanks so much. It seems I have to relearn the advanced Indesign.

Is there a relation between the Engineering Change Management and MM

Hi SAP MM Gurus,
Is there a relation between Engineering Change Management and Materials Management? I know we get the versions changes updated in Material Master. But do not know where is the origin for ECM. Step by step configuration is appreciable.
Thanking in Advance.
with regards
Ravi Babu

Hi ,
I have created an application and have created end users also who will be using this application. For each of these users i have to give access to application in such a way that they will be able to see only their area a work. So how do i do this ..this needs to done based on the login user_name..my question now is how or from where will i get the current session details like user_name, current session id ,current session date and time?
Thanks in advance,
Bhargavi

Need Suggestion on ECM application of Manager Self-Service Role

Hi All,
In ECM application When manager select an employee working under him and click on "Plan" button, it will display a page with some information in the table.The column of this table is configured in backend using SPRO t-code.Now requirement is to add one column to the table and button with name "Promotion" on this page.but the problem is "promotion"column and button will be visible for some users only and for other users, column and button should not visible.(ex differentiate the users who logged on to portal by secter wise)
As per the SAP delivered ECM code, now only the Personnel number of employee under manager is passing from portal to standard RFC when manger select the personal number working underhim and click on "Plan" button and it will display the page where information are shown in table usng OADP configuration.
Can you please provide the suggestion how the below requirement is feasible or not and if feasible how we will achieve:
When user try to access the ECM page and click on "Plan' button, based on portal user id (wherher he belongs to some sector) it will display the next page with "Promotion" column and button.(NOTE:On Action Plan button , it will navigate to the page where details of employee will be shown who is woring under manager.Along this information we need Promotion column and button should be visible for some portal user id who belongs to ""XYZ" sector)
Let me know if you need more clarification
Thanks
Susmita

Hi,
You just phrased my question in your words. All hooks are listed in hr_api_hooks table, each one with before and after methods.
Now how to determine, which hook is being called by which front-end process? For example, there are three different hooks - for Appraisal, Appraisal Template and Appraisal Period.
How to determine which one is called for my purpose, say validating before appraisal record is created.
This is just an example. There are number of processess related to assignment change. Using trial and error method will take long time and may be unreliable result in determining actual hook.
So, has any prepared a list of hooks to be used against each front-end process? Or has Oracle provides with any such document?
This is highly likely if one is involved in such work area.
Regards,
Saurabh

New Note 790189.1 - Oracle Clusterware and Application Failover Management

Hi all,
please, note the newly created Metalink Note 790189.1 - Oracle Clusterware and Application Failover Management if you want to use Oracle Clusterware as a general purpose cluster solution. The note intends to clarify and to explain the current situation in regards to the supportability of applications managed by Oracle Clusterware.
In environments not including Oracle RAC, Oracle Clusterware still provides the level of high availability that is commonly known to be achievable for applications and databases managed in (failover) cluster environments. These environments can include Oracle Single Instance Databases, Oracle Application Servers, Oracle Enterprise Manager components, third party databases, or any other kind of application. (For more information on Oracle Clusterware 11g in general, please, refer to [Oracle Clusterware homepage|http://otn.oracle.com/clusterware].)
Metalink Note 790189.1 - Oracle Clusterware and Application Failover Management is tightly integrated with the information on application failover management available on the [Oracle Clusterware homepage|http://otn.oracle.com/clusterware] and discusses typical questions like
* Terminology
* Script supportability and preconfigured agents
* How to prove that action scripts work outside of Oracle Clusterware
* Supportability of the Oracle Database Single Instance example scripts
* How do I know whether a certain script is supported as a preconfigured agent?
Metalink Note 790189.1, however, does not change the level of support that has been introduced for these kind of configurations as of Oracle Database 10g Release 2: "Generally, Oracle does not support action scripts in the strict terms of supporting individual code fragments. Oracle fully supports the integration of individual action scripts proven to run outside of Oracle Clusterware into the Oracle Clusterware management stack. Supported operations therefore typically involve crs_* commands such as crs_profile, crs_register, crs_setperm, crs_getperm, crs_start, crs_stop, and crs_relocate invoked on custom resources. If actions scripts are used as part of a preconfigured agent, Oracle or the application provider who provides the agent will support the integration of this agent, while only the application provider will provide support for the individual action scripts."
Just for your information. Thanks,
Markus

not meant to be a question - rather an announcement.

