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March, 2016

Get ready for SAP Solution Manager 7.2 with Guided-Discovery Tutorials

Here's good news for you. Find out how you can now benefit from guided-discovery tutorials (GDT) in this blog by Gerd Stumm . There will be new topics, so bookmark the blog or follow Gerd for easy access. March, 2016

February, 2016

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is available TODAY in SAP CAL!

Evan Stoddardblogs about the appliance allowing to test and evaluate the content activation process to move SAP Solution Manager 7.1 solution documentation into the new 7.2 solution documentation UI after an upgrade. In this context we also recommend this blog by Benjamin Schneider . February, 2016

New key figures for BPMon & Analytics - new content for Inventory Optimization, commitment items & configuration checks

Volker von Gloedenwith 2 essential blogs. The 2nd one is New features in KPI cloud catalog & updated Business Process Analytics content. February, 2016

January, 2016

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Ramp-Up

Cay Rademannwith great news and video. January, 2016

CRM Web Client Improvements – beneficial also in SAP Solution Manager 7.1

See this useful collection provided in the document by Jens Eikermann. January, 2015

Maintenance Planner - Frequently Asked Questions

Learn about Maintenance Planner - The Next Generation Experience for Landscape Maintenance with SAP Solution Manager, SAP TechEd 2015 Las Vegas Session Replays: Simplified Landscape Maintenance with Maintenance Planner and SAP Notes and ABAP Add-Ons – What‘s New?. Read from and listen to Priti Dhingra. January 26, 2016

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December, 2015

Automatic Managed System Adjustment after Product Upgrade

This blog by SAP Mentor Tom Cenens makes aware of an helpful option. December, 2015

October, 2015

News about SAP Solution Manager 7.2 – SAP TechEd #SAPtd

SAP Mentor Tammy Powlas blogs about “New shining star” SAP Solution Manager 7.2. October, 2015

September, 2015

Call for Participation for the SAP CRM Customer Connection Program (ITSM, ChaRM)

Tobias Hauk blogs about a great offer from SAP and the opportunity for you, our customers, to make a difference by submitting your ideas and requests. September, 2015

Learn about Maintenance Planner - The Next Generation Experience for Landscape Maintenance with SAP Solution Manager

Maintenance Planner is a solution hosted by SAP, offers easy maintenance of systems in your landscape and is generally available to all our customers on SAP Support Portal. Learn more from this document (also see Key Topics) and the blogs by Priti Dhingra: Announcing General Availability of Maintenance Planner - Successor of SAP Solution Manager Maintenance Optimizer,Prerequisites and Initial Setup and new: Simplified Installation of SAP Fiori Apps with Maintenance Planner. September, 2015

Expert Knowledge Transfer for SAP Solution Manager: New EGIs available

The SAP Enterprise Support Academy program has released new expert-guided implementations (EGI) for SAP Solution Manager. Find out more in the blog by Gerd Stumm . September, 2015

July, 2015

What You Can Do Today to Prepare for the next SAP Solution Manager Release 7.2

A blog by Gerd Stumm about convenient meet-the-expert sessions, offered by SAP Enterprise Support Academy. July, 2015

June 2015

Get an Exclusive Update on SAP Solution Manager 7.2

SAPPHIRE NOW Orlando 2015: Benjamin Wilk blogs about one of the hot topics at the SAP Service and Support Center booth. Watch the new deep dive video Ben has added to the blog quite recently covering the 7.2 upgrade process.June, 2015

SolMan to Cloud Setup: Basic Setup for Monitoring SAP Based Hybrid Solutions

The SolMan 2 Cloud (S2C) Setup (Transaction S2C_SETUP) is the starting point if you plan to monitor SAP Based Hybrid Solutions in your SAP Solution Manager 7.1 as of SP13. A new blog posted by Stephan PRAT . June, 2015

May 2015

SAP Mail Forms Demystified

In her blog Robyn Osby demystifies how to create custom mail forms in Change Request Management. May, 2015

Taking Care of the Introscope Enterprise Manager Through the EM Perflog Analyzer Tool

Fabricius Zatti blogs about a usefull tool which you can download from this wiki page. May, 2015

