In today’s world of digital transformation, businesses must respond to customer and market demands faster than ever before. That means IT teams need an alternative to slow, manual, opaque Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) methods.
ActiveControl, from Basis Technologies, delivers a fundamentally new approach to change and release with automation that enables companies to adopt agile development, DevOps and Continuous Delivery in SAP systems. Built specifically for SAP, it allows change to be delivered with less effort, lower risk, and in a fraction of the normal time.
The ActiveControl DevOps Integration for ServiceNow connects SAP teams with your enterprise-wide IT tool chain, increasing responsiveness to customer needs by accelerating delivery of new business requirements. This bi-directional integration enables automation of the lifecycle of an SAP change, providing complete transparency of status and progress in both tools.
ActiveControl can also be connected to ServiceNow through CI/CD platforms such as GitLab to provide a truly Continuous Delivery pipeline.
ActiveControl is Certified by SAP for use on both S/4HANA and Netweaver.
When fully configured, the ActiveControl DevOps integration with ServiceNow provides:
- Seamless Integration between ServiceNow and ActiveControl for full visibility and integrated end-to-end management of SAP change.
- Automatic bi-directional data transfer to ensure total transparency and consistency. Duplicate manual keying and associated human error are eliminated.
- Versatile out-of -the-box configuration options - choose the types of tickets, the fields to integrate and any mapping that may be required, without any development
- The means to connect SAP to an existing CI/CD pipeline where requirements are tracked and managed by ServiceNow.
- Rapid implementation and adoption thanks to full ServiceNow Certification
Key feature of ActiveControl:
- Implement a flexible environment strategy via single or multi-track change management to support business transformation and cloud, HANA DB or S/4HANA transitions.
- Automatically deploy SAP transports (and even non-SAP changes) after approval. Orchestrate deployments and dependent manual activities across multiple systems. Define import schedules/release windows, or deploy when ready in a continuous delivery model.
- 60+ advanced analyzers automatically identify the impact of change, manage dependencies, enforce code quality and more. Drag and drop sequencing of business requirements supports dynamic backlog management and agile development.
- Out-of-the-box integrations with GitLab, Jira, ServiceNow, HP ALM, Eclipse IDE and more allow SAP systems to become part of your global IT landscape and best-practice delivery processes.
- Accelerate project delivery and S/4HANA transition with automatic merge (retrofit) of change across N+N cloud and on-premise systems. Reconfigure transport paths in just a few clicks to support dynamic, virtualized landscapes.
- The ultimate safety net against business downtime, the BackOut feature restores SAP production systems to their pre-import state following a deployment. Changes are reversed without having to re-develop, test and approve fixes.
ActiveControl / Transport Expresso release notes:
http://docs.basistechnologies.com/activecontrol-release-notes
http://docs.basistechnologies.com/transport-expresso-release-notes
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