Happy New Year and welcome to our first edition of SAP Change Control eNews for 2012. I do hope your Christmas and New Year season was well spent with family and friends.

As we excitedly enter the New Year with further integration plans for Salt (the new SAP change intelligence software from RSC) and Rev-Trac to bring you an even greater transparency into your changing SAP systems, it might be well worth your while reading this month’s feature article on IT Operations Management software automation.

As always, we continue to lead innovation and thought in simplifying SAP change control and trust this month’s articles will be of interest and value.

IT Operations Management Automation

IT Operations Management automation has been an emerging trend for a number of years now, and with the benefits obvious to all who stop to consider them, it is somewhat surprising the trend hasn’t converted into real life just yet.

In fact, during a recent Gartner IT Symposium presentation on the subject, the audience was informed that full integration of IT operations tool suites would not be available for at least another 3–5 years. A suggested alternative solution was to investigate the automation of suites of tools around a particular operations management component such as IT Process Automation or IT Service Support Management, for example.

Managing Approved Change Migrations

Most organisations handle change that can be categorised as either Business As Usual (BAU) or Project change. Of these organisations, the majority will in fact handle multiple projects or multiple project releases at the same time. This article touches on techniques for ensuring safe handling of the go-live (migration to production) of multiple projects or multiple releases of a single project.

RSC will be exhibiting at:

Administration & Infrastructure 2012
February 28 - March 2
MGM Grand Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada
United States