Don't Miss This: My Top 5 SAP Service and Support Sessions at SAPPHIRE NOW 2015

One of the great sessions recommended by Benjamin Wilk is of course on what is next for SAP Solution Manager. It is Session ID SC20421 with Marc Thier. See the key elements of our SAP Service and Support Center booth here and impressive impressions there. May 6, 2015

April 2015

BI reporting on SAP Solution Manager data

and Leveraging SAP Learning Hub: Reporting on SAP Solution Manager data. Brilliant: Once again SAP Mentor and Learning Hub Champion Tom Cenens shares his knowledge with the community. April 29, 2015

2015 ASUG Pre-Conference - What's New with SAP Solution Manager!

Simplify IT and Introduce New Business Innovations with SAP Solution Manager. Learn more in the new blog by John Krakowski who is looking forward to seeing you in Orlando at our ASUG Pre-Conference. April 29, 2015

March 2015

Solution Manager 7.2 SAP Webcast: Solution Documentation

plus Solution Manager 7.2 Roadmap Webcast Summary Part 1 and Solution Manager 7.2 Roadmap Webcast Part 2 - Cloud HANA Question Answer. Get to know the highlights of the new release and bookmark these three blogs by Tammy Powlas. March, 2015

SAP TechED 2015 sessions on Solution Manager - My Thrilling Experience

Prakhar Saxena blogs about streamlined sessions in Bangalore/India - in focus various topics on SAP Solution Manager and how it is going to address the new products/hybrid scenarios. March 20, 2015

ChaRM in 7.1 : Extracts from a Consultant's diary

In his new blog Vivek Hegde shares his experiences with recent Change Request Management projects and would like to hear from all of you on your experiences, suggestions and feedback in the comment section. March 11, 2015

February 2015

Down Grade Protection (DGP) settings for Retrofit

Keep on track with the latest blog by Frank Jungmann . Get to know the logical consequence of Frank's earlier blog How to setup Cross System Object Lock (CSOL) when using enhanced retrofit. February 24, 2015

Solman 7.10 SP12 -> Upgrade the Enterprise Manager from 9.1.X to 9.5

Enjoy the blog by Allam Drebes . February 20, 2015

How to make a successful ITSM / ChaRM project? (part 1)

Ready to blog: Rouger Benjamin. And here is part 2. February 17, 2015

How to troubleshoot the Event Calculation Engine in Technical Monitoring?

A blog by Roland Hennessy about troubleshooting an essential job for the Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure. February 6, 2015

January 2015

First steps to work with Change Request Management scenario in Solution Manager 7.1

Want to test and practice ChaRM in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 without interfering with real TMS landscapes? Then learn from Dolores Correa about the configuration. January 29, 2015

New key figures for BPMon & Analytics - new content for 3rd party processes and MRP list related key figures

New key figure content is out! See the highlights in this blog by Volker von Gloeden . January 21, 2015

Project Completion and complete Closure of all related Change Documents

See what SAP highly recommends in the blog by Rainer Ziefle . January 14, 2015

CHARM - A Developer's Point of View - in other words - is CHARM really Charming?

A blog by Michelle Crapo inviting you to comment with some pros and cons. January 8, 2015

Solution Manager Update - Happy 2015!

With this blog James Pearce welcomes our community to the first update for the new year. 2015 is shaping up as another exciting year in the world of SAP Solution Manager with the release of 7.2, the first HANA certified version. January 7, 2015

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December 2014

How to setup Cross System Object Lock (CSOL) when using enhanced retrofit

When using the enhanced retrofit scenario make sure your CSOL customizing is set to "specific" from the project relation point of view. See the setup in the latest blog by Frank Jungmann . December 10, 2014

How-to use the new CBTA Loop capabilities

Get ready for 2015 with this blog by Reiner Markheiser . December 2, 2014

November 2014

New WIKI available: Dashboard Factory

The main objective of the Dashboard Factory is to enable IT organizations to build and distribute powerful Dashboards in minutes. Take a look into this new WIKI about the new Dashboard Factory announced by Barbara Buchholz . November 28, 2014

Getting a grip on your business process documentation using SODOCA #solman

With this blog SAP Mentor Tom Cenens enlightens your business process documentation. Recently he also created the blogs Getting started with SAP Solution Manager 7.1 and Configuration overview on Business Process Monitoring.November 19, 2014

