Alpha Sirius Blog SAP SOLUTION MANAGER 7.2: PREPARE TODAY FOR BETTER IT TOMORROW

Get More Out of Your SAP Investment - SAP Solution Manager 7.2 The cost of application management is high: after going live, maintenance and support constitute up to 80% of a company's normal operational IT budget and up to 40% of total life-cycle costs. Implementing SAP Solution Manager avoids these unnecessary costs.As SAP says, SAP Solution Manager combines tools, content, and direct access to SAP to manage everything from deployment to solution monitoring and improvement. SAP Solution Manager is an integrated end-to-end orchestration platform for accelerating innovation, application lifecycle management, improving operation quality, and lowering costs. Solution Manager Customers know that licenses for SAP's lifecycle management tool are included in maintenance and support agreements. One of the many enhancements in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is that it will be supported on SAP HANA. As such, customers will have access to relatively FREE HANA software licenses. SAP Solution Manager 7.2 will empower implementations and ease communication with the business as it continues to focus on operations and on IT SAP has simplified the usage rights for SAP Enterprise Support customers: Here are some enhancements that SAP Solution Manager 7.2 will bring to the customers -Business Benefits with SAP Solution Manager 7.2o Secured project success, due to straight-forward management of implementations and upgrades. o Improved operation management, reducing the total cost of ownership.o Optimized work environments, improving all business processeso One combined solution to efficiently manage IT and introduce new functionality to meet business requirements.o More than three levels of processes: Bridging the gap between IT and business!o Implement IT simplification and IT excellence to increase business valueo The best integrated tools to support your IT environments. o Running your project with the most experienced SAP Solution Manager consultants New Features with SAP Solution Manager 7.2 o Business and IT Orchestration with: Pragmatic Business Process Management o ITSM and CHARM enhancements o SAP Solution Manager adopts SAP HANA o Cloud support enhancements o Business value through cloud adoption o SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is the first release which leverages SAP HANA o The adoption of SAP HANA for SAP Solution Manager follows all SAP HANA transition standards o Customers with a SAP maintenance agreement can use SAP HANA with NO additional HANA licensing required o Integrated BPMN graphical editor o SAP Solution Manager 7.1 will be discontinued by end of 2017, an upgrade to 7.2 is highly recommended Why Choose Alpha Sirius? o More than 100 SAP implementation projects experience o Optimization of IT Processes and Organizations o Approach definition: SAP SolMan Roadmap o SAP SolMan Implementation/Upgrade/Maintenance o E2E operations with SolMan o SolMan expert consulting support o SAP SolMan training and workshops o Solution Manager Integration services with ServiceNow, HPQC, BMC Remedy, ARIS and other third party toolsCopyright: SAP AG, SAP SE