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SAP NetWeaver™Software Logistics

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Overview: SAP NetWeaver Software Logistics

Life-Cycle Management Software Logistics SAP NetWeaver Operations

With Software Logistics, you can:Manage SAP software in production system landscapes by performing implementation tasks such as planning changes, implementing new systems, copying existing systems, or enabling the creation and propagation of changes in the landscapeMaintain software by applying support packages and corrections or by upgrading to new software versions

Software Logistics is closely connected with SAP NetWeaverOperations (see next slide)


Simplify your ITRun and optimize state of the art Business Processes

COMPREHENSIVE GUIDANCE

Landscape planning and visualization

Best Practices / Pre-configured scenarios

EASY IMPLEMENTATION

Technical Installation

Automated, template based configuration

Upgrades

UP-TO-DATE PROCESSES*

Adjust business and IT processes

Software maintenance

Performance Analysis + optimization

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION*Central Administration + Monitoring

Virtualization

Automation

Rapid resolution of issues

Support for High Availability

Plan

Optimize Operate

Implement

*Partly covered by SAP NetWeaver Operations


SAP NetWeaver Life-Cycle Management (LM) Provides a Comprehensive Toolbox

COMPREHENSIVE GUIDANCE

System Landscape Directory (SLD)

Software Lifecycle Manager (SLM)

Guides and Documentation

Integration with SAP Solution Manager

EASY IMPLEMENTATION

Installers (SAPinst, Rapid Installer)

Configuration Wizard

Upgrade tools for ABAP and Java

Enhanced System Copy procedure

UP-TO-DATE PROCESSES

SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure

SAP Support Package Stacks

SAP Patch Installer

SAP Note Assistant

SAP (ERP) Enhancement Packages

SAP NetWeaver Administrator (NWA)*

SAP Adaptive Computing Controller (ACC)*

Central Process Scheduler (Redwood/CPS)*

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION

SAP NetWeaver Administrator (NWA)*

SAP Adaptive Computing Controller (ACC)*

Central Process Scheduler (Redwood/CPS)*

System Landscape Directory (SLD)

Software Lifecycle Manager (SLM)

SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure

Enhanced Change & Transport Management System (incl. ABAP-Java Transport Synchronization)

Plan

Optimize Operate

Implement

*Part of SAP NetWeaver Operations


SL Key Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (I)

COMPREHENSIVE GUIDANCEBest Practices and pre-configured scenarios:

– Profit from Best Practices provided in form of documentation and pre-configured scenarios that make setup and maintenance of your system landscape easier

– New functions in the area of Implementation and Configuration of Business Content automate cumbersome configuration steps and as a result accelerateimplementation of business scenarios that require business content

– Documentation and guides provide the information you require to understand and perform software life-cycle tasks (Master Guides, installation/upgrade guides, SP Stack Guide, target group/role-specific documentation, tool documentation, …)

Tool support for landscape planning and visualization:– Thorough planning is the basis for every software life-cycle task, which can

be quite complex due to all kind of interdependencies in your landscape– Simplify software life-cycle tasks in your landscape:

- Software Lifecycle Manager of SAP NetWeaver provides tool support for planning software life-cycle tasks in your landscape and validates your plans

- SAP NetWeaver 7.0 is the first product version that includes Software Lifecycle Manager from start

– Manage data of your system landscape easier:- Data stored in System Landscape Directory is the basis for tool support for landscape

planning- Automatically and consistently gather and update data of your systems in your

landscape (now also for non-ABAP and non-Java systems, such as TREX)- By providing the possibility to create system groups and sub-landscapes, you can

handle especially large landscapes easier and more efficiently than before


SL Key Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (II)

EASY IMPLEMENTATION

Simplified installation process with minimized number of manual preparation and installation steps:

– Prerequisite checker automatically validates minimum technical prerequisites of the installation (RAM, swap space, kernel parameters, etc.)