BPM - Change Management

Hello all guys
I am working on a document in which i need information about the process of change management for oracle bpm (for example versioning of projects and so on).
I have already the document for deploying in which is the information for versioning projects and deploying...
Does anyone know where i could get information related to change management for bpm enterprise???
I've been searching on oracle university and the web in general but i can't find any information.
Any information provided is really helpfull
Thanks in advance guys :)

Hi Srikanth,
It's a good question and I hope this helps.
My short answer is that "it depends...".
Yes, an Oracle BPM process will let your users enter the change required, assign priority, define the change approvals, and send automatically send emails to managers.
Not saying that this is the case here, but sometimes people confuse an application with what BPM does with a process. Ask yourself if your candidate process for BPM has one or more of these characteristics:
Workflow - are there multiple people involved in the editing and approvals over some period of time?
Documentation - as work flows through the process, will you need to gather requirements / documents and associate these with the instance?
Seamless integration - are there systems and or databases involved that you need to integrate into the process?
Efficiency - do you want to ensure that your process continues to flow and escalates when a work item sits too long in someone's queue?
Governance - do you need to have an audit trail of the various people who were involved as a work item instance (a change approval in your case) flowed through the process?
Compliance - do you need to have the change management instances go through a process in a consistent and well documented manner?
Visibility - do you need to gather key performance indicators as instances flow through the process and do managers need to track these in business activity monitoring reports?
Hope this helps,
Dan

BPM and Change Management Process

Hi,
We have a requirement to automate the change management process. Typical functionality needed is - input the change required, assign priority, organise risk assessment, change approvals, change implementation, send automatic emails to managers etc.
Is BPM a best fit to this kind of Change Management Process?
Thanks
Srikanth

Hi Srikanth,
It's a good question and I hope this helps.
My short answer is that "it depends...".
Yes, an Oracle BPM process will let your users enter the change required, assign priority, define the change approvals, and send automatically send emails to managers.
Not saying that this is the case here, but sometimes people confuse an application with what BPM does with a process. Ask yourself if your candidate process for BPM has one or more of these characteristics:
Workflow - are there multiple people involved in the editing and approvals over some period of time?
Documentation - as work flows through the process, will you need to gather requirements / documents and associate these with the instance?
Seamless integration - are there systems and or databases involved that you need to integrate into the process?
Efficiency - do you want to ensure that your process continues to flow and escalates when a work item sits too long in someone's queue?
Governance - do you need to have an audit trail of the various people who were involved as a work item instance (a change approval in your case) flowed through the process?
Compliance - do you need to have the change management instances go through a process in a consistent and well documented manner?
Visibility - do you need to gather key performance indicators as instances flow through the process and do managers need to track these in business activity monitoring reports?
Hope this helps,
Dan

Function Modules for Change Manager Tickets

Dear all,
I have the requirement to display some basic statistics about the number of change manager tickets that are currently open, that are assigned to a person and in proceesing state.
I had a look into the system but could find a valuable hint on which function modules are available and which are even RFC enabled.
So is there someone who has achieved this or does know how to access that information?
I would be very happy about any hints.
Thank you and best regards.
Nicolas

Hallo Nicolas,
I had the same requirement and started looking into this. Essentially I used php to make RFC calls to SAP.
there are at least 2 FM (they are both RFC enabled) you can use to extract service desk ticket data.
They are:
- CRM_DNO_SELECT_SERVICE_TRANS
This FM has the service desk number as you see it in CRMD_ORDER or CRM_DNO_MONITOR
The other FM is:
- DNO_OW_GET_NOTIFICATIONS and report RNOTIFWL
This will give you data for the notification
You can use DNOH_OBJNR in the first FM and OBJNR in the second to join the two together.
The only thing is that there is no selection screen to select the data within the FM. When you execute both FM you have to provide a variant - based on that variant the data will be picked up. The best thing is probably to setup a variant that will pick up all your tickets and have your rfc calling application compile the stats that you are after. Also the variant you use is not the on you would use in CRM_DNO_MONITOR you have to go the FM transaction and create the variant for it there.
Hope it helps, ~p.

