1. Rajeev Gollapudi SAP Labs India Steven Pitschke IBM Rational
Change Impact Analysis Using SAP Business Process Change Analyzer and IBM Rational Tools
Rajeev Gollapudi
SAP Labs India
Steven Pitschke
IBM Rational
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4. Change is Critical to Business Innovation
There are 3 key drivers for change events…
Business
Drivers
Compliance
Drivers IT
Drivers
Modified Business Processes
M&A and Reorganizations
New Products, Vendors, …
Governance
Risk Management
Compliance
Examples: SOX, SEC, FDA, Basel2
Maintenance
Upgrades
Regional rollouts
Consolid.
New
Implem.
Upgrades
Custom
Dev.
Support
Pack
Hot
Packs
Effort
Ongoing Change
Events
New business process
Time
Discrete
Change
… these change events impact the life cycle of Enterprise Solutions
SAP Implementation
Executive & LOB sponsorship
Committed vendor/SI support
Project budget
SAP in Production
Silo teams with each their own focus
Frequent Changes, Updates & Upgrades, SOX
Limited Vendor, SI or other resources Usually 80% reduction in team size 4 4

5. Application Lifecycle Management with SAP Solution Manager and IBM Rational software
Rational collaborative ALM solutions
Requirements Management: Manage business rules, scope, requirements and gaps consistently across SAP and non-SAP projects
Change Management: Manage changes and leverage a holistic view of change priorities, status and resources across interdependent SAP and non-SAP projects
Quality Management: Catch quality vulnerabilities earlier to lower costs and improve deployment success
Mitigate business risk with collaboration
Stakeholder and team coordination reduces mistakes
Risk identification and management leads to educated prioritization decisions
Test traceability linked to business requirements improves customer satisfaction
Improve operational efficiency with automation
Running tests earlier leads to reduced repair costs
Running more tests in less time improves coverage
Reducing manual labor leads to fewer testing errors
Lab configuration automation improves efficiency and asset utilization
Make confident decisions with effortless reporting
Real-time dashboards enable proactive risk management
Customizable reports facilitate ongoing process improvement
End-to-end Quality Management is a key element of effective Application Lifecycle Management to help lower costs and improve deployment success 5 5

6. End-to-end Quality and Test Management with SAP Solution Manager and IBM Rational software
New SAP Solution
Business Blueprint
Test Planning and Set-up
Test Execution
Deploy Changes
to Production
SAP Solution Update
Change Impact
Analysis
Solution Manager
Business Blueprint
Rational Quality Manager
Test Planning
Test Requirements
Business requirements linked with test cases
Rational Quality Manager
Lab Management
Defect Tracking
Setup of business process hierarchy
Business requirements
Worksoft Certify for SAP
Automated Functional Testing
Solution Manager
Business Process Change Analyzer
Rational Requisite Pro
Business to IT requirements
Rational Performance Tester
Load and Stress Test
Identification of business processes affected by code / customizing changes
Setup of lean Test system
SAP TDMS
Solution Manager
Service Desk
Rational ClearQuest
Defect and Change management
Incident Management 6

7. Business Process Change Analyzer (BPCA) Motivation and Approach
SAP Solution updates occur frequently
SAP triggered: Support Packages, Enhancement Packages
Customer triggered: Customizing changes, Custom code development
Pain Point
Which critical business processes are affected by planned changes?
Approach
SAP Solution Update
Change Impact Analysis
Test Planning
Test Execution
Identification of business processes affected by change
Risk-based Test Recommendation
Test Case review and creation of missing test cases
Test Plan generation
Regression Tests
Manual Tests
Automated Tests

8. SAP Solution Manager - Business Process Change Analyzer
Preparation
Trace to identify objects by process
Trace Result: Technical Bill of Material (T-BOM)
Code: Function modules, …
UI: Dynpro 1000, …
Tables: Customizing, Master Data
Order to Cash
Manual execution of process step
Solution
Manager
Automated
WS Certify, SAP TAO..
Change Impact Analysis
Business Process Change Analyzer
Planned Change
SAP Support Packs
SAP EhPs
Custom Code
Customizing changes
Order to Cash
Sales Order  code change
Delivery
Goods Issue  UI change
Billing
Procure to Pay
Create PO  customizing change
“Which critical Business Processes will be affected by planned changes?”
Risk-based Test Scope
Business Process Change Analyzer
Identification of business processes impacted by software changes
Support decision making whether planned change shall be executed
Automatic test plan generation
“Can I get a recommendation for regression tests?”

9. Preparation - Business Process Documentation
Lean Process Documentation BPCA requires a process hierarchy, system information and executables to be documented in a project or a solution.
System information
Transactions, custom development
Process hierarchy
Business scenario
Business processes
Business steps

10. Process Step „Sales Order“ Customer SAP Landscape (SAP ERP, …)
TBOM generation
Business Scenario “Order to Cash”
Quotation
Sales Order
Delivery
Billing
Solution
Manager
Process Step „Sales Order“
Business Blueprint
execute
Customer SAP Landscape (SAP ERP, …)
Generated TBOM contains
Code Objects, User Interfaces
and Tables used
User selects process step
in SAP Solution Manager
User executes the process step while BPCA
traces all SAP objects used

11. BPCA Technical Bill of Material (TBOM) TBOM Example for Business Transaction: Create Sales Order (VA01)

12. BPCA Use Case 1: Customizing Changes
Example: „Create Sales Order“ - input field „Purchase Order: from optional  mandatory
SW Change
Transport
DEV
TST
PRD
Change Impact Analysis
Identification of impacted business processes
Test Recommendation
Generation of Test Plan

13. BPCA Use Case 2: Custom Code Developments
Example: Extention of existing SAP screen with custom required field
SW Change
Transport
DEV
TST
PRD
Change Impact Analysis
Identification of impacted business processes
Test Recommendation
Generation of Test Plan

14. BPCA Use Case 3: Planned EhP Business Function Activation
BPCA Use Case 3: Planned activation of inactive Business Functions
Example: inactive Enterprise Business Function „Advanced Order Processing and Billing“
deployed EhP
DEV
TST
PRD
planned Bus.Function activation
Change Impact Analysis
Identification of impacted business processes before BF activation
Test Recommendation
Generation of Test Plan
End-user training plan

15. BPCA Use Case 4: Test Scope Optimization for SP/ EhP Deployment
BPCA Use Case 4: SP / EhP Deployment and Test Scope Optimization
Example: Deployment of EhP 4 for SAP ERP
SAP Support Package / Enhancement Package Deployment
SP / EhP
DEV
TST
PRD
Change Impact Analysis
Identification of impacted business processes
Test Recommendation
Generation of Test Plan with risk-based test scope

16. BPCA Integration with IBM Rational Quality Manager
Customer uses Rational Quality Manager for creation and Maintenance of Tests
Customer uses BPCA for change impact analysis
Customer needs to create a test plan/test suite in Rational Quality Manager based on the BPCA Analysis results
The integration makes use of test scope optimization in SAP Solution Manager 7.1
Solution
Manager
Business Process Change Analyzer
Change Impact analysis
Find Test Cases based on impacted requirement
Test Scope Optimization
Send Test Case Information
Trigger Test plan generation
Automatic Test Plan Creation
SAP Solution Manager Connector for IBM Rational 4.0

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