Based on many years of experience in SAP solution management and Application Lifecycle Management, beteo is convinced that the control of software transport in complex SAP system landscapes is one of the most challenging tasks facing SAP customers. At the same time, it is one of the most underestimated tasks.
Many SAP customers believe that the SAP Change and Transport System (CTS) covers all their transport management requirements. However, CTS is merely a transport tool. It has no knowledge about which changes in a SAP system are related to each other, and which software transports must therefore be transported together. So, using CTS alone, it is impossible to coordinate transport activities in a complex SAP system landscape reliably.
Basically, the most important question which must be answered for any change in the system landscape is: “Which other parts of the system landscape are affected by this change?” CTS provides no answer to this question. The answer requires a comprehensive solution management tool that manages all change- and transport-relevant dependencies.
In SAP environments, transport management is even more challenging than in other IT environments due to SAP’s highly integrated architecture. In SAP environments with multiple clients and systems, just keeping an overview of the transport landscape and the transport activities is already challenging.
beteo’s experience shows that standardized processes and tools for transport management can significantly reduce costs and risks. We help our clients establish reliable transport management in their SAP environments.
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