Manage Multiple SAP Development Systems with Ease

A secure multi-track process lets you achieve continuous development, enabling your SAP teams to work faster by safely implementing both support and project changes in parallel. ActiveControl’s DevOps technology ensures that your project and support teams can collaborate closely and work safely at pace. It dynamically monitors objects within SAP transports across multiple landscapes (N+1 or N+N environments) – so you can manage object contention, merge changes across systems, and free your development team to accelerate without worrying about re-keying or object locking.

Rather than locking objects during parallel development, which can limit the fast, frequency SAP delivery cycle that agile development and DevOps aim for, ActiveControl monitors and manages change contention across multiple SAP development landscapes in real-time, freeing up your developers to deliver without worrying about whether anyone else is working on the same objects.

As more and more SAP systems shift to the cloud, rather than existing as physical on-premise infrastructure, environment configuration is becoming increasingly dynamic and flexible. Virtualization and containerization mean that SAP systems can be spun up – and decommissioned – in minutes, so today’s project dev system could be something else entirely tomorrow.

ActiveControl is fully equipped to deal with both traditional on-premise infrastructure and these more modern, cloud-based environments. It can be updated in just a few clicks to accommodate new systems or remove those that no longer exist. Effort is minimal, with no complex technical reconfiguration required that might delay rapid delivery of change.

Parallel development creates the need to consolidate and synchronize changes – and that usually means slow, error-prone manual re-keying across systems.

ActiveControl can automatically merge changes across systems without intervention – typically more than 90% of changes can be managed this way, removing more than 80% of manual effort to massively reduce costs, eliminate errors and minimize downtime caused by human error.

The merge function allows you to remove the manual administration associated with tracking SAP code and config retrofits across multiple development systems to complete SAP mergers and consolidation projects with confidence. All changes to be merged are automatically queued up ready for approval and import, so you can ensure that nothing is missed.

Even when operating a continuous delivery pipeline in your SAP landscape, there are occasions when a significant project or piece of development will need to go live. When the big “move to production” moment comes, there are thousands of things to keep in mind. ActiveControl provides a range of features that make SAP cutovers faster and simpler. It also helps you orchestrate the myriad of activities and roadblocks – with advanced features that accelerate technical cutover by up to 25%.

ActiveControl’s SAP automation technology accelerates both cutover planning and execution. Its automated build list allows you to fully orchestrate and automate the cutover process, replacing today’s Excel or MS Project plans and removing the work that goes into creating and maintaining them. ActiveControl will even estimate your cutover execution time so you can plan system outages and ensure that your SAP team is always in complete control.