Solution Manager Summary Sap

Solution Manager provides many benefits for the customer. One of the benefits is more reliable IT solutions. With SAP Solution Manager, companies can minimize risk during implementation and operation. They can avoid inconsistencies in heterogeneous environments by performing cross-component consistency checks. With the SAP Solution Manager Service Desk, customers can resolve issues quickly. Theresult is better IT service and less down time. The tools and content provided by SAP Solution Manager make implementation and change management projects more efficient. Companies can reduce the cost of process design, technical setup, business setup, support and operations, testing, and knowledge transfer. Centralized project handling, blueprinting, configuration, and testing ensure consistencyand avoid redundancies, which reduces the cost of implementation projects in multi-component environments. SAP Solution Manager provides a framework for consistent solution documentation and preserves documents for later use, which reduces the costs of upgrades or continuous improvement projects.

Another benefit of SAP Solution Manager is faster return on investment. SAP Solution Manageraccelerates implementation and continuous improvement. It provides implementation accelerators and a library of preconfigured business processes as a starting point for projects. This means that companies don't need to begin from scratch, and can benefit from SAP’s business process experience. Content and services available through SAP Solution Manager – such as implementation road maps, best-practicedocuments, and SAP solution management services, – speed learning and accelerate projects.

Using Solution Manager can also reduce thecost of operation by providing a central point of control for multi-component environments. In heterogeneous environments, SAP Solution Manager facilitates technical and application integration.

Finally, Solution Manager gives the customer more leverage fromtheir IT investments. SAP Solution Manager and integrates with IT landscapes that include both SAP and non-SAP applications. Companies can use it to reduce their total cost of ownership without making major changes to their IT environments.


ASAP roadmaps outline the activities involved in implementing, upgrading, or enhancing SAP solutions. Each roadmap has a set of deliverables, accelerators,role descriptions and additional guides. The five standard roadmaps are listed on this screen.

The Implementation Roadmap for SAP Solutions provide the methodological framework for the project team during the implementation of an SAP solution.

The Solution Management Roadmap provides a methodology for the implementation of the technical infrastructure and its operation.

The GlobalTemplate Roadmap describes how to organize and run a project where a corporate template is developed.

The Upgrade Roadmap is designed to help you carry out the customizing activities required for an upgrade.

There are also other roadmaps, such as the Enterprise Portal and Exchange Infrastructure roadmaps, but we do not go into detail on these here..

Five phases of the implementation RoadmapThe implementation roadmap consists of five phases. The first phase is Project Preparation. This is the initial planning for the customers' SAP project. The activities include general project management requirements, an issues management plan, an organizational change management plan, and the establishment of other policies and procedures for running the project.

This phase must becompleted before the next phase begins. The next phase, the business blueprint phase, comprises activities for aligning the customers’ business and technical requirements to the SAP standard software. Just as a blueprint of a house is a plan by which an architect conveys the building requirements to the contractor, so the business blueprint in ASAP becomes the plan for the eventual configuration of a...