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Kingspan Uses ActiveControl to Deliver SAP Change Quickly and Safely
Kingspan cut SAP manual change management effort by 50% with ActiveControl
Kingspan adopted automation from Basis Technologies to deliver innovation faster in a greenfield SAP S/4HANA landscape, and implement upgrades safely and efficiently, all without production downtime.
About Kingspan
Kingspan is the global leader in high performance insulation and building envelopes and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities in over 70 countries. They are a long-standing user of SAP and chose to do a greenfield S/4HANA implementation for one of their local SAP landscapes with the goal of delivering value to customers faster. Part of the motivation for adopting S/4HANA early was to be able to apply update packs and enable new features more quickly.
The Challenge
After migrating their SAP landscape to S/4HANA in 2017, they quickly discovered that manual effort and inefficiencies were still holding them back from supporting new processes and workflows as quickly as they needed. These process also offered limited visibility into changes and too often resulted in production issues.
The Goal
Kingspan sought a tool that could help them realize more value from their greenfield S/4HANA landscape by enabling them to implement updates sooner while keeping production online. They also wanted greater visibility and documentation of changes to make the audit process smoother and less frustrating.
The Solution: ActiveControl
Kingspan selected ActiveControl as their SAP DevOps automation platform to support their business objectives for S/4HANA, mainly to deliver BAU (business as usual) changes and S/4HANA update packs quickly without disrupting production systems. ActiveControl has automated a significant amount of their change and release management workflows and given them the flexibility to employ more development environments for more efficient change management.
Weekly Deployments
Automation enabled Kingspan to deploy SAP changes four times a week
Cross-track Changes Merged
Kingspan successfully maintained a multi-track development landscape
Analyzers
Analyzers help eliminate missing dependencies and overtakes
Why SAP Enterprises Choose Basis
Faster, Safer SAP Change
ActiveControl empowers you to fully automate SAP change management processes for faster deployments with less risk.
Customer Satisfaction
“I am always surprised at the support and service Basis Technologies deliver. I've never seen anything like it.” - Kingspan
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