Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) is the continuous process to optimize and reduce the total cost of operations after implementation of SAP and when you are in the sustenance phase.
To optimize total cost of ownership and effectively monitor your IT landscape, SAP provides you with SAP Solution Manager. SAP Solution Manager is a Central Monitoring cum Reporting tool, and is mandatory for any SAP implementation. Solution Manager can be your Single Source of Truth for all the business processes. It helps the customer to minimize the disruption in the critical business processes and provide proactive approach to minimize the down time of the SAP applications.
Solution Manager ALM Standards are based on ITIL and these standards can be useful for any project and any phase starting from requirement gathering to optimization. Some standards used in Solution Manager are Root Cause Analysis, Business Process Monitoring, Solution Documentation, Technical Monitoring, Incident Management, Change Request Management, Infrastructure, Test Management etc
Although SOLMAN comes free of cost in terms of license, customers don’t use it to the fullest of its capabilities. AT G-Inditure we provide Consulting and Implementation services for Solman including review of Solman usage. In addition we also help in the Integration of SAP Solution Manager with other SAP/ non-SAP modules/ products like- SAP Lumira, SAP BO, SAP PI, SAP CPS (Central Process Scheduling), ARIS, HP Quality Centre etc.
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