Our SAP Solution Manager services and experience

Get the inside angle in this great blog by Theresa Seck. She is Service Delivery Manager for SAP Solution Manager. Your feedback is more than welcome. November 14, 2014

Changes in the Infrastructure for BPMon on MAI compared to classic BPMon

Check out this new blog by Ulrike Hormann on the most important infrastructure changes. Get to know your advantages when using BPMon on MAI in Ulrike's first blog Business Process Monitoring on MAI available with Solution Manager 7.1 SP12. November 4, 2014

October 2014

Component Based Test Automation (CBTA) in SAP Solution Manager 7.1

Blog 1 of a new blog series by Sonal Kumar about CBTA and the big deal. Stay tuned. October 23, 2014

Why CRM web orders in Solution Manager would make great workflow processes

In his blog Philip Kisloff demonstrates of a new type of workflow that has been implemented by SAP "under the radar" (the incident-to-change request business process). October 21, 2014

Join us for SAP TechEd && d-code 2014 in Las Vegas, October 20-24, 2014 and follow Tammy, Gretchen and Brenda giving you excellent advice around SAP Solution Manager sessions and even more. Don't miss out on SAP Solution Manager as Managed Service being released (booth IZ08)! Registration. October 23, 2014

Full update of automated transfer from SAP Solution Manager Business Blueprint to HP ALM / QC

In his blog Reiner Markheiser shares - like Michael below - an interesting customer use case. He describes a small modification: a solution that allows to automatically transfer all processes and process steps as well as the related requirements that have assignments in the transfer tab from SAP Solution Manager Business Blueprint to HP ALM / QC. October 2, 2014

September 2014

A Customer Use Case: Transport of Copies (ToC's) in the Defect Correction

Michael Vollmer shares some other type of blog. Be curious and test. September 26, 2014

Some Hints to Status Dependant Import Control

See the guiding hints in the brandnew blog by Frank Jungmann . September 18, 2014

August 2014

Modeling of Services with SAP Solution Manager ITSM - Example

In this document Jens Eikermanndescribes an example how services could be modelled with SAP Solution Manager ITSM. Get to know the prerequisites, categories, service products, authorizations and see further information in 5 informative sub-documents. August 27, 2014

New key figures for BPMon & Analytics - new content for vendor invoice processing (e.g. Shared Service Center scenarios) and new delta throughput for Order to Cash

An again great blog by Volker von Gloeden on new key figures. August 26, 2014

Experiences with SP12 Upgrade

In his blog Thomas Erlewein shares his experiences upgrading SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP10 and SP11 to SP12. August 20,2014

Utilizing Guided Procedures for Request Fulfillment within Service Request Management

In his new document Oliver Schleicher shows how you can create a simple custom guided procedure using guided procedure authoring in SAP Solution Manager 7.1. August 12, 2014

July 2014

Different 'Reject' Behaviour in the Change Request Management Approval Procedure

Michael Vollmer is back and wants to share with you, how and where to change behaviour in the approval procedure easily if you are able to do coding (or in this special case insert the code). Be curious about Michael's new blog. July 31, 2014

Five ways to strengthen the IT skills of your organization and gain a strategic advantage

One is 'Give your People what they want': Users can choose the learning technology that suits them best. This flexibility is emphasized by e.g. a new feature available with SAP Solution Manager SP12: With context-sensitive links from work centers, you can access relevant content in SAP Enterprise Support Academy, learning “just-in-time,” rather than “just-in-case”.

An in every way informative blog by Gerd Stumm . July 15, 2014

Discrete manufacturing: Mapping BP Analytics key figures to system status

This blog gives you the opportunity to follow Volker von Gloeden 's explanations how the key figures in Business Process Analytics map to the system status in a production/process order. July 9, 2014

Interesting Information About Interactive Reporting In SM 7.1 SP10

Through her new blog moderator Jansi Rani Murugesan likes to share her learning how to approach reporting with the community and looks forward to get your experiences. July 3, 2014

June 2014

SAPPHIRE NOW playlist 2014

Watch a dedicated SAP Support at SAPPHIRE NOW 2014 playlist (June 3-5) and get the key facts; e.g. how SAP Solution Manager helps our customers to adopt and run SAP HANA and to adopt SAP Cloud and hybrid offerings. June 6, 2014

