SAP Landscape Strategy
The one-two data management punch offered by the combination of Client Sync™ and Object Sync™ opens up a whole new world of looking at your SAP landscape, your testing strategy and your promote to production philosophy.
Now you can have up to date copies of production data and configuration in your development, test, training and sandbox SAP systems. In addition, the footprint of these clients are so much reduced that your SAP system/client allocation by team can be adjusted to better meet the goals of your organization, yet still use less disk space than you are now.
In the past your SAP basis team may have been reluctant to let the functional teams and developers have additional clients, and for good reason. It was a high overhead on disk space, and an increase in their workload. With the reduced client footprint offered by these tools, and an adjusted client ownership and data governance model which removes the burden of responsibility from the basis team, the table below could be a hypothetical example of what may now be possible in a typical SAP landscape.
| SAP System | SAP Client | SAP Client Owner | SAP Client Purpose |
| Sandbox | 300 | FI Team Lead | FI blue sky prototyping. Use for new projects or upcoming initiatives without fear of interruption by other teams. |
| Sandbox | 310 | HR Team Lead | HR blue sky prototyping. Ditto. |
| Development | 100 | Production owner | Golden Client and source for all transports |
| Development | 110 | Production owner | Integrated unit test client. For the first time complete, accurate unit testing can be done in a controlled environment with good data, representing an integrated environment where all teams will perform unit testing prior to migration to QA for integration and user acceptance testing |
| Development | 120 | Development manager | Controlled access for developers only |
| Development | 130 | FI team lead | FI Unit testing client. No interruption by other functional teams. |
| Development | 140 | HR team lead | HR unit testing client. No interruption by other functional teams. |
| QAS | 200 | Production owner | Integration testing and User Acceptance testing client |
The above example is hypothetical only and may not be applicable to your case. Good governance, controls and a transfer of data ownership needs to occur for the model to work. When in place, it offers unprecedented quality of testing, proper controls for auditing and SOX compliance, fewer production issues caused by insufficiently tested changes, more control in the hands of the support team leads instead of the basis team, lower workload for the basis team and many other benefits.
With more than twenty years in the SAP Consulting business, Visser Consulting is uniquely qualified to help you realize a new efficient world of SAP production support. Contact us for a no obligation discussion of how we can add significant value to your SAP Landscape Strategy.
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