Meet the Expert:Change Request Management in hybrid scenarios in combination with CTS, CTS+, Cloud TMS and gCTSAravind Kumar Jagannathan

SAP SE

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Building a bridge between today’s environment and tomorrow’s technology

New ABAP software lifecycle process

Outlook

Q&A

Agenda

Building a bridge between today’s

environment and tomorrow’s technology

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Where We Need to Go - SAP Change Control Management for the NEW

Intelligent Enterprise Framework

Digital Applications |Extensions

| Experimental | Innovation |

Agile → High Pace

Enterprise Applications | Critical

Business Process Engine | Tightly

Governed → Accelerate Pace

central controlintegrateextend

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SAP Intelligent Enterprise Framework - Hybrid architectures

TR

TR

TR

TR

DEV

Account

QAS

Account

PRD

Account

DEV

AccountQAS

Account

PRD

Account

SAP HANA XSA

S4D

ABAP

S4Q

ABAP

S4P

ABAP

XSD

Non-

ABAP

XSQ

Non-

ABAP

XSP

Non-

ABAP

SAP S/4 HANA

SAP Cloud Platform

SAP Data Hub

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SAP Intelligent Enterprise Framework - Hybrid architectures

TR

TR

TR

TR

DEV

Account

QAS

Account

PRD

Account

DEV

AccountQAS

Account

PRD

Account

SAP HANA XSA

S4D

ABAP

S4Q

ABAP

S4P

ABAP

XSD

Non-

ABAP

XSQ

Non-

ABAP

XSP

Non-

ABAP

SAP S/4 HANA

SAP Cloud Platform

SAP Data Hub

PRDDEV QAS

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Continuous integration in SAP environments

Attach to Change and

Transport SystemRelease of Transport

Requests

Import to Quality

system

Import to Productive

system

6 Deploy

DEV Account QAS Account PRD Account

7

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DEV Account QAS Account PRD Account

Virtual transport route

CTS / CTS+

& cTMS

SAP DevOps – CM Client

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Continuous integration in SAP environments & CTS+ deploy scripts

Attach to Change and

Transport System

Release of Transport

Requests

Import to Quality

system

Import to Productive

system

6 Deploy

Non ABAP/SAP Non ABAP/SAP Non ABAP/SAP

7

8 9

DEV QAS PRD

Virtual transport route

CTS / CTS+

& cTMS

Integrate your own language

How To...Implement CTS+ for Your Application

SAP DevOps – CM Client

New ABAP software lifecycle process

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SAP S/4HANA with ABAP runtime

CTS

▪ System landscapes

(e.g. S4D → S4Q → S4P )

▪ Development will be stored in

transport requests

▪ propagate changes through the

landscape with the help of

serialized database content

(binaries)

SAP S/4HANA

▪ Main product of SAP

▪ Provides many solutions for

various business requirements

▪ Based on ABAP as a

programming language

ABAP

▪ Provides early integration by

nature

▪ Works based on database tables

▪ Fast and easy data processing

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The software landscape

Git is an open

source distributed

version control

system

Separated

development in

branches

Readable files

in repositories

Source code

can easily be

accessed and

shared

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Source code

can easily be

accessed and

shared

CI processes

can be set up

for most

development

environments

Integrated for

most modern

programming

language

But what about

ABAP?

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Our idea…

DevelopmentTarget

DEVTST

PRD

CTS*

* Change and Transport System

gCTS

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Planned use cases

Branch-based Development

▪ Support various releases

▪ Separated feature development

▪ Fast maintenance

Continuous Integration

▪ Every change will be

automatically tested

▪ Developer gets immediately

feedback

▪ Just stable changes will be

deployed

Distributed Development

▪ Decentralized development

environment

▪ One project, One system

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Use case: Feature development and maintenance in parallel

NFD NFQ

MTD MTPMTQ

Maintenance

New Feature

One branch for feature development

One branch for maintenance

No doubled system landscape needed

Deploy the latest commit of one or the other branch to develop new features or to do maintenance

Feature

Maintenance

Master

Production

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Use case: Distributed development

DEVELOPMENT

TEAMA

DEVELOPMENT

TEAMB

Two Dev Teams can work on the

same object

Commit

changes to

repository

PRODUCTION

LIV

ES

YS

TE

M

Deploy to Production

after test

QUALITY

TE

ST/I

NT

EG

RA

TIO

N

Merge into master

branch, deploy to QA

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Timeline and features

RECENT INNOVATION PLANNED INNOVATION

• SAP S/4HANA 1909

• Git-based distribution of custom

development

• Full support of Continuous Integration

• Automatic Continuous Deployment

• Feature development and maintenance in

parallel

• Distributed development

• Customizing support

• Docker support

• Git-based versioning control inside of

SAP S/4HANA

• Merge user interface for ABAP objects

Outlook

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▪ Change Control with git enabled CTS (gCTS)

▪ Customer Connection Program (Backlog)

▪ Extend Experience Management Change Control capabilities

▪ Further onboarding new SAP products

Outlook

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Further Questions?Contact information:

Rajeev Puthanpura, Patrick Schmidt

SAP SE

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