Secure your EhP/SPS implementation with Scope & Effort Analyzer in SAP Solution Manager

Scope & Effort Analyzer (SEA) is a tool to manage maintenance events on SAP systems and to get a clear understanding of the change impact as well as the test scope and related effort. Check this blog by Sebastien DUPREZ for more inspiration. June 25, 2014

How to send an email with a custom job report from Job Management Work Center

Do you need to know by the time you enter the office if the jobs that were scheduled during the night ended without errors? Do you want to receive customized job reports on your mobile device? Then make your way through the blog by Martin Lauer. June 6, 2014

Change Manager Determination depending on the Category using BRF+ in Change Request Management

A once again insightful new blog by Vivek Hegde. June 6, 2014

May 2014

Finding Kernel Information for Technical Systems

Since SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP10, you can extract information on Kernels of managed systems (before, this was only possible in a more complicated way, using configuration reporting or change reporting in Change Management or Root Cause Analysis). Please folllow this very useful docment created by Stephanie Janssen.

Thumbs Up for the SAP ONE Support Center & SAP MaxAttention Lounge

SAP HANA, On-Premise / Cloud / Hybrid, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Enterprise Support, SAP Control Center Approach, SAP ONE Support Program.

If any of these terms sounds SAPid to you please read this blog by Benjamin Wilk, social media ambassador for SAP Support, and make sure to visit our booth at this year's SAPPHIRE NOW event in June 3-5, 2014 in Orlando Florida. May 28, 2014

Stay Informed at ASUG ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Expanding Your Borders With Solution Manager

SAP Solution Manager for both the LoB and IT. A blog by SAP Mentor and ASUG Volunteer Tammy Powlas.: John Krakowski and his colleagues are providing more information about what to expect in the ASUG Pre-Conference session for "Expanding Your Borders with Solution Manager" which is being held June 2, 2014 in Orlando, Florida.

And connect to an exciting blog series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and final Part 4) by Tammy covering the recent webcasts to ASUG by John. May 28, 2014

April 2014

Deployment Best Practice: Start managing new technologies

New technology - most notably SAP HANA - is great, but how to handle it? Cay Rademann blogs about the Deployment Best Practices for SAP HANA Version 2 out of collected customer project experiences. Find them here and have access to expert guidance in the SAP Enterprise Support Academy Learning Studio (log-in required). April 8, 2014

Solution Manager Update - Expert Guided Implementations

In his April update James Pearce focusses on EGIs, their schedule and benefits, e.g. direct configuration of your SAP Solution Manager and implemented scenarios that are ready for use after delivery. Find out more. April 4, 2014

March 2014

Urgent Change Request in Quality Gate Management in SP10

In this blog Vivek Hegde brings a significant improvement in the Quality Gate Management area with SP10 to light (which has not made it to the headlines yet as other features have): QGM has been armed with the Urgent Change concept. For QGM improvements with Solution Manager 7.1 SP10, also do not miss to read the as always worthwile blog posted by Raquel Pereira da Cunha. March 20, 2014

PI monitoring enhancements in Solution Manager 7.1 SP10

In her blog SAP mentor, consultant and SAP Solution Manager space moderator Jansi Rani Murugesan highlights significant changes in PI Monitoring. March 19, 2014

SAP Job Progress Monitoring available for download in Apple's App Store

Would you like to predict if your background jobs end on time? Then read the mobilizing blog by SAP Solution Manager developer Martin Lauer. Also see Volker von Gloeden manifesting that Business Process Analytics in SAP Solution Manager is mobile. March 12, 2014

Solution Manager Update - What is UPL and why should you care?