– Standard installation mode with default values– Usage-type-specific installation, High Availability (HA) options included– Help and handling enhanced (retry, enhanced summary dialog, single

master DVD …)– SAP NetWeaver Rapid Installer complements SAPinst and offers easy, fast, and wizard-based installation and configuration

for specific use cases

Simplified, accelerated and less error-prone configuration

– Configuration Wizard (new with SAP NetWeaver 7.0) is a central, uniform and simple configuration tool– Provides automated configuration based on templates for usage types

Faster and Easier Upgrade Procedure:

– SAP’s Upgrade Technology bases on long years of experience of building robust and fast upgrade routines keeping production system outages to an absolute minimum

– Reliable and easy to use upgrade process lowers overall risk of your upgrade project – Saves investment of all your customer-individual adaptations to SAP standard

processes while equipping your business processes with up-to date new functionality

Enhanced Coverage + Improved Procedure for System Copy & Migration:

– Systems with any SAP NetWeaver usage type can now be copied– Copy with database-specific tools and advanced options integrated in copy procedure– Incremental migration offers reduced downtime for very large ABAP systems

Log on to the

System

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3 h

Prepare Install Post-Installation/ Configuration and System Validation

Configure

Reduces installation and deployment timeto a minimum

2h


SL Key Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (III)

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION

Single Point of Control:– SAP NetWeaver Change & Transport System (CTS+) and Development Infrastructure (DI)

for central software change management covering the whole software life-cycle- Centrally managing & guiding each single developer - Consistent deployment and propagation for ABAP- and Java-based applications

– System Landscape Directory as central information provider– Software Lifecycle Manager for central planning and validation of software life-cycle

tasks

SAP recommended High Availability (HA) Setups supported by the SAP Installer– SAP’s standardized & validated HA configuration recommendations guarantee support

of mission critical customer systems during their complete life-cycle: - At implementation time - During regular operation (with SAP NetWeaver administration tools) - During software maintenance (patching and upgrading high available systems)


SL Key Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (IV)

UP-TO-DATE PROCESSES

Ongoing Improvements to Adjust Business and IT Processes:– SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure empowers ESA based application development– Guarantees processes from product definition to delivery and maintenance, enables fast adaptation

and creation of applications in your landscape– Ongoing improvements (in terms of usability, stability, performance, …) and simplified installation

procedure with SAP NetWeaver 7.0

Maintain Your Software Safer and Easier:– In your system landscape, you regularly face the

requirement to apply fixes and software optimizations to keep it running smoothly

– Software Lifecycle Manager of SAP NetWeaver helps to plan and validate patch processes in your landscape

– With SAP NetWeaver 7.0, we offer a unified patch implementation tool and process with Java Support Package Manager (JSPM):

- Standard tool for the patching of all SAP Java components (SAP NetWeaver, SAP Business Suite, …)

- Reduces runtime and downtime, prevents system damage, simplifies handling

– SAP Note Assistant provides enhanced functions– High availability support for patching


Software Logistics

Installation, Configuration and Upgrade Installers, configuration templates, guides and upgrade tools for ABAP and Java

Up-to-Date ProcessesChange Management


Appendix

Comprehensive Guidance

Landscape Planning & Visualization

Pre-Configured Scenarios

Best Practices


Landscape Planning and Visualization –System Landscape Directory

SL allows you to reduce the complexity of software life-cycle projects in your system landscape by providing landscape planning + visualization functions based on data stored by a central landscape information provider

Central information provider

Landscape data is gathered and updated automatically

Consistent foundation for many SAP tools and services


Landscape Planning and Visualization –Software Lifecycle Manager

Tool support for landscape planning

Planning Wizard

Eases and accelerates the planning of software logistics tasks

Install, upgrade,or patch

Provides information

SLDComponentRepository

LandscapeDescription

Software Lifecycle Manager

Review

Integra-tion

Admini-stration

Visuali-zation

Software Delivery ToolsInstall Upgrade Deploy

Patch JavaUpgrade ...

