Transport Express for use with SAP Transport Express helps your business deploy
SAP change faster and safer.
Managing change to SAP solutions needn't be complex and
time-consuming. Companies need the flexibility to introduce
change in reduced timeframes and maintain compliance with
internal policies and external regulations (such as Sarbanes-Oxley).
Transport Express makes your project teams better informed,
more productive, and in control of the solution they deliver
to the business.
Transport Express sets the standard
for managing change in an SAP environment, providing
the capability to control, centralize and automate
as much of the transporting process as desired.
Visibility
Immediately see the changes that
are waiting to be approved or imported into all
of the systems in your SAP enterprise landscape.
Audit Trail and Reporting
Know where a change has been transported
to, by whom, when and why.
Using customisable reports, you can determine: who
requested, who approved and who transported a change
request, every step of the way through your SAP
enterprise system landscape.
Transport Automation
Schedule transports to occur automatically
without administrator involvement. Transport Express
will notify an administrator if an error occurs.
Transport Reversal
Transport Express can backup content
that is about to be changed before it is imported.
In the event that an error is introduced, the previous
system state can be restored by importing the backup.
The result being that changes are 'undone' or backed
out in the order to which they were transported.
E-mail Integration
Be notified within Transport Express
or by e-mail when a change has been approved or
transported.
Business Relevance
Changes are associated to business
needs, not technical transports: perhaps a new capability
or a correction to an existing functional problem.
Development in SAP often requires separate changes
to be transported for the same business need. These
changes are grouped together to ensure the whole
solution is introduced simultaneously, ensuring
that you avoid introducing system instability.
Advanced Conflict Detection
Transport Express analyses changes
when they are approved or imported into a system
to prevent loss of work and delivery of a complete
solution.
Has the content been changed in the target
system?
Is there a later version already in the target
system?
Have technical dependencies been met?
Are all changes necessary for the complete
solution present?
Complex System Landscapes
Transport Express supports complex
system landscapes such as:
Multiple R/3® and mySAP® business
suite streams, such as R/3 Enterprise, mySAP
CRM and Business Warehouse.
Test systems that are frequently re-built,
possibly from a database backup of a Production
system.
Multiple transport paths within a stream.
Systems that do not share underlying transport
directories.
Outsourced / Offshore Support
Transport Express keeps everyone
working from the same page no matter where they
are located.
Flexible Approvals
Transport Express can be configured
to require changes to be approved into and/or
out of a system.
Different approvers can be defined depending on:
The system
The type of change
Whether the change is being approved in or
out
Test Results
Once changes have been transported
to a system, Transport Express can require that
test results be entered, before allowing the changes
to be transported into the next system.
Incorporating test results provides a complete answers
and history to SAP change as it moves throughout
the SAP landscape.
Transport Express reduces risk, enables
control and accountability in an SAP change management
process to build efficiency and substantial cost reductions.
Reduce Risk
Identify the relationships and dependencies between
different changes; associating changes with business
requirements and reducing the number of approval decisions
for team leaders.
Gain management confidence and assurance with a
reportable audit trail – from every step of
the change process.
Gain Control
Prevent changes from being applied to downstream
systems in the wrong order by detecting overtake and
regression situations.
Minimize downtime and increase business continuity
by allowing for adverse changes to be backed out,
quickly restoring an affected Production system to
the pre-transport state.
Replace any spreadsheets used to track the application
of changes to individual SAP systems with a robust,
self-policing central location.
Rebuild systems faster than ever before.
Utilise Resources Effectively
The controlled, reconciled merge process increases
team member productivity.
Reduce the time spent by the Basis team on transporting
tasks, to allow them to analyze and pre-empt anomalies
before they become costly downstream problems.
Enforce more ownership and accountability of changes
to respective functional teams.
Improve team communication through notifications,
to reduce the frequency and time required for approval
decisions by team leaders.
Meet Business Demands and Objectives
Be scaleable to accommodate upgrades and implementation
of additional SAP capabilities.
Reduce development cycle delivery times through
effective communication and interaction between the
business and the development team - Teams work on
business relevant related deliverables and fixes,
and not simply technical changes.
Considering Transport Express for your business? Transport Express is a succinct, robust and
comprehensive solution that can be deployed in a matter
of days.
New and existing SAP customers are compelled to use
Transport Express to:
bring more order to the change process;
allow the business to drive the changes;
provide a reliable audit trail and reporting on
what has changed, by whom and authorized by whom.
The automated aspects of the tool are time saving.
The analysis/ conflict detection aspects allow for projects
(such as upgrades) alongside production support to occur
without regression.
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for more information.
Upgrading
SAP Release? Or delivering new capabilities of mySAP
Business Suite?
All the while supporting Production?
See how easily both can be achieved using Transport
Express change management.