The interesting March Update by James Pearce. March 4, 2014

February 2014

Solution Manager Update - Mountain Bikes and Roadmaps

Thoughts by iJames Pearce in his February 2014 Update. February 5, 2014

January 2014

Solution Manager Project to watch in 2014

Very exciting news by Luis Felipe Lanz about the SAP Solution Manager as a Managed Service running in a project mode Worldwide: Few selected Run SAP Partners around the globe will run in parallel local projects coordinated by SAP AG, in order to deliver the services announced during SAP TechEd to as many customer as possible. January 10, 2014

Latest innovations on ITSM with SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP10

In her blog Raquel Pereira da Cunha describes what she learned from David Birkenbach in his SAP Teched session ITM265 - Service Catalog Design with SAP Solution Manager 7.1. January 22, 2014

Solution Manager Update - New Training Avaliable

The blog by James Pearce welcoming you to 2014 with a series of new SAP HANA and Mobile EGIs and more. Januay 14, 2014

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December 2013

New features of Change Request Management (ChaRM) with SP10 (FP2)

A great blog on SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP10 by Tobias Hauk. Many of you might ask themselves what has been shipped and improved in the new release. In his blog Tobias would like to give a short overview from a product management perspective. And do not miss another great blog by Tobias: How to use SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) with ChaRM?December 3, 2013

PPM Projects integration with Change Request Management in SP10

Read the blog by Vivek Hegde about another interesting feature wih SP10 (FP2) providing seamless information exchange between the Project Management Office (PMO) and Change Management Team. December 5, 2013

November 2013

Controlling document changes in SAP Solution Manager

With this blog SAP Mentor Philip Kisloff launches a series of enlightening blogs about change control for documents in SAP Solution Manager. November 28, 2013

October 2013

New ChaRM Feature with SP 10: Enhanced Approval Procedure Functions

Today, SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP10 is available! And with this comes Michael Vollmer's new blog about some new features in SP10, such as an enhanced authority concept with a new authority object SM_APP_AP. October 31, 2013

New key figures for BPMon & BP Analytics - new content for Travel & Expense Management, Banking and Utilities

On October 14th, 2013 the new support package 2 for the ST-A/PI 01Q plug-in was shipped to customers. In his blog Volker von Gloeden gives a short overview about what is new - reliably as usual. Check out the content for new areas like Travel & Expense Management and SAP for Banking and more. October 29, 2013

Distributing the CTS Plug-in to managed systems for ChaRM Downgrade Protection

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In her new blog Raquel Pereira da Cunha gives valuable information about the CTS plug-in, why we need it and how to proceed.
And note: Raquel lately posted another interesting blog about a very useful feature: Changing the Smartform to show the link of ChaRM documents. October 18, 2013

Step by step by process to create EWA for JAVA based system

In his blog Nilutpal Sharmah is sharing the steps for creating the Early Watch Alert (EWA) for all JAVA based systems with you.

October 8, 2013

September 2013

Bringing IT to the Business with SAP Solution Manager - by Delivering Two Value Releases per Year

In her blog Senior Business Analyst and SAP Mentor Tammy Powlas briefly describes the key elements how SAP Solution Manager is helping you to deliver two value releases per year.

September 17, 2013

Incident Management: SLA configuration hints for SAP Solution Manager 7.1

A collaborative document by Dolores Correa . September 17, 2013

August 2013

Strategic Aspects of Retrofit

…or: What do I need to think about?

The new blog by Hannes Kerber about Retrofit in SAP Solution Manager.

Retrofit helps you to keep dual landscapes synchronized in a semi-automated way. Find out, how you can leverage Retrofit in your organization by also seeing Blog 1, Blog 2 and Blog3 in Hannes' blog series. August 20, 2013

July 2013

Business Process Analytics: Types of key figures and their respective use cases

Keep on track with the current blog from Volker von Gloeden of what the many and different key figures are good for, what the respective main use case is and how those key figures are perhaps different from other SAP or non-SAP applications. July 27, 2013

Added Value: How-To implement a new use case 'On Hold/Postponed' in the Request for Change

In his new blog Michael Vollmer is showing, how to build the process of the 'On Hold/Postponed' functionality in the approval procedure via PPF action and with the help of the ChaRM Framework. Just with another created user status in the Request for Change user status profile and not the approval procedure user status profile. Do not miss keeping your eye on this alternative. July 17, 2013

June 2013

Video: Surgutneftegas Uses SAP Solution Manager to Help Manage Their Complex Business Operations

In her blog Jade Vachoninducts you into this meaningful video. June 26, 2013

SAP Solution Manager - ITIL Pink verified!

