This poster outlines 10 high level call to actions for Chief Information Officers to implement to navigate the changing Business and IT landscapes of 2017.

An organization’s ability to achieve strategic goals relies on its ability to manage business and IT transformation.

This paper runs through the primary challenges identified by SAP customers in performing SAP upgrades and introduces the Scope and Effort Analyzer (SEA) as a resolve.

The intent of this paper is to show that by making a move to a centralized, integrated Change Management tool with defined processes, accountability and auditability, we can go a long way to address the issues that were causing IT to be seen as an inhibitor to change

As technology has enabled businesses to operate in more locations, in a global setting, this has naturally led to a more distant, diverse and remote IT operating user base. The complexity of IT infrastructure that end users must traverse in order to execute core business functions in a SAP centric IT landscape has increased, and ensuring the user base receives good quality, well performing IT services is no longer simply measurable by assessing core system performance within the data centre. This white paper discusses a solution to this problem, available free of charge from SAP themselves via your Solution Manager system: End User Experience Monitoring (EEM).

SAP Solution Manager is a tool to support IT processes, as part of Application Lifecycle Management. In several ways, both the implementation and maintenance of IT applications can be supported. Theo's new white paper demonstrates how test executions can be supported using SAP Solution Manager. This paper divides itself into the four core activities, with guidance for each: 1. How to start tests: Using the transaction SM-Workcenter and running your first test case 2. How to update the status of tests: Example of a Test Case stored as an MS Word Doc, updating and maintaining Test Case statuses with a list of typical status values 3. How to record Test Results: Recording results in the ‘Test Note’ tab and what you can do with these stored test results 4. How to create Test Defects: Registering, resolving and reporting on possible defects prior to going live Download your copy and get ready to start testing.

This white paper offers an overview of the Test Management module in SAP Solution Manager and discusses the activities to be carried out in preparation for test execution: 1. Creating a Test Plan 2. Creating Test Packages 3. Allocating Testers 4. Releasing Test Plan

Usage of SAP Solution Manager as a Test Management tool can be improved by following a number of methods and standards. This paper shows 10 important Best Practices.