Software Configuration and Change Management for ABAP

Hi all,
we developed an ABAP application with about 10 developers and shipped it to Customer A.
Then we do corrections and enhancements for a new Customer B. But then Customer A finds bugs in his shipped version, which is not the current version on our development system.
Now a lot of time is wasted debugging the current version and finding out why the bug is there in the shipped version A but not in the current version.
So its difficult and timeconsuming to manage those different versions of the same application for different customers.
This effort increases with each new customer dramatically.
The ABAP workbench only knows linear versioning of single ABAP objects like report, function module or class.
Now the question:
Is there a standard transaction or external ABAP software that supports such a Software Configuration & Change Managment, i.e. allows tagging, branching, maintaining multiple development branches, allows running transactions and reports of older revisions, etc. like so many non-SAP/ABAP SCCMs like CVS, Bitkeeper, Subversion or Monotone do in the OpenSource world?
I found one called Conigma from Galileo Group, but am wondering if there are others, or whether there is someone having used such a tool.

Hi Frank,
In ABAP world, there is supposed to be one development environment for one production system.
The transport of changes follow the path
DEV --> QAS --> Production.
One golden rule is while making any changes to a program in Development, ensure that the version is compatible with production and QAS.
If there is a change request already open for the development object then that earlier change request should be finished first and the changes should get transported to QAS and production.
It seems you are trying to handle two production systems using one development system. That will surely bring some serious fun
Though, if you have no other option then keep the record of versions applicable to your different customers.
Later retrieve the version according to the customer before making any changes.
Cheers,
Ram

Application lifecycle management in J dev 11 ?

will J dev 11 production version have application lifecycle management tool such as rational, MS team server etc.?
(In our opinion it is beneficial. )
If not (it means complete solution is not included) which ALM features production version will have ?
Thanks...

is it planned for future?
can you recommend a ALM tool to use with jdev. (especilly open source).
What is development lifecyle include? is development lifecycle include development team menagement, developer's task management, change management, project mangement....
Thanks...

Business Process Modeling and Organizational Change Management

Many Change Management interventions are based on the business understanding the TO BE processes, how the process will change end-to-end, including not only the processes within SAP but also how they will interface with the entire application landscape. Id like to hear experiences and best practices. Who, how and when should those business process models be completed? What would be the role of Change Management in this piece?

Hi Claudia
Very interesting question!. This is the most challenging task an org unit is facing today. Before implementation you must be able to foresee what impact a new end to end business process would have on the present organizational set up. To visualize you need to have people who has knowledge in their respective business. It is no easy task. That is why you need to break & analyse each process in minute detail and compare to be process with the present process. To have an effective process in place you have to examine who is the Business process owner, if the owner does not follow or comply with the new process what is the risk involved, & what makes it mandatory that the process owner follows it and so is all down the line managers. What I mean to say is that by analyzing each and every new process you should be able to derive some KPI from this. This is how control can be built. This is all simple management technique but I have seen many new processes in ERP failing or not being used because of lack of Management control. I have answered who & how part. Now coming back to when part. The change management initiative has to start long before the actual ERP implementation. One has to prepare the organisation for taking a massive leap from a mere paper based organisation to accepting a system that can touch almost any business application. An organisation which has not prepared itself to accept the changes and hurriedly implements a system for the sake of project completion can see that the benefits projected in the business case may never be realized.
Reward points if found useful
Regards
Alok Sengupta

Application change management

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for