Customer System Landscape

Automaticregistration and

reporting

Generates instructions

or scripts


Pre-Configured Scenarios –Implementation and Configuration of Business Content

SL provides Best Practices through configuration templates and pre-configured business content, as well as corresponding guides anddocumentation

Install and configure pre-defined business content objects

Time for implementation of business scenarios is reduced


Best Practices –Configuration Wizard


Tool provides central technical configuration (CTC)

Configuration simplified, accelerated and less error-prone


Best Practices –Guides and Documentation


Documentation provides information required to understand and perform software life-cycle tasks

Master Guides provide planning information + general best practice information

Easy Implementation

Technical Installation

Automated, template based Configuration

Upgrade


Technical Installation –SAP Installation Framework

SL provides tools, documentation and services to adapt your landscape and leverage your existing investments in infrastructure technology and applications

Implement a new landscape or add a scenario to your system landscape

All kind of implementation services offered

Implementation processsimplified, accelerated, manual steps minimized


Technical Installation –SAP NetWeaver Rapid Installer

Complements standard SAP installation tool

Easy, wizard-based installation and configuration

For dedicated business scenarios

PrepareInstall

andConfigure

Post-Installand

Validate

Log on to the system

2h15m 3hrs30 min

SAP NetWeaver Rapid Installer



Automated, Template Based Configuration –Configuration Wizard

SL provides pre-configured business content for scenarios and templates for the initial configuration of new systems

Central configuration tool based on configuration templates

Reduces number of configuration tools

Configuration simplified, accelerated and less error-prone


Upgrade –Upgrade Technology


Provide new functions in your landscape by upgrading whole SAP business scenarios to a new releaseSafely leverage your existing investments in infrastructure technology and applications to Enterprise SOA

Central Administration

CTS & NW Development Infrastructure


ABAP DEV

Non-ABAP

ABAP QAS

Non-ABAP

ABAP PRD

Non-ABAP

Portal DEV Portal PRDPortal QAS

Maintenance / Implementation Project

Central Administration –Change & Transport System, NW Development Infrastructure

SAP’s Change & Transport System and the Development Infrastructure manages configuration and custom development changes, and controls software logistics processes in both ABAP and JAVA based environments.

Simplified transport management, to avoid inconsistent system states

Central administration of all transports (ABAP, Java, …) in one UI

Combined transports for mixed sets of objects (ABAP, Java, EP Content, PI Configuration, …) with synchronized updates of mixed processes (ABAP/JAVA applications)

Integrated with SAP Solution Manager’s ChangeRequest Management Service

Up-To-Date-Processes

(Java) Support Package Manager

Overview SL Toolbox


Software Maintenance –Java Support Package Manager (JSPM)

SL provides tools, services and documentation to keep your installed systems up-to-date and solve application problems by applying the latest support packages and corrections

Addresses requirement to apply fixes and software optimizations

JSPM is standard tool forpatching of all SAP Java components


Overview – SAP NetWeaver Software Logistics ‚Toolbox‘Process/Tool

TechnologyABAP Java Solution Landscape /

Business Scenario Per Business Process

Installation of SAP Systems SAPinst / Config. Wizard (CTC) Installation Guide (per system)

SAPinst / Config. Wizard (CTC)Installation Guide (per System)

Master Guide / TIGSLM / SAP Sol. Manager -SOLAR01

n/a

SAP Note Assistant Integration w/ ChaRM (?)

SP Stack Guide

MOPZ / NW SLM

MOPZ / NW SLM

(ERP) Enhancement Packages Installation

SAINT, Component Upgrade (EhP 3 ff ?)

JSPM MOPZ MOPZ

Dual Stack UpgradeUpgrade Guides / Upgrade Master Guide

???

SAP Sol. Man. - ChaRM

SAP Sol. Man. - ChaRM

(Business Function Sets?)n/a

Copy/Migration of Systems System Copy(homogeneous/heterogeneous Copy, Unicode Migration, etc.)System Copy Guide

System Copy n/a

Applying SAP Notes SAP Note AssistantOnline Documentation

n/a (?)

Applying Patches/SPs SPAMOnline Documentation + Notes

JSPM(SDM in older releases)

n/a

Installing Additional SW components / Usage Types

SPAM/SAINTOnline Documentation + Notes/Guides

JSPM w/ EhP‘s (?)

Release Upgrade SAPupUpgrade Guides / Upgrade Master Guide

SAPJupUpgrade Guides / Upgrade Master Guide

SW Change Management -Versioning

CTS – Repository/Version DB(Correction Workbench)

NWDI – DTR(Java CorrectionWorkbench)

n/a

SW Change Management -Propagation

CTS - TMS CTS+ , NWDI - CMS SAP Sol. Man. -ChaRM

SW Change Management -Tracking

CTS - TMS CTS+ , NWDI - CMS SAP Sol. Man. -ChaRM

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