An exciting blog by David Birkenbach about SAP as the first and currently only vendor awarded in all 15 certifiable ITIL processes of the Pink Elephant’s PinkVERIFY ITIL v2011edition certification. Also read about how the SAP Solution Manager ITIL certification is supported by SAP IT Infrastructure Management in the blog by Gerhard Stifter. June 26, 2013

Monitoring IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows in SAP System Landscapes Using SAP Solution Manager 7.1

A highlight tour by SAP's Sabine Reich, Steffen Siegmund and Bernhard Grusie. June 21, 2013

Enhanced key figures: Bridging the organizational gap between SD and FI-AR

New key figures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions during Period End Closing

Two newsworthy blogs by Volker von Gloeden . June 20, 2013

Deep-Dive ChaRM and the User Status. Some Light on Customizing and Analysis via Debugging on Message 'Not authorized to perform the activity selected last'

ChaRM Framework: An Overview of Existing Consistency Checks

The latest blogs by Michael Vollmer . June 20, 2013

April 2013

Peek into the Agenda for the ASUG Program Preconference Fast Track to Better Innovation and Operation with SAP Solution Manager 7.1

For the great deal going on with SAP Solution Manager, read the envisioning blog by SAP Mentor Tammy Powlas. April 30, 2013

Customisation of CBTA Test Execution

The instructive How-To Guide by Christophe AUBERT in the context of Component Based Test Automation. April 23, 2013

My summary of SAP Solution Manager Road Map webinar - part I and part II

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Read the up-and-coming blogs by Raquel Pereira da Cunha recapping Evan Stoddard'svery interesting webinar. April 5, 2013

Climbing out of my "dark wood" of Solution Manager 7.1 security

A fascinating blog by Gretchen Lindquist combining poetic arts and technical advice. April 4, 2013

March 2013

New key figures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions during Period End Closing

A new great blog by Volker von Gloeden . March 28, 2013

Unlock SAP HANA Value with SAP Solution Manager

Learn from Dr. Matthias Melich , Vice President of ALM Solution Management, how SAP Solution Manager supports SAP HANA deployment projects.
This subject is also one of the leading topics of the IT Management Newsletter for Q1/2013. Check it out and have fun reading lots of valuable recommendations and tips from ALM experts and latest customer successes. March 8, 2013

How to Ensure Your Landscape Data is Up-to-Data - House-Keeping in the LMDB

An interesting new blog by Wolf Hengevoss . March 27, 2013

Evolution of Landscape Data Management – What’s better with LMDB?

A new blog by Wolf Hengevoss . Because Wolf is often asked for the reasons why we invented a new tool, here is a comparison between the state before and after the introduction of the LMDB.. March 5, 2013

February 2013

Want to hear more about the future capabilities of SAP Solution Manager?

Check the blog by Stephanie Redivo and register for a presentation, that highlights the planned innovations, as well as the long-term strategy and direction for SAP Solution Manager.. February 28, 2013

New key figures for BPMon & BP Analytics - new exception and automation rate key figures for ERP plus new content for FSCM, APO and CRM

On February 11th, 2013 the new ST-A/PI 01Q plug-in was shipped to customers and this means that many new key figures have been shipped for Business Process Monitoring and Business Process Analytics in SAP Solution Manager. This blog of Volker von Gloeden will give a short overview about what is new. February 15, 2013

SAP Insider: Accelerate Innovation at Light Speed

Learn from the SAPinsider article written by Dr. Uwe Hommel, Corporate Officer, EVP and Head of SAP Active Global Support, how the Control Center Concept offers customers a way to optimize the solution landscape and achieve a best-run competitive advantage. February 14, 2013

Upgrade to SAP Solution Manager 7.1

Ever asked yourself what the better choice is: Upgrade to SAP Solution Manager 7.1 or new installation? JoanaTomaszewski, an SAP consultant at REALTECH, supports you in why, when and how to adopt to SAP Solution Manager 7.1. February 12, 2013

January 2013

Leverage the Pulse Check to jump-start your SAP Solution Manager experience

by Benjamin Wilk . ... and experience the SAP Solution Manager Live Demo System in the Cloud.

January 30, 2013

Distribute Urgent Change: Now possible in CRM Web UI

A new interesting blog by Michael Vollmer /plugins/points/resources/images/sap.gif. January 23, 2013

Incident Management and Change Request Management: E-Mail functionality in SAP Solution Manager 7.1

With this blog by Dolores Correa /plugins/points/resources/images/sap.gifdetermine the available e-mail options for Incident Management and Change Request Management documents in Solution Manager 7.1. January 23, 2013

Sharing Saved Searches in SolMan 7.1

In her blog Raquel Pereira da Cunha, a SAP Mentor, gives you a quick tip regarding the share of saved searches in the ITSM Web Client of Solution Manager 7.1. January 15, 2013

Solution Manager 7.1 Mobile Apps - Setup and Troubleshooting Guide

Huseyin Bilgen, a SAP Technology Consultant at FIT, lists the steps to confiure the mpbile apps and the results you'll get at the end.

He also added a wish list for future to the developers. January 15, 2013

Solution Manager - January Update

Follow James Pearce, Director - SAP Services Western Region at Grom Associates, and try out the Hero challenge: beat the “SolMan” at his own Game. Playfully get a better understanding of how you can benefit from using SAP Solution Manager in the “Run” phase and where to obtain more knowledge in this area. Also find the updates on EGIs and Mobile Apps for SAP Solution Manager. January 9, 2013

System Monitoring on an iPad

Dimitri Sannen, a SAP Consultant at SAP Partner theValueChain, struggled a bit setting up a demo using the App and a SAP Solution Manager sytem. That's why he decided to put every step in this blog to get and give a clear overview of what has to be done to build the demo. January 8, 2013

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December 2012

No More Excuses for not Protecting Your SAP Investment

SAP has officially announced the new SAP Solution Manager as Managed Service, a new deployment option, adapted to your needs and budget. Read the interesting blog by Luis Felipe Lanz , SAP Global Partner Management, on what your Run SAP Partner can offer you now in detail. December 19, 2012

Solution Manager SAP Education Awareness

Think about SAP education and certification classes,
discovered by Tammy Powlas. December 7, 2012

October, 2012

2 Blogs by Michael Vollmer

ChaRM functionality: Control UI
objects via authority objects coming with Support Package 7 (and available via
note 1724697 with Support Package 5-6)

ChaRM 7.1: New BadI to influence
data in dialog window 'Create Transport Request' including example
implemantation (Note 1772445)

October 16, 2012

Adding customer attributes to objects in Project and Solution

In this document Raquel Pereira da Cunha shows how to enhance transaction SOLAR02 to include a new attribute for a program in the Developments tab. October 2, 2012

September, 2012

New Business Process Analytics - The filter sequence makes the difference

This blog by Volker von Gloeden will give you a practical example to show how different the analysis results can be depending on the filter sequence you have chosen. September 28, 2012

Upgrading to Solution Manager 7.1 IT Service Management – the Functional Side

After finishing this upgrade, Tammy Powlas shares her experiences more from a functional side and less from a Basis / admin side. September 26, 2012

Change Request Management: How to create a virtual system in Solution Manager 7.1

With the customizing described in this blog by Dolores Correa you will be able to define a virtual system for use in a SAP Solution Manager 7.1 ChaRM project. September 5, 2012

August, 2012

Solution Manager Service Desk Integration with third party

This blog by Sneha Vyas, Infosys Ltd, focuses on creating the tickets in an external service desk (third party service desk) from the SAP systems connected to SAP Solution Manager 7.1. August 23, 2012

How To Use Customer Development Management Cockpit CDMC) Clearing Analysis (CA) Results in SM 7.1 SP4

by Jansi Rani Murugesan, Infineon Asia Pte Ltd. August 1, 2012

5 Blogs by Michael Vollmer

SP5: How to customize the 'Create Transport Request' dialog window in Urgent Change so that it comes up automatically when user status 'In Development' is reached.

Sapid. Blog by Michael Vollmer , August 21, 2012

July, 2012

SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP05 – New BW Content with Time Recording

What is exciting about Solution Manager 7.1, SP05, GA since June, is that now it offers BW content for Time recording.

Read more in Tammy Powlas' blog. July 27, 2012

What is New with Business Process Change Analyzer in SAP Solution Manager 7.1

by Rajeev Gollapudi.
July, 2012